"The Invaders": A Television Classic.
My favourite Quinn Martin production (with "The Fugitive" being a close second). This was genuinely menacing at times and provided exceptional entertainment.
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- CreatorLarry CohenStarsRoy ThinnesKent SmithMax KlevenThe Aliens are here, posing as human, and not friendly. David Vincent has seen them land and now must evade them and convince others of their presence while not being put in the booby hatch.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsRoy ThinnesDiane BakerJ.D. CannonAn architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.The full length version is better.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRichard BenedictStarsRoy ThinnesJohn LarchCarol Eve RossenDavid Vincent discovers the aliens have taken over a sea lab for sinister purposes.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRoy ThinnesAntoinette BowerJason EversMajor Dan Keller works as a computer programmer for NORAD. The aliens need a window to bring in a great many saucers, so they can establish a base. They place one of their own as Dan Keller's new wife Laurie. She hypnotises Dan into replacing a crucial programming tape with one the aliens have prepared - one which will instruct NORAD's systems to ignore certain images.
- 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
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsRoy ThinnesBarbara BarrieRichard AndersonAn alien saucer crashes in the Utah foothills. Reports of its fiery demise draw David Vincent, even after flyovers by Air Force jets failed to locate the site of the mysterious fireball. Vincent soon discovers Gale Frazer, who has helped the craft's only survivor, Blake. Frazer, sick of war after serving in Vietnam, believes Blake's people are peaceful. David must gain her trust and convince her that Blake's mission is not peaceful. That is complicated by the arrival of Sawyer and Lavin, who have come to collect the box Blake's craft brought to Earth.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsRoy ThinnesDon GordonRussell JohnsonDavid's friend Charlie Gilman stands accused of murdering Fred Wilk, and district attorney Slater's determined to convict. But David knows Wilk's was an invader - and if necessary, he'll use that to help his defence. David sets a man to research Slater's background, and the man turns up evidence that part of the background was faked - and Slater's an invader as well.
- 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.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsRoy ThinnesDana WynterDon DubbinsWesley Sanders breaks into the embassy of a foreign power to steal troop movement data. But he fails to disarm the security and gets caught. Examining him, Dr. Serret notices some strange signs, and recalls reading about David Vincent, who might be able to answer her questions. David is interested, but clever misdirection allow Sanders and his allies to pit David and the United States interests against those of the foreign power. The aliens are willing to destroy the embassy to keep Sanders from talking, even knowing that this may precipitate an atomic war! David finds himself forced to help the aliens.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsRoy ThinnesCarol LynleyAnthony EisleyDavid Vincent has finally connected with several others who know the invaders are here, including industrialist Edgar Scoville. But immediately following a meeting, David and three of the Believers are ambushed. David is captured and his friends killed. But when he proves invulnerable to hypnosis, the aliens devise a new scheme to enlist David's unwitting aid in tracking down and murdering the rest of the Believers.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsRoy ThinnesMichael TolanWilliam SmithersDavid's friend Ted Willard has written to him for help, but the letter followed David around the country. He has finally arrived at Willard's clinic, only to discover that the doctor has suffered an accident and been under the psychiatric care of his brother Martin for several weeks. And Ted seems not to remember writing David at all! The answer to this mystery may rest with Adam Lane, and the special research he is doing at the Willard Clinic. Research that could pave the way for a nearly bloodless takeover of the Earth!
- DirectorRobert DouglasStarsRoy ThinnesLin McCarthyDonald DavisProfessor Eliot Kramer has completed work which will allow the Believers to create an automated jamming station that will cause navigational malfunctions aboard incoming saucers. But unfortunately, he used the university's computers to do the work, instead of Edgar Scoville's secure machines. That has led to his discovery by the aliens. In the scuffle, Kramer dies and David has to go on the run with the key data.David does the only thing he can; he sells out to the aliens, offering them details of the jamming process in exchange for an important place in the invaders new leadership of humanity.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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....
- 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.
- DirectorRobert DouglasStarsRoy ThinnesPat HingleZina BethuneBrother Avery has seen the light of a heavenly host. They are coming, and they will bring peace. At the end of each of his services, the red glow that surrounds him reveals the divinity that inspires him! But David Vincent knows that this glow actually signifies that Avery is an alien who needs to regenerate. David's trouble is figuring out how to prove it when Avery is surrounded at all times by fanatics - not all of whom are human. The key may lie in Now magazine writer Bill Shay, if David can trust him with the truth.
- 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.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsRoy ThinnesLinden ChilesNancy KovackDavid and the Believers are trying to get a powerful publisher, William Mace, on their side. They have competition in Eric Lund, who heads the task force seeking to purchase a controlling interest in Mace's publishing empire. If David and Edgar Scoville cannot persuade Mace to their cause, Lund will gain control - a disaster, since Lund is an alien. Just when they think they have Mace in their corner, he dies and his dissolute nephew Jeremy gains control. And Jeremy is very, very afraid of something. Could it have to do with the real cause of his uncle's death? Jeremy will need a crash course in the responsibilities of manhood in order to overcome the latest alien plot.
- DirectorRobert DayStarsRoy ThinnesPhyllis ThaxterLin McCarthyDavid Vincent and Archie Harmon manage to capture an alien, and bring him to General Concannon as proof. But another alien manages to slip him a suicide capsule, and soon there is nothing but ashes. Concannon sees the second alien blaze up, and is convinced. But he wants to meet with the alien leaders to see if a peaceful solution is possible. He sends David and several generals to an isolated farmhouse, and David arranges for several alien leaders to attend. But Concannon solves problems with violence, and he's going to solve this one by dropping a large bomb on the aliens, David, and his own men! The alien retaliation is likely to be ferocious, and the loss of life high, unless David can stop Concannon!
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsRoy ThinnesRaymond St. JacquesJanet MacLachlanDavid and Edgar intercept an alien data drop and recover the partially burned contents of a briefcase. A picture inside convinces them that Arnold Warren is an alien. Warren is seeking confirmation to a post supervising a space tracking project. He would be one of the few black men to hold such a high post. Standing between him and that goal is Jim Baxter, a Senate investigator who also happens to be black. Baxter's wife Celia wants black heroes for her son, so she's pressuring her husband to recommend Warren. Against that, David Vincent only has a wildly implausible story: that Warren is a man from outer space! Convincing Baxter to look further means appealing to his policeman's instincts.
- DirectorWilliam HaleStarsRoy ThinnesSuzanne PleshetteWill GeerAn alien woman contacts David hoping he can save her. She a mutant alien, who has uncontrolled emotions, and they want to kill her before she contacts Vincent. David is dubious, but he desperately wants her to testify at a special hearing.
- DirectorRobert GlatzerStarsRoy ThinnesPeter Mark RichmanSusan OliverIn Washington, a senator is killed by a bomb blast just after David and Edgar try unsuccessfully to convince him that a security advisor is an alien. A zealous and politically ambitious prosecuting attorney then plans to make a name for himself by indicting the members of the Believers for the murder, just as they are discovering that the aliens' grand plan to take over the earth and wipe out humanity is imminent.