Previous reviewers seems to regard this as a great episode, and I can see why. It's McGee-heavy, which lends it the illusion of continuing the series plot as well as giving Jack Colvin ample opportunity to strut his underutilized acting chops. The drama is high, and reporter Emerson Fletcher paralleling his life story to the Hulk adds thematic validity. This ep undoubtedly carried far more impact when the series first aired than it ever can now, as a rerun.
But while I understand the popular opinion, I can't agree. I've often said of an episode that I found more to like about it upon second viewing, but in this case, the opposite is true; watching "Interview with the Hulk" again has convinced me that it is not slightly overrated, but grossly overrated. When you get down to it, the plot is simply "McGee finds the Hulk (again). The Hulk eludes McGee (again)." So how do they fill the running time? With Emerson Fletcher, a National Register reporter who gets a few days lead on McGee and interviews David. This provides an excuse for lots of clips of previous eps and flashbacks from Fletcher's trite and contrived story about his dead daughter. Heck, *everything* about Fletcher is contrived; if you're hoping for a satisfying explanation for how a respected scientist became a tabloid journalist, forget it. The premise is that scientific research and newspaper journalism are basically the same thing.
Moreover, the timeline is perplexing. A comment from McGee at the end gives an estimate of the episode's overall time frame, but how long certain events took and why remains a mystery. Then there's Stella, a character so ludicrously cartoonish that she recalls the series's worst bits. Only Bixby's profoundly moving delivery keeps this ep from being a complete waste of time.