tv series the invaders

[BluTrilobite]

And they don't re-run this on SyFy because why?

[1969Fever]

I love this show, bought both seasons on dvd! :)

[MrSixcats]

this show use to scare the crap out of me as little boy

[revup67]

If anyone is interested all the Invaders books (3 paper back and two hard back) plus an Invaders magazine is up on Ebay - search the seller "Vinyl Talk Radio". He's selling all 3 paperbacks as one bundle. One of the best shows ever. The locust episode always stands out as a personal favorite. Roy is a gentleman and had written me 3 separate letters in the mid 80s.

[Hardtofindvideos2]

The narration is by William Woodson, who will be 94 in July. Apparently as recently as 4 years ago did the voice over for Minnesota Twins ads. Is also the voice on the opening of the Odd Couple TV series.

[lancelot1953]

I am a baby boomer & grew with the early shows which I believe had better qualities & values than our marginally responsible tv (reality shows, slang, gossiping, scandals...). The special effects are primitive by today's standards but at the time, they were very real for us (the outer limits, twilight zone...). I think this was the golden age of American TV, respectful, educational, fostering "American" values. Thank you for the memories...

L

[SuperZenozeno]

"THAT MAN DAVID VINCENT HAD HELLA GUTTS" he single handedly had the intestinal fortitude against all odds to fight those melevelant ET's that was clearly up to no good on his planet & on mid to late 60's ABC TV, I REMIMBER CAUSE I WAS THERE WATCHING so thumbs up to this modern day american Sci/Fi TV hero.

[SuperZenozeno]

Vic Perrin used some of his OL's musical score on a number of the series telecast, combat was another ABC TV ep that used his musical scores from that show.

[bowprin]

I remember an episode when he was working as an architect.Two men escorted him from the caravan he was working in, but they wern't aliens.They were mercenaries working for a rich businessman.The "Believers" started from here.

[VonWenk]

It always struck me as kind of ridiculous that they made a point of calling David Vincent an architect in the opening. Other than the episode with Fritz Weaver as a foreign diplomat, I don't recall seeing Vincent doing anything vaguely architectual. Best villain: Alfred Ryder in "Vikor."

[VonWenk]

It always struck me as kind of ridiculous that they made a point of calling David Vincent an architect in the opening. Other than the episode with Fritz Weaver as a foreign diplomat, I don't recall seeing Vincent doing anything vaguely architectual.

[planetcheck]

Hollywood needs to make a blockbuster Summer movie, "The Invaders!"

The movie would be about David VIncent and his son David Jr as they fight the final battle with The Invaders.

In the movie he discovers the truth about The Invaders that they are not from a dying world but time travellers from the future Earth who plan to change Earth's history until David Vincent learns the truth and makes the final sacrifice that kills all The Invaders for good and changes the future of the Earth for good.

[ndhudecz]

Don't you love this intro?Oh yeah!!!

[SECRETBOL]

GREAT tv series ! I believe "FIRST WAVE" is  a modern remake but you can never beat the classics.

[bus114]

Didn't this show end without a concluding episode?

[dynagravitomagnetic]

Please look up "Doctor Steven Greer" and "The Disclosure Project". He brings forward evidence and testimony from former military personnel, air traffic controllers, and specialized scientific personnel whom have revealed secret information about our being part of a planetary community. The wealthiest ones on earth who sell oil and sponsor "government" want everyone to stay ignorant so there can be no real freedom. People have no idea that they are money slaves.

[MultiPmedina]

My favorite TV intro.

[macman1138]

Here is a very good website dedicated to The Invaders TV show : theinvaders.4t.com/en_index.ht­m.

I'd like to see it come back on TV with as many as the original actors as possible on the premise that is 40 years plus later, picking up the story from there.

[ufoengines]

I always found the space ship in this show a little uninspired.

The saucers in Forbidden Planet, and the Day the Earth Stood Still are much cooler. Lost in Space saucer .... ok.

[randrianabel]

i have really seen them into the nyc subway

The proof?see the video called starwars subway car!we must warn fbi ncis pentagone and whitehouse!

[macman1138]

Yes, it is a shame there wasn't a new TV series on HBO or SyFy.

On the website theinvaders.4t.com fanfic section is a writer that has a good starting point for a new series.

[cyclist68]

Thanks for this cm58. This scared the bejeeze out of me when I was 8 years old. Just the music sends a shiver down my spine

[poohbrain1]

Great show,a long time ago!

[lewisner]

My favourite Sci Fi TV series ever.

[TRUEMAN8919]

the invaders one of the best series for his scripts dark and good performances together with the twilight zone and the fugitive series of high quality

[2pikeman]

greats how, just bought the whole 2 series on dvd,carnt wait to get stuck in ,over 30 episodes

[Atlargein]

The voice of the guy narrating seems like the black actor that starred in the movie THE THING !!! mmm, what's his name???

[SgtRock57]

I believe you are referring to Keith David. Does sound like him a bit, but David was only 11 years old at that time.

[obsidiansdawn]

William T. Woodson

[fatburger41]

james arness played the creature in the thing.william conrad narreates the invaders.

[spinout3]

classic tv show. wish it was repeated.

[wataf211110]

Its on DVD now just bought the whole lot for £30. Series 1 & 2 - 43 Episodes I think !!!

[sarntelias]

Jesus. Pizza hut are taking over the world.

I used to watch this as a kid. Combat was better though.

[stewartx5]

Watching library copy of series, but unimpressed at end of season one. Absurd storyline/plot. Main character has no discernable income, yet can afford endless travel expenses (bus/plane tickets, cars, hotels, etc). Unlikely access to business and military facilities. Never obtains evidence (photos, alien device or weapon, etc) to prove aliens exist. Foolishly captured repeatedly by aliens, but never taken out. At this point, his ineffectiveness has reached point of being irritating.

[waydecolt]

Season Two he gets help, it is on DVD, if you just enjoy it and not worry about reality many of us found it fun and entertaining!!!!!

[abacab987]

I guess its a little like "I dream of Jeannie" or "Bewitched". If the information became known that there was a magical godlike being in someone's service, the series would turn hideous very quickly. I guess even if the main character had evidence, the aliens would intervene and recover it, and then erase the memory of those exposed to it.

(In reality our most opulent ownership class of society keep information down. Is that is why "The Billy Meyer Chronicles" are totally ignored by the media?)

[TimelordR]

@stewartx5 Maybe you should have stuck to watching westerns...

[esp1964]

all Quinn Martin productions was excellent in the 60's and 70's!

[Titan752]

When I was a kid, I used to buy packs of index cards and draw 'flip-movies' on the blank reverse side of each card... I made two "Invaders" movies I can remember; one with the saucer coming into Earth (like in the TV intro) and the other of an Invader running from David Vincent, only to get shot and then fall against a huge boulder! Both the rock and the alien 'immolated' together, gradually fading away as you flipped the cards in succesion! Wish I still had them!

[vikingjim666]

we used to make 'phasers' out of balsa wood and spent CO2 cartridges.

[blotski]

Can't get over finding this. This was my favourite show of all time. I loved it when I was a kid and we used to play it in the playground at school. I always wanted to be an alien. I made an alien ray gun out of cardboard. Happy days. And cheaper than a playstation.

[longovilo]

David Vincent los ha visto. Para él todo empezó una noche en un camino solitario cuando buscaba un atajo que nunca encontró (...) Ahora, David Vincent, sabe que los invasores han llegado, que se han adaptado al aspecto humano. En alguna forma, debe convencer a un mundo incrédulo de que la pesadilla ha comenzado.

[lastdaysguitar]

GREAT SHOW - one of the many cool shows that makes me glad I'm a child of the 60's!

[terryjohn]

me too .you have fine tv class.

[paleblue498]

The greatest tv show intro of all time with the eerie music, tear away screen and ominous narration by William Woodson (no it wasn't William Conrad)...The episode announcer is a fellow by the name of Hank Sims who did a lot of intro work for Quinn Martin, including "The Fugitive"...

[tropicvibe]

Wow, what a great show, I remember watching this as a little kid in NY. My father who was another sci-fi and horror buff turned me on to the show when they started doing the reruns at that time. Never saw it again but always remembered that weird intro.

[abacab987]

The current development in flying saucer technology is the "super fluid gravity centrifuge" Physicist Ning Li used a nano-ferrous fluid in a large doughnut shaped alloy container, rotated around at 50,000 rpm by powerful magnetic field windings to develop a boson-einstein condensate in 2008. This generates a GRAVITY FIELD, breaking science frontiers that were pioneered by Viktor Schauberger on the wunderwaffe German developments during WW2. The details of the TBR3 and "Aurora" remain top secret.

[Titan752]

..and that was interesting...........

[abacab987]

It gets more so as we begin to understand the basics behind "implosion technology" and "centripetal energy". The ability to generate a gravity field will enable one to slow the movement of time! This is the classic reference made by Stan Deyo to explain the impossible turns at high speed that have been observed by classic UFOs. The more intense gravity field will warp the fabric of space time! The "saucer" shaped craft is essentially a TIME MACHINE. The star 1000 light years is reached in hours!

[gmdinformation]

"The star 1000 light years is reached in hours!

You'd hit an asteroid and destroy your ship in the first half second.

[abacab987]

I cannot be certain of how the more advanced space/time machines operate. Please look up "BOB LAZAR" and the area 51 saucer. He had said it uses an "element 115" to power an "annihilation reactor". He postulates the top part of said vehicle is some kind of "Navigation and Control".

I guess this is how it avoids asteroids. It must be advanced science, like the rest of said vessel.

The earth built gravity ships that I mentioned (like the TR3B disclosed by ED FOUCHE) are not nearly so powerful.

[Robo1415]

unless you found a black hole....

[estelle715]

I wonder if the "invaders" have finally conquered the earth!

[jaqicat]

This show was awesome. They taped it on location in Los Angeles neighborhoods including the Pike.

[INDIVIDUALHOUSE]

In France,it was almost two years,the third seasons of about 14 episodes each - so the complete 43 movies - was released.

In French and in English with subtitles.

The remasters of the image and the sound are fantastic - great quality.

[only257]

i do not live in france do you know if the show is on dvd in the states individualhouse!

[INDIVIDUALHOUSE]

I can see that you live in the USA,so you must knows that(and making search for)much better than me.

Anyway,before buying the French Edition,I bought in 2006 in a society based in your country - SKARYGUY VIDEO - a little black box with 10 DVD inside - the complete INVADERS -(+ bonus,a science-fiction movie of 1995,starring Roy Thinness),but it was only the copy of the original masters.

[PlungerA10]

I was about 8 when this was first screened on prime time in the UK. Way scarier than any amount of daleks! That a Fairlane our hero is driving?

[only257]

creepy is this on dvd?

[INDIVIDUALHOUSE]

.......and yes I'm talkin' about DVD.

[recordman64]

First season's been out for awhile, the second season just came out. I have the first season and highly recommend it. Roy Thinnes does an on-camera intro for each ep on the DVD.

[HemiVic]

I've been collecting TV Shows for years and I only watch Shows from the 50's, 60's, and early 70's. I couldn't even tell you what is on today's channels. Invaders is awesome! 1966Forever!

[crazymonkey1958]

i must admit ive become a collector myself

[infrasleep]

@crazymonkey1958 I loved this show! As kids we used to go 'round with outstretched little fingers to terrify everyone into thinking we were invaders-though if truth be known things like 'retards' were probably more close to what they thought! One thing that ALWAYS perplexed me-what the hell difference did it make that David Vincent was an archetect when it came to fighting aliens?! I guess 'Garbageman David Vincent' wouldn't have worked, but all the same1 Great show!

[transneural]

1966... what a fresh groovy year man...!!!

[direweasal]

but who are the guest stars in tonight's story?

:(

[mighty58]

I used to love this show when I was young. I often wondered why they never made a re-make of this series. On second thought, they'd probably ruin it like they usually do. It's too bad we don't have the quality of writing or imagination to make shows like this any more.

[qpr60]

I have a memory of a pre-French Connection Gene Hackman appearing in one episode, I think about spores coming to life. Would IMDb confirm that?

[recordman64]

Yep, a second season episode called, no surprise, "The Spores", which also features a pre-MASH Wayne Rogers. The second season just came out on DVD, BTW.

[guanacoool]

yo veia esta serie en los 70s tambien perdidos en el espacio

[iohannkn]

I've just had a chance to buy some vhs of this series: it's actually rather BETTER than I rememeber. The stories tend to be predictable, and formulaic as can be - but the ambience, the pre-70s America, the solid masculine archtypes, and -yes- the endless train of beautiful 60s starlets all really contribute to something you simply cannot get nowadays. And, of course, for classic, darkly engaging melodrama, the famous introduction...

[robbieo79]

I watched this as a kid in the late 1980s in the UK on BBC2 Monday evenings at 6pm...

I was probably eight or nine years old when I first saw this. I loved it and was scared by it in equal measure...it has what all great tv series/films/books have; atmosphere! It was seriously creepy and full of tension.

I'll be buying the Dvd set very soon...

[pearldrummer91205]

This program is the ancestor of The X-Files. I love it!

[fairnorth]

Attention All "Invaders" fans...The DVD of the first season is finally in the stores and it's fantastic! The crystal clear and vibrant colors make the show look as if it were still on network TV. Roy Thinnes introduces each original uncut episode! Fantastic!

[Cogency1]

Season 1 with lots of extras comes May 27th. You can get it very reasonably from Amazon.

[jupitr2]

Woohoo!! I just found out yesterday that this great TV series is coming out on DVD. I wrote Paramount Studios marketing folks almost a year ago asking if it was going to be released soon and they said, at that time, that there were no immediate plans.  Wow, how fast things change! If I could do a cartwheel I would, THIS is such great news! One of the most well written, yet underrated shows. Can't wait!! Tuesday nights at 10pm will soon be back. Though, this time, I won't be sent to bed!

[5micky2]

In our city The Invaders was screened at the ridiculous time of 10.30 Monday nights when everybody was in bed snoring - except me. Nobody knew about the show - their loss. It was a FANTASTIC series, even better than The Fugitive which was also a QM production.

[TimelordR]

A great Sci-fi classic series! Glad it's coming to DVD this year!

[conwayyard]

awesome!

[conwayyard]

this is so f_ _ _ ing cool!