It would make Bill happy…
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treeskier802 — 17 years ago(June 15, 2008 07:52 PM)
Thanks for the nice synopsis Naillon. Bill Bixby was great. The Sci-Fi Channel has been playing old Hulk episodes and I dare say it might be one of the best shows of the era. Bill Bixby truly was a great actor too. He must have enjoyed television work because I think he could have easily been a great film actor too.
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d_henderson1810 — 13 years ago(April 25, 2012 01:22 AM)
How you say that no-one could touch Bill Bixby in the role of Banner, I heard a story that producer Kenneth Johnson wanted Bill Bixby for the role of Dr David Banner so much, that if Bixby had turned down the role, Johnson wasn't going to make the show at all, as he felt that no other actor would "capture" the role the same way.
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Muggle72 — 17 years ago(June 14, 2008 09:31 PM)
I used to watch this when I was a kid too and I'm 25. I remember liking the show although I was scared when he transformed b/c the Hulk was definitely scary. This new movie with Edward Norton was definitely good
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ThunderDonkey — 17 years ago(July 03, 2008 05:42 PM)
Re: It would make Bill happy
by - Keobasa on Sun Jun 15 2008 20:40:34
mommy4thomas2002, Bruce's father in the comics was abusive toward him and harmed him in the comics.this was central to Lee's film.
Keobasa
No, you are incorrect. What happened as is so often in these cases a pair of writers did a new adaption of Banners personal history sometime in the past 20 years or so and they decided to put that spin on his character. The Hulk when it debuted and ever after had no such story with his father. It was added in not too too l2000ong ago by some fools who took liberties with the story so that Keobasa is incorrect. -
Nation_of_one — 17 years ago(June 16, 2008 04:04 AM)
While "The Hulk" may have not been great it hardly deserves that kind of lashing. It was a well written movie that just had a bad story. It was also very well directed and very well acted. The thing that killed it was lack of a real good bad guy. Nick Nolte and the mutant dogs just didn't cut it. Also the CG wasn't the greatest. This new movie is very good and I do consider it overall to be better than "The Hulk", but Zak Penn's terrible writing and Liv Tylers terrible acting did not do the movie service.
Who brought me here Forsaken depraved and wrought with fear
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herbhead76 — 17 years ago(November 21, 2008 02:48 AM)
"I only wish they could work him into the new hulk movie. Maybe a different Bixby show on some television screen in the background,"
Watch the Tv in the backgroudn when Banner is in peru, also look for the bulky friendly security guard AKA the man in green paint we all grew up watching. -
TheCrowningHalo — 17 years ago(November 30, 2008 02:19 AM)
I don't think they'll ever be able to match Bixby's Dr. Banner. Norton did a good job, but Bixby had this aura around him that made you believe he truly was a tortured soul. He always looked like he was lost forever in a perpetual sadness for his curse. He was a very tragic hero.
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jf_moran49 — 14 years ago(October 16, 2011 12:17 AM)
I agreee with you it would be nice to have a tribute to TV's "The Incredible Hulk." But, of course, Bixby didn't originate "The Hulk" on television. There was a syndicated, animated series ("The Marvel Super Heroes," 1966; among which one of the five, weekday segments was "The Incredible Hulk"), before the CBS live action series starring Bixby, which aired 1978-82.
And also, Bixby would have to share any such honors with Lou Ferrigno, who portrayed the green monster superhero post-metamorphosis.
"The Incredible Hulk" placed in the Nielsen Top 30 just once its four seasons, tied for #26 (in a three-way tie with ABC-TV's "Family" and "Welcome Back Kotter") its first season. The series debuted as a mid-season replacement series in March 1978.
The TV series for which Bill Bixby is best known, coincidentally, is another gimmicky one (also broadcast on CBS), "My Favorite Martian," which placed in the Nielsen Top Ten (#10) its first season, #24 its second. The show lasted one season after that.
The series in which Bixby had his warmest, most realistic role was ABC's "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," which, although fondly remembered by many, was never even a Top 30 show.
In that series, Bixby portrayed a young widower juggling career, dating, and fatherhood to an adorable son (of the series' title), with help from his Japanese housekeeper, "Mrs. Livingston."
The series also had a memorable theme song, sung and written by legendary pop/rock songsmith Harry Nilsson. Nilsson also performed the series' incidental music for a third (10 episodes or so) of the first season. Thereafter, the cue and incidental music was performed by Nilsson-sound-alikes.
In this same period, Nilsson had a huge hit with "Everybody's Talkin'," from the Academy Award-winning film "Midnight Cowboy" (starring Dustin Hoffman & Jon Voight, the first and only X-rated film ever to win a Best Picture Oscar). Nilsson also won a 1969 Grammy Award for his rendition of the Fred Neil song, the first of his two Best Male Pop Grammys (the second came with his incredible rendition of Badfinger's "Without You" in 1973).
Perhaps Bixby's most personal role was also his biggest flop, NBC's "The Magician", which aired one season, from 1973-74. Bixby was also an amateur magician in real life.
So, in the span of two decades, Bixby appeared in four popular TV series (starring in three of them), on each of the then-three major TV networks. Like his contemporary, Michael Landon, Bill Bixby was a 1908hard-working and very popular TV actor who died too young. -
Chopperbubba — 11 years ago(December 01, 2014 01:17 PM)
Well said. TIH was such a huge part of my fondest childhood memories. Bill was such an incredible person, it makes me sad to think he was taken from us at such a young age. Always thinking of you Bill!