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David is working at a school as a groundskeeper and he happens to see a kid crying and also notices some bruises on the child's arms. The boy claims he fell down, but David's suspicion turns to alarm when he hears that this is regular occurrence. He informs a nurse but she doesn't want to get involved as she fears losing her job - in a similar case before she reported a child abuser case and she lost her job for it.

The boy's mother is also beaten and is ready to frame the hulk for the beatings when he turns up to save the boy from his abuser dad (Sandy McPeak)- no matter what, David is ready to help the boy ...

A Child in Need tackles a serious issue of child abuse, one of the string of episodes to take on social issues. Like the other notable social issue Episode, Alice in DiscoLand, this one is gripping stuff, intelligent and quite groundbreaking for its time. It helps that Sandy McPeak, who plays the abusing father, comes across as real and not just a cartoon character. When we first meet him, he's so amiable and normal, but in reality he just switches in to a monster. Nice twist in regard to why he hits his family. And no one in the small town -like the neighbours -wants to help; they just turn a blind eye. Ends on a positive note, which is a good thing- and this is a superhero TV programme. Good vs evil, and the Hulk appears in the opportune times, breaking through walls and ripping through shirts.

David 'Balland' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium, when he discovers that a doctor is performing unethical experiments of mind control on the patients.

Then, David is put in a straitjacket and locked up to keep him quiet after he confronts the mad doctor about his unethical methods and threatens to show his incriminating video to the authorities ... later, his straight jacket is ripped up when the Hulk enters the picture, but Banner is caught again after his transformation and is drugged. The videotape, however, is lost in the grounds somewhere ...

Quite an entertaining episode with an interesting setting -a sanatorium. David, at first, thinks the doctor is a genius as all the patients suddenly are cured, but later learns that mind control methods are used.

Hoping to avoid situations which leads to his transformation into the Hulk, David 'Bailey' isolates himself in a remote wilderness of Baja California, Mexico, and begins to live there temporarily.

But his peaceful camping site is disturbed by the arrival of a female medical fugitive who was wrongly accused of malpractice by the father of a girl who died in her care.

And now her vengeful father - who had seen her picture in the newspaper thanks to McGee- is on her trail...

The best way for David to avoid turning "green" is to head off somewhere solitary, and it appears to work -peace and quiet. Which doesn't last when a lady doctor in the run stumbles into his abode. And she is in turn trailed by her late patient's dad who feels that she wrongly decided to operate on her despite his protestations. It's a decent tale of two people (Bruce and the doctor) seeking an escape from their troubles and one of them gets a dose of redemption at the end.