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Married
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Episode
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1 of season 2
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Director
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Writer
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Kenneth Johnson
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Original airdate
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September 22, 1978
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Alias
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David Benton
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Location
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Honolulu, Hawaii
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Married was the two-hour season two premiere episode of The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on September 22, 1978, on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David travels to Hawaii to enlist the aid of Dr. Carolyn Fields, a psychiatrist who he believes will be able to help him, through hypnosis, to control his transformations into the Hulk. When David learns that she is stricken with a terminal illness, he agrees to offer his expertise in exchange for hers. As the two work closely together, they begin to form a bond and fall in love. But will this romance be wrought with tragedy?
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Jack Colvin as Jack McGee
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Mariette Hartley as Dr. Carolyn Fields
- Brian Cutler as Brad
- Diane Markoff as The Girl
- Duncan Gamble as Mark
- Meeno Peluce as The Boy
- Rosalind Chao as Receptionist
- Russ Grieve as Dr. Maxwell
- Nat Jones as 1st Messenger
- Russ Takaki as 2nd Messenger
Highlights[]
Ending sequence
- Bixby's and Hartley's topnotch performances, along with the excellent script, make this one of the best episodes of the series.
- The scene when Hulk tears Brad and Mark's house apart.
- Hulk-out 1 (in a flashback): Under hypnosis, David remembers the first time he turned into the Hulk with the car in the rain with a flat tire. Later, he had talk about losing Laura which triggered his transformation In reality.
- Hulk-out 2: Trying to enter the house of a couple of bad guys who have invited his wife back to their place, he gets beat up and thrown from a balcony.
- Hulk-out 3: A nightmare of Carolyn leaving David behind.
- Hulk-out 4: David attempts to find an ailing Carolyn in a hurricane but the traffic and the storm itself causes another metamorphosis.
Trivia[]
Movie poster in Sweden
- This was released theatrically in parts of Europe under the title The Bride of the Incredible Hulk
- Mariette Hartley won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. This is a rare occurrence of a science-fiction/fantasy series winning an Emmy for acting rather than for technical aspects such as visual effects.
- This is the first episode (of 2) where the Hulk and Banner appear on screen together (in a dream sequence) (the other time is in the season 3 premiere "Metamorphosis")
- It contains the most screen time featuring the Hulk of any episode – four Hulk-outs in total (the same as in "Death In The Family"), in addition to the dream sequence and flashbacks to the pilot episode
- The scene with Bixby and Ferrigno together was filmed at the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, California
- Mariette Hartley and Loni Anderson ("Of Guilt Models And Murder") have both said that Bill Bixby was their favorite actor to work with
- Several season 4 episodes ("Free Fall", "Dark Side", "Deep Shock", "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk", "Fast Lane", "King of the Beach") used the same soundtrack from the first and second Hulk- out in "Married".
- Russ Grieve plays Dr. Maxwell, but he is credited as "Conservative Man".
- This was actor Russ Grieve's final Television role, he passed away two years later.