Shadoe Stevens

While hitchhiking in the desert, David Banner is given a ride by a gold-hungry ex-convict who keeps him prisoner in a ghost town and forces him to work in his mine alongside two other "slaves". The trio plot their escape but are trapped in the mine by an explosion and the Hulk has to save their lives.

A new publisher takes over the National Register and decides to stop covering oddball stories and turn the tabloid into a real newspaper, forcing Jack McGee to prove to his new boss that the mysterious Hulk really exists.

David comes to the aid of a weightlifter friend (played by Lou Ferrigno, in a speaking role) whose dreams of owning his own restaurant are exploited by a young street hustler who persuades him to enter a bodybuilding competition.

David's arrested and tossed in a police van, where a fight with an insane prisoner causes the Hulk to emerge. When the mentally disturbed man escapes, David goes on a desperate search to find him before tragedy strikes. Sherman Hemsley guest stars.