The Incredible Hulk - The Complete Fourth Season
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Actor: Bill Bixby, Lou FerrignoBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 867 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal
DVD Reviews of The Incredible Hulk - The Complete Fourth Season
DVD Review: Best Season Of Them All
Summary: 5 Stars
It's about time that they put this 1980-81 Season of this show on DVD and I've been dying for it finally come out too, especially since the 4th Season was my favorite season throughout The Incredible Hulk's whole 4-year run on CBS along with the fact that the Hulk's 1980-1981 Season was probably the best season of them all too as well as the most upgraded season of them all even though the Hulk's 4th Season was shorter than the Hulk's 2nd and 3rd Seasons, since the Hulk's Fourth Season had some significant and touching episodes like "Free Fall", "Dark Side", "Deep Shock","King Of The Beach", "East Winds", "The First", "The Harder They Fall", "Interview With The Hulk", etc.
For instance, in the "Dark Side" episode they showed a side of the reclusive David Banner(Bill Bixby)and the Hulk that nobody has ever seen before after an experiment to cure David's serious affliction with the Hulk fails by backfiring.
In the "Deep Shock" episode David starts being able to see the future with temporary ESP after surviving a brutal electrocution that nearly killed him.
In the "King Of The Beach" episode Lou Ferrigno does a dual role as well as Lou's first speaking role on this show with David helping Lou(Carl Molina)out with his body building contest and helping him rebuild his confidence with his disability.
In "The First", while searching for a cure to stop his horrendous struggling ordeal with the Hulk in this 2-parted episode, David stumbles onto the discovery that there was once an evil creature similar to the Hulk many years ago way before even David's experiment that caused David's infliction with the Hulk in the first place along with what started the overzealous Jack McGee's obsession and pursuing of the Hulk for the "National Register", except the evil hulklike creature(Dick Durock) was extremely dangerous and deadly, unlike the Hulk(Lou Ferrigno).
In addition to what made "The First" episode intriguing, while David finally finds a cure to his ailment from the Hulk after years of desperate searching, David unintentionally ends up helping a bitter old man named Dell Frye(Harry Townes) relive his days and ability to transform into the evil Hulk again when Frye comes up with the common denominator after witnesses David transforming into the Hulk after getting beat up in Part 1, which therefore contributes to David being put between a rock & a hard place, which basically & unfortunately puts David in a no-win situation with very little hope left to battling his horrid affliction with curing the Hulk while trying to put an end to Frye's ability to continue his relentless charade as the evil Hulk at the same time while David struggles to attempt saving more people from getting hurt and killed by Frye's creature.
Therefore, David's failure to put a stop to Frye's evil creature and the evil Hulk's destruction of David's antidote to finally putting an end to David's fiasco with the Hulk contributes to David transforming into the Hulk again as usual leading the Hulk and Frye's creature to fight to the finish at the end of Part 2 just before the evil Hulk gets killed off by Sheriff Decker(Billy Green-Bush)when McGee(Jack Colvin) finally discovers he's been barking up the wrong tree all along in this entire episode thinking that all the killings and incidents caused by Frye's evil creature was the Hulk, especially since nobody really knew about the evil Hulk, but McGee still decides to keep tracking the Hulk and David at the end of this episode since McGee is still convinced that the Hulk is still a major danger to society and still continues to pursue the Hulk with a passion, just like the hard nosed Col.Decker(Lance LeGault) and his predecessor Col.Lynch(Bill Lucking)did with Hannibal, Face, and B.A. on THE A-TEAM for similar reasons.
Additionally, Frye's creature(Dick Durock) ended up stealing the show in "The First" episode since they had more scenes with the evil creature in this episode than they did of the Hulk, plus they talked about Frye's creature a lot more in this episode than they did about the Hulk too, especially since Dell Frye(Harry Townes)turned into the evil creature 3 times in this episode, but David only changed into the Hulk twice throughout this entire 2-parted episode.
In "The Harder They Fall" episode David becomes temporarily crippled after getting run over by a car with McGee still hot on the Hulk's trail as usual, but part of what I couldn't help finding intriguing about McGee pursuing the Hulk in "The Harder They Fall" episode was also because McGee had also appeared in the previous episode "The First", which basically dealt with 2 Hulks in that episode, which McGee even witnessed for himself.
In the "Interview With The Hulk" episode; the recluse David opens up to a down on his luck newspaper reporter(Michael Conrad)by telling him about his struggling horrific 4-year ordeal with the Hulk and how the insistent McGee has been a thorn at his side & a back-burner for David ever since by using clips from previous episodes from the first 4 seasons for example, kind of like they did in the previous season in the "Proof Positive" episode.
The Fourth Season was also the first season to have episodes directed by Jack Colvin as well, since he directed the episodes "East Winds" and "Goodbye Eddie Cain", even though McGee(Jack Colvin) didn't even appear in those episodes, although it would've been nice and more interesting if McGee had appeared in those episodes as well as directed them, but something else I noticed about this 1980-81 Season of the Hulk was McGee seemed to have started coming out less and less often in this season, since McGee didn't appear in as many episodes in the 4th Season as he did in the first 3 seasons, despite the fact that McGee at least appeared in half the 1980-81 Season episodes, but McGee was unfortunately no where to be found in the Hulks 5th Season with the exception of the "Triangle" episode(Original Air-Date 11/13/81) which by the way was the last episode shown before this shows sudden cancellation.
Additionally; the 1980-1981 Season was also the last full season of The Incredible Hulk throughout its whole 4-year run since CBS had cancelled The Incredible Hulk all of the sudden on short notice in the middle of its 5th Season without valid warning in the mid-Fall of 1981, due to budget cuts and a change in presidency at CBS.
Therefore, the Hulk's Fourth Season was also the season when the special effects on this show starting getting too expensive, because of all the fiscal budget cuts we had going on back then due to the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan got elected president in the mid Fall of 1980, which was also why The Incredible Hulk's 4th Season got off to a late start and didn't have their Fourth Season opener episode until November of 1980 instead of having their Season Premiere for the 1980-81 Season in September or October of 1980 due to a strike that was going on in the Summer of 1980.
It was also interesting seeing some cool guest stars in the 1980-81 Season such as
-Jared Martin in the "Free Fall" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS
-Bill Lucking in the "Dark Side" episode before his co-starring days as the overzealous Col. Lynch on THE A-TEAM and after previously guest starring in "The Antowuk Horror" episode from the Hulk's 2nd Season.
-Charles Brill in the "King Of The Beach" episode before his co-starring days as Capt. Lipschitz on SILK STALKINGS & after his co-starring days on the short-lived series SUPERTRAIN
-Michael Conrad in the "Interview With The Hulk" episode during his co-starring days on the police drama HILL STREET BLUES
-Eddie Barth in the "Patterns" episode before his co-starring days as Rick & AJ's old pal(Myron Fowler) on SIMON & SIMON
-Billy Green-Bush guest stars on The Incredible Hulk for the second time in "The First" episode after previously guest starring in the "Wildfires" episode
-Don Stroud in the "Danny" episode before his co-starring days as Capt. Lussen on the short-lived police drama THE NEW DRAGNET
-Michael Swan in the "Free Fall" episode before his co-starring days on AS THE WORLD TURNS & SANTA BARBARA and after previously guest starring in the "Babalao" episode in the 3rd Season of THE INCREDIBLE HULK
The Incredible Hulk's 4th Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was president and when THE INCREDIBLE HULK was part of CBS's Friday night line-up every week starting with THE INCREDIBLE HULK at 8PM, followed by THE DUKES OF HAZZARD at 9PM, and then DALLAS at 10PM to top that off, which gave me something else to look forward to every Friday, but then THE DUKES OF HAZZARD eventually took over the Hulks 8PM time-slot on Friday nights when CBS cancelled this show all of the sudden in mid November of 1981.
Unfortunately CBS had uncerimoniously announced in July of 1981 that they were going to be cancelling THE INCREDIBLE HULK when its 5th Season was underway with 7 episodes already in the can which therefore inclined creator(Ken Johnson) to compromise with CBS by at least providing an abbreviated season instead of having a full season or no Fifth Season at all just like NBC ended up doing with THE ROCKFORD FILES during its 6th Season when Rockford had cancelled on short notice back in January of 1980, due to James Garner having health issues & Rockford getting tired.
In addition to what led to this shows cancellation in the mid Fall of 1981 was the president of CBS at the time(Harvey Shepherd)felt that the Hulk was running out of steam plus rumor has it that Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno found it difficult to work with creator(Ken Johnson)and that Johnson was blamed for this show being cancelled because of Johnson and CBS never being able to come up with an agreeable budget to keep running this show.
So now that Universal has finally come out with Seasons 3 and 4 on DVD, I don't know what's taking them so long to put The Incredible Hulk's 5th Season out on DVD, but I hope to see The Incredible Hulk's abbreviated 1981-82 Season come out on DVD soon, especially since the 5th Season was also the last and final season of The Incredible Hulk.
It's just too bad that Universal didn't decide to combine The Incredible Hulk's short-lived Fifth Season onto The Incredible Hulk's Fourth Season DVD, especially since the Hulk's 5th Season was only half a season with barely 7 episodes, unlike the first 4 seasons of The Incredible Hulk, but my suspicion on why Universal didn't decide to combine the Hulk's abbreviated Fifth Season to the Hulk's Fourth Season DVD was perhaps due to Universal wanting to get more money out of their customers, especially since Amazon like every other business is seeing quite a decline in sales lately, due to todays humble economy, because of George Bush, Jr's presidency.
Therefore, I initially blame Reagan for The Incredible Hulk cancelling all of the sudden when it did back in November of 1981 during the middle of its short-lived 5th Season run on CBS, since there was no longer enough money in the budget to keep this show afloat, due to the rough economy we had back then during Reagan's presidency.
Description of The Incredible Hulk - The Complete Fourth Season
Thundering onto DVD for the first time ever is the complete Fourth Season of The Incredible Hulk! Primetime Emmy® Award Nominee Bill Bixby returns as the mild-mannered scientist David Banner who uncontrollably morphs into the enraged Hulk (Lou Ferrigno). While searching for a cure, he encounters a variety of characters played by impressive guest stars such as Dick Durock (Swamp Thing), Dick O'Neill (Cagney and Lacey) and Lou Ferrigno in a different role! This 4-disc set includes all 18 action-packed episodes and all-new exclusive bonus content featuring show creator Kenneth Johnson. Even though Banner proclaims "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry," take home Season Four of The Incredible Hulk today, and you won't be sorry!Bestsellers in DVD
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