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The Confession
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Episode
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20 of season 2
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Director
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Barry Crane
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Writer
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Deborah Dean Davis
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Original airdate
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May 4, 1979
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Alias
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David Benton / David Beaman
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Location
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Santa Clara, CA
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Preceded by
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Followed by
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The Confession is episode thirty-two of the live-action TV series The Incredible Hulk. It originally aired on May 4, 1979 on CBS.
Synopsis[]
Jack McGee gets a student reporter, Pamela Norris, assigned to be trained by him. Harold Milburn tells McGee and Pamela that he is the man who becomes the Hulk. Because of his experiences in the episode "Mystery Man", McGee is apt to disbelieve him. Pamela writes a story based on an interview in which she states that Harold is not the Hulk. The story is an instant success—but not for Harold, who is furious at her for denying his claims. Harold goes up a bell tower, threatening to jump. David tries to keep Harold from killing himself. David is then trapped there because he could not get away fast enough to avoid being seen (McGee is on the ground outside). So the bell starts ringing, and it is so loud that it makes David "Hulk out" (see image). Hulk walks over to the bell, pulls it off and throws it out of the tower onto the street.
Cast[]
- Bill Bixby as David Banner
- Jack Colvin as Jack McGee
- Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
- Barry Gordon as Harold Milburn
- Markie Post as Pamela Norris
- Elaine Joyce as Waitress
- John Armstrong Marshall as Ernie
- Angus Duncan as Alan O'Neil
- Michael Laurence as Newsman
- Fritzi Burr as Gladys
- Clint Young as Night Guard
- Hollis Irving as Mrs. Goldsmith
- Gloria Delaney as Woman At Desk
- Yusy Flanigan as Girl
- Kenny Davis as Crewman
- Ron Taft as Man
- Earl Colbert as Harry
- Walter Janovitz as Carl
Quotation[]
If you keep giving this guy [Harold] media exposure, you're setting him up for a hell of a disappointment. —Jack McGee
Highlights[]
Ending sequence (same as in "Life and Death", "Stop the Presses", and "Babalao")
- A classic scene where the Hulk goes into a bowling alley, frightens all the guests except the one with his hearing aid turned off, then bowls a frame that destroys all the pins.
- Hulk-out 1: While working as a janitor at a medical center, David injects himself with an experimental drug that drives his blood pressure up to the point where he is about to go into cardiac arrest
- Hulk-out 2: Somehow getting himself into a belfry and then realizing that a bell is there, just as it strikes the hour
Trivia[]
This is the first of five episodes directed by Barry Crane.
This was the last episode in which Ted Cassidy (who passed away on January 16, 1979, at age 46, due to complications from heart surgery) would use his basso-profundo voice to provide the Hulk's growls, snarls, howls, roars, and grunts.