Broken Image

David Banner(Bill Bixby) is broke and forced to work at his apartment complex to pay off the rent. Even worse, he just so happens to have a criminal lookalike named Mike Cassidy(also Bixby) whose associate Teddy(played by Jed Mills) tries to fool David into thinking that Mike wants to help him out, when in reality he is being set up for a fall, and Jack McGee(Jack Colvin) comes face to face with David, though is persuaded by Teddy that he is really Mike... Potentially confusing and contrived episode comes off well thanks to Bixby's entirely convincing portrayal of a thoroughly cold-hearted criminal most unlike David. All that's missing is frequent guest star Gerald McRaney showing up as yet another character to complete the potential in-joke!

Just an exceptionally DARK episode. One is almost relieved at the end. I always wondered why David Banner was so submissive, and wouldn't fight back. I was barely in my double digits, and kind of a little runt myself, with very little confidence (that's changed), so, that caught my attention. The concept of the program, I understood later, was that he was trying to AVOID anger. I didn't catch that he had no memory of his hulkout moments. Now that I do understand that, it makes the whole concept more interesting and exiting. I appreciate the show more. Incidentally, I've learned that Bill Bixby, himself, was a marine, and even was a practitioner of Karate.