747

747
Episode	7 of season 1
Director	Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writers	Thomas E. Szollosi, Richard Christian Matheson
Original airdate	April 7, 1978
Alias	David Brown
Locations	San Francisco, CA; Denver, CO
Preceded by	Terror In Times Square
Followed by	The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas

747 is episode seven of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on April 7, 1978 on CBS.

Synopsis

Traveling across the country in pursuit of a potential cure for his affliction, David boards a passenger plane that is carrying a priceless Egyptian exhibit. When the pilot and a stewardess attempt to steal the artifacts, David finds himself forced into the unenviable position of having to land the plane safely before the strain induces his transformation into the Hulk.

Cast

• Bill Bixby as David Banner
• Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
• Edward Power as Phil
• Sondra Currie as Stephanie
• Denise Galik as Denise
• Brandon Cruz as Kevin
• Howard Honig as Mr. Leggit
• Don Keefer as Mr. MacIntire
• Susan Cotton as Cynthia Davis
• Del Hinkley as Pilot
• Ed Peck as Captain Brandes
• J. Jay Saunders as Controller
• Shirley O' Hara as Mrs. MacIntire
• Barbara Mealy as Nurse

Highlights

• Reunites Bill Bixby with Brandon Cruz, his young co-star from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"
• Some terrific scenes of Bixby struggling with the plane's controls while trying to fight off his transformation into the creature
• Hulk-out 1: Being pushed out of a plane at 30,000 feet by a mean guy who yells “You’re gonna land a lot sooner than the rest of us!”
• Hulk-out 2: Being forced to land a 747 without any training and only an air traffic controller to help, at the risk of his, the Hulk's, and everybody else on the plane's lives.

Trivia

• The first episode in which Jack McGee/Jack Colvin does not appear
• Airplane footage from the 1975 film Airport is used (Both the series and the movie were produced by Universal Pictures)
• Actor Howard Honig also played a passenger in the films Airplane and Airplane 2: The Sequel
• Co-writer Richard Christian Matheson (who would also co-write "Like A Brother" and "The Snare") is the son of screenwriter/short story writer/novelist/philosopher Richard Matheson (who, among his many other credits, wrote 16 episodes of The Twilight Zone)