What Happened to The INVADERS?
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It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey.
Haha right :-)
@@proto-geek248 wasn't he driving a "galaxy" 500?
@proto-geek248 that's total crap - the aliens don't come from another GALAXY but from another star system - but I guess that sounded better to Quinn...
One of the best opening sequences of all time.
Absolutely sets the mood.
Very Very claustrophobic and you are never sure who to trust?
Am I the only one who sees "Gaaawwwwwd... Network Executives!" as a t-shirt?
This show scared me to death as a kid.
My favorite pop-culture channel on UA-cam. Thank you for the labor of love Dan.
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.
Maybe they had that guy fred friedman??? That practically ended tos star trek and space 1999...
I agree but you should have said "had worn THINNES for me" 😂
IDK, that "rut" worked for "The Fugitive" for YEARs! 😄
@@edvela5492 Entirely different premise on The Fugitive.
Agreed, he was making all these believers that you can't just ignore they exist, then continue to do the same episode every week. There has to be movement growth. They also added him architecting to finance his adventures. I'm sure there were other causes.
Roy Thinnes also starred in an awesome 1973 TV horror movie called The Norliss Tapes. The Norliss Tapes happens to be on UA-cam for free streaming.
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.
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!"
I used to love the show. I love SF movies.
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!
You're in alot of trouble! I’m going to report you to your parents!
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!
You’ve had quite the interesting life.
You can see a lot of these shows still on Me-TV on Saturday night
Hoping we get an episode on The Prisoner. The 1967-1968 British show. It's a guilty pleasure.
@@proto-geek248 It's hard for me to recommend it due to it's ending.
One of the TV movies he did later in 1973 was The Norliss tapes parts of which still creep me out to this day.
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._
Carol Baker the actress who played the alien, who said that was in Journey to the Center of the Earth and in some episodes of the TV series House. Edit: I stand corrected. You're correct it was Diane Baker.
@@rayguile-rb6qi Thanks, but now that you mention it that was _Diane_ Baker who also played the Mother of the kidnapped girl in _Silence of the Lambs._
It was Roy Thinnes' performance that not only helped inspire the feel of the X-Files but also landed him the role of Jeremiah Smith.
Also the sound effect and the ray blast itself of the alien's ray guns are still my favorite in all of science fiction.
I think the show was also popular because it fed on Cold War fears.
This was one of my all-time favorite shows as a kid. I rooted for David Vincent harder than any other TV character. It was so frustrating that the Invaders ALWAYS managed to cover their tracks no matter how close Vincent came to exposing them. I also never understood the addition of the "Believers" but kept watching the show anyway. Thanks for doing a report on this wonderful short-lived series. 😊
This is a really good review of The Invaders. It was one of my all time favorites from the 1960s. Truly a fantastic sci-fi classic. As a young teenager the show kept glued to my seat. And the model kit of the flying saucer is still available through Atlantis Models.
Back in the day, this was one of my all time favorite TV shows. Even in 2024, I still think it is one of the best science fiction TV shows of all time. So in 1998, when the new TV show "First Wave" aired, I told all my science fiction buddies that, it was like a re-make of the classic 1960's, TV show the "Invaders" had been reborn (smile...smile).
Watched this on rerun in the 80's when i was a kid never forget this show invaders. Was so cool 😎
One of my favorite Sci-Fi shows of my youth. I loved it!
Roy Thinnes is still with us, at age 86! He's still looking for people who have a deformed fourth finger.
I used to have a model of the INVADERS space ship....it was painted silver on the outside .You were able to take the top off to reveal the space ship's bridge which was completely red.
Nice :-) but the question is do you still have it
I have mine. Missing the landing gear sadly.
Roy Thinnes was also a guest star on an episode of X-files, Talitha Cumi, where he played a character Jeremiah Smith a mysterious person with special abilities, an Alien Clone hybrid , who was in the resistance against the Syndicate, bad aliens I barely remembered the Invaders as a kid, I was 4 and 5 when it was on back in the 60's , but found it online and watched it through, then later saw Roy in a rerun of X-files, and thought that was cool they had him on in that genre again. neat stuff.
My sister was a huge Roy Thinnes fan. We watched the first season of the Invaders, which was well done, and was creepy. The second season, even my sister agreed it wasn't very good and it was lacking compared to the 1st season.
I'm so glad you did this, I always look forward to your videos!
Hope you do Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, soon.
I loved The Invaders very much. My favorite episode was named "The Saucer" that showed the inside of the saucer.
Doppelganger is a personal favourite film of mine, might be a good subject for a future video, perhaps?
Roy Thinnes was also in an episode of Fringe as a time traveller trying to save his wife.
The Invaders title font design is truly incredible. Makes me want to add "the" to every subject 😅 Awesome prop and poster design for this one 🎉🎉🎉
I always remembered from "The Invaders", which I watched as a kid, that the aliens disintegrated after they were killed, so he never had the proof he needed to show people they were being invaded!
Saw the Invaders upon its original release in the UK back in the 60's. "Alien beings from a dying world. Their destination - Earth. Their purpose, to make it their world"
Can still recite the opening lines now nearly 60 years on. Great show full of good ideas. Childhood back then was full of TV dealing with new, inventive ideas that fired your imagination. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Bewitched, Batman, I Dream of Jeannie, The Time Tunnel, Dr Who, Star Trek, The Invaders, The Saint, Lost in Space, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Gilligans Island, Department S, The Champions, Mister Ed and many others
I had *TOTALLY* forgotten about this series!! Again, I'll like it now, watchit later on the Big(ger) screen.
Thanks, Dan!!! 👍👍
The creepiest theme music for a sci - fi TV show . It was genius
Definitely a great show.
Absolutely a classic :-)
Growing up, in 1967 I was 14, I really liked the Invaders. 1967 was also the year my family got our first color TV, a big Philco, probably one of the last round tubes, but it had really nice color, not an RCA for sure but pretty good.
No pulse, no heartbeat, don’t bleed? Gawwwd, network executives!
Roy Thinnes also played an important and reoccurring character in "The X-Files". His role as Jeremiah Smith, an alien hybrid oddly enough, appeared in several of the alien invasion story arc episodes. I would bet that Thinnes was cast in that role as an homage to his role in the Invaders. The X-Files also did a similar homage for actor Darrin McGavin who starred in "The Night Stalker".
And, thankfully, Roy Thinnes is still with us.
One of my all time favorite TV series along with "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers" ( the Diana Rigg years). I always felt that the second season wasn't as strong but having purchased the series on DVD I found the second season to be actually pretty good especially the episodes with J.D. Cannon and the two parter with William Windom and Michael Rennie.
Thanks for covering "The Invaders", one of my all time favorite shows.
I bought that saucer model -- twice (the first one got lost). It was based on a famous UFO photo taken by a California highway patrol officer which,back then, was regarded as one of the most authentic saucer pics.
@@proto-geek248"Back then was regarded as..." I think the qualification suggests that Smoking Jacket isn't saying it was real or truly authentic
@@proto-geek248 At the time (60s & 70s) this photo was felt to be an actual pic of a saucer in part because of the exhaust stirring up dust on the ground.
The Invaders TV series episodes are still being shown on METV early Saturday mornings. Some episodes are better than others - had allot of great actors in some of the episodes. I didn't know there were only 2 seasons. I think I remember watching this TV series live on TV when I was a young lad.
Nice to know the history of "The Invaders" Take care.
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.
Glad you enjoy it!
Roy Thinnes also appeared in the X-Files as Jeremia Smith. This was clearely a tribute Roy as the David Vincent character.
Early 1970's I watched this in Iran (before the revolution). The Series was dubbed and one of my favourites. After the invent of internet, I looked everywhere for copies of the series and couldn't find it.
Back in school in Iran, we practised keeping our pinkies separate to freak out the others.
Good old days.
The Invaders is an absolute classic.
I still hold my tea cup with a straight pinky finger.
The space ship is currently available (limited time) in certain model kit shops online.
I was in grade school when this show was on. At recess, some off us would play "the Invaders", choosing sides with some "rock, paper, scissors" sort of thing. Everyone wanted to be aliens, because we got to die dramatically. Since we couldn't actually burn, we would freeze in place , go to our knees, and make a sort of "whoosh" sound as we fell over. Granted, the aliens didn't actually make that sound, but ...
Hey, we were kids.
Never watched the show as a kid, but was well aware of the spaceship from seeing the model kit at my local hobby shop.
Binged the series a few years ago, and it's now my favorite Sci-Fi from the 60s!
@ 18:30 - Lynn Loring also starred with him in "Doppelganger" as his rather hostile wife.
"This is not a show about science fiction. This is a show about paranoia"
Producer Quinn Martin
I didn't know what paranoia was as a kid and I'm sure I couldn't even have spelled it. But paranoia is always relevant, even today. In fact, it seems to be running wild these days.
@@sammcbride2149 Agreed. We in the West live in what some social scientists call a high trust society. We can be reasonably sure the other person will stop at a red light, that the Post Office will deliver our mail, and we don't need to openly bribe the judge in order to get a decision in our favor. In other words, a social contract will be followed.
"The Invaders" plays on that - what if you can't trust that firefighter to put out that blaze destroying your house because they need to destroy evidence? What if that doctor isn't giving you the medicine you need because you saw something you shouldn't? That's what makes this series so godawful scary.
I really like the episode "The Enemy" for that reason. A nurse who served in Viet Nam treats an alien invader because she has lost faith in our society and is willing to trust the Invaders over humans.
@ 3:09 you finally explained why I'd never heard of this show. 1967 & 1968. Thousands of young men my age were activity involved 10,000 miles from US television.
Senior trip to Saigon?
Glad you survived buddy.
I have fond memories of this series which I watched during my childhood in Manila in the late Sixties! We had ALL the SF series including Star Trek, Thunderbirds, The Outer Limits, Stingray, Lost in Space - you name it!
I loved this show as an impressionable young fellow and bought the DVD set a few years ago. Even though it only ran two seasons, there are lots of episodes to watch, and they are still great.
I remember this show. Sitting in front of the black and white TV just waiting for it to start. This was one of my favorites!
As a kid I would coz it up to our family's floor model t v and sit indian style and watch every episode of the show. loved it
I Had The Aurora Invaders Spaceship Model, As A 6 Year Old Child Back In 1968, Wherein My Older Brother Painted It For Us, And We Played With It For Many Years, Before It Got Broke, And Tossed Away Tragically . . . ;-(
The Invaders Scared Us As Little Children Back Then, To The Chagrin Of Out Father, Who Enjoyed Watching The Invaders With Us Back Then . . . . lol . . .
I loved that show and recently built Atlantis repop of the old Aurora Invaders UFO saucer.
I liked the whole believers concept, that he was forming a group to help in the fight, I think a third season would have been cool.
Isn't it true that at least 2-3 of the believers got killed off? The show could be savage at times.
Thanks for reviewing The Invaders. I have a first edition Invaders paperback published in 1967 by Pyramid. The book cover states “First in a thrilling new series based on the smash ABC-TV hit . . .” I wonder if the series ever made it to publication.
Yes, thank you! Finally, someone talking about this excellent series from the 60's. I still watch it every week.
It's an absolute classic that had a real impact on future Invasion show :-) Thanks for the support, Dan
I was like eight or nine years old and I would sit in front of the TV glued to every minute! I loved it! Also, 'The Fugitive'!! Great stuff there!
'The Immortal' was another that I loved. What a trip these shows were.
I always wondered if the series "The First Wave" borrowed a lot from The Invaders.
Yep.
Loved The Invaders. The whole family sat down to watch it
Loved The Invaders "in color!" My wife and I used to watch it.
Roy Thinnes said in a interview, he was in France where they was showing the episodes on the big screen way back then. He got a rush as the whole audience was speaking every line along with the characters during the run.
watching the title section of every episode always had the hairs stand on the back of my neck with goose pimples. it was so amazing showing the UFOs heading to earth with the eerie backup music, WOW! those shows back then had so much imagination, today programs are task to come close to being as good.
You've become my new favorite UA-cam channel! I grew up watching all of these movies & TV shows! I just love love love taking these trips down memory lane!
I had one of the Aurora models in my youth, but didn't know about the TV series until I started buying Starlog magazine.
I've got those comics. There were 3 of them. Plus they had two paperback novels and also 2 children story books. I bought them when I was a kid in 1966 or 67. And I still have them.
I read one of the paperbacks!
I used to watch the re runs of this as a kid in the 70s. First real exposure to UFO / Alien MIB stuff.
Yeah, it really had a lot of influence on future shows :-)
Holy moly I loved loved loved this show. Just brilliant.
A lot of good actors and actresses
in the show back in those days. 😊
Shows like this need to come back!!
The post mortem disintegration was copied by Star Trek the Next Generation for the Borg.
A similarly themed show called Dark Skies ran for just one season. I loved it, and it ended on a cliffhanger! Starred Jeri Ryan, a actor new to me, but who made a huge impression on me. Years later, she became Seven of Nine in Star Trek Voyager.
Perhaps you could cover Dark Skies one day?
Dark Skies was awesome and i'm still bummed that they pulled the plug after only one season. Jeri was hot as hell, but J.T. Walsh as Captain Frank Bach, the head honcho of Majestic-12 was the most memorable character.
Always remember that intro voice and music
That night time desert scene was scary as!
The Universal Studios opening logo was changed in the film " Xanadu "
to include the spaceship from the Invaders,
The disk shaped weapon applied to back if the head caused humans to suffer a cerebral hemorrhage.
Thank you. I saw it as a kid in the UK. I still think of it in Black and White. The Theme Music is so Beautiful.
The Invaders may have inspired The X-Files, but later the X-Files series guest starred the David Hansen character (Roy Thinnes) as himself passing the baton onto to Fox Mulder and Dogget. It was a three show continuation of The Invader.
The British would always be confused with the Invaders when drinking tea from a cup.
Atlantis Toy & Hobby re-released the model kit in 2020. And there are upgrade kits to get those cool lighting & sound effects.
Yes, I have the model kit. My second, actually. The legs broke off on the first. As a result, mine has a bigger crew and more regen stations.
On the show itself, Vincent become such a driven man. He doesn't even crack a joke until the second season, by which time he has the believers to help him.
Edited to add: Dawn Welles was super hot in that episode.
My favorite episode was called 'the mutation' with Suzanne Pleshette. This was a really scary show.
One of my all time favorites!
I think nearly every car in this series was a FORD.
Dan you're up to 99.7K subscribers, in a few more hours you'll roll the odometer!
Good call on this show.
The spaceship design was not original, but based on a famous supposed UFO sighting in 1952 by George Adamski.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski
The other notable feature of the aliens were they had webbing between their fingers.
Roy Thinnes wife, Lyn Loring also featured as his screen wife in "Doppelganger".
When I was a kid, THIS SHOW SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!
🌚 I was afraid to watch it but I felt like I had to… I don’t know why… maybe so I could learn something, so I could save my family!
Excellent review yet again. The Invaders was an excellent show with amazing production values, really interesting plot devices and a cast of stars. Dominic Frontiere's music was amazing...I particularly loved his Mexican incidental music in the episode "The Mutation". You neglected to mention the 3 paperbacks:: The Invaders, Night of the Trilobites and Dam of Death. I read Night of the Trilobites and it was a good read
In universe, they explained the "Little Finger" thing by explaining they had fixed the bug in the disguise function.
The strong hint was that The Invaders were sentient, ambulant plants. (They breathed CO2, could be reproduced by cuttings and left remains that mostly contained cellulose.)
The 5 light disc created cerebral hemorrhages . . . .
Right! When they burned up there was cellulose left. Also the episode with Gene Hackman had a case full of alien seeds.
@@jarniwoop And, in the Ed Asner, Burgess Meridith episode they were trying to make more of the atmosphere carbon dioxide . . . .
I've been recording this show on my DVR...the Invaders!
Nice :-)
100K subscribers, Congratulations, Great job! You'll hit one million by the end of the year. Great content.
Keith Laumer wrote a book based on the series called "The Invaders" with an image of Thinnes on the cover. My copy is first printing 1967.
I like Laumer but it's hard to find his books these days.
I have that one too. There was also a Whitman Books story published for younger readers.
That was a terrific book. Essentially three stand-alone episodes. I still have a copy somewhere.
@@8BitNaptime As I saw them fade away I was careful to hold onto mine. When I dumped most of my books, >95%, I kept all Laumers.
Watched it when was kid,7-8 yrs old. Gave me the heebie jeebies…
I loved the UFOs in that show. I also had one of the model kits of them.
Ah, yes "Now he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun."
When The Invaders premiered in 1967 we only had a black & white TV but I used to watch the show faithfully. It was so long ago and I was just a kid that I don't remember the changes from the first to second season compared to the changes in Lost and Space. I will tell you that as a kid that opening sequence used to scare the you know what out of me. I wanted that spaceship for Christmas but it was never to be. Good show.
I had the UFO model back in the day. Loved it.
I had that model of the ship. It was great. Had an interior area. Great series.