The Invaders (1967)

Name: The Invaders
Rating: 6.9

Rating: 6.9

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.

First Air Date: 1967-01-10

Last Air Date: 1968-03-26

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 43

Created By: Larry Cohen

Networks: ABC

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Top Cast

Roy Thinnes as David Vincent
Kent Smith as Stan Arthur
William Windom as Major Rick Graves
Diana Hyland as Sherri Vikor
William Woodson as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Michael Rennie as Vice Chancellor Pierre Alquist
Lin McCarthy as Col. Archie Harmon
Simon Scott as Maj. Pete Stanhope
Anthony Eisley as Bob Torin
Ray Kellogg as Guard

Seasons

None (1967)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Beachhead (1967-01-10)

An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
Ep. 2: The Experiment (1967-01-17)

David Vincent meets with an eminent astrophysicist who has proof that aliens are invading the planet.
Ep. 3: The Mutation (1967-01-24)

With the assistance of Vicki, a nightclub stripper, Vincent continues his search for an alien spacecraft.
Ep. 4: The Leeches (1967-01-31)

Vincent is called on by a renowned electronics expert who fears he may soon be abducted by alien invaders.
Ep. 5: Genesis (1967-02-07)

Vincent's search for aliens lead him to an underwater sea lab.
Ep. 6: Vikor (1967-02-14)

A dying telephone lineman's fantastic story leads Vincent to investigate a huge industrial complex owned by a famous war hero.
Ep. 7: Nightmare (1967-02-21)

Vincent travels to a small town to check a possible link between the aliens and an attack of carnivorous insects.
Ep. 8: Doomsday Minus One (1967-02-28)

Vincent is called upon to help avert possible alien infiltration at a government nuclear test site.
Ep. 9: Quantity: Unknown (1967-03-07)

While investigating the theft of a mysterious cylinder from the site of a plane crash, Vincent is captured and suspected of being an alien.
Ep. 10: The Innocent (1967-03-14)

The aliens take David Vincent up into their spaceship and then attempt to prove they have nothing but peaceful intentions by showing him what they've done to a desert valley. But all is not what it seems.
Ep. 11: The Ivy Curtain (1967-03-21)

Vincent discovers that a school is being used by the aliens as an indoctrination center.
Ep. 12: The Betrayed (1967-03-28)

Vincent discovers a mysterious computer tape that could offer proof of the alien invasion.
Ep. 13: Storm (1967-04-04)

Vincent is contacted by a meterologist to help investigate the suspicious nature of a hurricane along the Eastern U.S. coast.
Ep. 14: Panic (1967-04-11)

The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.
Ep. 15: Moonshot (1967-04-18)

Vincent helps a security official investigate the deaths of two lunar astronauts in a strange red fog.
Ep. 16: Wall of Crystal (1967-05-02)

David's brother, who also thinks he is crazy, is kidnapped by the aliens who intend to destroy the oxygen in our planet's air.
Ep. 17: The Condemned (1967-05-09)

The invaders frame Vincent for the death of an owner of an electronics plant who had made discoveries about the aliens.