7.1/10206 votes#1 - Metamorphosis
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1979
A rock star who sings for a Kiss-like group becomes suicidal after one of her fans is injured during a concert performance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10179 votes#2 - Blind Rage
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1979
An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
7.1/10186 votes#3 - Brain Child
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1979
A gifted teenager runs away from a scientific institute, and approaches David for help in locating her mother.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.5/10184 votes#4 - The Slam
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1979
David is arrested for vagrancy, and is sent to a prison camp run by a cruel warden. But when the appearance of Jack McGee prevents David from exposing the conditions of the camp to the press, his fellow inmates turn against him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10198 votes#5 - My Favorite Magician
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1979
David works as the assistant of a magician, only to get mixed up in a situation involving the magician's estranged daughter and an ex-girlfriend with a questionable fiance.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
6.8/10178 votes#6 - Jake
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1979
As a medic for a rodeo, David discovers that an aging cowboy has a serious health condition that could prove fatal; meanwhile, the cowboy's younger brother is mixed up with a gang of cattle thieves.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
7.1/10177 votes#7 - Behind the Wheel
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1979
David becomes a taxi driver for a cab company whose owner is on the verge of losing the business to a greedy loan shark.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: Rick Rosenthal, Todd Susman
8.1/10211 votes#8 - Homecoming
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1979
While visiting his sister and father for Thanksgiving, David must help salvage the family farm from a plague and a crooked developer; in addition, he tries to resolve the bitterness between himself and his father, whom he blamed for his mother's death many years before.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: Andrew Schneider
8.6/10263 votes#9 - The Snare
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1979
After being invited to a remote island, David becomes the quarry of a psychotic hunter.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
6.1/10176 votes#10 - Babalao
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1979
In New Orleans, David works for a young physician who tries to convince everyone that a local witch doctor is a con artist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10185 votes#11 - Captive Night
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1979
While working the night shift at a department store, David and his co-workers end up being held hostage by two brothers who want to rob the place.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
7.5/10198 votes#12 - Broken Image
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1980
Thanks to look-alike criminal, David becomes a victim of mistaken identity, and is pursued by the police and a vindictive gang. An attempt to leave town is hindered by Jack McGee, who is shocked to discover that David Banner might still be alive!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10192 votes#13 - Proof Positive
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1980
A new publisher takes over the National Register, and decides to rid the newspaper of any questionable stories. This new policy affects Jack McGee's search for the Hulk, so McGee is put under pressure to prove that the Hulk is real.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10176 votes#14 - Sideshow
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/1980
David is hired as a stage manager at a carnival, and learns that the sideshow's mind-reader has been blamed for a series of misfortunes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10169 votes#15 - Long Run Home
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1980
David is befriended by a motorcyclist, who inadvertently gets him mixed up in a gang-related conflict.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
6.9/10168 votes#16 - Falling Angels
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1980
The orphanage that David is working at has become a crime school, where two orphaned girls are being trained into thievery.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
7.0/10167 votes#17 - The Lottery
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/1980
When David is unable to collect the money he won in a lottery, he sends a friend to collect it for him. But unfortunately, without David's consent, the friend, who is a former con artist, decides to use the money in a scheme to hopefully earn a larger profit.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chris Bunch
8.4/10223 votes#18 - The Psychic
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1980
A woman with psychic powers identifies David as the Hulk's alter-ego. While the Hulk is a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, the woman predicts that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer unless our hero intervenes.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: Karen Harris
6.9/10164 votes#19 - A Rock and a Hard Place
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/29/1980
In Atlantic City, FBI agents catch David with contraband shipments belonging to a gang of thieves, and insist that he be an informant until the gang is apprehended. David has no choice but to cooperate with both sides since both are aware of who he is; the FBI agents know that he is David Banner, while the elderly woman, who is one of the thieves, is aware that he becomes the Hulk.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10199 votes#20 - Deathmask
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1980
A serial killer is stalking the college where David is working; then a misunderstanding leads to David's arrest. And while he figures out the real identity of the killer, the townspeople form a lynch mob.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10180 votes#21 - Equinox
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1980
While working at a private island owned by a spoiled heiress, David is asked to join a masquerade party which Jack McGee attends uninvited. Meanwhile, someone is out to kill the heiress.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10164 votes#22 - Nine Hours
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1980
To save the lives of a reformed gangster and a kidnapped boy, David turns to an alcoholic ex-policeman for help.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10156 votes#23 - On the Line
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1980
David becomes an arson suspect, and is drafted to help extinguish a forest fire.
Director: L.Q. Jones
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Incredible Hulk Season 3
Every episode of The Incredible Hulk Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Incredible Hulk Season 3!
During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Metamorphosis" is the best rated episode of "The Incredible Hulk" season 3. It scored 7.1/10 based on 206 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/21/1979. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Blind Rage".