Absolutely Fantastic

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I can easily mention the series of "The Invaders" in the same breath as "Star Trek," "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits." "The Invaders" follows the attempts of an architect, David Vincent, who tries to convince a disbelieving world of the existence of aliens who have landed on earth to escape their dying planet. Each episode consists of four acts, plus an epilogue. It's similar to the previous show from the same producers, "The Fugitive." Watching each instalment, you just know that David Vincent is going to find it a challenge in convincing anyone about the alien invasion. Once in a while, he gains a few allies but most of these are either killed or silenced in some other way. It makes for a somewhat lonely existence when it is just one man, fighting his enemies alone. However, Vincent does manage to inconvenience the aliens on numerous occasions by thwarting their plans almost single-handed. Roy Thinnes as David Vincent is superb. His acting style is what I would call "naturalistic" but very credible. I disagree that his character comes across as being aloof or cold, David Vincent is simply exercising a good deal of caution in not trusting anyone easily and keeping his wits about him. He certainly displays compassion with those who have been victims of some kind, courtesy of the aliens. This is a genuinely gripping series with a slightly disturbing theme tune. Each episode offers something quite different and the writing and acting are marvellous. There are plenty of familiar faces in this one: William Windom, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, Murray Hamilton, Gene Hackman, James Daly, J.D Cannon, John Larch, Jack Lord, Jack Warden, Roddy McDowall, Burgess Meredith and others. It's a bit unfortunate that "The Invaders" only lasted two seasons. I reckon an additional season would have been great. Don't miss this one, it is one of the greats.

Made by Q M Productions that specialized in crime dramas, this series was a departure from that formula.Theme of the story was science fiction , but the format was very much like "The Fugitive" that was an enormous success for Q M Production.The story was rather morose in the beginning lacking in flare and trying to cover for that with good guest star's appearances, but it quickly got traction, and the stories became lot more interesting. Towards the end of the first season a plot was forming that David Vincent was starting to find allies in people who are in professions that can help him. There was more "science" angle to the story, and the show can be called a borderline science fiction in its content as this season ended.The show succeeded more as a drama in the style of "The Fugitive" where David Vincent was a fugitive from the invaders, and sometimes from the police, more than science fiction. In this Q M Production's pat formula for making drama got in the way, but it also succeeded by not letting the quality of the production go down. Ultimately, the show lacked focus, as it was made by people who knows nothing about the UFO or science fiction, compared to true science fiction like the Star Trek of the same era.True to Q M Production's formula, there were suits everywhere. People dressed immaculately in a suit filled the scene. But this also took away from the science fiction atmosphere as it was too solidly grounded to earth. One thing I can say is that they filled this show with great guest stars that would have been perfectly comfortable in the movies as well as the television show.It was a good show, but not a good science fiction series. It was a crime drama with criminals replaced with aliens. At the end I wished that the story turned like the ending of "The invasion of the body snatchers", but that was too much to ask for to the script writers of the drama.

The acting was good; the weekly plots banal. Th aliens are supposed to blend into the population disguised as humans...except for a little quirk where their pinky finger sticks out. Maybe if they held a teacup all the time, nobody would notice. Every week, the same thing...the aliens know who David Vincent is. They know that he's on to them. They know that of the 4 billion people on the planet, he poses their greatest threat. So..week after week, they rough him up, they capture him and let him get away, they play tricks on him....I know...why don't they just kill him? Every week, they kill one of Vincent's associates...they put them in a car and roll it down a hill, they electrocute them with a sort of taser, they even zap them. But not David Vincent. So...zero credibility....Next!

Just finished watching every episode from both of the series. It was highly enjoyable even if it started to get a tad repetitive towards the end.I thought Kent Smith was excellent as Edgar Scoble. Sadly a somewhat overlooked actor. David Vincent of course was perfectly cast and also a great actor. Very impressive how he underplayed the role.Many aspects of the series are really interesting and absorbing.Throughout watching it though, I kept wondering why every episode seemed to keep focusing on people getting in and out of cars all of the time and also usually involved one or more car chases. I would have instead enjoyed it a bit more if it focused on flying saucers or other alien technology more regularly and a bit more sci-fi.I always thought that the bits with cars could have been cut out as they were not in any way essential to the plot. I mean let's just get down to business. I just didn't need to watch a car pull up into a motel parking lot about 100 times in all, across the various episodes! In fact eventually I kept on hoping that the next episode would not have any cars in it.And then of course after watching all episodes, I finally learnt from several independent sources that the series was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Well that explains it all, the series would probably not have even been made without their financial backing. No wonder it seemed like a car show at times. I think perhaps they did overdo the product placement just a bit though! Still, I really like the series. Shame it was axed without a satisfactory ending.