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David Banner(Bill Bixby) takes the chance of booking a commercial airline flight from San Francisco to Chicago in order to meet with a doctor who might hold a cure, but will be going away soon. Of course, as David's luck would have it, this particular flight is carrying Egyptian artifacts that a co-pilot(played by Ed Power) and a stewardess(Sondra Currie) want to steal by drugging the flight crew, but this plan backfires, and David finds himself in the pilots seat trying to land the plane before the Hulk does... Best episode of the first season is well cast and directed, making inspired use of its "Airport" borrowed storyline. Memorable sight of the Hulk on a plane scenario.

I loved the Incredible Hulk when it first appeared. This was one of the best episodes of the whole series topped only by episodes like A Death in the Family. A treat was the appearance of Brandon Cruz who played Bixby's young son in the 60's series The Courtship of Eddie's Father. In this episode he is a teenager helping the Hulk land the plane.

The scene at the end when David is trying to land the airplane is pure movie magic as David is this time fighting turning into the Hulk, and for a few minutes only turns halfway. The make-up is incredible as he turns into the Hulk little by little as the air traffic controller gives him instructions how to land the plane and keeps urging him to not lose control, which is a very clever double meaning. The werewolf movie transformations of the day had nothing on this one. This episode has to be seen to be believed.

For me this is so far the best Hulk episode and maybe for some it's strange because the hulk isn't that much to see here in this airplane disaster. Finally David has found a doctor who can help him with his problems but once he wants to make an appointment the doctor has left to Chicago. Up to David to take a plane to Chicago. But on the plane the pilot and a stewardess wants to steel artifacts from ages ago. David sits against an old couple and when the man wants a coffee he takes one himself not knowing that the coffee has been drugged to take out the crew. Of course as being a doctor David notice that somethings wrong on board.

Very quickly he has a fight as the hulk but once the plane doesn't has a crew anymore it's David who's becoming the hero. You have to wait until almost the end before he changes again. His last change is something special and not seen before. He changes in half hulk half David and it takes a while he stays that way. That's something we haven't seen before. But not having the hulk that much in this episode you will keep watching it with full suspense until the end. I've said it before but Bill is playing his role in an excellent way.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 4/5 Comedy 0/5

David 'Brown' boards a Boeing 747 plane in San Francisco to travel to Chicago in pursuit of a cure for his metamorphosis. The airline captain (Edward Power) and a flight attendant (Sondra Currie)have planned the theft of a priceless Egyptian exhibit from the plane's cargo hold.

They start with the intention of drugging the other two pilots, which they manage to do, but accidentally a passenger is drugged. Which David figures is some knockout drug, he then enquires about what's going on - the airline captain leads him to the hold with the intention of pushing him out of the plane whilst in a silver box. Then the Hulk breaks loose...

After dealing with the scheming couple, David is forced to land the plane in Denver during one of his transformations into the Hulk.

The hulk offers some online flight entertainment but only twice, once in the hold and once in the pilot seat. Solid episode with some tense moments, great acting, two pretty flight attendants and a killer scene in which the jolly green giant is clinging to the aircraft door. Another good scene is when Banner goes half-hulk as he tries to land the plane. He's really trying not to rip his shirt but eventually he does.

As you might have guessed from the title, this episode takes place almost entirely aboard a plane. And as you might have guessed from the series trend, the plot focuses around crooks trying to hijack it by drugging the crew.

The setup is good, and we're immediately introduced to a sizable cast of varied characters, much like in a drawing room mystery. But the episode has little grasp of reality, to the point where it's unintentionally humorous. When I said "drugging", you were probably thinking some powder that dissolves instantly in liquid or something, right? Instead, the stewardess plops a half-dozen **gelcaps** into each pilot's coffee. And we're expected to believe they don't notice all those pills when they drink it! I wish I was making this up.

At the beginning, a teenager is reading a novel about planes and remarks that the technical points are all wrong. I hope that was intentional irony, because even a layman knows that planes don't work the way they're shown here. But the silliest part is when the Hulk, by following orders from the plane-savvy teenager, successfully brings the plane in for a landing! Note to writers: The Hulk gets angry and smashes things. He does not follow orders or pilot aircraft.

This episode has its moments, like the fight in the cargo hold, but there's too much silliness for it to hold together.