What Happened to The INVADERS?

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[ardscorner]

It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey.

[wolfhound]

My favorite pop-culture channel on YouTube. Thank you for the labor of love Dan.

[theironclads]

I respectfully disagree that the addition of the believers, who joined with David Vincent to fight the Invaders in the second season, had ruined the series. The entire first season saw David Vincent as the man all alone battling the Invaders each week. That storyline concept had worn thin for me, they needed to develop the premise of the series to avoid staying in a rut.

[BarbarosaAlexander]

Am I the only one who sees Network Executives!" as a t-shirt?

[Illini]

Hi Dan. I'm 66 yrs old remember watching the series when it came out. Love all your shows. Keep up the good work.

[Smret]

This show scared me to death as a kid.

[woodedape]

Roy Thinnes also starred in an awesome 1973 TV horror movie called The Norliss Tapes. The Norliss Tapes happens to be on YouTube for free streaming.

[RogueWJL]

One of the best opening sequences of all time.

Absolutely sets the mood.


Very Very claustrophobic and you are never sure who to trust?

[stevepederson]

I bought, built and painted that Aurora kit back in the late 70's. It sat on a shelf in my bedroom for a few years.

[joelennis]

I can still recite the opening titles narrative 50 years later. I used to sneak out to the TV to watch the reruns at 11pm - past my bedtime on school nights. Thank you for covering this series!

[Teelirious]

A few years ago I developed dupuytrens—a deformation of my pinkie fingers—and my mind IMMEDIATELY shot back 50+ years to this show and I thought, "Crap! I'm an Invader!"

[jimstandefer]

You can see a lot of these shows still on Me-TV on Saturday night

[startrekstuntman]

You covered this pretty well Dan. It was great seeing my family in one of the clips. I could go on forever about this show and how close my Father and larry Cohen were but here's a little backround. My uncle Murray Hamilton, aka "The Mayor of Shark City" did an episode, my uncle John Randolph did an episode and my uncle Keefe Brassellle got Roy Thiness one of his first acting jobs on "The Reporter" When my Dad met Larry Cohen he was a Page-Boy at NBC and they became lifelong friends. I still have Larry's phone number in Beverly Hills and was very sad when he passed. I met Roy Thiness back in 1970 when my father's best friend Frank Marth, who was also on the show, took me to his house. He knew Frank's wife Hope Holiday. This planted the seed for me and eventually I became a stuntman on Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Voyager. I am so glad you covered this as it brought back so many memories and seeing Batman in the clip was awesome as my dad Remo Pisani did stunts on that show before becoming the bartender on Bonanza. I owe my whole sci fi collection to this show, The Invaders will always be very special to me and thanks for covering it Dan!

[QuorkEx]

Doppelganger is a personal favourite film of mine, might be a good subject for a future video, perhaps?

[stephenperry]

Dan, U.K. here, I've just discovered your site and it's just great, thanks so much for doing justice to all the classics in TV and film, I loved this Invaders special, and shout out to the seriously underrated Roy Thinnes.Keep up the good work and I for one are spreading the word how good this channel is.Live long and prosper.

[JosephDickersonUX]

Roy Thinnes is still with us, at age 86! He's still looking for people who have a deformed fourth finger.

[Beaut]

Hoping we get an episode on The Prisoner. The 1967-1968 British show. It's a guilty pleasure.

[snelled]

One of the TV movies he did later in 1973 was The Norliss tapes parts of which still creep me out to this day.

[FIREBRAND]

7:44 Regarding the finger thing I can't remember the title of the specific episode but one of the Invaders tells Vincent that he's able to bend that finger. The implication being that they realized the flaw was being used to identify them and an effort was made to fix it. I haven't rewatched the DVD box set but I got this from a fan site:
_There is a scene in the pilot episode 'Beachhead' where David Vincent grabs the hands of one of the aliens trying to find the pinky defect, then, the alien tells:_
_Fingers? We're not all like that, David. Some of us learn. We're always learning._

[maxsmodels]

I think the show was also popular because it fed on Cold War fears.