Talk:The Invaders

UK Missing Episodes

Is it worth noting which episodes were never shown on Legend (previously Horror channel) in the UK. Even on the rerun. I been meaning to query this with you guys. Does anyone know why some episodes were not shown? I can find out which ones are not shown and place them here - perhaps also explaining why i believe this. I think it was 3 eps in both series 1 and 2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BeerBoreUK (talk • contribs) 19:59, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

A couple questions

Is the miniseries a remake or a continuation? Also, does anyone know how long each episode runs? I'm trying to fix The Invaders' entry in Lengths of science fiction movie and television series. --Arctic Gnome 16:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

What miniseries? Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Spin-off Novels

A number of novels based on David Vincent were wrtitten including "the Halo Highway" and "Night of the Trilobites". Should they be mentioned in the main article? Zagubov 23:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't see a reason they shouldn't be. Many other shows have similar items on their pages.--Возрождение (talk) 04:58, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Fire kills the aliens ?

As I remember, the way of killing these aliens was by touching them with fire - from a match or lighter. Can anyone confirm this? If so, it should be added to the article 89.40.223.31 11:30, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

There was many different ways to kill them but afterwards they would vaporize as if they burned.--Возрождение (talk) 04:56, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I seem to remember Gene Hackman's character was killed by fire. It seems they were sometimes 'vapourised' by injuries whether small or fatal. --Nibi (talk) 00:53, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

They were killed by shooting them and any other way a human could be killed because they had adopted human bodies. But when they died they evaporated in a red glow. If David Vincent had carried a gun he could have shot anyone with the alien pinky in front of witnesses and saved himself a lot of trouble. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

earlier version

wasn't there an earlier version / series with a similar title and theme about 1960? Featured men in black with a long middle finger.....

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was no consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 08:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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This page should be moved to The Invaders (TV series) with The Invaders redirected to The Invaders (disambiguation)

• Comment if moved, The Invaders (disambiguation) should be moved to The Invaders. Vegaswikian 19:41, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: There's no rationale here. Is there any reason to think that this isn't the primary topic for the title? Dekimasuよ! 06:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Ita a very generic name and at least 3 of the topics listed on the disambig page were created before this TV show. -- 69.182.73.240 17:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose; Being the first to use the name is irrelevant, and the TV show appears to be the most notable of all the articles on the disambiguation page. Masaruemoto 03:53, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support and merge the dab page into Invasion (disambiguation), with redirect pointed there. 132.205.99.122 19:45, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose both the move and the merge. The TV series is sufficiently notable to keep the unqualified title. See Talk:Invasion (disambiguation) for comments on the merge. Andrewa 17:24, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Tales of government conspiracy

Roy Thinnes supposedly claimed (I acknowledge the possibility that a tabloid journalist distorted his words) that the cancellation of THE INVADERS was really an act of suppression by the government, because the show was too close to the truth. Anyone have some recollection/evidence of this claim, because I find it very interesting and it should be included in the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.242.119.197 (talk) 21:49, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Without regard to conspiracy theories (I've heard this too), exactly why was the show cancelled? Was it cancelled? What were the ratings? Shouldn't this information be in the article? It seems like the story was just left hanging in the last episode. What happened? --64.149.36.27 (talk) 04:11, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

It was cancelled because it sucked. It ran out of ideas. You can't produce the same show week after week and expect people to stay interested. The same show: David Vincent comes around because he's heard or read something; people resent him and think he's a nut but one person believes him, there are aliens around who try to get them, they destroy the aliens and get away. Not to mention that the continuing stupidity of the David Vincent character wears on the nerves. Vincent should have been the first to apply the "Trust No One" axiom, and the show would have been a landmark. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Influence on The X-Files?

Although not listed as an influence or inspiration for the 1990's series The X-Files by its creator Chris Carter, it seems obvious to me that X-Files was derivative from this series. Besides the common main themes of alien invasion and conspiracy, note that Roy Thinnes guest-starred 3 times in the X-Files and, (much like David Vincent before him) Fox Mulder "travels from place to place, trying to foil the aliens' plots and warn" skeptics...etc. Hiroll (talk) 03:10, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Humor

The series was not without dry humor. One episode, can't remember which, has one alien of a pair waiting ask another alien, "Where are you going?" to which the response was "A human would not ask." 74.95.195.137 (talk) 06:18, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Recommended music to watch the show by: Can't You Hear My Heartbeat by Herman's Hermits (1965), "Let It Bleed" by the Rolling Stones and "Crook His Little Finger" by Anne Heywood (1965). If humor in the show was in any way notable, it would be in the article. That is dry humor indeed, and I'm not sure it was intended as humor. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Alien Technology

I find this sentence ambiguous: "It was a principle of the production crew to not show them with set and prop designs and control panels that were utterly alien from the conventional human ones ...".

Does that mean they only show control that are alien looking, or not show alien looking controls? Roygbiv666 (talk) 17:43, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

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Their appearance

You get to see the Invaders, or at least their larvae, in the episode The Spores, but this is not mentioned in the text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.91.82.48 (talk) 16:21, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Other series of the same kind

Hello,

I'm looking for the name of a series of the same kind that was on TV in the early seventies. In this series, when they shoot at an alien it disappeared in black smoke. I guess it's easy for a connoisseur to identify this series. Thank you.

--AXRL (talk) 13:39, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

1995 remake?

Davymickymikepeter (talk) 21:10, 19 July 2019 (UTC)Concerning the 1995 mini-series, is it possible this isn't a connection to the series? Fox described it as a remake. If it is, and it certainly looks it, the invaders looking and acting nothing like the ones in the old show, then Thinnes is playing "David Vincent II" in it. Like Dench plays "M2" in the Craig 007 movies. Aside from the aliens being nothing like the originals, a cop has a line in the 1995 remake saying Vincent has been saying "the Martians are coming" for 20 years. That would mean he began chasing the invaders in 1975. But the original Vincent began chasing them in 1967. That's a difference of 8 years. An actor can play the same character in remakes; Chaney Jr. as the Frankenstein monster in a TALES OF TOMMORROW; John Carradine as Dracula in a MATINEE THEATRE; several actors/characters in the "series 2" Godzilla films; Rathbone as Holmes in SUSPENSE; Karloff as Frankenstein's monster at the conclusion of FRANKENSTEIN 1970; Sean Connery isn't playing the same Bond in NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN as he played in the official 007 films, NEVER being a THUNDERBALL remake; in the Spanish film COUNT DRACULA, Chris Lee doesn't play the Hammer Dracula; the list is endless. Anyone reading this agree with me that Roy is playing a "different" Vincent in the 1995 mini-series? An "Earth-2" version if you will? Possibly this is why the 1995 mini-series isn't out on DVD, yet the set is listed as being "complete". Am I allowed to mention this on the page? Any reaction from Wikipedia editors or readers is appreciated. Thank you. Davymickymikepeter.Davymickymikepeter (talk) 21:10, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Incinerate Vs. Vaporize

The series consistently uses the verb "incinerate" to describe the alien death process, whereas this article most often uses the verb "vaporize". (Of course, the aliens are also capable of incinerating humans and objects.) Not that I would ever split hairs over such a thing. Mark D Hardy (talk) 01:40, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Mysterious disappearance of the 30-ft dia. saucer model?

In this interview during a UFO meeting, 5 October 1986 in Quebec, Canada, late French ufologist and science-fiction writer Jimmy Guieu told a weird story about the loss of the full scale model of the flying saucer used in the TV show:

It was a big model that was I think about 10 meters [~30 feet] in diameter or so. It was unable to really fly of course, some special effects gave this impression in the show. When the shooting was over the technical crew left, saying they would come back to load the saucer model later on. The weather was very nice then, but the sky suddenly darkened right over the location of the model, which was in the desert and not in the heart of a city. Dark clouds rolled in and a torrential rain began to fall, for ten minutes. It lasted a short time and when the sun shone again there were no more clouds, but there was no more saucer either. It was gone.

Henri René Guieu, Quebec UFO meeting, 5 October 1986.[1]

Of course, it's now too late for people to make fresh investigations about this alleged event that was said to have occurred in the late 1960s, and one source is not enough to be mentioned in the main article, but I wonder if people know of other independent sources about this claim.