The Invaders was a ABC science fiction television program that ran in the United States for a season and a half between 1967 and 1968. Roy Thinnes starred as architect David Vincent, who learned of an alien invasion underway and thereafter travelled from place to place, trying to foil the aliens' plots and warn Earth of the danger. As the series progressed, Vincent was able to convince a small number of people to help him fight the alien plot, most significantly millionaire industrialist Edgar Scoville (played by Kent Smith) who became a semi-regular character as of December, 1967. Image File history File links The Invaders title card. ... Image File history File links The Invaders title card. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... [Roy Thinnes][1] (born April 6. ... David Vincent is an American musician, singer and bassist for the seminal death metal band Morbid Angel. ... This article is about alien invasion as a theme; for the scientific/diplomatic aspects, see exopolitics. ... Dorothy McGuire and Kent Smith in Spiral Staircase Kent Smith (March 19, 1907 – April 23, 1985) was an American actor who had a lengthy career in film, theater and television. ...

The series was produced by Quinn Martin, who drew on two sources for the inspiration for the show. One was his previous series, the immensely popular The Fugitive, which had ended in 1967. The other was the wave of "alien dopplegänger" films which had come ten years before in the 1950s, typified by Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the British film, Quatermass 2, known in America as Enemy from Space. While these paranoid tales of extraterrestrials who posed as humans and lived among us while planning a takeover are usually linked with a Red Scare subtext, Martin simply wanted a premise that would keep the hero wandering from place to place and that would explain why he couldn't tackle the invaders by going to the authorities (not only had the aliens infiltrated human institutions already, but most humans would dismiss a claim of alien invasion as a paranoid delusion.) Quinn Martin (May 22, 1922 - August 6, 1987) was one of the most successful American television producers of all time. ... The Fugitive is an American network television dramatic series (ABC, 1963-1967) starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man falsely convicted for his wifes murder and sentenced to death. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... A (help· info) is the ghostly double of a living person. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 science fiction film. ... Categories: 1957 films | Films based on television series | Movie stubs | Science fiction films ... Political cartoon of the era depicting an anarchist attempting to destroy the Statue of Liberty. ...

The spaceship by which they reach the Earth is a flying saucer of a design derivative of that shown in the contestable photographs of George Adamski, but instead of having three spheres on the underside, the Invaders' craft has five shallower protrusions. It was a principle of the production crew to not show them with set and prop designs and control panels that were utterly alien from the conventional human ones (such as H.R. Giger would later present in Alien). The Invaders' favorite means of killing someone is by applying a disk with five glowing lights to the nape of the neck, which will cause a cerebral hemorrhage. Image File history File links The Invaders ship lands. ... Image File history File links The Invaders ship lands. ... UFO redirects here. ... George Adamski (April 17, 1891 – April 23, 1965) was a Polish-born American who claimed to have seen and photographed ships from other planets, met people (whom he called Space Brothers) from other planets and to have gone on flights with them. ... Birth machine Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced: GEE-ger) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien. ... Alien is a 1979 science fiction–horror film directed by Ridley Scott, from an original story by Dan OBannon and Ronald Shusett. ... A cerebral hemorrhage or hemorrhagic stroke is a form of stroke that occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures or bleeds. ...

The Invaders were never given a name, nor was their planet. They were not even shown in their true, alien form; their human appearances were a disguise, and unless they received periodic treatments requiring equipment that consumed a great deal of electrical power, they would revert automatically to their alien forms. (One scene in the series showed an alien beginning to revert, filmed fuzzily and with flashing lights.) They had certain characteristics by which they could be discovered, such as their absence of a pulse. Nearly all were emotionless and had little fingers which could not bend, although there were many "deluxe models" who could manipulate this finger. There were also a number of mutant aliens, who unlike the majority of aliens had emotions similar to those of humans, and who opposed the alien takeover. One frustrating gimmick of the series was that their existence could not be documented by killing one, for their dead bodies would always glow red and disappear, along with their clothes. any items they were carrying at the time and anything they touched when dying.

In 1995 the series was reprised as a three-hour TV miniseries also titled The Invaders. Scott Bakula starred as Nolan Wood, who discovered the alien conspiracy, and Roy Thinnes reprised his role from the series of David Vincent, now an old man handing the burden over to Wood. The miniseries has been released in some countries on home video, edited into a single movie. A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Scott Bakula Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American television actor most famous for his lead role in the television series Quantum Leap. ...

Trivia

• The pilot episode of the series, "Beachhead", was remade years later in 1977 for another Quinn Martin series, Tales of the Unexpected, where it was retitled "The Nomads".
• Frank Black's "Bad, Wicked World", on Teenager of the Year, is about The Invaders
• Gold Key Comics published four issues of an Invaders comic book based upon the TV series in 1967-68, years before Marvel Comics published their own, unrelated Invaders superhero series.

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External links

• The Invaders at the Internet Movie Database -- the original series
• The Invaders at the Internet Movie Database -- 1995 miniseries/movie

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