 In 1980, Universal tried to reduce the shows budget (which was a  minimum of $600,000 per episode). The studios proposed cuts  included reducing the special effects and having the Hulk appear  only once per episode. Another proposed change was to add a  character who would travel with David via a motor home (providing at  least one stock set to be used, and curtailing the number of sets  used in each episode). However, all those ideas were dropped when  CBS provided more money to keep the quality of the show intact.