No Escape

No Escape
Episode	18 of season 2
Director	Jeffrey Hayden
Writer	Benjamin Masselink
Original airdate	March 30, 1979
Alias	David Baron
Preceded by	The Disciple
Followed by	Kindred Spirits

No Escape is episode thirty of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on March 30, 1979, on CBS.

Synopsis

When David is arrested for vagrancy, he is placed in a police van where he encounters a man who envisions himself as the deceased writer Ernest Hemingway. But when a fight provokes David's transformation into the Hulk, our hero escapes, inadvertently freeing the mentally-ill man in the process. David must help find the man before he hurts himself or someone else.

Cast

• Bill Bixby as David Banner
• Jack Colvin as Jack McGee
• Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
• James Wainwright as Tom Wallace
• Mariclare Costello as Kay Wallace
• Skip Homeier as Dr. Robert Stanley
• Thalmus Rasulala as Dep. Chief Harry Simon
• Sherman Hemsley as Robert
• Tom Lowell as Mathews
• Howard Brunner as 1st Officer
• Lynn Randall as 1st Reporter
• George J. Cooper as 2nd Reporter
• Jerry Fitzpatrick as 2nd Officer
• Chris Peterson as Steve
• Andy Enberg as Jimmy
• Jack Kirby as Sketch Artist (uncredited cameo; see below)

Highlights

Ending sequence

• Hulk-out 1: Locked in a drunk tank with a crazy person who insists he is Ernest Hemingway and then beats the stuffing out of David
• Hulk-out 2: Being tear gassed by two policemen that are attempting to arrest Jack McGee

Kirby appearance

The police sketch artist is a cameo appearance by Jack Kirby, co-creator of the comic book Hulk character with Stan Lee. He is sketching a witnesses description of the creature. Upon examining his sketch closely, it looks like his Marvel character, done in the usual Kirby style. This is the first live-action cameo appearance of a Marvel creator in an adaptation of Marvel Comics. Stan Lee appears in a cameo, for the first time, in 1989's Trial of the Incredible Hulk. He would continue this tradition until his death in 2018.