THE INVADERS --------------------------- 1967-1968/43 episodes. ABC/A Quin Martin Production. 60 minutes/color. REGULAR CAST: Roy Thinnes (David Vincent). Kent Smith (Edgar Scoville-second season only) CREDITS: Executive Producer: Quinn Martin. Producer : Alan Armer. Creator: Larry Cohen. Music: Dominic Frontiere. PREMISE OF THE SHOW: David Vincent is the only man who knows that the Earth is being invaded by aliens from a hostile planet. Their plan is to infiltrate all major control centers of human society, both military and civilian. Vincent makes a desperate attempt to convince the world of this threat before it's too late. The only way he can spot an alien is by the erect little finger on each hand or the way they glow when they need regeneration and their human form is faltering back to their real appearence. Later, he is joined by others who believe his story. INFO: The Invaders is definately a high-point in TV science fiction. Another in the long line of series from the prolific Quinn Martin, the series was one of the most exciting and best produced shows ever. A basic thrust of the series is that, for the most part, the alien menace is unseen. They looked just like us and only those who knew what weaknesses to look for knew how to spot an invader. During the series, the plot lines supported a number of suspenseful scripts (most notably "The Mutation") but by the second season, ratings for the show began to slide and in the end it was cancelled after it's second year. Roy Thinnes was excellent in the lead role and some of the special effects were very well done, particuly when the invaders bit the dust and dissapeared in a mass of red flames. EPISODES: ------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST SEASON: 1967 ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) BEACHEAD ---------------- Writer: Anthony Wilson. Director: Joseph Sargent. Guest Cast: Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon, James Daly, John Milford, Ellen Corby, Vaughn Taylor. At a deserted diner in the dead of night, architect David Vincent witnesses the arrival of a spaceship. Reporting it, he is considered a crackpot after he returns to the landing site with police and his business partner, Alan Landers(Daly), and finds the craft gone. Vincent eventually learns that the aliens from a distant galaxy are invading Earth. After Landers is ruthlessly killed by the Invaders, Vincent decides to dedicate his life to stopping this unearthly threat. 2) THE EXPERIMENT --------------------- Writer: Anthony Spinner. Director: Joseph Sargent. Guest Cast: Roddy McDowall, Lawrence Naismith, Harold Gould, Dabbs Greer, Willard Sage. David Vincent forestalls an attempt on the life of famed astrophysicist Dr. Curtis Lindstrom (Naismith) who is prepared to expose the Invaders at an international conference of scientists. 3) THE MUTATION --------------------- Writers: David Chandler, George Eckstein. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Suzanne Pleshette, Edward Andrews, Lin McCarthy, Roy Jensen, Rudolfo Hoyos. The Invaders are waiting for David Vincent when he searches the Mexican desert for a saucer site with nightclub stripper Vikki (Pleshette) as his guide. Vikki, in truth, is an alien woman with human emotions, and she sacrifices her life to save David's in the dramatic climax. 4) THE LEECHES ------------------- Writer: Dan Ullman. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Arthur Hill, Mark Richman, Diana van der Vlis, Robert H. Harris. Six scientists, each a specialist in his field, have disappeared and David Vincent is summoned by electronics expert Warren Doneghan (Hill), who thinks he will be next. 5) GENESIS ----------------- Writer: John W. Bloch. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Carol Rossen, Louise Latham, Tim McIntire, Phillip Pine, William Sargent, John Larch. Motorcycle cop Hal Corman (Pine) is driven mad by what he sees in an old station wagon he stpos on a beach road for a traffic violation. This event leads David Vincent to a sea lab where alien life is being created. 6) VIKOR ------------- Writer: Don Brinkley. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Jack Lord, Alfred Ryder, Diana Hyland, Richard O'Brien. A dying telephone lineman's fantastic story leads David Vincent to investigate war hero George Vikor's (Lord) vast manufacturing complex. He finds the owner under the strange domination of a "Mr. Nexus". 7) NIGHTMARE ----------------- Writer: John Kneubuhl. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Kathleen Widdoes, Robert Emhardt, Jeanette Nolan, James Callahan, Nellie Burt. Vincent arrives at the small farming community of Grady to interview teacher Ellen Woods (Widdoes), who reportedly witnessed a locust attack. Before long Vincent discovers terrifying evidence that leads him to suspect the Invaders of turning insects into deadly carnivores. 8) DOOMSDAY MINUS ONE -------------------------- Writer: Louis Vites. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: William Windom, Andrew Duggan, Wesley Addy, Robert Osterloch. A flynig saucer is seen landing at an installation where the largest underground nuclear test in history is to occur. Major Rick Graves (Windom), chief of security, fears alien infiltration and calls on David Vincent for help. 9) QUANTITY: UNKNOWN ------------------------ Writer: Don Brinkley. Director: Sutton Roley. Guest Cast: James Whitmore, Milton Selzer, William Talman, Susan Strasberg. Investigating a mysterious cylinder found in the wreckage of a plane, David Vincent is taken by gunpoint and accused of being an alien from outer space. 10) THE INNOCENT -------------------- Writer: John W. Bloch. Director: Sutton Roley. Guest Cast: Michael Rennie, William Smithers, Robert Doyle, Patricia Smith, Paul Carr. David Vincent is abducted and taken aboard a flying saucer by Magnue (Rennie), the alien's spokesman. He is then told he will be transported to a Utopia to see for himself that the aliens are on Earth to help mankind. 11) THE IVY CURTAIN ---------------------- Writer: Don Brinkley. Director: Joseph Sargent. Guest Cast: Jack Warden, Susan Oliver, David Sheiner, Murray Matheson, Barry Russo, Clark Gordon. David Vincent discovers that Midlands Academy is being used as an indoctrination center for aliens just arriving on Earth from their native planet. 12) THE BETRAYED -------------------- Writer: John W. Bloch. Director: John M. Lucas. Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Laura Dern, Nancy Wickwire, Norman Fell, Bill Fletcher, Victor Brandt. Employed by oilman Carver (Begley), David Vincent discovers a computer complex with a mysterious tape in an abandoned tank car. Unable to convince Carver about the presence of aliens, he then tales the tape to an expert cryptographer, Neal Taft (Fell). 13) STORM ------------- Writer: John Kneubuhl. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Joseph Campanella, Barbara Luna, Simon Scott, Calos Romero, John McLiam. Investigating a bizarre East Coast hurricane that veers erratically to spare a fishing village, meteorologist Malcom Gantley (Scott), finds evidence of alien intervention. 14) PANIC ------------ Writer: Robert Sherman. Director: Robert Butler. Guest Cast: Robert Walker,Jr, Lyn Loring, R.G. Armstrong, Len Wayland. David Vincent races against aliens to capture Nick Baxter (Walker, Jr), an ailing Invader whose touch is causing an epidemic of freezing deaths. When Nick is cornered, he tries to convince Vincent that he will give him the location of a saucer landing if David will not turn him over to the authorities. 15) MOONSHOT ---------------- Writer: Alan Armer. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: John Ericson, Joanne Linville, Kent Smith, Anthony Eisley, Richard X. Slattery, Paul Lukather, Strother Martin, John Lupton, Robert Knapp. David Vincent investigates when two astronauts of a three-man team scheduled to blast-off for a lunar landing perish in a bizarre red fog. 16) WALL OF CRYSTAL --------------------- Writer: Don Brinkley. Director: Joseph Sargent. Guest Cast: Linden Chiles, Julie Sommers, Edward Asner, Lloyd Gough, Russ Conway, Jerry Ayres, Peggy Lipton, Mary Lou Taylor, Karen Norris, Ray Kellogg. To thwart David Vincent from publicizing proof of their presence, the Invaders kidnap David's brother, Dr. Bob Vincent (Chiles), and threaten his pregnant wife (Sommers) with oxygen-destroying crystals. 17) THE CONDEMNED ------------------- Writer: Robert Sherman. Director: Richard Benedict. Guest Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Marilyn Mason, Murray Hamilton, Larry Ward, John Ragin, Wright King, Gary Walberg, Harlan Warde, Paul Bryar. David Vincent is framed by aliens for the death of communications plant owner Morgan Tate (Bellamy), who is actually hiding after stealing an alien file. ------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND SEASON: 1967-1968 ------------------------------------------------------------- 18) CONDITION: RED -------------------- Writer: Laurence Heath. Director: Don Medford. Guest Cast: Antoinette Bower, Jason Evers, Roy Engel, Mort Mills, Robert Brubaker, Burt Douglas, Forrest Compton, Jim Raymond. In this second season opening episode, David Vincent discovers a plot hatched by the Invaders to penetrate the North American Air Defense Command. 19) THE SAUCER ---------------- Writer: Dan Ullman. Director: Jess Hibbs. Guest Cast: Anne Francis, Charles Drake, Dabney Coleman, Robert Knapp, Kelly Thordsen, Sandy Kenyon, John Ward, Glenn Sipes. Vincent tracks down John Carter (Coleman), a man who has sited saucers landing but who has been dismissed as a crank. They soon witness a ship land at the same sight, battle and kill the alien guard, and claim the saucer. 20) THE WATCHERS ------------------ Writers: Jerry Sohl, Earl Hamner,Jr. Director: Jesse Hibbs. Guest Cast: Shirley Knight, Kevin McCarthy, Leonard Stone, Walter Brooke, Robert Yuro, Harry Hickox, James Seay, John Zaremba. A blind girl helps Vincent find the link between electronics wizard Paul Cook (McCarthy), and aliens running a resort lodge. 21) VALLEY OF THE SHADOW --------------------------- Writers: Howard Merrill, Robert Sabaroff. Director: Jesse Hibbs. Guest Cast: Ron Hayes, Nan Townes, Harry Townes, Joe Maross, Ted Knight, Hank Brandt, John Larmer. The inhabitants of an entire town learn of the alien attack when one of the Invaders murders a doctor and is captured by the police. When other aliens arrange a jail break, the murderer is killed. He then goes up in red smoke and his true identity is revealed. 22) THE ENEMY --------------- Writer: John W. Bloch. Director: Robert Butler. Guest Cast: Barbara Barrie, Richard Anderson, Russell Thorson, Paul Mantee, Gene Lyons, George Keymas. Nurse Gail Frazer (Barrie), recently returned from Vietnam and weary of witnessing death, sees a saucer crash and tries to help the sole survivor (Anderson), who is mortally injured and reverting to his native form. NOTE: This is the only episode that allows us to see the Invaders as they truly are (an Outer Limits-like make-up by John Chambers, glimpsed mainly in the shadows). 23) THE TRIAL --------------- Writers: George Eckstein, David W. Rintels. Director: Robert Butler. Guest Cast: Don Gordon, Lynda Day George, Harold Gould, John Rayner, William Zuckert, James McCallion, Russell Johnson, Selette Cole. Charlie Gilman (Gordon), an old friend of Vincent's kills the alien Fred Wilk (Rayner), but the body incinerates unseen. On trail for his life, Gilman then discloses his love for the alien's very human wife. 24) THE SPORES --------------- Writers: George Eckstein, David W. Rintels, Ellis Kadison, Joel Kane. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: Gene Hackman, John Randolph, James Gammon, Judee Morton, Kevin Coughlin, Mark Miller, Patricia Smith, Brian Nash, Joel Davidson, Wayne Rogers. A suitcase containing an experimental crop of alien spore "seedlings"-which hatch fully grown extraterrestrials- becomes the object of a frantic search. 25) DARK OUTPOST ------------------ Writers: Jerry Sohl, George McCowan. Director: George McCowan. Guest Cast: William Sargent, Tim McIntire, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Tom Lowell, Kelley Jean Peters, Whit Bissell, Susan Davis. A new alien weakness is discovered: they are vulnerable to relatively minor human diseases. David Vincent smuggles himself aboard a departing saucer in hopes of finding the treatment center for these diseased aliens. 26) SUMMIT MEETING (Part 1) ----------------------------- Writer: George Eckstein. Director: Don Medford. Guest Cast: William Windom, Diana Hyland, Michael Rennie, Eduard Franz, Ford Rainey, Martin West, Vic Perrin. Vincent suspects that the aliens are after Scandinavian Premier Thor Halvorsen (Franz), who is hosting a summit conference to deal with a marked increase in the Earth's radioactivity. Attractive Ellie Markham (Hyland) soon convinces Vincent that the leaders of the world are being led into a death trap. 27) SUMMIT MEETING (Part 2) ------------------------- Credits: Same as Part 1. At the summit conference, a rocket containing AR-5 will be launched to demonstrate its ability to neutralize dangerous radioactivity. Vincent learns that the substance, altered by the aliens, will kill all humans present-including the world's leaders. 28) THE PROPHET ---------------- Writer: Warren Duff. Director: Robert Douglas. Guest Cast: Pat Hingle, Zina Bethume, Roger Perry, Richard O'Brien, Byron Keith, Dan Frazer, Ray Kellogg. Prophet Brother Avery's (Hingle) theatrical cultism is drawing larger audiences. The emotional fervor he creates is crowned by a "miraculous" feat-he begins to glow, an alien attribute all too familiar to David Vincent. Avery also happens to be preparing his congregations for the coming of "a host from the skies". 29) LABYRINTH --------------- Writer: Art Wallace. Director: Murray Golden. Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Sally Kellerman, James Callahan, John Zaremba, Ed Peck, Virginia Christine, E.J. Andre. Vincent secures the chest X-rays of an alien, which he takes to the head of a UFO research project at a university. 30) THE CAPTIVE ----------------- Writer: Laurence Heath. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: Dana Wynter, Fritz Weaver, Don Dubbins, Lawrence Dane, Peter Coe, K.L. Smith, Douglas Henderson, Robert Patten. An intruder is caught in the building housing the Communist delegation at the United Nations. His minor wounds are examined by Dr. Katherine Serret (Wynter) and she discovers he is not human. The delegation head, Peter Borke (Weaver), has heard of David Vincent's claims and requests his help. But when he arrives, the alien successfully convinces Borke that both he and Vincent are spies. 31) THE BELIEVERS ------------------- Writer: Barry Oringer. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Carol Lynley, Than Wyenn, Donald Davis, Kathleen Larkin, Rhys Williams, Anthony Eisley, Richard Karlan. With this episode The Invaders undergoes an important format change-David Vincent, alone up till now in his fight against the aliens, gains permanent allies. He has succeeded in organizing a small group of "believers" who offer financial help, their business and political connections, their active participation-indeed their lives if need be. NOTE: Kent Smith makes his first appearence as series regular Edgar Scoville in this episode. 32) THE RANSOM ---------------- Writer: Robert Collins. Director: Lewis Allen. Guest Cast: Alfred Ryder, Anthony Eisley, Laurence Naismith, Karen Black, Lawrence Montaigne, John Ragin, Christopher Held. Investigating a regeneration center, Vincent and his believers take an important alien leader (Ryder) Hostage. Soon they learn that their captive is so valuable that the extraterrestrials thraten massive reprisals against Earth if he is not released. 33) TASK FORCE ---------------- Writer: Warren Duff. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: Linden Chiles, Nancy Kovack, Martin Wolfson. The Invaders plot to take over the nation's news media, starting with powerful Mace publications. William Mace (Chiles), the outfit's patriarch, lends a grudging ear to David Vincent's warning of this plot when it becomes apparent that some outside force is disrupting his magazine empire. 34) THE POSSESSED ------------------ Writer: John W. Bloch. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: Michael Tolan, Michael Constantine, Kathrine Justice, William Smithers, Charles Bateman. Ted Willard (Tolan), an old college chum of Vincent's runs a private sanitarium where aliens have been using radio-implants to "program" human beings. 35) COUNTERATTACK ------------------- Writer: Laurence Heath. Director: Robert Douglas. Guest Cast: Anna Capri, Lin McCarthy, John Milford, Ken Lynch, Donald Davis, Warren Vanders, Don Chastain, Pamela Curran, Charles J. Stewart, Ross Elliot. Vincent and his group of "believers" open their first attack on the aliens from space. One of the members has calculated the radio navigational beam used by the Invaders to bring their saucers into Earth's atmosphere, and plans are made to jam the signals, causing the saucers to crash. The extraterrestrials move to block their plan, and Vincent is accused of murder. 36) THE PIT ------------ Writer: Jack Milner. Director: Lewis Allen. Guest Cast: Charles Aidman, Joanne Linville, Donald Harmon. When Prof. Julian Reed (Aidman) one of Vincent's "believers", claims he has proof of alien infiltration, he is declared legally insane and institutionalized at the Staten Research Center. 37) THE ORGANIZATION --------------------- Writer: Franklin Barton. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: J.D. Cannon, Chris Robinson. When aliens take an illegal shipment of narcotics destined for crime czar Peter Kalter (Cannon), the crime syndicate joins forces with Vincent's "believers" to rub out the extraterrestrials. 38) THE PEACEMAKER -------------------- Writer: David W. Rintels. Director: Robert Day. Guest Cast: James Daly, Phyllis Thaxter. General Sam Concannon (Daly) of the Western Hemisphere Command in Washington prefers peace talks to combat. He requests that Vincent arrange a high level meeting with alien leaders to discuss peaceful co-existance. 39) THE VISE -------------- Writers: Robert Sabaroff, William Blinn. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: Raymond St. Jacques, Roscoe Lee Browne, Janet MacLachlan. James Baxter (St. Jacques), a black serving as an investigator for a Senate subcommittee, is torn betwwen loyalty to his office and his race. Baxter is preparing to recommend the appointment of Arnold Warren (Browne) to an important post in the space program. David Vincent knows Warren is an alien, and has 24 hours to prove this to Baxter. The investigator's wife (MacLachlan), however, wants the appointment to go through because Arnold Warren is black. 40) THE MIRACLE ---------------- Writer: Robert Collins. Director: Robert Day. Guest Cast: Barbara Hershey. An alien courier is bitten by a rattlesnake and begins to incinerate before a bewildered onlooker, Beth Ferguson (Hershey). He thrusts a velvet pouch containing a crystal into her hands, murmurs, "She will come for this", and disappears at the foot of a religious statue in an outdoor shrine. David Vincent must convince the young girl that the Invaders are real, and that the event was no "miracle". 41) THE LIFE SEEKERS ---------------------- Writer: Laurence Heath. Director: Paul Wendkos. Guest Cast: Barry Morse, Diana Muldaur. The police seek two fugitives-aliens Keith (Morse) and Claire (Muldaur)-who wounded a policeman while speeding to a regeneration center. As the searchers close in, the aliens contact David Vincent and tells him they wish to stop the invasion and need his help. 42) THE PURSUED ----------------- Writer: Don Brinkley. Director: William Hale. Guest Cast: Suzanne Pleshette. In this semi-remake of "The Mutation", an alien woman (Pleshette) is given synthetic human emotions which she can't control. 43) INQUISITION ----------------- Writer: Barry Oringer. Director: Robert Glatzer. Guest Cast: Mark Richman, Susan Oliver. David Vincent and Edgar Scoville try to warn Senator Breeding that a top goverment official is an alien. He orders them from his office and as they clear the door an explosion kills him. Andrew Hatcher (Richman), a zealot working for the Attorney General, is determined to pin the murder on Vincent and his "fanatical" believers.