I so much wanted to step up to a 7 in my rating, but I couldn´t.
This legendary series who met an abrupt ending in the very early 80´s is kind of flat in many ways nowadays, full-filling 4 seasons and a very short fifth.
It begins excellent. A scientist (David Banner) is determend to find out the secrets of the extra ordinary strength within ordinary people in stressed situations. (Himself got the dark story of a wife killed in a car accident himself involved, trying to rescue her out of a burning car, but fails.)
With A dedicated partner, they soon finds out that Gamma Rays is a key. (After interviews with people who succeded in situations David didn´t.)
After hours, David gives himself an unaccidental strong shot of gamma rays in the laboratory, wich changes his inner chemistry forever.
The split is on.
Some evenings after that, with troublesome searchings for answers, one David Banner is on the run, forever for what it seems. (Accused for killing himself, in shape of that alter-ego.)
Then it´s time to take the highway for a couple of thousand miles!
Some fifth of the episodes are just re-written -or borrowed - material from shows of the same era. But when It´s good, It´s real good. And entertaning. Bill Bixby was formidable as a struggled and haunted man when the episodes was written in a kind of introspective way, beside the shallow scripts.
The pilot and the rest of season 1 plus S2 (who starts excellent) is the juice of this show.
The drops then comes very, very continious. After a few minutes you see clearly if this is a "between" episode, with a dull script and a go-on-to-the-next feeling.
Though I like the whole 1970's package a LOT, in style and in some other culture stuff, this flaws is endureable.
Bill Bixby was a very dedicated actor, who struck family tragedy during the recording years 1977-1981. The muscle man Lou Ferrigno (who played David Banner´s green alter ego of the Hulk) once said that he clearly saw Bixby's energy faded a lot in the last third of the show.
Did it for the paycheck.
Bixby left us in the early 90´s, and will always be David Banner to the audience. Hitch-hiking David Banner.
This legendary series who met an abrupt ending in the very early 80´s is kind of flat in many ways nowadays, full-filling 4 seasons and a very short fifth.
It begins excellent. A scientist (David Banner) is determend to find out the secrets of the extra ordinary strength within ordinary people in stressed situations. (Himself got the dark story of a wife killed in a car accident himself involved, trying to rescue her out of a burning car, but fails.)
With A dedicated partner, they soon finds out that Gamma Rays is a key. (After interviews with people who succeded in situations David didn´t.)
After hours, David gives himself an unaccidental strong shot of gamma rays in the laboratory, wich changes his inner chemistry forever.
The split is on.
Some evenings after that, with troublesome searchings for answers, one David Banner is on the run, forever for what it seems. (Accused for killing himself, in shape of that alter-ego.)
Then it´s time to take the highway for a couple of thousand miles!
Some fifth of the episodes are just re-written -or borrowed - material from shows of the same era. But when It´s good, It´s real good. And entertaning. Bill Bixby was formidable as a struggled and haunted man when the episodes was written in a kind of introspective way, beside the shallow scripts.
The pilot and the rest of season 1 plus S2 (who starts excellent) is the juice of this show.
The drops then comes very, very continious. After a few minutes you see clearly if this is a "between" episode, with a dull script and a go-on-to-the-next feeling.
Though I like the whole 1970's package a LOT, in style and in some other culture stuff, this flaws is endureable.
Bill Bixby was a very dedicated actor, who struck family tragedy during the recording years 1977-1981. The muscle man Lou Ferrigno (who played David Banner´s green alter ego of the Hulk) once said that he clearly saw Bixby's energy faded a lot in the last third of the show.
Did it for the paycheck.
Bixby left us in the early 90´s, and will always be David Banner to the audience. Hitch-hiking David Banner.