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The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

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3/7/09 at 8:49pm
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I recently Purchased Seasons 1 & 2 of the Invaders

This show was a replacement for the The Fugitive and does not come even close in the writing or stories.
Season 1 was actually pretty good, but 2 just got down right silly and unrealistic. How can a man be guarded by six armed aliens and still get away ?
Maybe if he was Chuck Norris.
I was really disappointed in season 2 and can easily see why the series was canceled and it's to bad, cause it could have been something really special.
I was waiting for David Vincent to run into Richard Kimble and find out Kimble was an alien.

Q & M must have been spending most of their time finishing up Fugitive and not enough on the Invaders.
How did the Fugitive have "Invaders" music in it when the show did not exist yet ??
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3/8/09 at 5:59am
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

Richard Kimble an alien. LOL
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

The original "Invaders" theme was composed by Dominic Frontiere for an OUTER LIMITS offshoot pilot called THE UNKNOWN. The producers also cut that pilot into the final season one episode of OUTER LIMITS called "The Forms Of Things Unknown."

When Dominic Frontiere was hired for THE INVADERS, he reused much of what he'd written for THE UNKNOWN and reworked it for THE INVADERS.

THE INVADERS and THE FUGITIVE aired in the same season, 1966-1967. THE INVADERS started in January while THE FUGITIVE was still airing its fourth season episodes.

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3/8/09 at 6:12pm
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

I tend to be a little kinder to season two episodes of The Invaders because we'll never see another show like it, so despite its faults, and even though I've only been a fan a short time, I have a soft spot for it.
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3/8/09 at 7:30pm
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

I don't mean to be to harsh on the show, but I guess I was expecting something a little more from it, kinda like the Fugitive.
I enjoyed them and will watch them again in about 8 months
I have to say, CBS/Paramount did a fine job on these releases,and
it would have been nice if they could have had closure on this show !

With no new Fugitives to watch the last few months I have had to watch other shows like Invaders and Perry Mason and some shows from the 1980s (God forgive me).
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

Yeah, the Fugitive debacle was in part what made me seek out The Invaders; that, and a recommendation from a friend on another board.
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

I just finished up watching Fugitive Season 1 tonight and am having withdraw symptons for more.
I am waiting for my desecrated S2V1 to come from Columbia House so I can then mail in the paperwork and get the replacement DVDs, so I have a long wait.
I also finished up Season 2 of Perry Mason tonight.

I am now watching the only 2 episodes of Richard Diamond I have !!
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3/8/09 at 11:59pm
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

I wonder if you're watching the same Richard Diamond DVD I have....got it a while back and for the longest time thought the first episode on there was the pilot...but it's not.
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3/9/09 at 7:17am
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

This DVD is put out by Passport Video with 2 episodes, "Picture of Fear" and
"The Chess Player" !
Man, the acting is horrible except for Janssen !
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3/9/09 at 7:27am
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

Alpha Video also has two "Richard Diamond" episodes repeating the "Picture of Fear" episode on the Passport release, but also offering "The Merry-Go-Round Case."

Famous TV Detectives (Peter Gunn / Burke's Law / Richard Diamond) - Television on DVD Starring Craig Stevens; Gene Nelson & David Jansen; Alpha Video : OLDIES.com

These same two episodes also appear on Mill Creek's "Best of TV Detectives."

Mill Creek Details Page

That's pretty much it for Richard Diamond on commercially available DVD.
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

Not to forget, The Incredible Hulk has a very similar story format.
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3/9/09 at 1:43pm
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I bought an alternate set of Harry Diamond a year back, along with Harry O and O'Hara. Quality is not perfect, but at least I can watch the shows.
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I bought an alternate set of Harry Diamond a year back, along with Harry O and O'Hara.

One too many 'Harrys'?. Don't tell me that you bought "Harry and the Hendersons" along with the above!
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One too many 'Harrys'?. Don't tell me that you bought "Harry and the Hendersons" along with the above!

You can never have too many "Harry's"!

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I have never seen an episode of Harry O or OHara, as I was about 9-10 years old at that time and vaguely remember Rockford Files cause it stayed on the air longer.
So many great TV shows I have never seen from the 1960s and 1970s !!
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I've been watching a series lately from Where I won't say but it's the Darrent Mcgavin Mike Hammer series, wow I wish they would release them on DVD, it's a hoot from a Noir perspective. It's a shame us classic TV Fans have to resort to such methods but it's not like the studios are given us much choice, look at CBS/Paramount and what they'll force me to do to watch the final seasons of Rawhide. They could have had my money.
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Yes, I have heard of that great show with Darren McGavin and would love to see it on DVD also !
Whats the deal with Rawhide.....which I have seen a few times ??
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

I think not enough people are buying the sets that don't keep coming out. It's a hard pill for fans who love such series to swallow, but that seems to be the case, unfortunately.
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That sure shouldn't be the case for the Fugitive then !
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

I actually think the Fugitive is a niche show, but it is such a good show, and a well-respected show, and maybe in a wierd way it got some publicity on DVD because of what the studio did. I'd rather all seasons be like season 1, of course, but at least all the fans can be proud of their part in effecting change.
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I pray they put the entire series out, cause I love watching them in the order they were broadcast on TV !
I've only seen the 2 part series finale twice and that was at least 10 years ago!
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Re: The Invaders Seasons 1 and 2 !!

carab,
I just finished watching the last episode of the Invaders series and I believe they forgot to clean the music up on this one, as it sounds all warped thoughout. Did you notice it ??

It appears they had every intention on bringing the show back for a 3rd season with Thinnes, Kent and Mark Richman joining them in the search.

I sure would like to know why it was dropped suddenly.....I now miss David Vincent and his little glowing friends.
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I don't know all that much about the hstory of The Invaders, and am saving the episodes, watching one a week to make them last. I have about ten to go.

Harry-N seems to be about as well-versed an Invaders fan as I've run across. His expertise far outstrips mine when it comes to The Invaders.
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It appears they had every intention on bringing the show back for a 3rd season with Thinnes, Kent and Mark Richman joining them in the search.

I sure would like to know why it was dropped suddenly.....I now miss David Vincent and his little glowing friends.

Having “been there”, though barely in my “double digit years” at the time, I’d say 1968 was a year of change in television when most of the sci-fi / fantasy series that were prevalent since 1964-1965 were swept out.

Far from just THE INVADERS, it was the year we also lost VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, LOST IN SPACE, BATMAN, and THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. STAR TREK TOS was also to be canceled at the time, but was saved by the now-legendary letter-writing campaign.

Both TREK and THE WILD WILD WEST only hung on for one more season after that. And, by 1970, there was just LAND OF THE GIANTS before it was all gone.

Opinions may vary on these show (Personally, I loved ‘em all), but the direction the networks were moving in was clear… and, in my opinion, not necessarily for the better.

THE INVADERS, unfortunately, was just a victim of that movement.

Too bad, because the addition of Edgar Scoville and his group really invigorated the series at a time when it could easily slipped into formula. There was even some nice continuity between episodes during that time – a “Believer’s” wife being killed in one episode and his being killed in the next, and the great and creepy Alfred Ryder recurring as the Alien Leader.

No series finales back then either. The FUGITIVE was a rare exception, and VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA had one of sorts – but, usually – like a “red-glowing Invader” – they just disappeared until eventual syndication.
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Harry-N seems to be about as well-versed an Invaders fan as I've run across. His expertise far outstrips mine when it comes to The Invaders.

JeffT. here is THE INVADERS expert. I was just a fan who watched intently back in 1967, and apparently less so in 1968. Though I'm a little bit older than JoeTor1, my memories are pretty clear on the early episodes (Season 1).

Something must have happened TV-schedule-wise for Season Two though, as I remember waiting anxiously through the summer that Richard Kimble's story was wrapped up, to see the next season of THE INVADERS.

Yet in viewing these second season episodes on DVD, my memory isn't jogged very much at having seen them before. I really liked some of the early Season Two episodes, but an event like actually seeing an Invader's natural form came as a complete surprise to me.

I have a vague recollection of having seen Edgar Scoville's conference room before, but not much else. (My memory tends to be very spatial in nature. I remember places I've been and their locations and spatial relationships rather well.)

I think I may have lost interest in THE INVADERS like apparently every one else back in 1968 - either that, or the slightly less-than-stellar storytelling in the later episodes, with no big conclusion made little impression on me.

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A fugitive moves on, through anguished tunnels of time, down dim streets, into dark corners. And each new day offers fear and frustration, tastes of honey and hemlock. But if there is a hazard, there is also hope. - Closing narration to THE FUGITIVE, "Death Is The Door Prize".
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3/11/09 at 4:43pm
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You are so right about the late 1960s, not only did the scifi shows get dropped, but the networks also started dropping the family sitcoms like Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Gomer Pyle among several others and brought in shows like All In the Family.
It is really sad cause many of these shows were still doing very well in the ratings and could have lasted a few more years.
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but the networks also started dropping the family sitcoms like Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Gomer Pyle among several others and brought in shows like All In the Family.
It is really sad cause many of these shows were still doing very well in the ratings and could have lasted a few more years.

I don't think it was so much a move to cancel "family" shows as it was to try to move away from "rural" programming (Fred Silverman was upset with CBS being nicknamed the "Country Broadcasting System"). CBS was afraid it was being perceived as a "hillbilly" network, so that's why they cancelled Mayberry RFD, Hee Haw, Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.

He also purged other shows that, like the rural shows, skewed towards "senior citizen" demographics and were viewed by only a small portion of the youth demographic (The Jim Nabors Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, Family Affair, and Hogan's Heroes).

Saying all these shows were still high in the ratings/very popular is a common overstatement. Mayberry was the 15th ranked show in the Neilsens when it was cancelled. Of the shows that CBS dropped, Hillbillies was the next higest-rated, at #33, but it had fallen 15 places since the previous season.
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3/25/09 at 7:01am
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I finally finished season 2 last night, watching the last half of the lackluster "Inquisition". This one really suffers in the sound department, especially where the music is concerned. Too bad really, as the other 42 episodes in the series are fine. (I'm sure this must have been brought up before, it's just that I barely recall its being mentioned).

Beginning with "Task Force" (ep. #33) and up to around "The Organization" ( #37) "The Invaders" really dragged for me as David Vincent's character becomes rather peripheral to the greater group of "believers". I thought I was going to have a hard time finishing the set but thankfully, beginning with "The Peacemaker" and for the remainder of the series we see the "The Invaders" revert back to its original style for the most part. Did anyone else find those five or so episodes more or less in the middle of the set to be rather dull, plodding affairs?

Looking forward to revisiting S1, which overall still holds the most interest for me.
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Did anyone else find those five or so episodes more or less in the middle of the set to be rather dull, plodding affairs?

The tone of the show does shift, but any episode that has Nancy Kovack ("Task Force") is *never* dull!

Given the show's premise sooner or later you had to come up with some concept of Vincent finding more people to help out on a constant basis because there are too many S1 episodes IMO where he's found a "believer" of sorts in a low level position that collectively you start to wonder why all of these people aren't starting to band together. The overall story arc if you will needed to have that kind of forward momentum or else there would have been a sense of too much predictability.
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The overall story arc if you will needed to have that kind of forward momentum or else there would have been a sense of too much predictability.

I agree that producer Alan Armer was on the right track with this. It's just that these episodes, despite their shift in focus are IMO poorly plotted and not terribly engaging. Perhaps if more of them had involved writer George Eckstein and director Paul Wendkos there would have been more that "forward momentum".

The opportunity to build more suspense and tension with additional believers was lost I feel with those 5-6 episodes and instead we are treated to very tepid and disjointed outings. Overall S2 was still quite good but my favorites lean heavily towards the beginning with "The Saucer", "The Trial" and "The Spores" and then again towards the close of the season with "The Peacemaker", "The Miracle" and "The Life Seekers".
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