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The Psychic
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Episode
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18 of season 3
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Director
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Barry Crane
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Writers
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Karen Harris, Jill Sherman Donner, George Arthur Bloom (story)
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Original airdate
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February 22, 1980
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Location
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San Francisco
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Preceded by
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Followed by
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The Psychic is episode eighteen in season three of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on February 15, 1980 on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David's secret is discovered by a woman with psychic powers. The creature has recently been implicated in the murder of a teenager, so she attempts to turn him over to Jack McGee. However, a chance accident proves to her that David is not a ruthless killer and they become close friends. Her psychic powers also predict that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer. Can David rescue McGee without being discovered?
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Jack Colvin as Jack McGee
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Brenda Benet as Annie Caplan
- Nick Pellegrino as Manager
- Sue Ann Gilfillan as Switchboard Supervisor
- Stephen Fanning as Johnny Wolff
- Judy Jean Berns as Mrs. Donner
- David Anthony as Robbie Donner
- Bert Hinchman as Joe 'The Green' Grocer
- Jason Ross as Beat Cop
- Thomas Hilliard as Doctor
- Marilyn Allen as Woman
- Andrea Pike as Young Girl
- Eugene Jackson as Pedestrian
- Jesse Wayne as Delivery Man
- Chino 'Fats' Williams as Pedestrian
Highlights[]
Ending sequence (same as in "Long Run Home" and "The First")
- A powerful scene during the climax when McGee extracts the truth from one of Robbie's friends that it was he, and not the Hulk who inflicted the fatal wound
- Hulk-out 1: Foolishly running in and trying to help a man who brought a lit cigarette into a room full of toxic vapors, only to have an explosion throw him across the room and into the row of heavy C02 containers, which all fall on him
- Hulk-out 2: Hit in the face with a high powered bee-bee gun, which causes him to fall over the balcony and plunge 40 feet into the seats below
- The episode starts with David already transformed into the Hulk
Trivia[]
- Brenda Benet (as the psychic) was Bixby's wife at the time of filming. They later divorced, and then suffered a serious tragedy when their young son, Christopher, died in a hospital waiting room. Benet was so overcome with grief that she later took her own life. (Ironically, her character, was admittedly suicidal over a past failure to save a child).
- The characters of Mrs. Donner and Robbie Donner were named by episode co-writer Jill Sherman after her future husband Robert Donner, who appears in the episodes "Sideshow" and "The Phenom".
- One of the few episodes to depict science-fiction or fantasy concepts other than the ubiquitous Hulk himself (though no special effects were used to depict her psychic powers).