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Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share


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On 2018-07-16 00:07:35 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share

Another moron in hollyweird ... "I didn't want to make a comic book
show" ... it *IS* a comic book character! Why do they keep hiring these
idiots for projects they don't actually want to do?? :-\

Luckily the show still turned out pretty well.

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In article <pigusd$1h50$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2018-07-16 00:07:35 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share

Another moron in hollyweird ... "I didn't want to make a comic book
show" ... it *IS* a comic book character! Why do they keep hiring these idiots for projects they don't actually want to do?? :-\

Luckily the show still turned out pretty well.

That's because he didn't make a comic-book show. Do you remember those
pieces of shit at the time? SPIDER-MAN, in particular? And AUTOMAN?
MANIMAL? THE PHOENIX?

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well. With SPIDER-MAN, I couldn't even
figure out how Peter Parker kept all that hair under his headgear
without it bulging all over the place.

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A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:

In article <pigusd$1h50$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2018-07-16 00:07:35 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share

Another moron in hollyweird ... "I didn't want to make a comic book
show" ... it *IS* a comic book character! Why do they keep hiring these
idiots for projects they don't actually want to do?? :-\

Luckily the show still turned out pretty well.

That's because he didn't make a comic-book show. Do you remember those
pieces of shit at the time? SPIDER-MAN, in particular? And AUTOMAN?
MANIMAL? THE PHOENIX?

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well.

It didn't really even hold up for me when I was a kid at the time it aired.

I loved the Hulk comics and eagerly tuned in to watch the show only to be wildly disappointed that the Hulk was nothing but a normal dude painted
green and his amazing strength consisted of him bursting through cardboard walls and throwing styrofoam boulders around in slow motion in every
episode.

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On 2018-07-16 02:50:41 +0000, A Friend said:

In article <pigusd$1h50$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2018-07-16 00:07:35 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share

Another moron in hollyweird ... "I didn't want to make a comic book
show" ... it *IS* a comic book character! Why do they keep hiring these
idiots for projects they don't actually want to do?? :-\

Luckily the show still turned out pretty well.

That's because he didn't make a comic-book show. Do you remember those pieces of shit at the time? SPIDER-MAN, in particular? And AUTOMAN? MANIMAL? THE PHOENIX?

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well. With SPIDER-MAN, I couldn't even figure out how Peter Parker kept all that hair under his headgear
without it bulging all over the place.

The Incredible Hulk wasn't really any different to the Wonder Woman
show, among many others - both kept getting into trouble, helping
people, and solving mysteries each fine by the end of the
episode.week, only to be (usually).

The fact is that is was a comic book show, whether he liked it or not
and whether he set out for it to be or not ... it had to be since it
was a comic book character, even though it differed from the comic book storylines (but then when has Hollyweird ever made anything that sticks
to the original ideas!).

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YourName@YourISP.com wrote:

On 2018-07-16 02:50:41 +0000, A Friend said:

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2018-07-16 00:07:35 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share

Another moron in hollyweird ... "I didn't want to make a comic book
show" ... it *IS* a comic book character! Why do they keep hiring these
idiots for projects they don't actually want to do?? :-\

Luckily the show still turned out pretty well.

That's because he didn't make a comic-book show. Do you remember those
pieces of shit at the time? SPIDER-MAN, in particular? And AUTOMAN?
MANIMAL? THE PHOENIX?

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well. With SPIDER-MAN, I couldn't even
figure out how Peter Parker kept all that hair under his headgear
without it bulging all over the place.

The Incredible Hulk wasn't really any different to the Wonder Woman
show, among many others - both kept getting into trouble, helping
people, and solving mysteries each fine by the end of the
episode.week, only to be (usually).

I have to disagree. Wonder Woman fought bad guys, not acting like a good samaritan.

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nope@noway.com wrote:

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2018-07-16 00:07:35 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

Backstory on the 1978 to 1982 CBS tv series and some outtakes
from the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCyyLKXFec&feature=share

Another moron in hollyweird ... "I didn't want to make a comic book
show" ... it *IS* a comic book character! Why do they keep hiring these
idiots for projects they don't actually want to do?? :-\

Luckily the show still turned out pretty well.

That's because he didn't make a comic-book show. Do you remember those >pieces of shit at the time? SPIDER-MAN, in particular? And AUTOMAN? >MANIMAL? THE PHOENIX?

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well.

I saw a few eps recently and i still didn't like it.


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A Friend <nope@noway.com> writes:

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well. With SPIDER-MAN, I couldn't
even figure out how Peter Parker kept all that hair under his headgear without it bulging all over the place.

It does hold up well for its time. The one big omission in the
documentary was that while they acknowledged _Les Miserables_ as an
ancestor text, they pretended that there had never been such a thing as
_The Fugitive_, where a doctor likewise goes on the run from a likewise relentless pursuer.

They didn't really even need to be coy about it, because I'd argue they improved on the character of the pursuer from previous texts. McGee was
more three-dimensional than Lt. Gerard on _The Fugitive_ or Inspector
Javert in _Les Miserables_. While it's been so long that I've forgotten
the details, I'm pretty sure we learn that McGee started out as a
respected reporter for a respected broadsheet, but then something
happened that I can't remember (personal tragedy, hit the bottle,
something like that) so that his professional life hit the skids, and
the only work he could find as a reporter was for a tabloid. Getting
the Hulk story as a real story rather than as a bigfoot story was his
plan to get back into the broadsheets. He wasn't ruthless, either. In
one of the best episodes, "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk," a frankly
smarter rival sets a Hulk trap by establishing a bogus research facility
that draws Banner in for a job, but McGee foils the rival (I forget the
details as to how) because he realizes the rival is going to kill the
Hulk.

-Micky

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In article <pjllgk$qdm$1@pcls7.std.com>, Micky DuPree <MDuPree@theworld.com.snip.to.reply> wrote:

A Friend <nope@noway.com> writes:

HULK was done straight, as drama. I've caught some episodes recently
on El Rey, and it holds up very well. With SPIDER-MAN, I couldn't
even figure out how Peter Parker kept all that hair under his headgear without it bulging all over the place.

It does hold up well for its time. The one big omission in the
documentary was that while they acknowledged _Les Miserables_ as an
ancestor text, they pretended that there had never been such a thing as
_The Fugitive_, where a doctor likewise goes on the run from a likewise relentless pursuer.

They didn't really even need to be coy about it, because I'd argue they improved on the character of the pursuer from previous texts. McGee was
more three-dimensional than Lt. Gerard on _The Fugitive_ or Inspector
Javert in _Les Miserables_. While it's been so long that I've forgotten
the details, I'm pretty sure we learn that McGee started out as a
respected reporter for a respected broadsheet, but then something
happened that I can't remember (personal tragedy, hit the bottle,
something like that) so that his professional life hit the skids, and
the only work he could find as a reporter was for a tabloid. Getting
the Hulk story as a real story rather than as a bigfoot story was his
plan to get back into the broadsheets. He wasn't ruthless, either. In
one of the best episodes, "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk," a frankly
smarter rival sets a Hulk trap by establishing a bogus research facility
that draws Banner in for a job, but McGee foils the rival (I forget the details as to how) because he realizes the rival is going to kill the
Hulk.

I think I remember that the character of McGee wasn't supposed to last,
but actor Jack Colvin worked hard to make him three-dee and an
adversary the audience could respect and even like.

Like you, I recall that McGee had been a top reporter once. I think he
hit the bottle and lost his marriage and career, which were all details
that came later. IRL I knew a couple of guys like that. One of them
went to work for the Weekly World News. (This was some time ago.) The
WWN paid a relatively huge salary, but reporters didn't last past six
or seven months.

I also knew a guy who wound up working for High Society magazine, a
porn slick that specialized in finding and publishing old nude pics of then-celebrities like Suzanne Somers. (The mag seems to still be
around, and former porn star Gloria Leonard is still listed as the
editor, even after more than forty years. Amazing.) One of the jobs
of the guy I knew was to write the letters that appeared in the
magazine. I don't know if they ever published a real letter.

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