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Did ROY THINNES Actually Believe THE INVADERS Were REAL?
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2021
- Roy Thinnes is the star of one of the most iconic sci-fi TV series ever made but did Thinnes believe the invaders were actually real? Let's find out as we look back at this incredible series.
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I first saw The Invaders in 1990 on BBC2. I was instantly drawn in by its mood, the compelling storylines, the use of music and the way it was filmed. Great acting performances in the first series, especially. My favourite episode? The Ivy Curtain.
Thank you so much for your invaders retrospective. As a wide eyed kid watching these episodes I became wary of small open fields..abandoned warehouses and strange looking trucks. My family and I met Mr thinnes at a sci to convention and he was gracious as can be..chatted for quite awhile with us and wouldn't dream of accepting any fees for 3 autograph photos and several awesome pics with my wife and daughter. Talk about believing??..this experience put me in 7th heaven!! He knew a real fan when he first shook my hand..hetes to you roy!!!!!
He didn't believe, "The Invaders", his science fiction show was real. But he did believe in UFOs and aliens.
Exactly. The two things are not the same.
if only the reality was that shows. /easier to prove.
Im 60 now and this show blew me away back when i saw it in the 70s. The narration, the effects. Very good.
I think back in 1967 the Invaders was shown on BBC 2 at 9pm on Monday nights, I was eight years old then and lucky enough that my mum and dad let me watch it before going to bed. I loved the whole series but the opening which began " The Invaders... Alien beings from a dying planet..." use to give me goose bumps and butterfly's in my stomach. TV back then was so much better than the crap they put out now.
As a Kid I loved this show! Too bad they cancelled it. 👽 🛸So many famous actors appeared on the show before they became big stars!
I'm 64 and loved the first season. I agree with your analysis, and always hoped a well written big screen adaptation would appear. From kids I knew, the shortcoming was it's having a more sober tone than Star Trek and other scí fí of the era.
Well, the first season did. The second took a slightly more hopeful view.
Watched this as a teenager in first-run. Even my Dad, a notorious TV program skeptic, enjoyed this and watched it with me. Loved that spooky opening.
If it was remade, it would be ruined. Nobody understands what made this program good it seems
I always like the tone of the show. While I have always been a Star Trek fan, I never considered it to be true science fiction. More like science fantasy. While warp drive, defensive shields, and phasers are within the realm of science fiction, the idea that the whole galaxy is populated with life forms that look almost human and speak English is not.
@@geraldscott4302 Back in the late '60s - '70s, sci-fi nerds, eager to show how "serious" sci-fi was and how "adult" they were, shyed away from bizarre looking aliens. Roddenberry believed that aliens would be very much like us in terms of needs, desires and motivations and felt that actors playing aliens would be unable to emote if wearing heavy make-up or masks. I always felt that he should have replaced some of his aliens with earth people who had colonized a terra-formed world and it wouldn't have effected the story at all while cutting down on some of the overly done human species of alien.
I was 7 years old when this came out. I vaguely remember watching it. My parents (mainly my mother and an Aunt) were willing to watch sci-fi and we would go over to the Aunt's house to watch TV. My cousins and I would lay on a quilt on the floor in front of the TV and watch with my mother and the Aunt and my father and Uncle spent the time talking and visiting. As an adult, when a computer and the internet finally entered my home, I eventually found the Invaders on UA-cam. This prompted me to actually purchase a DVD set. I grew up watching all of the sci-fi. All of it went into syndication and I was able to watch during my preteen years, even if I had been too young when it originally aired. My mother also continued to watch with me through those years. Outer Limits was an amazing series as well as the TZ, of course. But probably the series that had an actual impact on me would have been Star Trek. Something I enjoy today is rewatching all these series and seeing the character actors that seemed to pop up in everything. It is almost like seeing old friends. It is fun. And today, while I am in my 60's, it is my son that will watch the old sci-fi with me. When we are together, we will search for the oldest and cheesiest of sci-fi to watch. I guess the tradition continues from Mom and me to me and Son.
Man these are great! Without UA-cam this stuff would’ve faded into obscurity! Great job keep ‘em coming.
No, but he did see an unidentified flying object in the summer of 1966 (before starting the show) and mentioned it. It could have been a publicist thing, but he was fairly matter of fact about it.
I remember watching this with my parents . The only time in the week I was allowed up so late. Thank you
The same here!
The invaders was one of my favorite SciFi tv series in the 60’s. In my DVD box set they had good interviews with Roy.I enjoyed watching them.
There is a lot more truth in this series than even the people who made it realized.
Yes lots of things! Earth exists, people exist (or that's what THEY claim at least 🧐). That's probably it really, but that's two whole things! 😮
You aren't alone in that assumption. 👽
@@luisreyes1963 Well, he's not really surrounded by supporters either 😉
Roy..is that you??!!!
There's several opinions people who study the UFO phenomena might have to your comment...
1. Skeptics might say the false UFO phenomena was influenced by science fiction.
2. Believers might say science fiction is influenced by the real phenomena of UFOs.
3. Believers might also say infiltrated government agents in the entertainment business use science fiction as process to slowly acclimatize the public to accepting the truth of UFOs in case they decide to disclose the truth, or the aliens do so themselves.
Whatever case maybe, the series did a good job playing on the paranoia and distrust of government after the assassination of Kennedy.
I watched and loved this as a kid and was so happy and relieved when other characters actually believed David Vincent and helped him. It seemed a cheat that the aliens could just glow red and burn to nothing when they died leaving no evidence.
They were changing dimensions
Kind of like they do now
All that is left is cellulose.
I believe it was around 1968 I was working at Owens-Illinois glass company in the City of Industry. They were filming a segment of The Invaders at that location, where I met Roy Thinnes and James Whitmore.
It was interesting to say the least.
One of my favorite tv shows of all time. I was in the 7th grade when the 1st episode aired. In summer of 1982 a local tv station ran SiFi Sunday starting at 8pm The Invaders, Space 1999 & The Outer Limits.
The British show UFO had surprisingly dark episodes in the mix. Also, the Moonbase women weren't too shabby either.
Sounds like he really committed himself to the role and totally engulfed the character and did give a great performance 👏
I had never heard of it. Then two years ago on MeTV it was brought back. I was glued to every episode. It was ahead of its time for sure
And Roy Thinnes was gorgeous. He should have played James Bond!!!
This show had a really creepy tone that I couldn't get enough of. Great show.
A great series whose episodes are still good even today. I loved watching it back in the 1960's.
With better writers (who were into the genre) and plotting, The Invaders might've lasted longer than its 14 month run. Still, it has a cult following today. 🚀🚀🚀
I totally agree with you it was a fantastic sifi series and could have gone on longer I sincerely hope they don't try to make remake it now it wouldn't have the same mystery and intrigue about it
@@jtomshep2794 Quite true, Tom. Did you know the opening theme music was originally used for the unsold pilot, The Unknown, in 1964? It was made by Daystar Productions, who produced the Outer Limits.
Another instance of ABC-TV ripping off ideas from other shows.
@@paulforder591 I never knew that Paul it was a great theme tune something quite haunting about it and the intro which i feel has been sadly lost in today's productions we have all episodes of the invaders on dvd both myself and my wife enjoy re watching it every now and again
Once you see a metallic flying disc that makes it onto the evening news and you've seen it yourself up close, you can't unsee it.
I still watch this show when I have the chance on Sunday morning on METV channel.
I was just a bit too young to really comprehend everything that was going on in The Invaders when it was on TV (I was born in 1959, so I was 8 years old). I do remember watching it with my dad.
I remember the Outer Limits. I used to watch this too, with my dad, usually covering my eyes, because it scared the heck out of me!
I need to look the series up and watch it.
It was the last show before bedtime. The rest of the family typically didn't finish watching. So I watched it alone, as I passed the large window leading to my bedroom,there was a distinctive meadow shining against a backdrop of night. I always felt I would see that spaceship one night
...one more comment - Dominic Frontier (Twelve O'Clock High, The Outer Limits, The Stuntman) wrote some chilling musical cues for the show, plus one of the most haunting, melancholy love themes ever to grace a TV show (you can hear it in the Suzanne Pleshette episode "The Mutant" and in "The Innocents" where alien Michael Rennie gives Vincent a tour of an advanced industrial park and one of Vincent's old flames appears and takes Vincent on a brief car ride -which all turns out to be an Invaders-induced hypnotic hallucination.
I adored this. It was re run in the U.K. throughout the 80’s when I was a kid.
I just watched the first season for the first time and enjoyed it. It's better than what they put out today.
I finally got to see this show recently. I was too young at the time, and it was never put into syndication.
It was an excellent show, with compelling stories and a strong main protagonist. Thinnes was also an excellent choice.
This ELP fanatic LOVES your handle!
Watched this series as a child and liked it. After witnessing a large disk shaped vehicle near Baltimore in 1970 I knew the invaders was not all about scifi.
A great show with a actor! Thinnes' $7500/wk salary would be $59,379 in 2021; not what so many actors are pulling down today but still enough to be comfortable!
These old series productions were great entertainment , warts and all .
A very good show. Very good.
I remember watching this show when I was 6. I loved it
I was a bit younger, but I did like the show.
Larry Cohen created two of my favorite 1960s series: The Invaders and Branded. The man was the Hemingway of isolated protagonists . . . .
OMG, I used to watch Branded! The beginning of the theme song came to me the second I read your post but I can't remember the entire thing
Two of my favorite shows. The opening of Branded was one of the best, ever, imho.
The Invaders was brilliant. They used to show it on BBC2 in the UK, in the early 90s. There is a copy of 'Beachhead' here: ua-cam.com/video/K2lL-EciRf0/v-deo.html
Thank you!
I Just started watching this and, my god!, he is a beautiful man! It's too bad the uncut version isn't available.
@@amygeyer1166 I have the full version, I watched it recently while falling asleep and thought I had dreamt the new bits!
I had hoped that they would have turned one of the Gold Key comic stories into an episode of the Invaders! Anyone who read the comic adaptations can tell you how cool the artwork by Dan Spiegel was, and one of the stories from Issue 4 would have looked awesome on TV! Most of the fans who read that issue will recall 'The Doomsday Window!'
"First Wave" in the late 1990's was similar to "The Invaders" in many ways.
I loved this show! I wish they'd update it and do a movie.
If they did it would end up being woke trash
Just enjoy the original tv series.
I've seen too many reboots, revamps, remakes, etc to wish that on anything.
they did a movie and it was awful
I'm nearly 64, and I didn't get to see this show as a kid because we only got 1 channel in Black and White and it was on another network. It is on my list of TV shows on DVD to collect. I have been collecting mostly Western shows I missed but I should have this by next year. I did read comics and a 'Big Little Book' of the show.
The musical theme by Dominic Frontiere is still other worldly.
Wow Gene Hackman looked young here.
Just before his first film role.
I Loved this T.V. show. ❤ Oh yeah that Pinky Finger was a Gas, and the Dead Ashes were scary. Please start showing this T.V. Show again!!!
Great show!! Thank you for the video.
Interesting video, but the simple answer to the clickbait title is, he once saw a UFO and didn't like the crew joking about the show on set. Much like a lot of actors who care about the show they are in.
I enjoyed the immediate vaporization-burn up of the aliens when they died. It was often comical.
I recently bought the series on DVD because I missed that television show from the 1960's and I barely remember the Fugitive TV series as I was a young child back then.
Makes me think of the aliens in the TV version of War of the Worlds, where they'd disgustingly melt due to being in human bodies.
Sounds like the, X_ file's, where people are aliens and only Mulder knew this,as he tried to tell everyone that aliens are here on Earth.
Both are great show's, hopefully we'll see this show on Netflix and TV shows .
Thinnes ultimately had a recurring character on the X-Files playing Jeremiah Smith.
'The Invaders' seemed far more ominous than the 'X Files.'
The effects to this show was decades ahead of shows
One of my childhood favs. Still watch it on MeTV. I am a kid again when it's on. HAHA
The disguised aliens taking over the world was a popular plot in the 50’s and 60’s as an allegory of the Communist threat. It also had a brief comeback in the early 80’s with “V” and the movie “They Live”.
In V's case, it was original gonna be a show about the resistance against Nazi's. Then it got reworked into sci-fi.
I was a kid, and I have remembered the pinky finger and this show since. Thanks for the video
I was just thinking that maybe the point is not so much whether or not Roy Thinnes believed the Invaders were real but that I did! I still remember the episode when special guest star Kent Smith saw one of them die and finally believed David Vincent. I almost fell out of my chair!
Thank you!!
Loved this classic show. Wow! Who would of thought that we would be dealing with AI issues today?
This was a well done show loved it. 🌏🌎🌎🌍
Binged watching it now. Love it.
This would make a great remake with all of the UFO/UAP's going on today.
Damn! Gene Hackman?? Wow.
The aliens were representative of the "Hippie revolution" "1967: In the best episodes Roy Thinnes has to balance a kind of peace and distance with "The invaders" My favorite one is where the whole town is given a memory-erase track. That one is representative of living in balance with hippies.
i really liked the show back then but i have seen it recently on metv reruns and i don't think it has held up except that it is nostalgic for me and i like that.
I know what you mean. I've learned (through many disappointments) to work out which shows I loved are probably left as fond memories rather than rewatching them.
@@chrisparkes2179 some of them do hold up for me like beaver, andy, dick van dyke, some twilight zones, fugitive, the rifleman and others. we watch mostly news, tcm, pbs, metv and sports.
@@steveperry1344 I watch mainly old shows. I'm British, so it tends to be things like The Avengers (Steed and Emma Peel, not the superheroes), My Partner The Ghost, Thriller, etc. We didn't receive the shows you mentioned apart from Twilight Zone, which I've just started rewatching. So far that's going well, one or two below par ones but not enough to spoil it.
And I still find Bilko and Batman hilarious.
@Chris Parkes. I know what you mean. As a kid, I was really into “The Time Tunnel “ and “The Green Hornet”. Upon watching them as an adult, I can see why they were both cancelled after one season.
This was made before my time but I heard about it from older relatives, was pleased to find it all on youtube a year or two back and enjoyed watching it.
Great series. Always came across as totally possible.👍👌💪
Watch it every Sunday, love it. Wish it came on a little earlier though.
Hundreds of thousands of disappearances caused the governments to take it seriously.
@3:20, "Had powerful weapons, that could 'silence', witnesses". Hmmm, sounds awfully familiar, huh🤔?? Check out the mayor @3:40 (think about it, for a moment)!! I used to watch this with my Dad, when I was little (we both loved it). The deformed pinky finger, was our everyday sci-fi, levity!!!
And I still have my assembled Monogram model kit of the alien craft in my office that I built in 1968 !
I remember my parents watching it when I was about six. I didn't really get to follow it until it was shown in syndication in the 90s.
Love the George Adamski-style flying saucers
Beautiful acting. Thank you posting this.
Interesting fellow hu-man, especially the info on the pilot episode originally being movie length, here's hoping it hasn't been lost.
Back in the fall of 1987 I saw the triangle UFO flying over Indianapolis, Years later that on coast to coast I heard someone describe it. I remember being very excited that I had actually seen a UFO! They also describe the silence that came with it. It was as though it had a noise canceling effect or property about it.
Loved this show. I think that must be the kiss of death considering how many shows I really liked were on for a single season or less.
- > Mr. Lucky! < -
A hit on for only one season, I believe? Caught
it first-run and loved it. SUCH sophisticated
bad boys, those two were!
Mancini's music for it has survived splendidly.
Yea same with me. Any show I like rarely gets more than 2 seasons, and they usually only get one (Firefly being the classic example).
I always thought that the way to save the series would have been to have David Vincent kidnapped from Earth and brought before an enlightened alien leader to discuss the invasion and the reason for it and to try and listen to both points of view. The alien leader should have been played by Sam Jaffee. He would be very believable in that role listening to David Vincent’s argument as to why the aliens should not invade Earth. It would be interesting also to discover that something in human DNA and bacteria could help the aliens cope with the disintegration of their own world and revitalize it thus making a symbiotic working relationship a plausible and positive solution…….to borrow a phrase from Star Trek TNG……Darmok and Jalad on the ocean…….I would have been glued to the tv set in 1968 if they had done a story like that.
The series "First Wave" borrows heavily from both "The Invaders" and "The Fugitive."
I was a young kid when this show was on, I remember the opening where the the spaceship comes down in front of him. I used to think why doesn't he get out of there
Quinn Martin had the best tv serials at the time. This and Streets of San Francisco were among my many Quinn Martin favorites!
Fabulous show. Definetly enjoyed it.
Sounds like Star Trek. Ahead of it's time and misunderstood.
As a kid I totally Loved this show! It holds really fond memories for me!
Luckily The Invaders can be see at 5 AM Sunday mornings on METV.
It was a good sci-fi show! It showed that if Aliens did infiltrate the Earth, this was how it would go!
You're right.
Look at the research of Dr. David Jacobs. He calls it 'planetary acquisition' instead of invasion but we are being invaded now and no one realizes it.
Also...when I think of Close Encounters of the 3rd kind. The message is...we're already made contact!
I wish they would do reboots of shows which failed due to mismanagement. The premise is solid. It just needs writers who know science fiction.
Watch each episode several times . Wish it had run for at least 5 years.
He was a good actor, there is no way to tell if he really believed or just acted like he did.
Good show I would love to see it from start to finish someday. It was fun to see people who would be big star in small parts.
What a classic!
looking at many of the screenshots many famous movie and tv actors had guest shots on the show.
A great show that deserved a proper finale. IMO studio suits just didn't get si fi and seemed to always take the first chance to cancel si fi shows.
To address one issue about Thinnes reprising his role in a similar show the problem was most likely Scott Bacula who was always a lousy actor. He was never convincing in any role. Roy was a very underrated actor once he left the Soaps.
THE ORIGINAL 90 MINUTE VERSION OF THE FIRST EPISODE "BEACH HEAD" IS INCLUDED IN ONE OF THE DVD PACKAGES ! "THE INVADERS" IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE TV SERIES !!!! I LOVED THE FIRST SEASON ESPECIALLY !!!! THE BACKGROUND MUSIC USED IN THE FIRST SEASON WAS FIERCE !!! THE ABC-TV NETWORK SHOULD HAVE IMMEDIATELY HAD THE MUSIC AND THEME COMPOSED BY THE SENSATIONAL DOMINIC FRONTIERE RELEASED ON RECORD ALBUMS FOR THE FANS OF "THE INVADERS" TO LISTEN TO , TO MAINTAIN THEIR EXCITEMENT FOR THE SHOW BETWEEN WEEKLY EPISODES !!!! THE BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR THE SECOND SEASON WAS MOSTLY AS EXCITEING AS WATCHING A GLASS OF WATER !!!! THAT MUSIC WAS BETTER SUITED FOR QUINN MARTIN'S OTHER TV SERIES "THE F.B.I." ANOTHER PROBLEM OF THE SECOND SEASON WAS THAT THEY KILLED OFF MOST OF DAVID VINCENT'S ALLIES. !!!! WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF BRINGING IN NEW CAST MEMBERS, JUST TO KILL THEM OFF IN THAT EPISODE OR THE NEXT EPISODE ?!!!! ONE OF THE BEST "THE INVADERS" FIRST SEASON EPISODES WAS "STORM". ONE OF THE DAVID VINCENT'S ENEMY ALIENS "LISA" PORTRAYED BY THE BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS BARBARA LUNA ESCAPED DAVID VINCENT'S CAPTURE, SO WHY DIDN'T SHE APPEAR IN OTHER EPISODES SUCH AS ALFRED RYDER DID ?!!!! ALSO TO WIDEN THE NATIONAL APPEAL OF THE SERIES, WHY DIDN'T THEY HAVE MANY MORE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF VARIOUS ETHNIC AND RACIAL BACKGROUNDS TO PORTRAY THOSE VARIOUS DIVERSE CHARACTERS ?!!!! SCIENCE FICTION IS SUPPOSE TO SHOW IMAGINATION, BUT NOT ENOUGH IMAGINATION WAS USED !!!! THANK YOU RerunZone FOR SHOWING FOCUS TO A GOOD SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES THAT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN BY TIME !!!! THANK YOU YOU/TUBE !!!!
There's no need to yell! We read you!
The show was a product of it's time, and there was very little racial diversity on television then. It took popular shows like Julia, I Spy, Star Trek, and the Flip Wilson Show to break racial barriers. Television was willing to let aliens be represented on television before minority groups! Lou Gossett Jr and other African-American cast members were on the first episode so the series was ahead of its time, but later episodes were mostly white cast members.
One of my all time favourites shows, It makes me laugh now when I look back at how easily I accepted the ridiculousness of it. I mean, a race so advanced that they could travel across a galaxy, recreate a human being identical except for the little finger ha ha ha ha - still it was great though
This was certainly ahead of its time, it was cleaver by playing the alien music across a character you as the audience immediately new he was an alien, in the trial two aliens come to the court room to make out there son was human only for David to follow them out to see them take a pill and disappear with no evidence that they we're there, it is a series if remaid with special effects could be as popular as the V series thanks for all this great info in this documentary great job looking forward to your next one
Clever; knew; their; were; remade.
You could also try punctuation.
Why on Earth (no pun intended) has the full-length version of "Beachhead" not been included on the DVD release?
[Edit: evidently it actually has been. Well, good.]
Wikipedia says the American dvd release has an extended version of Beachhead that never broadcasted. Is wikipedia wrong?
@@toomanyaccounts Dunno, maybe it did. It ought to.
I loved The Invaders and the great Roy Thinnes! 😊 but….the title of the video….is hardly what you talk about 😒
As with most sci-fi there is often a grain of truth hidden in it, look at the technology on the Star Trek original series - a lot of it is reality today.
I enjoyed the show , watching it when it was first aired. I have several "INVADERS" VHS tapes and doubt I'll ever part with them. Oh and, I'm 67 years old.
Isn't The 5th wave derived from this series as well?... Loved that show as well.
The last episode of "The Invaders" was a big disappointment. The series ended and left us with too many unanswered questions.
One of my very favorite shows when I was a kid. Now, I can hardly find anyone who can even remember it.
I can watch this series whenever I wish... I own copies of every episode!
I couldn’t get beyond the intro. This scared me beyond comprehension.