THE INVADERS 1967 Unseen Pilot with Documentary Compilation Season 1

Roy Thinnes stars as architect David Vincent, who accidentally learns of a secret alien invasion already underway and thereafter travels from place to place attempting to foil the aliens’ plots and warn a skeptical populace of the danger. A plot format of a man-on-the-run and of a lone man attempting to warn the human public about alien infiltration, are shared from the The Fugitive (1963 TV series) and the Invasion of the Body Snatchers respectively. Other plot elements include Vincent’s grim and lonely determination to find “tangible proof of the invaders’ existence” despite having become a “quasi-famous object of public ridicule”; the aliens success in hiding their plots, undermining Vincent’s credibility and killing off those who also discover them in ways disguised as a natural death; the constant tension over whether the individuals Vincent comes across are humans or aliens. As the series progresses, Vincent is able to convince a small number of people to help him fight the aliens.
In many episodes, at least one individual, often a key figure such as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer (in the episode “The Innocent”), a police officer (in “Genesis” and “The Spores”), a U.S. Army major (“Doomsday Minus One”), or a NASA official (“Moonshot”) would become aware of the alien threat and survive the episode in which he or she was introduced. In “The Leeches”, a millionaire (Arthur Hill) survives an alien abduction after being rescued by Vincent, while in “Quantity: Unknown” a scientist (Susan Strasberg) is convinced of alien technology. In “The Saucer”, guest stars Anne Francis and Charles Drake witness an alien saucer’s landing. In the second season, larger groups of surviving witnesses were featured, as in episodes “Dark Outpost” and “The Pursued”, and three scientists in “Labyrinth”. Most significant of these is millionaire industrialist Edgar Scoville (Kent Smith), who became a semiregular character as of December 1967, heading a small but influential group from the episode “The Believers”. Later episodes had the military involved (“The Peacemaker”), as Vincent’s claims were now clearly being taken more seriously. In “The Miracle” (guest star Barbara Hershey), after an alien encounter, Vincent manages to retain a piece of alien technology both as evidence and for examination by both his group and the authorities.

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