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Invaders Tidbits "The Invaders -
Alien beings from a dying planet
Their destination - The Earth
Their
purpose - To make it their world
David Vincent has seen them, for him it
began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a short-cut that he
never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without
sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from
another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they
have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the
nightmare has already begun ."
I maintain no objectivity here.
This was a great show. One of my favorites. And naturally, it didn't last more
than a year.
Architect David Vincent (Roy Thinnes) is overtired after a
long drive and after taking toward a shortcut down a dark and isolated road,
ends up at Bud's Cafe. He hears a loud noice and then sees a spacecraft
landing. He learns that the occupants are aliens from a dying planet who plan
to take over Earth by impersonating humans.
When he tries to convince
authorities of what he has seen, they dismiss him as a nutjob. But David
Vincent knows that he must stop them to save the Earth.
At first he is
alone in his fight, but then he finds the Believers, ("The Believers"
12/5/1967) led by Edgar Scoville (Kent Smith). There are supposed to be seven
of them but we only meet Elyse Reynold (Carol Lynley) and Bob Talman (Anthony
Eisley). I'm sure we could have known the other four Believers if they hadn't
cancelled the show!
In 1995 they tried to resurrect the show in a
mini-series starring Scott Bakula as Nolan Wood, with an appearance by Roy
Thinnes.
Passings Kent Smith died in 1985. |
Roy Thinnes
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Invaders Trivia
About the Aliens |
Some of them have a crooked 4th finger
Most aliens are
emotionless, but the few who do have feelings are mutants.
Alien
leaders are called imaginatively, Leaders.
They have no hearts, thus no
pulse, no blood.
They die by disintegrating into a glowing
light.
They have to regenerate and have glass chambers for this. When
it's time to recharge, they begin to glow.
They can reproduce by passing
electricity through seawater.
Pure oxygen kills them. |
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