What Happened to The INVADERS?

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[@ardscorner]

It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Haha right :-)

[@paulsmith8664]

@@proto-geek248 wasn't he driving a "galaxy" 500?

[@johnmarx3919]

@proto-geek248 that's total crap - the aliens don't come from another GALAXY but from another star system - but I guess that sounded better to Quinn...

[@wolfhound45]

My favorite pop-culture channel on KZbin. Thank you for the labor of love Dan.

[@RogueWJL]

One of the best opening sequences of all time. Absolutely sets the mood. Very Very claustrophobic and you are never sure who to trust?

[@BarbarosaAlexander]

Am I the only one who sees "Gaaawwwwwd... Network Executives!" as a t-shirt?

[@Sm1ret]

This show scared me to death as a kid.

[@Illini58]

Hi Dan. I'm 66 yrs old remember watching the series when it came out. Love all your shows. Keep up the good work.

[@Illini58]

Dan. New to your Podcast. Did you ever do a review of the movie King Kong Escapes. As a kid I loved the Robot King Kong. I know it was a gut in a suit. Always wondered what happened to the Robot Suit. Have a great day

[@jimstandefer1799]

You can see a lot of these shows still on Me-TV on Saturday night

[@stevepederson6287]

I bought, built and painted that Aurora kit back in the late 70's. It sat on a shelf in my bedroom for a few years.

[@joelennis6338]

I can still recite the opening titles narrative 50 years later. I used to sneak out to the TV to watch the reruns at 11pm - past my bedtime on school nights. Thank you for covering this series!

[@roberttelarket4934]

You're in alot of trouble! I’m going to report you to your parents!

[@woodedape]

Roy Thinnes also starred in an awesome 1973 TV horror movie called The Norliss Tapes. The Norliss Tapes happens to be on KZbin for free streaming.

[@SpectreTTM]

Definitely a great show.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Absolutely a classic :-)

[@Beaut2013]

Hoping we get an episode on The Prisoner. The 1967-1968 British show. It's a guilty pleasure.

[@Beaut2013]

@@proto-geek248 It's hard for me to recommend it due to it's ending.

[@geminidreamno2]

One of my favorite Sci-Fi shows of my youth. I loved it!

[@maxsmodels]

I think the show was also popular because it fed on Cold War fears.

[@startrekstuntman]

You covered this pretty well Dan. It was great seeing my family in one of the clips. I could go on forever about this show and how close my Father and larry Cohen were but here's a little backround. My uncle Murray Hamilton, aka "The Mayor of Shark City" did an episode, my uncle John Randolph did an episode and my uncle Keefe Brassellle got Roy Thiness one of his first acting jobs on "The Reporter" When my Dad met Larry Cohen he was a Page-Boy at NBC and they became lifelong friends. I still have Larry's phone number in Beverly Hills and was very sad when he passed. I met Roy Thiness back in 1970 when my father's best friend Frank Marth, who was also on the show, took me to his house. He knew Frank's wife Hope Holiday. This planted the seed for me and eventually I became a stuntman on Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Voyager. I am so glad you covered this as it brought back so many memories and seeing Batman in the clip was awesome as my dad Remo Pisani did stunts on that show before becoming the bartender on Bonanza. I owe my whole sci fi collection to this show, The Invaders will always be very special to me and thanks for covering it Dan!

[@richardvinsen2385]

You’ve had quite the interesting life.

[@marksimmo8626]

Watched this on rerun in the 80's when i was a kid never forget this show invaders. Was so cool 😎

[@snelled]

One of the TV movies he did later in 1973 was The Norliss tapes parts of which still creep me out to this day.

[@jimbear62]

I think they explained the reason they dropped the straight finger flaw in the 2nd season . Apparently the aliens simply redesigned the artificial bodies on the newer invaders and fixed the pinky finger flaw. The aliens who have been on Earth longer still had straight fingers

[@Teelirious]

A few years ago I developed dupuytrens-a deformation of my pinkie fingers-and my mind IMMEDIATELY shot back 50+ years to this show and I thought, "Crap! I'm an Invader!"

[@fenech97]

I used to love the show. I love SF movies.

[@DayTwo-w8n]

This is a really good review of The Invaders. It was one of my all time favorites from the 1960s. Truly a fantastic sci-fi classic. As a young teenager the show kept glued to my seat. And the model kit of the flying saucer is still available through Atlantis Models.

[@Hunter-R-Hickey]

This was one of my all-time favorite shows as a kid. I rooted for David Vincent harder than any other TV character. It was so frustrating that the Invaders ALWAYS managed to cover their tracks no matter how close Vincent came to exposing them. I also never understood the addition of the "Believers" but kept watching the show anyway. Thanks for doing a report on this wonderful short-lived series. 😊

[@1TakoyakiStore]

It was Roy Thinnes' performance that not only helped inspire the feel of the X-Files but also landed him the role of Jeremiah Smith. Also the sound effect and the ray blast itself of the alien's ray guns are still my favorite in all of science fiction.

[@QuorkEx]

Doppelganger is a personal favourite film of mine, might be a good subject for a future video, perhaps?

[@FIREBRAND38]

7:44 Regarding the finger thing I can't remember the title of the specific episode but one of the Invaders tells Vincent that he's able to bend that finger. The implication being that they realized the flaw was being used to identify them and an effort was made to fix it. I haven't rewatched the DVD box set but I got this from a fan site: _There is a scene in the pilot episode 'Beachhead' where David Vincent grabs the hands of one of the aliens trying to find the pinky defect, then, the alien tells:_ _Fingers? We're not all like that, David. Some of us learn. We're always learning._

[@rayguile-rb6qi]

Carol Baker the actress who played the alien, who said that was in Journey to the Center of the Earth and in some episodes of the TV series House. Edit: I stand corrected. You're correct it was Diane Baker.

[@FIREBRAND38]

@@rayguile-rb6qi Thanks, but now that you mention it that was _Diane_ Baker who also played the Mother of the kidnapped girl in _Silence of the Lambs._

[@davannaleah]

Roy Thinnes was also in an episode of Fringe as a time traveller trying to save his wife.

[@transitengineer]

Back in the day, this was one of my all time favorite TV shows. Even in 2024, I still think it is one of the best science fiction TV shows of all time. So in 1998, when the new TV show "First Wave" aired, I told all my science fiction buddies that, it was like a re-make of the classic 1960's, TV show the "Invaders" had been reborn (smile...smile).

[@kbjerke]

I had *TOTALLY* forgotten about this series!! Again, I'll like it now, watchit later on the Big(ger) screen. Thanks, Dan!!! 👍👍

[@theironclads]

I respectfully disagree that the addition of the believers, who joined with David Vincent to fight the Invaders in the second season, had ruined the series. The entire first season saw David Vincent as the man all alone battling the Invaders each week. That storyline concept had worn thin for me, they needed to develop the premise of the series to avoid staying in a rut.

[@josephcontreras8930]

Maybe they had that guy fred friedman??? That practically ended tos star trek and space 1999...

[@jeffholt9437]

I agree but you should have said "had worn THINNES for me" 😂

[@edvela5492]

IDK, that "rut" worked for "The Fugitive" for YEARs! 😄

[@theironclads]

@@edvela5492 Entirely different premise on The Fugitive.

[@Number6_]

Agreed, he was making all these believers that you can't just ignore they exist, then continue to do the same episode every week. There has to be movement growth. They also added him architecting to finance his adventures. I'm sure there were other causes.

[@theequalizer9154]

My sister was a huge Roy Thinnes fan. We watched the first season of the Invaders, which was well done, and was creepy. The second season, even my sister agreed it wasn't very good and it was lacking compared to the 1st season. I'm so glad you did this, I always look forward to your videos! Hope you do Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, soon.

[@kevinshimwell7469]

I used to have a model of the INVADERS space ship....it was painted silver on the outside .You were able to take the top off to reveal the space ship's bridge which was completely red.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Nice :-) but the question is do you still have it

[@nyohaku]

I have mine. Missing the landing gear sadly.

[@PhilLaird]

I loved The Invaders very much. My favorite episode was named "The Saucer" that showed the inside of the saucer.

[@larryseago730]

Roy Thinnes was also a guest star on an episode of X-files, Talitha Cumi, where he played a character Jeremiah Smith a mysterious person with special abilities, an Alien Clone hybrid , who was in the resistance against the Syndicate, bad aliens I barely remembered the Invaders as a kid, I was 4 and 5 when it was on back in the 60's , but found it online and watched it through, then later saw Roy in a rerun of X-files, and thought that was cool they had him on in that genre again. neat stuff.

[@emilkarpo]

Growing up, in 1967 I was 14, I really liked the Invaders. 1967 was also the year my family got our first color TV, a big Philco, probably one of the last round tubes, but it had really nice color, not an RCA for sure but pretty good.

[@rickmoore5319]

One of my all time favorite TV series along with "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers" ( the Diana Rigg years). I always felt that the second season wasn't as strong but having purchased the series on DVD I found the second season to be actually pretty good especially the episodes with J.D. Cannon and the two parter with William Windom and Michael Rennie.

[@JMxx6204]

Holy moly I loved loved loved this show. Just brilliant.

[@petejp1]

Yes, thank you! Finally, someone talking about this excellent series from the 60's. I still watch it every week.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

It's an absolute classic that had a real impact on future Invasion show :-) Thanks for the support, Dan

[@GSD-hd1yh]

Saw the Invaders upon its original release in the UK back in the 60's. "Alien beings from a dying world. Their destination - Earth. Their purpose, to make it their world" Can still recite the opening lines now nearly 60 years on. Great show full of good ideas. Childhood back then was full of TV dealing with new, inventive ideas that fired your imagination. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Bewitched, Batman, I Dream of Jeannie, The Time Tunnel, Dr Who, Star Trek, The Invaders, The Saint, Lost in Space, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds, Stingray, Gilligans Island, Department S, The Champions, Mister Ed and many others

[@Kotv6Vfg1]

Thanks for covering "The Invaders", one of my all time favorite shows.

[@JosephDickersonUX]

Roy Thinnes is still with us, at age 86! He's still looking for people who have a deformed fourth finger.

[@Jessesmall]

The Invaders title font design is truly incredible. Makes me want to add "the" to every subject 😅 Awesome prop and poster design for this one 🎉🎉🎉

[@stephenperry3753]

Dan,U.K. here, I've just discovered your site and it's just great, thanks so much for doing justice to all the classics in TV and film, I loved this Invaders special, and shout out to the seriously underrated Roy Thinnes.Keep up the good work and I for one are spreading the word how good this channel is.Live long and prosper.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@isaganipalanca8803]

I have fond memories of this series which I watched during my childhood in Manila in the late Sixties! We had ALL the SF series including Star Trek, Thunderbirds, The Outer Limits, Stingray, Lost in Space - you name it!

[@docsavage8640]

Loved The Invaders "in color!" My wife and I used to watch it.

[@robertabrams91]

As a kid I would coz it up to our family's floor model t v and sit indian style and watch every episode of the show. loved it

[@maxsmodels]

I loved that show and recently built Atlantis repop of the old Aurora Invaders UFO saucer.

[@chrisjohnston4445]

Never watched the show as a kid, but was well aware of the spaceship from seeing the model kit at my local hobby shop. Binged the series a few years ago, and it's now my favorite Sci-Fi from the 60s!

[@johngulartie-hx8sv]

The creepiest theme music for a sci - fi TV show . It was genius

[@ldifalco2010]

Roy Thinnes also played an important and reoccurring character in "The X-Files". His role as Jeremiah Smith, an alien hybrid oddly enough, appeared in several of the alien invasion story arc episodes. I would bet that Thinnes was cast in that role as an homage to his role in the Invaders. The X-Files also did a similar homage for actor Darrin McGavin who starred in "The Night Stalker".

[@willpower8061]

The space ship is currently available (limited time) in certain model kit shops online.

[@dathyr1]

The Invaders TV series episodes are still being shown on METV early Saturday mornings. Some episodes are better than others - had allot of great actors in some of the episodes. I didn't know there were only 2 seasons. I think I remember watching this TV series live on TV when I was a young lad. Nice to know the history of "The Invaders" Take care.

[@davidsigalow7349]

I loved this show as an impressionable young fellow and bought the DVD set a few years ago. Even though it only ran two seasons, there are lots of episodes to watch, and they are still great.

[@Wolf-3.5.9]

Roy Thinnes also appeared in the X-Files as Jeremia Smith. This was clearely a tribute Roy as the David Vincent character.

[@meeshker]

Loved The Invaders. The whole family sat down to watch it

[@tavrafii]

Early 1970's I watched this in Iran (before the revolution). The Series was dubbed and one of my favourites. After the invent of internet, I looked everywhere for copies of the series and couldn't find it. Back in school in Iran, we practised keeping our pinkies separate to freak out the others. Good old days.

[@MAZE4]

The Invaders is an absolute classic.

[@renaissancepoet]

You've become my new favorite KZbin channel! I grew up watching all of these movies & TV shows! I just love love love taking these trips down memory lane!

[@SmokingJacket]

I bought that saucer model -- twice (the first one got lost). It was based on a famous UFO photo taken by a California highway patrol officer which,back then, was regarded as one of the most authentic saucer pics.

[@neilgodwin6531]

​@@proto-geek248"Back then was regarded as..." I think the qualification suggests that Smoking Jacket isn't saying it was real or truly authentic

[@SmokingJacket]

@@proto-geek248 At the time (60s & 70s) this photo was felt to be an actual pic of a saucer in part because of the exhaust stirring up dust on the ground.

[@NJEsperantist]

I had one of the Aurora models in my youth, but didn't know about the TV series until I started buying Starlog magazine.

[@dougwright7333]

I was like eight or nine years old and I would sit in front of the TV glued to every minute! I loved it! Also, 'The Fugitive'!! Great stuff there! 'The Immortal' was another that I loved. What a trip these shows were.

[@49525Bob]

@ 3:09 you finally explained why I'd never heard of this show. 1967 & 1968. Thousands of young men my age were activity involved 10,000 miles from US television.

[@garystotler3149]

Senior trip to Saigon? Glad you survived buddy.

[@xray86delta]

I always remembered from "The Invaders", which I watched as a kid, that the aliens disintegrated after they were killed, so he never had the proof he needed to show people they were being invaded!

[@unboxingwithmarty]

I remember this show. Sitting in front of the black and white TV just waiting for it to start. This was one of my favorites!

[@CyberScifi]

Shows like this need to come back!!

[@my2commonsense476]

I liked the whole believers concept, that he was forming a group to help in the fight, I think a third season would have been cool.

[@charles2241]

Isn't it true that at least 2-3 of the believers got killed off? The show could be savage at times.

[@chrisphillips4781]

Always remember that intro voice and music

[@petermcgill1315]

That night time desert scene was scary as!

[@jamesevans3492]

I Had The Aurora Invaders Spaceship Model, As A 6 Year Old Child Back In 1968, Wherein My Older Brother Painted It For Us, And We Played With It For Many Years, Before It Got Broke, And Tossed Away Tragically . . . ;-( The Invaders Scared Us As Little Children Back Then, To The Chagrin Of Out Father, Who Enjoyed Watching The Invaders With Us Back Then . . . . lol . . .

[@raymondmartin6737]

A lot of good actors and actresses in the show back in those days. 😊

[@jeffreyfisher3115]

No pulse, no heartbeat, don’t bleed? Gawwwd, network executives!

[@neonwind]

Thank you. I saw it as a kid in the UK. I still think of it in Black and White. The Theme Music is so Beautiful.

[@korbendallas71]

I used to watch the re runs of this as a kid in the 70s. First real exposure to UFO / Alien MIB stuff.

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Yeah, it really had a lot of influence on future shows :-)

[@LordRusty5]

And, thankfully, Roy Thinnes is still with us.

[@bradeichman9638]

I've got those comics. There were 3 of them. Plus they had two paperback novels and also 2 children story books. I bought them when I was a kid in 1966 or 67. And I still have them.

[@jarniwoop]

I read one of the paperbacks!

[@iancroft1447]

Love it Already & haven’t even seen it yet ! Thanx Dan !!

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Haha thanks so much :-)

[@codymartin77]

One of my all time favorites!

[@todleo01]

100K subscribers, Congratulations, Great job! You'll hit one million by the end of the year. Great content.

[@bigkahuna6277]

Dan I have a couple more TV shows that were cut off too short. SPACE ABOVE AND BEYOND, great series about marines in space fighting aliens and left us on a big cliffhanger. There is some very interesting trivia about this show. Also EARTH 2 I thought this was a very interesting show about colonists crashing on the right planet but in the wrong location and finding out they are not alone as they were told. Congrats again on 100K 👍

[@donchoq]

Space Above and Beyond? You mean "Melrose Space"?

[@robertwinther5423]

METV has The Invaders on Saturday nights

[@dragdragon23]

Roy Thinnes said in a interview, he was in France where they was showing the episodes on the big screen way back then. He got a rush as the whole audience was speaking every line along with the characters during the run. watching the title section of every episode always had the hairs stand on the back of my neck with goose pimples. it was so amazing showing the UFOs heading to earth with the eerie backup music, WOW! those shows back then had so much imagination, today programs are task to come close to being as good.

[@kjohnson9306]

I always wondered if the series "The First Wave" borrowed a lot from The Invaders.

[@starmnsixty1209]

Yep.

[@JohnSwindells-zm4sq]

Thanks Dan great video The Invaders still is one of my favourite shows of the 60s.I also think the music from the show is fantastic.

[@ronaldzeka1720]

Thanks for reviewing The Invaders. I have a first edition Invaders paperback published in 1967 by Pyramid. The book cover states “First in a thrilling new series based on the smash ABC-TV hit . . .” I wonder if the series ever made it to publication.

[@jamesgraham6796]

"The Saucer" was always one of my favorite episodes. Great Fun and memories.

[@RobSchofield]

@ 18:30 - Lynn Loring also starred with him in "Doppelganger" as his rather hostile wife.

[@scenariowest1001]

you are the man Dan! Thankyou for all these great episodes! Rock On Bro 👍🏻

[@JohnBernardin]

When I was a kid, THIS SHOW SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME! 🌚 I was afraid to watch it but I felt like I had to… I don’t know why… maybe so I could learn something, so I could save my family!

[@1marvelfan707]

Thanks for doing these dan, makes my night when a new episode aires, all the shows and movies i love, the silver button is almost here, wont be long till you get the gold😎

[@phantomcollector1976]

FANTASTIC SHOW

[@Coralita675]

Congratulations on the 100K, love your content and enthusiasm. I grew up on British sci-fi, any chance of a few "what happened to" UFO, Dr Who, Space 1999, or Thunderbirds. Don't forget "V" and the Twilight Zone, and Kolchak. Keep them coming thanks for keeping Sci-fi alive.

[@Bill23799]

The Universal Studios opening logo was changed in the film " Xanadu " to include the spaceship from the Invaders,

[@larrymcclure3842]

I loved the UFOs in that show. I also had one of the model kits of them.

[@richardbehappy5412]

I had the UFO model back in the day. Loved it.

[@Skeptic236]

Excellent review yet again. The Invaders was an excellent show with amazing production values, really interesting plot devices and a cast of stars. Dominic Frontiere's music was amazing...I particularly loved his Mexican incidental music in the episode "The Mutation". You neglected to mention the 3 paperbacks:: The Invaders, Night of the Trilobites and Dam of Death. I read Night of the Trilobites and it was a good read

[@BVRDSTR]

Awwwesome Channel Thxs from AZ 👍👍

[@stefanluciw8023]

"My God I Wish Ex Girlfriends Could Do That"....😂😂😂😂😂 Genuinely made me laugh out loud..... A Lot...

[@alfmeister13]

My favorite episode was called 'the mutation' with Suzanne Pleshette. This was a really scary show.

[@seemoretoys5944]

I still hold my tea cup with a straight pinky finger.

[@catmandude1800]

I was in grade school when this show was on. At recess, some off us would play "the Invaders", choosing sides with some "rock, paper, scissors" sort of thing. Everyone wanted to be aliens, because we got to die dramatically. Since we couldn't actually burn, we would freeze in place , go to our knees, and make a sort of "whoosh" sound as we fell over. Granted, the aliens didn't actually make that sound, but ... Hey, we were kids.

[@michaelstrong4956]

I've been recording this show on my DVR...the Invaders!

[@MoviesMusicMonsters]

Nice :-)

[@RonH-tf7gi]

Just watched an episode early Sunday morning on MeTv!!! It was a great show and the issue with the fingers of the aliens always confused me!!! Almost 100k subs!!

[@keithknechg3217]

Me tv has the best old crap tv shows ever.including voyage to the bottom of the sea.

[@bigkahuna6277]

Dan, Thanks for this great story of the Invaders. I was only able to see the first season in 1967 (IN B&W, at this time we did not own a color TV) . In 1968 I had joined the Air Force and did not get out till 1971. Sometime after that I did finally get a color TV and most likely saw the all the seasons in color on reruns. I now own the DVD set. I do remember seeing the Scott Bakula series with Roy Thinnes, that was so cool. Your KZbin channel is now my #1 channel to look forward too, you are doing a great job. Keep It Coming!