The Invaders

1967

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8| 0h30m| TV-PG| en
Synopsis

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 shortcut 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.

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Quinn Martin Productions (QM)

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Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
jc-osms Classic "They walk amongst us" alien invader series from the Acts 1 - 4 plus Epilogue Irwin Allen school of 60's fantasy Sci-fi series. Like his earlier, long running success "The Fugitive" we again have a man on the run, trying to uncover the truth in every town he passes through only it's not his wife's murderer he's after but a band of shape-shifting planetary interlopers whose only give aways to their true origins are that they have gnarled fingers and tend to vaporise at point of death.Roy Thinnes is the fugitive David Vincent who gives up a good job and takes on the incredulity and mocking disbelief of friends, colleagues and particularly members of the authorities, as he tries to pick up proof of his discovery.Thinnes is very good as the series's mainstay making temporary alliances and dalliances along the way. I'm watching it again from the start, can't remember how the show ends and whether Thinnes ever saves the world, but just like all those years ago, I'm hooked on his journey.Lead on MacDuff.
ebiros2 Made by Q M Productions that specialized in crime dramas, this series was a departure from that formula.Theme of the story was science fiction , but the format was very much like "The Fugitive" that was an enormous success for Q M Production.The story was rather morose in the beginning lacking in flare and trying to cover for that with good guest star's appearances, but it quickly got traction, and the stories became lot more interesting. Towards the end of the first season a plot was forming that David Vincent was starting to find allies in people who are in professions that can help him. There was more "science" angle to the story, and the show can be called a borderline science fiction in its content as this season ended.The show succeeded more as a drama in the style of "The Fugitive" where David Vincent was a fugitive from the invaders, and sometimes from the police, more than science fiction. In this Q M Production's pat formula for making drama got in the way, but it also succeeded by not letting the quality of the production go down. Ultimately, the show lacked focus, as it was made by people who knows nothing about the UFO or science fiction, compared to true science fiction like the Star Trek of the same era.True to Q M Production's formula, there were suits everywhere. People dressed immaculately in a suit filled the scene. But this also took away from the science fiction atmosphere as it was too solidly grounded to earth. One thing I can say is that they filled this show with great guest stars that would have been perfectly comfortable in the movies as well as the television show.It was a good show, but not a good science fiction series. It was a crime drama with criminals replaced with aliens. At the end I wished that the story turned like the ending of "The invasion of the body snatchers", but that was too much to ask for to the script writers of the drama.
benkidlington Just finished watching every episode from both of the series. It was highly enjoyable even if it started to get a tad repetitive towards the end.I thought Kent Smith was excellent as Edgar Scoble. Sadly a somewhat overlooked actor. David Vincent of course was perfectly cast and also a great actor. Very impressive how he underplayed the role.Many aspects of the series are really interesting and absorbing.Throughout watching it though, I kept wondering why every episode seemed to keep focusing on people getting in and out of cars all of the time and also usually involved one or more car chases. I would have instead enjoyed it a bit more if it focused on flying saucers or other alien technology more regularly and a bit more sci-fi.I always thought that the bits with cars could have been cut out as they were not in any way essential to the plot. I mean let's just get down to business. I just didn't need to watch a car pull up into a motel parking lot about 100 times in all, across the various episodes! In fact eventually I kept on hoping that the next episode would not have any cars in it.And then of course after watching all episodes, I finally learnt from several independent sources that the series was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Well that explains it all, the series would probably not have even been made without their financial backing. No wonder it seemed like a car show at times. I think perhaps they did overdo the product placement just a bit though! Still, I really like the series. Shame it was axed without a satisfactory ending.
screenman Definitely one of the best science-fiction shows ever.Unfortunately, it went on too long. Each week followed the same basic format. Vincent turned-up as magically as the aliens themselves at some particular location and set about screwing with their plans, whilst gathering witnesses and attempting to convince the sceptical. The biggest problem for him was that the invaders burnt to atoms when they died, short-changing him on evidence. Spooky Mulder found himself facing similar problems.He single-mindedly dedicated his life to their defeat, and, as some other commentator has mentioned, must have had a mysterious supply of money, because he never designed any more buildings after that fateful night.But space-hopping aliens are not stupid. It wouldn't take long for them to realise that just one human was messing with their master plan. Considering that they had the whole of their species to choose from, one might have expected them to do what the mafia or the pentagon would do, and that is mark him up as public-enemy No-1, and put a team of their best assassins on his case. Even if it really looked like murder, the authorities would hardly assume it was done by aliens. He had become such a thorn in their side that it was surely worth their while to suspend operations, and dedicate their energy to his disposal. He was just an architect working alone; he wouldn't stand a chance.The longer the show went on, the greater the likelihood that his luck must run out and they'd nail him. Yet they never did. I think QM got a little mixed-up with their other endless chaser: 'The Fugitive'. But one cop against one suspect is different from a whole species against one architect.Still, it was a very slick production with good acting and a decent script. Special-effects were simple but convincing. I was particularly unnerved by that hand-held cerebral-haemorrhage inducer. Very nasty. Theme music was grim and spooky. Roy Thinnes walked a solid if solitary line. I don't honestly recollect him in anything else.