QM's The Invaders: StuOz Top 27 Episodes
Link to a video I made about The Invaders:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W0354XS1SIA
I personally regard Outer Limits (1963) as a sister series to The Invaders.
43 Invader episodes were made, 28 were outstanding and 15 were reasonably entertaining. No stinkers.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W0354XS1SIA
I personally regard Outer Limits (1963) as a sister series to The Invaders.
43 Invader episodes were made, 28 were outstanding and 15 were reasonably entertaining. No stinkers.
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- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesPeter Mark RichmanDiana Van der VlisDavid Vincent meets with the president of an electronics company, a man who believes aliens have kidnapped various heads of their fields and are planning to kidnap him as well.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesJack LordAlfred RyderDavid Vincent, using an assumed name, gets a job as a chauffeur in order to infiltrate a manufacturing plant and find proof of alien activity.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsRoy ThinnesNan MartinHarry TownesA series of mischances leads an alien to kill a human doctor, and get arrested in the small town of Carterville, Wyoming. His alien friends bungle his rescue, and the entire town sees him go up in red flames! Now, the entire town understands that aliens have come to Earth. And the aliens are desperate to keep that knowledge from spreading - so desperate that when David Vincent finds out what they plan to do, he desperately tries to strike a deal with them to stop it. If he fails, the town of Carterville may find itself under water - a lot of water.
- DirectorGeorge McCowanStarsRoy ThinnesAndrew PrineDawn WellsDavid sneaks aboard a saucer, and is knocked unconscious by the force of takeoff. When he awakens, he finds he's not alone; there's a professor and several students, and they're heading towards the invaders medical base. Vincent steals an important piece of machinery, and goes on the run....
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsRoy ThinnesAlfred RyderKaren BlackDavid and Bob intercept an alien en route to a regeneration station, and discover that he is a leader, a powerful figure in the alien hierarchy, but without regeneration he will not last the length of a trip to Washington. His people manage to surround David and trap him in a small cabin, the home of poet Cyrus Stone and his niece Claudia. Claudia resents that David has dragged her family into this, even after she sees an alien die the fiery death of his kind when on Earth. David tries to figure out how to get word to a nearby military base, while the aliens strive to recover their leader.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsRoy ThinnesRoddy McDowallLaurence NaismithDavid Vincent meets with an eminent astrophysicist who has proof that aliens are invading the planet.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesEdward AndrewsLin McCarthyIn a border town, David Vincent meets a stripper who claims to have seen something strange in the desert.
- DirectorRichard BenedictStarsRoy ThinnesJohn LarchCarol Eve RossenDavid Vincent discovers the aliens have taken over a sea lab for sinister purposes.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesKathleen WiddoesRobert EmhardtDavid Vincent visits a small Kansas town that is resentful of strangers and uncovers an alien plot to control locusts and other insects.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesWilliam WindomAndrew DugganThe aliens plan to explode an anti-matter bomb in Utah during a nuclear test.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsRoy ThinnesJames WhitmoreWilliam TalmanA strange, metallic cylinder is stored at a laboratory, waiting to be tested. It belongs to the aliens, and they are willing to kill in order to get it back.
- DirectorSutton RoleyStarsRoy ThinnesWilliam SmithersPatricia SmithThe 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.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsRoy ThinnesJack WardenSusan OliverA school in New Mexico is really a front for an alien indoctrination center. The head of the school offers a pilot a lot of money to smuggle in its otherworldly students.
- DirectorJohn Meredyth LucasStarsRoy ThinnesLaura DevonNancy WickwireDavid Vincent steals a computer tape in order to expose alien activity on Houston oil fields.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesJoseph CampanellaBarBara LunaA mysterious hurricane strikes, sparing only a small Florida town. That draws David's attention, and he soon discovers a nest of aliens there, determined to use the weather against humanity. Their boat creates and controls the storm, but what controls the boat? David must find that control center before the aliens use their storm to wreck the entire eastern seaboard. He's hampered by an injury, and a clever alien who turns his benefactor Father Corelli against him.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsRoy ThinnesRobert Walker Jr.Lynn LoringNick Baxter's an invader, and his touch proves lethal: he's developed an illness which promises a slow death for him, but a very rapid death by freezing for any organism he touches. David tracks him down, but others of his kind are also interested in finding him. Baxter wants to reach a ship so he can get medical help, but he's convinced those hunting him want him dead. David's success may depend on convincing someone who's turned his back on humanity, to find in himself the desire to help others.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesPeter GravesJoanne LinvilleDavid is drawn into the space program by a series of coincidences that convince him of alien involvement. But why do the aliens want to put one of their own on a manned mission? Surely they can get to space whenever they need to. The answer may lie in the meaning of some photographs taken by an unmanned probe. Photographs that reveal some disturbingly regular objects on the moon's surface.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsRoy ThinnesLinden ChilesJulie SommarsNewly married Bill and his new bride lose control of the car. They run a truck off the road, and its driver staggers from the vehicle, falls, glows red and vanishes! Then the young couple suffocates. It's all part of a scheme run by the alien Taugus, and it draws in David's brother Bob, Bob's wife Grace, and crusading newsman Theodore Booth. David's finally managed to convince his brother and someone able to get the word out that he may be telling the truth about the aliens - but is it just in time to see the entire human population choking for air on their own planet?
- DirectorRichard BenedictStarsRoy ThinnesRalph BellamyMarlyn MasonPressed for cash, Morgan Tate leased a large portion of his plant to Lewis Dunn a year earlier. Now, Tate has discovered that Dunn is not what he appears to be, and that the plant is now a front for a communications center. Tate has managed to seize and hide a file named "Command Roster One" and the aliens are desperate to recover it. They bring in Tate's estranged daughter Carol to pressure the man, but with David Vincent's help, Tate may manage to save his daughter and recover the hidden file. If he can, it would be a terrible setback for the invaders.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsRoy ThinnesAnne FrancisCharles DrakeJohn Carter has summoned the local sheriff to a site where he claims saucers have landed, not once but several times. Each time, the saucers are gone when the sheriff finally arrives. Now David Vincent has come, lured by Carter's claim that he can predict the time of the next landing. When Carter's prediction proves true, he and David Vincent manage to commandeer the saucer - at last, proof of the invasion! But one alien escapes to warn his people. And further complications arise from a couple fleeing the country, whose plane the saucer inadvertently downed.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsRoy ThinnesShirley KnightKevin McCarthyPaul Cook's an electronics expert with an aversion to people. Beings from an alien planet would also like a look at the defences, and they've a planto take advantage of Cook's reclusiveness. If David Vincent can't stop the invaders, they'll get the information, and use it to advance their planned invasion
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsRoy ThinnesGene HackmanMark MillerTom Jessup's an invader, who's transporting a briefcase containing something vital: spores. These organisms will grow into aliens able to withstand Earth's atmosphere. As Jessup desperately tries to find the briefcase, the spores inside of it continue to develop.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRoy ThinnesWilliam WindomEduard FranzIndustrialist Michael Tressider all but kidnaps David from a job site. Tressider has learned of an upcoming summit that many world leaders will attend. They'll discuss rising levels of radiation that threaten all life on earth. There is only one place where the radiation is normal - the site of the summit, Premier Thor Halvorsen's country. David soon finds himself up to his neck in invaders, including one who informs him what the real purpose of the summit is - and promises to help him!
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRoy ThinnesWilliam WindomEduard FranzDavid's learned from an alien that the purpose of the summit's to murder all of Earth's leaders. But he can't convince Thor Halvorsen. Halvorsen knows the aliens are here, but believes their mission'speaceful. They've offered him a solution to help stop the rising radiation levels. David and Michael Tressider steal an alien timetable which details their plans once the summit attendees are dead - but the aliens want it back, and there are quite a few of them between David and Halvorsen.
- DirectorMurray GoldenStarsRoy ThinnesSally KellermanJames T. CallahanDavid manages to subdue an alien and takes him to a doctor. The x-rays reveal that internally he's not human. This is proof that David can take to a project that investigates the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. He offers the x-rays to the project director, Dr Crowell, but the wife of the doctor who took them recants, claiming the x-rays David offered are fakes. It's clear someone's pressured her, and that someone close to the project, Crowell's daughter, is acting strangely suspicious.