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Killer Instinct
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Episode
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8 of season 2
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Director
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Ray Danton
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Writers
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William Whitehead, Joel Don Humphreys
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Original airdate
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November 10, 1978
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Alias
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David Burnett
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Location
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Los Angeles, CA
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Preceded by
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Followed by
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Killer Instinct is episode twenty of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on November 10, 1978 on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David takes a job working as an assistant trainer for a professional football team in order to learn more about the research of a sports psychologist studying abnormal aggression in football players.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Denny Miller as John Tobey
- Rudy Solari as Dr. Byron Stewart
- Barbara Leigh as June Tobey
- Pepper Martin as Coach Haggerty
- Paul Coufos as Bob Turner
- Wyatt Johnson as Tony Bowers
- Pat Studstill as Kermit Connelly
- Herman Poppe as J.P. Tobey
- Bill Baldwin as Mitch Adams
- Frank Orsatti as Kurt Donahue
- Wally K. Berns as Drunk
- Tiger Williams as Young John Tobey
- Jerry Canter as Scalper
- Mello Alexandria as Security Guard
Highlights[]
Ending sequence (same as in "Deep Shock" and "The Harder They Fall")
- Very well written, and Denny Miller turns in a good performance as a football star struggling to deal with overly aggressive tendencies
- Hulk-out 1: Having two mean football players snap wet towels at him and shove him into the steam room which they have turned on to full blast
- Hulk-out 2: Being trapped inside a football stadium drunk tank while his friend is in danger, and then having one of the drunks hit him over the head with a metal object
Trivia[]
Game footage used is of the Chicago Bears.