Foreword

As a bloke of that "certain age," I can remember the television series that were shown in the 1970s and early 1980s. My brother and I would stay glued to the telly each Saturday teatime. From Roddy McDowell's unconvincing ape suit in the TV spin-off from the Planet of the Apes movies, to Logan's Run; from "Grasshopper" David Carradine in Kung Fu, to my own personal favorite, Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno in the pre-CGI Incredible Hulk; we couldn't get enough.

These shows and many more just like them shared a common 1970s theme. While the Hulk of the original comic books just got angry, the television Banner, unexpectedly dosed by gamma radiation before he could slap on the sun block, lived outside of society. Sure, he got angry and ripped ...

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