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The Slam
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Episode
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4 of season 3
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Director
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Nicholas Corea
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Writer
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Nicholas Corea
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Original airdate
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October 19, 1979
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Alias
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David Brendan
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Location
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Jensen County
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Preceded by
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Followed by
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The Slam is episode thirty-eight of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on October 19, 1979 on CBS.
Synopsis[]
Penniless, David is arrested on a vagrancy charge and sent to work on a brutal chain-gang. There, he becomes caught in the middle of a war between the frustrated inmates and the brutal prison officials that is further hampered by McGee's investigative journalism.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Jack Colvin as Jack McGee
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Charles Napier as John Blake
- Julius Harris as Doc Alden
- Marc Alaimo as Captain Holt
- Robert Davi as Rader
- Skip Riley as Roth
- Brad Dexter as Sheriff
- Charlie Picerni as Harris
- John Steadman as Old Convict
- Linda Lawrence as Reporter
- David Zelliti as Guard
- Cecil Reddick as Driver
- Hank Underwood as Farmer
Highlights[]
Ending sequence
- The Hulk helps the prison inmates to beat the guards
- Hulk-out 1: Trying to run away from the nasty prison work camp, only to fall through a rotted bridge, and then being bitten by a rattlesnake
- Hulk-out 2: Beaten up by all the other prisoners in the work camp, in the middle of the night while he is trying to sleep when he emphatically told them not to beat him up that particular night
Trivia[]
- This is the first of three episodes directed by Nicholas Corea (He also produced many episodes and wrote 13)
- Charles Napier also appears in "Triangle"
- Both Robert Davi and Julius Harris played villains in James Bond films; Harris as Tee Hee in Live and Let Die, and Davi as Franz Sanchez in License to Kill