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I saw David Vincent firing a handgun in several episodes, sure it was a revolver, does anybody remember what kink of revolver it was? Greetings from Venezuela.
Wish I knew. Those are good questions.
You can buy them quite cheap now on Ebay.
For eg:
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Yes, good question. Unfortunately, i don't know.
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Hi, Carlos: A website called: "MONSTERS IN MOTION" might be of some help. But when I checked it out just now, I was not able to find the Season One "THE INVADERS" ray gun, or any Invaders-related material. It probably would have to involve a more intense search. I just hope they still have the props. Maybe they were all sold out with the recent revived interest in The Invaders and its DVD releases. But try "MONSTERS IN MOTION" anyway, in whatever ways you can. Hopefully, some "Invaders" props still may be there. Lindsay.
Hello again, Carlos: I don't know, but my guess is that it was either a real one, or a replica of a Smith & Wesson or Colt .38 caliber, six-shot snub-nose revolver. Lindsay.
Actually his name was Gene Roddenberry and when he died he was married to his second wife, Majel Barrett. She was an actress from his series from his series Star Trek and also played Deanna Troi's mother on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Does anyone know the location (State)that most of the show was shot in????
Hi Margo
Buy another batch - surely worth it? The more it's bought, the more justified the tirelss campaigning for its release! I'm not sure where you live - if in the U.S., you'll have already seen the 'extras' (extended pilot show, Roy Thinnes introductions and interviews) but if you're not and you haven't, that's the version to buy - assuming you either own or have access to a multi-region DVD player... though I understand the Region 4 version - Australia, New Zealand and (I believe) South America - has been re-released with both seasons together plus the U.S. 'extras' that weren't included in its original release.
Free online viewing, while legal (mostly?) and/or virtually unpreventable, merely cheats the parties involved in its production from their fair dues (I'm not sure to what extent that includes Roy Thinnes, but I imagine it must do).
A lot of the episodes were shot in California. The first episode, Beachhead, was filmed in a small Californian town called Temecula.
Another location not far from Temecula called the Vasquez Rocks area was used too on some episodes - Mutation, Saucer, Dark Outpost, Leeches etc. These were all the Desert scenes.
It was great this past Monday when syfy ran a mini marathon of 11 episodes of this great show....it would be nice if they had it on each evening or anytime for that matter...Quinn Martin for some reason seemed to capture something in all of us (at least me) that peaked our curiosity....that maybe just maybe there could be aliens amongst us..is that really that hard to beleive??? not really....great site....
Hi Phil. Thanks. I guess I'll buy another batch then. I didn't think about free online viewing cheating the production company. Thanks for that info.
Oh, drat, I didn't know SciFi was showing the The Invaders! I never watch the SciFi channel because it's too. But if I'd known that, I woulda watched it. I hope they repeat the marathon. Do you think they will?
Yeah, that show really gets one thinking about aliens among us. I mean, you could be standing in line at Walmart or someplace and the cashier could be one. You can tell when her forth finger won't bend. lol.
I too never realised they were showing it on the sci-fi channel. :o(
I recently watched the day-long Invaders (or should that be 'The Invaders'?) marathon on Syfy and noticed that the alien pistol weapon (episode: The Mutation) looks suspiciously like the weapon that Warren Stevens developed in the Outer Limits episode, 'Keeper of the Purple Twilight'.
Made me realize what a great show The Invader is. Has anyone seen the DVD's and are theyu of a decent quality?
Try HotMovieSale.com. That's where I ordered mine. They are excellent.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061265/
"The InVaDeRs" episode marathon on Sy Fy(formerly the Sci-Fi Channel) here in America(episodes 1-11 in original aired order) was GREAT last Monday! Look at the numbers at IMDB...up over 800% in popularity over last week!
Hi Ian
Margo is referring to the U.S. Sci-Fi channel, not the U.K.
Hi Chance
Good observation about the popularity ratings - I wonder just how popular the show would be if it got some prime airtime on the equivalent channels elsewhere (e.g. UK Sci-Fi)?
Personally I think it stands the test of time extremely well. Also worth noting that, between 1984 and 1985 when the show was first repeated in its entirety here in the UK on BBC2 midweek early evening (@6pm, as I recall), its viewing figures AND critical review ratings were far higher than when it was first aired in the late 1960s.
Last night I rewatched this show and noted the camera David Vincent was using at the start. His other devices had been Japanese reflex devices, a Miranda and possibly a Pentax. This was am Argus C-3, an American rangefinder from 1939-66, which takes interchangeable lenses. Unfortunately, there was never a lens that long made for the camera, and I wondered if it were not a cardboard tube painted black. The camera was obviously shot with a motor advance to allow for continuous shutter firing, yet was not fitted with one. I have several of this Argus and know that among its accessories there is no rapid advance system. The red plastic screen above the camera is apparently a frame finder for the telephoto lens, but makes no sense either, as telephoto lenses take a small frame finder for an ever smaller frame as the lens becomes longer. No flash? IR film? Maybe, but there were IR flashbulbs, yet no flash for the camera which he threw at the alien of the scuffle and then abandoned on leaving the building. I enjoyed, as usual, all the episodes of this dvd from Netflix but seriously wondered as these details. The telephoto lens for indoors shooting made no sense, and a 35-50mm would have been a more logical choice.
Wow, those are interesting statistics.
That's interesting too about the ratings being higher now than in the 1960's, Phil.
It seems strange that the ratings were higher with the repeats, than the original 1967/68 airing. Obviously the show gets better with age. lol.
Hi, Chance!! Thanks for the ratings report! I'm wondering if there is any way that we could e-mail Sy-Fy and ask, plead, demand, cry for, cadjole, push, prod, etc. them to continue these "Invaders" marathons with the next 11 episodes, then the next 11, and then the next and last 10 for the whole series. If the ratings went up by 800% on IMDB over just the week before, it sure would not make any sense for Sy-Fy to stop now!!! Lindsay.
That's a great idea. How do you email them?
I was surprised and knocked-out by the show's popularity in the UK in the mid-1980s.
I hesitate to suggest that it may have been "ahead of its time" in the 1960s, but it's a possibility. I was totally smitten with it as an 11-year-old when it was first aired, but I clearly recall that very few of my school pals were impressed - OK, the show may not have been aimed at that age group but I also recall it didn't get anything like the ratings that were anticipated over in the UK, which will almost certainly have accounted for it being dropped when my own ITV regional station Rediffusion was taken over by Thames TV (to the best of my memory, the last episode aired was The Captive - thankfully, other ITV regions didn't suffer the same fate and went on to broadcast the whole of Season 2).
Consequentially, the first time myself and the viewing population in that part of the country (London and much of south-east England) got the chance to see Seasons 1 and 2 in their entirety was in the mid-1980s on BBC2... though as I also recall, The Captive and Summit Meeting were omitted for some reason!
In any event, the U.S. viewing figures and ratings were inevitably the ones that mattered most, and the show’s popularity certainly fell quite sharply during Season 2 – hence the decision to scrap it altogether. Some scripts were allegedly drafted for half-a-dozen or so episodes of a third season, sadly in vain.
I've been trying to find any proof that I hadn't hallucinated on Mon Jan 18th when I had the great good fortune to run across the SyFy mini marathon of one of my all time favorite 60's series The Invaders.
The SyFy webpage has no trace of it that I could find - and i'm now looking for any way to help get this fun,sexy series rerun as a marathon or in weekly installments.
As a somewhat uncofortable Gay scifi horror geek, i must admit being affected by the show as a bossoming horror scifi fan but also as a blossoming gay male.
Now that I know where to find it - I hope to soon be able to afford to add both seasons of the show to my private stash!
daniel
As a long time classic tv fan, I have only recently stumbled onto "THE INVADERS" during a practically day-long marathon on the SCI-FI channel, and I found the show most amazing. My reason for the fanfiction inquiry is that I like writing stories about classic tv characters as well as classic movies characters to say the least. To me, "THE INVADERS" hangs the moon.
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Subject: Re: the show's ratings
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Thursday 28th January 2010 12:31 am U.K. Time
Subject: Re: Sy-Fy Marathon and the show's IMDB status this week
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