<P> While Drs . Banner and Marks try to reverse the process, reporter Jack McGee of a tabloid named the National Register, who had been probing Banner's research into the limits of human strength, investigates the campers' sighting of the Hulk and intrudes on the lab . While the scientists plead ignorance, McGee suspects they know something and sneaks into the lab, hiding in a chemical storage room . Dr. Banner catches McGee hiding, and the startled reporter knocks a chemical off of a storage shelf . As Dr. Banner takes McGee outside, the spilled chemicals set off a fire . Dr. Banner rushes back into the lab to save Dr. Marks . Seeing Dr. Marks injured and in grave danger triggers another transformation into the Hulk . The Hulk carries Dr. Marks away from the inferno into nearby woods, but she dies from injuries sustained in the explosion . McGee witnesses the Hulk carrying her away, and surmises that the Hulk killed both Banner and Marks . Although the authorities are skeptical of the existence of the creature McGee tells them about, he publishes a front - page headline in the National Register that proclaims, "Incredible' Hulk' Kills 2". Dr. Banner, now presumed dead, goes into hiding while trying to find a cure for his condition . </P> <P> In a manner vaguely similar to the popular series The Fugitive, this forms the basis of the TV series: Dr. Banner endlessly drifts from place to place, assuming different identities and odd jobs to support himself and sometimes to enable his research . Along the way, Dr. Banner finds himself feeling obliged to help the people he meets out of whatever troubles have befallen them . Often Dr. Banner's inner struggle is paralleled by the dilemmas of the people he encounters, who find in Dr. Banner a sympathetic helper . Kenneth Johnson stated, "What we were constantly doing was looking for thematic ways to touch (- on) the various ways that the Hulk sort of manifested itself in everyone . In Dr. David Banner, it happened to be anger . In someone else, it might be obsession, or it might be fear, or it might be jealousy or alcoholism! The Hulk comes in many shapes and sizes . That's what we tried to delve into in the individual episodes". Despite his attempts to stay calm no matter how badly he is treated, Dr. Banner inevitably finds himself in situations that trigger his transformations into the Hulk, yet the creature's rampages often assist in putting some other wrong right in the lives of the people Banner encounters . </P> <P> Meanwhile, McGee continues to pursue the mysterious monster, whom he believes got away with a double murder . Towards the end of each episode, Dr. Banner almost always flees the town, scared that publicity over the Hulk's rampages will eventually bring unwanted scrutiny of him from the local authorities or McGee; Banner explains in Death in the Family, the second made - for - television film, "The creature is wanted for murder--a murder which I can never prove he or I didn't commit, and you would be harboring a criminal ." </P> <Ul> <Li> Bill Bixby as David Bruce Banner, physician and scientist, based on the comic book character Bruce Banner </Li> <Li> Lou Ferrigno as Hulk, a large, green, muscular creature that is the mindless angry alter - ego to David Banner </Li> <Li> Jack Colvin as Jack McGee, a reporter tracking the Hulk's trail </Li> <Li> Ted Cassidy as the narrator and the voice of the Hulk (uncredited) </Li> <Li> Charles Napier as the voice of the Hulk (after Cassidy's death in 1979) (uncredited) </Li> </Ul>

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