Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The acting in this movie is really good.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Not many TV series stand the test of time and when the UK horror channel started showing this series 40+ years after I first watched it, I was tempted not to watch it. I did not want to spoil my memories of a series that I dropped everything for to ensure I was in front of my TV every Saturday teatime. Only two other series had me hooked that way, Auf Weidersehn Pet & Boys From the Blackstuff. All these series's made sure I was glued to the TV once a week making sure never to miss an episode. I can say with confidence that all my fears were unfounded. This is a joy to watch again, I still love it, the staged fights, the music, the surprise guest appearances and a need for David Vincent to make as many people believe as possible. I am hugely grateful for a chance to see this again and am happy wallowing in my reminiscence of my childhood.

My 1st time seeing this classic series. Wow what a series! I'm hooked already! Just started to see this one. Roy Thinnes was the perfect casting for this role of "David Vincent" He has this weird but perfect look about him so naturally "normal" people look at him like he's crazy! Nice intro and the music is right on target! Great score by Dominic Frontiere. Excellent narration by Dick Wesson(A Quinn Martin production's common narrator)Nice guest stars also. The pilot episode had a young Diane Baker(who so looked like a young Debra Winger it's uncanny!) the late great J.D. Cannon, the late great Ellen Corby aka "Grandma Walton", the late great Vaughn Taylor and last but not least the late great Dabbs Greer.

The Invaders left such a deep impression on me that my first novel mirrored many of its key features. Although more of a homily to the genre than genuine fan fiction, the protagonist is called David Vincent and the plot revolves around his fight against what he believes to be an alien takeover of his office and his city, but the story differs from the TV series in that reader cannot help but question Vincent's sanity in the novel, something which the viewer was never really called upon to do in the TV Series, which is the only reason I haven't given it a ten. In a dreadful act of self-promotion, I will now link to the novel: http://tinyurl.com/davidvincent

The 42 one-hour episodes of the science fiction series "The Invaders" were originally broadcast on ABC from 1967-1968. That might seem like just one season but the series was a mid-season replacement, which premiered in January 1967. The season one DVD set includes only the 16 episodes produced to fill out the remainder of ABC's 1966-67 broadcast season. Like "The Prisoner" which also premiered in 1967, "The Invaders" has become a mega cult hit over the years and this DVD package is greatly anticipated. The series has its roots in 1950's paranoia science fiction, specifically those films ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "It Came From Outer Space", "Invasion From Mars") that were surrogates for the anti-Communist hysteria that swept the country during the early Eisenhower era. "The Invaders" took up the old theme of finding the enemy in our midst and was a worthy successor to the classic anti-Communist series "I Led Three Lives" (1953-1956). But the anti-Red phobia was no longer a draw by 1967 so the series confined itself to aliens from outer space and drew few parallels to those folks from behind the Iron Curtain. It did exploit the growing distrust of American business and government leaders by showing alien infiltration of these sectors. Ray Thinnes plays architect David Vincent who stumbles across a spacecraft of disembarking aliens one night. They are from a dying planet and have come to colonize the earth. Their strategy is to infiltrate society by taking the form of humans, but like the robots of "Westworld" they have a little problem with their hands (or in this case with a bent pinky finger). They also have no heartbeat as a consequence of having no heart. And when they die their bodies rapidly evaporate, leaving no trace for Vincent to prove his claims to the authorities. Vincent becomes a latter day Paul Revere, riding around trying to spread the alarm to a citizenry that dismiss him as a nut case. He is never able to bring physical proof of his claims to anyone important. The aliens do not kill him because his death might make his story more believable so they monitor his activities and do their best to thwart his various schemes. Each episode was structured as a four-act play with commercial breaks between acts and an epilogue. Quinn Martin regular William Conrad provided a narration. Conrad also did narration for "The Fugitive". During its run "The Invaders" became more and more like "The Fugitive" because the original concept offered the writers no where else to go. There were only so many ways Vincent could fail to warn people of the aliens and should he successfully convince the world of the invasion the series would end. So like Richard Kimble he becomes a man on the run who episodically meets up with new people each week. This takes away from the original idea of an alien invasion. The acting is generally first rate and the music lively and distinctive. Production design is standard Quinn Martin, the occasional sci-fi devices are meant to be taken seriously and are not the self-parody stuff of 1960's sci-fi series like "Lost In Space" and "The Time Tunnel". Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.