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THE INVADERS
THE INVADERS first came to Earth in January 1967, when their vileness was exposed in America on ABC.
DAVID VINCENT (played immaculately by ROY THINNES) was minding his own business, near that infamous diner, when he spots an alien craft. He reports it and is dismissed as a saddo. His business partner thinks Dave is off his box, and consequently pays for that presumption with his own life. It's then that Dave becomes a man possessed, and so begins in earnest one of the classic sci-fi series.
THE INVADERS were back on our TV screens with a story for the '90s, but I'm always of the opinion to leave a good thing alone, unless you can actually run it in a seamless way from where the programme left off.
Sure, there were some daft ideas, but that's what good sci-fi is all about. A bit of hokum, some credibility, mixed in with entertaining storylines. Sci-fi shouldn't really just be for an audience of rocket scientists. Obviously, an alien having the capability of reaching Earth, and changing from reptilian form into human form, would be able to fix that dodgy finger problem!
THE INVADERS included a great list of star names, so either the money was great, or they thought the show was pretty credible. MICHAEL RENNIE, GENE HACKMAN, BARBARA HERSHEY, JACK LORD, BARRY MORSE, and ED ASNER, were among the 'names' to appear in the series.
KENT SMITH and DANA WYNTER were two of the regulars on VINCENT's side, while the killer neck discs, vapourising, red-glowing aliens, and that haunting theme music by DOMINIC FRONTIERE, were key components in making the show as effectively scary as it was.
The show changed its format in the second series, and viewing figures plummeted. Thus there was no conclusion, but, as with THE PRISONER, this was probably the best ending. A fight between good and evil is something which, it appears, the human race can never resolve.
- Paul Rance.
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