I watched "The Spores" yesterday. It's a Season Two episode that features a ton of recognizable actors including Gene Hackman in one of his last TV roles before becoming a huge star in films. John Randolph does a fine turn as a policeman in this episode, along with a pre-MASH Wayne Rogers. The...
The series rode a fine line between reality and science fiction. By grounding the stories in the personal lives of those outsiders in each story, the theory was that adults who weren't particularly fans of science fiction would hang around for more of the realism.
The fact that it was modeled...
I loved the whole idea and realization of THE INVADERS. At the time, I was just at the point of really loving and appreciating the ABC Quinn Martin series THE FUGITIVE. I suppose its my status as a Capricorn that has me really liking the form and function of the Quinn Martin series, the whole...
You can almost consider THE INVADERS to be an anthology. Each week, David Vincent, in his quest, becomes involved in the lives of that week's guest stars, as they either help or hinder his search for proof of the alien invasion.
If you're at all familiar with THE FUGITIVE, or ROUTE 66, it's...
Sure - any two-parter needs to be seen in sequence. I just checked the end credits of some S1 episodes and there are no production numbers listed there. But I would suspect that episode three, "The Mutation", was likely the second episode produced due to its different end credit theme music...
I'm not sure why anyone would want or need an episode order other than the official and original air-date order. I suppose there could be a production order, but am unaware of any real discrepancies between the air-date and the production date. I guess one could look at the production numbers...