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The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk was the second attempt to use the only Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno series (the reporter Jack McGee only showed up in the first of three reunion movies) to bring live-action versions of other Marvel characters to TV, after a failed attempt with Thor-in-name-only and The Return Of The Incredible Hulk. In that story, Daredevil, aka Matt Murdock, is Bruce’s lawyer when the Kingpin frames the wandering hero who had kept his not being dead a secret in that version. The movie’s version of the Daredevil costume is just a black outfit but he did have his gimmick billy club. It was actually being produced as a series, but was canceled.
In this article from Bounding Into Comics we learn the reason wasn’t the cheap TV movie that was more ambitious than its budget but that CBS didn’t want a rival to their Flash series. How did they pull it off? I wouldn’t be linking to the article if I was just going to tell you here.
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