The incredible Lou Ferrigno hosts this weekend's The Incredible Hulk marathon. Photo copyright of El Rey Network.
El Rey Network will air all 85 episodes of the The Incredible Hulk, including the two-hour pilot movie that launched the series in 1977, beginning Memorial Day Weekend. The Hulk himself, Lou Ferrigno, will host four straight days of this amazing "Hulk-A-Thon" with episodes spanning all four seasons. The marathon begins on Friday, May 26th @ 4:00 p.m. EST and ends on Monday, May 29th @ 4:00 a.m. EST. Beginning on Tuesday, May 30th, the series will air every weekday from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00pm EST. Check out the trailer for the marathon.
Based on the Marvel Comics character, The Incredible Hulk follows brilliant scientist Dr. David Banner (Bill Bixby) who carries a terrible secret: in times of great anger, he transforms into a huge, green creature of incredible strength known as The Hulk (Ferrigno). Presumed dead after a lab accident, Dr. Banner travels the country on a quest to cure his condition, assuming different identities as he moves from place to place. In his travels, he encounters people in trouble, whom he feels compelled to help, although doing so inevitably results in the Hulk's appearance and a need to move on to a new town. Dr. Banner is tracked obsessively by tabloid newspaper reporter Jack McGee (Jack Colvin). McGee witnessed the lab accident that killed Dr. Banner's partner and from which Banner himself is presumed dead. Believing the Hulk to be responsible for these deaths, McGee is determined to expose him.
About Lou Ferrigno: Lou was only 21 when he won his first Mr. Universe title, a Guinness Book record that stands to this day. More incredible, at age 22 he won again - and to this day remains the only person to win consecutive titles. Lou carried the world of bodybuilding to new heights and himself to superstardom with the film documentary, Pumping Iron, which chronicled the fabled exploits of the youngest and only person to ever become Mr. Universe twice in a row! Exploding onto the film scene, with his place as a body building legend secured, Lou set out to do the same thing in film and television. In less than a year after Pumping Iron, Lou was again larger than life and created a new cult legend as the title character of the hit show The Incredible Hulk. The same hard work that crafted his six foot five inch, two hundred eighty five pound frame into a piece of human art, define him as an actor with the uncanny ability to assume characters of mythic proportions that carry a primal humanity.
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