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My Favorite Magician
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Episode
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5 of season 3
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Director
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Reza Badiyi
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Writer
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Sam Egan
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Original airdate
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October 26, 1979
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Alias
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David Barker
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Location
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San Luis Obispo, Cal.
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Preceded by
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Followed by
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My Favorite Magician is episode thirty-nine of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on October 26, 1979, on CBS.
Synopsis[]
David finds work as the assistant of "Jasper the Great", a mysterious magician, and becomes mixed up in assorted hi-jinks involving Jasper's estranged daughter, her new fiance, and a former flame of the magician's.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Ray Walston as Jasper Dowd
- Joan Leslie as Lily Beaumont
- Anne Schedeen as Kimberly Dowd
- Scatman Crothers as Edgar McGee
- Robert Alda as Giancarlo Corleone
- Bob Hastings as Earl
- Bill Capizzi as Ben
- Fritzi Burr as Rose Brown
- Archie Lang as Justice of the Peace
- Franklin Brown as Maurie Brown
Highlights[]
Ending sequence (same as in "Vendetta Road", "Homecoming", and "Wax Museum")
- It was great to see Bixby and Walston together again
- When the water tank stunt goes wrong, triggering David's metamorphosis and the Hulk rampages on stage, the audience mistakenly believes that it is all part of Jasper's act, and applauds
- Contains the often used scene of the Hulk running down the lighted alleyway
- A very funny scene in which a man and a woman meet the Hulk and ask for his autograph. Bemused, he poses for a photograph but is startled by the camera flash which enrages him and runs away.
- Hulk-out 1: Stuck inside a water tank
- Hulk-out 2: Locked into a car's trunk by some mean guys
Trivia[]
The episode reunites Bill Bixby with his former co-star Ray Walston from My Favorite Martian (1963). Bixby also starred in a series in 1973 called The Magician.
This is the second appearance by Robert Alda in series. The first was "Terror in Times Square."