David Banner(Bill Bixby) finds work as taxi cab driver for a woman named Colleen Jensen(played by Esther Rolle) who is being targeted by gangsters who want her out of business for their own reasons. Of course, as David is currently her sole driver, the crooks target him specifically, which is stress enough when he isn't trying to get a pregnant woman to the hospital, or dodging the pursuit of Mr. McGee(Jack Colvin) after the Hulk makes his inevitable appearance, though David decides to stay around to help Colleen out. Fun episode makes good use of the taxi driving possibilities, as David cleverly avoids the discovery of him when McGee becomes a passenger!
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Cab Driving
flarefan-819062 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This time David becomes a taxi cab driver for a company which is in debt to some loan sharks, a fact which the company's owner keeps from David. See, the loan sharks want her to sell the company, and their method of doing so is to scare all the drivers into quitting. This ep does a very nice job of making the owner sympathetic in spite of her lying to David, and it's got plenty of thrills.
David tends to be a model employee in whatever job he works, and "Behind the Wheel" turns that up to an almost humorous extent, as the characters repeatedly emphasize that if David keeps doing a good job, other drivers will rejoin the cab company and completely turn their fortunes around. The very survival of the company hinges completely on him.
The plot doesn't turn much, as it's mostly just the mobsters trying to kill David, and David eluding them, sometimes with help from the Hulk. But there are loads of good scenes here. One standout is the Hulk terrorizing a gas station owner who refused to sell David gas even though his passenger is a pregnant woman in labor. The scene is both delightfully humorous as you see the man get his comeuppance and, thanks to some ingenious camera work and Ferrigno's monstrous presence, genuinely terrifying.
This episode doesn't hit true greatness in any respect, but it shows the series in its stride. Worth the price of admission (so to speak) all by itself is seeing David having to serve as McGee's cabby. David not only gets away, he has a little fun with McGee along the way. And so do we.
David tends to be a model employee in whatever job he works, and "Behind the Wheel" turns that up to an almost humorous extent, as the characters repeatedly emphasize that if David keeps doing a good job, other drivers will rejoin the cab company and completely turn their fortunes around. The very survival of the company hinges completely on him.
The plot doesn't turn much, as it's mostly just the mobsters trying to kill David, and David eluding them, sometimes with help from the Hulk. But there are loads of good scenes here. One standout is the Hulk terrorizing a gas station owner who refused to sell David gas even though his passenger is a pregnant woman in labor. The scene is both delightfully humorous as you see the man get his comeuppance and, thanks to some ingenious camera work and Ferrigno's monstrous presence, genuinely terrifying.
This episode doesn't hit true greatness in any respect, but it shows the series in its stride. Worth the price of admission (so to speak) all by itself is seeing David having to serve as McGee's cabby. David not only gets away, he has a little fun with McGee along the way. And so do we.
"The Incredible Hulk" - "Behind The Wheel"
sakacfam29 February 2008
I thought that in this episode, some of the locations were filmed in Toronto. I recognized one of the landmarks as the former Canada Trust building which is now the TD Canada Trust building. I would like to know if this episode was filmed in Toronto. I have lived in Toronto my whole life and I love it, despite the fact that Toronto has become more dangerous because of increasing levels of crime and violence. I wonder if the late, great Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno loved Toronto when the filming of the episode entitled "Behind The Wheel" took place in Canada's biggest city. It's such a shame that Bill Bixby died in November, 1993 because "Rebirth Of The Incredible Hulk" could have been filmed>
Not filmed in Toronto
john-rice-651-9660602 February 2010
This is a response to the previous review. It's unlikely that the episode was filmed on location in Toronto. Old stock footage of Toronto was used for the establishing shots as you'll notice that the cars and clothes in the stock footage are somewhat dated for 1979. Also, I would say that the scenes with the actors were filmed somewhere in southern California (as were all almost all of the Hulk episodes due to budgetary constraints). For example, you'll notice plenty of chaparral, palm trees, and oleander bushes in the background and in long shots where David Banner is driving the cab. Also, the cabs and other vehicles involved in the main action have non-CA license plates, but the cars in the background have the blue and yellow CA plates from the 1970s.
Interestingly enough, the episode is supposed to take place in Newark, NJ as the map on the wall of the cab company is labeled as such.
Interestingly enough, the episode is supposed to take place in Newark, NJ as the map on the wall of the cab company is labeled as such.
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