This entry penned by the great William Blinn, who wrote Brian's Song, Starsky & Hutch, Roots episodes, and Purple Rain poses the question: are we black, white or simply "human"?
In it we have a black alien who accuses a black investigator of being a traitor to his "race".
Which race, he responds, black or human? Heady stuff for 1968, when you consider MLK, Jr. was killed later that same year. This episode like the Rev. King was an attempt to show us we should unite against our mutual enemy, in this case, invaders seeking to enslave and control us! Many wonderful black actors of the day appeared in this episode. Watch and see if you can spot them and recall their other roles of note.
3 Reviews
Connection to Syracuse?
tavasiloff22 November 2020
Known To Some As "The Only Invaders Show With Black People"
StuOz29 August 2016
Vincent gets involved with black people in his attempts to find "the invaders".
When thinking about reviewing this episode, at first I was not even going to mention the sudden appearance of black people, but it must be mentioned as this is what viewers respond to.
YouTube has put all the Invader episodes up, most of the shows got few comments under the videos, but when The Vise came up, comments all over the place! Some black people were bothered that this was the only "black episode" and that next week the series would go back to being "all white" again.
But anyway, let me move on from this now.
To me at least, The Vice is a rather routine episode of The Invaders, I can't see anything special about it to talk about here. You just follow the plot and enjoy it.
I would call The Vice good but not great.
When thinking about reviewing this episode, at first I was not even going to mention the sudden appearance of black people, but it must be mentioned as this is what viewers respond to.
YouTube has put all the Invader episodes up, most of the shows got few comments under the videos, but when The Vise came up, comments all over the place! Some black people were bothered that this was the only "black episode" and that next week the series would go back to being "all white" again.
But anyway, let me move on from this now.
To me at least, The Vice is a rather routine episode of The Invaders, I can't see anything special about it to talk about here. You just follow the plot and enjoy it.
I would call The Vice good but not great.
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