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Originally Posted by JeffT.
 "How does a nightmare begin? For David Vincent, architect, returning home from a business trip, it begins at a few minutes past four on a lost Tuesday morning, looking for a shortcut which he never found. It began with a welcoming sign that gave hope of black coffee. It began with a closed, deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. In the weeks to come, David Vincent would go back to how it all began...many times!"--Opening narration from the premiere episode of THE INVADERS (ABC-TV entitled "Beachhead" (10/01/1967) teleplay by George Eckstein from a submitted script by Anthony Wilson and directed by Joseph Sargent. "Twenty-five years before THE X-FILES posited that aliens are already among us and up to no good. David Vincent began his lonely two-year quest to save the world. Alternately pursuer and pursued, openly unhappy about his role as a modern-day Paul Revere, and often pessimistic about his chances of success, Vincent proved a far more complex hero than 1960s television audiences were used to, and the perfect centerpiece of a SF series more downbeat and realistic than any that had preceded it. Using subterfuge to infiltrate human society, the aliens relied on humans' natural skepticism toward 'crackpots' like David Vincent to protect them from anyone who stumbled onto their existence and tried to blow the whistle on their invasion plan."--Stephen Bowie, SF Television Historian. "It's an oft-repeated statement that KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER served as the inspiration for THE X-FILES, but Chris Carter's cult tv series owes a lot to Larry Cohen's 1967-68 series THE INVADERS. Carter should be thankful for THE INVADERS' mood, atmosphere, persistent paranoia, and not least, the alien conspiracies that abound in Earth's society without the knowledge of the general public. Although he's credited with creating the concept of the series, what's not so well known is that Cohen actually had no participation in the making of the series. Cohen left THE INVADERS in executive producer Quinn Martin's capable hands and departed, occupying himself with other projects. Martin's series focused on the life-changing events for architect David Vincent (actor Roy Thinnes), as he stumbled across the starkly cold and sober realization that extraterrestrial aliens were among us, and were preparing for an invasion of our planet. THE INVADERS lasted for two seasons and detailed the adventures of Vincent as he wandered throughout the United States, trying to penetrate the aliens' agenda on Earth. Frequently, he tried convincing important people that he's not crazy and that THE INVADERS are real and alive on the planet. Eventually, a group of 'believers' joined him in the crusade including a billionaire who helped on the financial side of things. But THE INVADERS went off the air, as many series do, without a resolution."--Frank Garcia, SF Television Historian. "THE INVADERS was no kiddie SF outing like LOST IN SPACE. In fact, it was so unrelentingly serious, it made STAR TREK, which had a season's jump on THE INVADERS, look like CAPTAIN VIDEO. Where STAR TREK had fun amid its moralizing, THE INVADERS was a bleak, uncompromising examination of an obsessive hero trapped in a world-wide conspiracy. THE INVADERS was cancelled after two seasons. ABC-TV had a problem with it. It was too sophisticated for a SF show and too wild for the audience that enjoyed THE FUGITIVE."--Will Murray, Entertainment Media Writer and Interviewer, Author (DOC SAVAGE, THE SHADOW). THE INVADERS! Did someone here mention THE INVADERS? Ya! When are we going to see this superb, brilliant, exemplary, magnificent, fantastic, amazing and cool 1960s SF tv series masterpiece finally released on DVD? Does making a request in this particular discussion forum really help any? Anyhow you have my undying support. Bring on THE INVADERS starring ROY THINNES! "How does a nightmare end? Not here in the forgotten town of Kinney...perhaps in Bakersfield. Perhaps at some undiscovered beachhead in another state...or another continent. Perhaps for David Vincent it will never end!"--Closing narration from "Beachhead." Jeff T. |
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Originally Posted by Harry-N
I'll be quite interested in Season Two, whenever it gets here. I still remember the show fondly from my youth, though I have to admit that I remember very little of the Season Two stories.
I've seen "The Saucer", as it's one of the episodes that Goodtimes put out on VHS, and I remember the big event of the second season being the inclusion of a group of people who believed David Vincent (called "The Believers" with Kent Smith). But the week to week stories, I remember almost nothing about, yet I watched the series quite faithfully every Tuesday evening. So the eventual DVD release of these episodes will be a real treat. Harry |
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Originally Posted by mark79
Is that the time tunnel????(sorry to skip off track but your vater grabbed me there....I posted on that earlier 2-nite as I haven seen any posts.
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come see the reviews at
http://thedvdlounge.com/
and the Seinfeld Tour Bus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DztXpmMbj_0
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Originally Posted by Corey3rd
maybe they'll just clip out his cameo moment like they did with Mannix on Diagnosis Murder?
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Originally Posted by JeffT.
By the sound of things it seems very much like Scott went right ahead and purchased the Region 4 release of THE INVADERS - THE SECOND SEASON 7-disc!
I think I recall Scott asking advice on whether he should go ahead and do just that which obviously is what was done. This is interesting in that (I believe) Scott's introduction to THE INVADERS was via the Region 1 first season (1967) DVD release last May 27th, 2008. Speaking for myself I preferred to wait for the (correct) Region 1 set due on on January 27th, 2009 with all the bonus extras therein. Jeff T. |
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Originally Posted by Carabimero
Without giving anything away, does the show have a definite end in terms of plot resolution?
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Originally Posted by Carabimero
Without giving anything away, does the show have a definite end in terms of plot resolution?
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Originally Posted by Harry-N
Back then it was extremely uncommon for any series to have any kind of ending. When they did one for THE FUGITIVE (am I allowed to mention that?), many felt that it ruined the prospect for the series in rerun syndication, since most of the audience would know the ultimate outcome.
That was probably one of the first series to have a definitive ending, and it was quite unusual. THE INVADERS series was just summarily cancelled and dismissed, like virtually all of the other series of its day - without an ending. Harry |
