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The Phenom
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Episode
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1 of season 5
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Director
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Bernard McEveety
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Writer
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Reuben Leder
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Original airdate
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October 2, 1981
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Alias
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David Beddiger
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Location
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Florida
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Preceded by
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Followed by
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The Phenom is episode seventy-six (and season five premiere) of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on October 2, 1981 on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David hitches a ride to Florida with a rookie baseball player who is trying out for the New Jersey Roosters, a big league team. There, he becomes involved in the dark side of baseball when his friend gets mixed up with an unscrupulous sports agent.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Brett Cullen as Joe Dunning
- Anne Lockhart as Audrey
- Dick O'Neill as Cyrus T. McCormack
- Ken Swofford as Johnny
- Robert Donner as Bernard Devlin
Highlights[]
Ending sequence
Hulk-out 1: Getting accosted by two thugs in a hotel who throw him down a half flight of stairs and he glides through the glass in a door at the bottom.
Hulk-out 2: The two thugs try to stop his friend from playing the baseball game by throwing him on the pavement in front of a car.
Trivia[]
Anne Lockhart also guest-starred in the episode "Captive Night" (3.11).
Before the game, when the announcer called the line-up, the first two names were Alan Cassidy (who was associate producer) and Bobby Steinhauer (Robert Bennett Steinhauer – supervising producer).