THE INVADERS - "a Quinn Martin Production" Any other fans?

[Captain Tracy]

Last night's episode was 'Nightmare',... outstanding in a Hitchcock-esque sense. This episode 'vibes' with the first and second,... very paranoid heavy-Twilight Zone feel.

The Invaders are back to being a mystery.

The writer even makes a massive social criticism in the very last scene,... totally underplayed,... most would miss it,... handled perfectly.

An A+ episode to me.

Okay, tonight's episode,... 'Doomsday, Minus One'

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Havent seen it in years but liked it as a kid.

 

[Captain Tracy]

Last night's Episode: 'Doomsday: Minus One',... another excellent episode!

Has a bit of Twilight Zone, mixed with I-Spy,... works very well for this story.

Really first-rate.

In Brief: An Army Major in charge of base security summons David Vincent, to operate on the sly, and to provide further information on a Saucer which crashed in the desert proving grounds.

William Windom guest stars. Interesting he also was in Doomsday Machine on Star Trek,... I wonder if he asked his agent why he was putting him in for all these Doomsday titled scripts!

Okay,.. 'Tonight's episode,... 'Quantity: Unknown'

 

[Forbin]

Ha! I hadn't noticed the Doomsday connection!

 

[Captain Tracy]

He also did a Barney Miller episode with 'Doomsday' in the title too,.. what's with the guy's agent LOL!

Okay, let's see,... QUANTITY: UNKNOWN,... I liked it, nice mystery angle, no issues with the script. Good, decent episode.

I already watched the next episode: THE INNOCENT,.. well,... I am sure there are people who love this one, and it makes a BIG feature of the Saucer,... and I am sure there are people who have major issues with the plot and premise violations,... it has some WONDERFUL acting by the head Alien,.. and aside from the cool up close look around the inside of the saucer,... well, I would say this is the first 'clunker' episode by how I am looking at them,.. others probably feel different.

 

[E-DUB]

I remember this series from its original airing, so I had to get the DVDs. If "Night Stalker" was the father of the X-Files, this show was its grandfather. David Vincent made Fox Mulder look like a stand-up comic. I don't think he even cracked a joke until Season Two, when he had allies and maybe felt like things were going more his way.

It would have been nice if this had run a couple more seasons. Given QM's part in the one of the first seasons that had a "proper" finale (The Fugitive), maybe it would have even had a resolution, either the final defeat of the aliens or, more boldly, coming to some kind of accommedation with them.

 

[stoneroses]

Strange beings from a diying planet....
Great show for the time. I didn't think much of the remake either.

 

[Captain Tracy]

Just an update - I'll get back into the episode by episode updates in a while,... The 'INNOCENT' episode kind of killed my momentum,... but we'll get back on the horse fairly soon. Stay Tuned.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Strange beings from a diying planet....
Great show for the time. I didn't think much of the remake either.

Remake?

 

[Psion]

Strange beings from a diying planet....
Great show for the time. I didn't think much of the remake either.

Remake?

More of a continuation, I think, since Roy Thinnes reprised his role as David Vincent to hand off his research to Scott Bakula's character. It was either a two hour pilot or miniseries back in the mid 1990s.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Started to watch this show for the first time yesterday. So far I enjoy it. Kind of The Fugitive... with Aliens! meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers: The Series. (Yeah, I know, Martin had produced The Fugitive as well.)

It's pretty dark for a show from the 60s, I guess. The eerie musical score helps in that regard too. I also liked it when Roy Thinnes' character started to act totally paranoid about half-way through the pilot episode (for instance he's offered a cup of coffee which he thinks might be poisoned... the coffee itself was fine, but towards the end of the episode it turns out that the person who had offered him the coffee was in fact an alien after all ). The influence it had on 90s' shows like The X-Files (or Dark Skies) is undeniable IMO.

I also figured that this show must have been pretty cheap to produce compared to Star Trek, for example. After all, it's set on present-day Earth and all the aliens look like humans.

(Thread bump, because I didn't want to start a new one.)