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Name: cleveland
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 24th March 3:00 pm U.K. Time

Greetings!! I'm in Cleveland Ohio. I am a die-hard fan of "The Invaders", "The outer limits" and "Voyage to the bottom of the sea" as well as of Roy Thinnes and the music composer, Dominic Frontiere, who created the music themes for "The Invaders" and the old 1960's "The my top dog." I am so glad that there are still people out there, and in "internetland", that feel the way I do - being likers of the old science fiction of the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. I am not computer literate, so I am having friends send this e-mail on their computer! It puzzles and bothers me why the television broadcasting industry does not release and sell episodes of "The Invaders" to the public like they do with "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in", "I love Lucy" and "The Carol Burnett Show." I also keep asking myself and others the question: WHAT HAVE KOJAK, QUINCY AND STARKY AND HUTCH GOT THAT DAVID VINCENT AIN'T GO??!!! Also, on some cable stations, they still have the old "Leave it to Beaver", "Green Acres", "Beverly Hillbillies", "I dream of Jeannie", etc.... BUT THEY WILL NOT MAKE A SINGLE TIME SLOT FOR "THE INVADERS"?? I even noticed "Leave it to Beaver" being on 6 times in a row, back-to-back, I feel like writing letters of protest to these stations and asking (if not demanding) a little equal time for "The Invaders"! I also wonder if Roy Thinnes ever received an academy award as his role as "David Vincent"?

I am interested in locating Roy Thinnes and "The Invaders" fan clubs and talking to people like interests.

Anyway, Thanks for your beautiful "The Invaders" website, and I hope your sites gets plenty of "hits" for positive replies!


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Wednesday 24th March 4:01 pm U.K. Time

Jim, ha - I believe that's a misunderstanding. I didn't believe Roy Thinnes writes chat messages under pseudonym. Before your 'n-t-d-r message' I had another 'suspicion', but that's not important I found the thought amusing. Have read Marlon Brando's internet-pseudonym is 'Jim Ferguson' (I don't mean you), allegedly, who knows. B.t.w. thanks for the 'Florida-offer', but I'm 'rooted' in Germany.

But an interesting thought. Do you think Roy Thinnes knows Mr. Fincher's website (and the other INVADERS sites), particularly this chat page? I wonder if he reads the chat messages. Perhaps the 'INVADERS fuss' get on his nerves. In the meantime, have a nice day 'Mr. Brando'.


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Wednesday 24th March 4:12 pm U.K. Time

Concerning alien (invasion) movies:

Siegel's 50s classic is good, Kaufmann's 70s remake is better, A. Ferraras remake is unsuccessful. Devlin's/Emmerich's "ID4" has great special effects, but there's just one snag; the first part of this film is interesting and the second part of this film is unsuccesful (in my opinion) and the character, played by W. Smith, is a 'chatterbox'.

My personal favourites are: 'Body Snatchers' from the 50s and 70s, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (elegant flying saucer), "This Island Earth" (drama), "Forbidden Planet", "Earth vs. Flying Saucers" (great stop-motion effects by Harryhausen), "It Came From Outer Space", "thing film by H. Hawks and "Thing" film by Carpenter, "the Andromeda Strain" (extraterrestrial micro organism) by Bob Wise.


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Wednesday 24th March 7:17 pm U.K. Time

did you see "A journey to the far side of the sun" ,(1969) starring Roy Thinnes ? I discovered it and watched it a few days ago ; nice movie , great idea...


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 24th March 10:35 pm U.K. Time

Hey, Rudiger--How are you, my friend. Jim is not my alter-ego; and It seems you have a lot to contribute to this great website. I think with all of these new guys on the block; i.e. Jim, Frederic, ExNYKID! the whole group are really good sports. Chance is my buddy, and though it may seem as though I am Promoting him--The truth of the matter, I am. Why? As a Conservatist(Check spelling), he has Earned my trust and confidence. I have purchased things from him, and man--he is great. He even throughs in little Perks, side "bonuses" and he really is a True Fan of this show.

As I said, I am new on this Website; but, "IF" we demonstrate a true, dignified approach, we may have a chance to get good ol'e Roy to participate. We need to organize a convention. Without the "Egos" bouncing all over the place.

To honestly answer your questions--As a former Jesuit, Benedictine Student, and I am a Staunch Practicing Catholic(No Shame Here),I give you all my word, I am not an alter-ego, nor am I a relative of Roy's(Shucks!), that can be 100 % substantiated; but, If I am; He has no obligation to contact me--or anyone, for that matter. BUT I bet, IF we really pull this thing together as a team of TRUE adults here, (Remember, he is getting old, now--and what better way to Honor our hero, thatn by being Stand-Up and Honorable), I am SURE he will Honor US by attending some organized convention. The KEY here is "HONORABLE"--Let's do it! Quit the bickering, and let's hold up our end; OK?

NOW- IN the TRIAL:

GOOD: THE "Drop the Water-Glass" scene, at the Penultimate segment, in the Judge's Chambers; Just a short "Cut" in the filming; before the "cut" on Russell Johnson's face. I was sorry to see Russell Johnson play an Alien-He is a great actor; and all around Nice Man--in person, too. He has had some personal Tragedies in his life. I wish Russell Johnson well.

BAD: In the very last scene, Susan Day (Before the late Greek Rat Patrol hero- Christopher George)Susan Day George is walking with Don Gordon(WHO IS ITALIAN, by the way), OUR hero, Roy says,"...well, if you can pass the blood test..." pertaining to their getting married-- HOW did she marry her alien Husband, in that same town, if He was an Alien; what "BLOOD" test could HE have taken, or Passed?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 24th March 10:40 pm U.K. Time

Oh--THE ACTOR, Harold Gould--Great actor--(THE TRIAL), did not play and alien. BUT, in real life, Harold Gould "IS" an alien.

Just Kidding.

Linda Day George(NOT SUSAN) ***Correction from last POST- IS also an ALIEN in real life.

John Kerry is NOT an alien; but He is working "WITH" the aliens.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 24th March 10:47 pm U.K. Time

CHICAGO ROY:

Chicago Accents are distinct. I have one. Believe me, I know. Let's go to "THE MUTATION"

Fast forward to the "Cantina" Scene, where the little Mexican boy Starts his clothes on fire in the kitchen; Our Hero, ROY--who probably would do this in real life, too--runs to the little Chamaco's aid, and smother's the fire out; but "burns" his arm badly in the process. "Cold, Coffee Drinking, Maybelene, Revlon Nails PLESHETTE is Cold as ever, sort of continues to drink her coffee; Roy, on the other hand, gives that ASKANCE stare, of disgust, when dealing with "IDIOTS"(Humans) and "ALIENS" alike. She(IT) then comes to his aid, sort of, while he is putting water on his badly burned arm, from a mere Clay Vase out in the courtyard-- He grabs her arm, "You're hurting me"--Roy's response--SUPER CHICAGO ACCENT:

" I didn't think that was PAAAAAAAAAASSSABLE"

More "CHICAGO" ROY Later.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 24th March 10:54 pm U.K. Time

CHICAGO ROY:

"THE MUTATION"

Fast Forward to the Strip Tease Scene--

Pleshette, Roy and Great actor, Edward Andrews-

ANDREWS: "What do you think?" ROY: "That'll depend..." ANDREWS: "I was talking about her act." ROY: "So was I."

CHICAGO VERNACULAR often Does not Finish the last Participle: "I want to go with..." "That'll depend..." and the best is, The Pronoun being used as the last word:

"...so was I"---! GREAT--CHICAGO ROY!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 24th March 10:58 pm U.K. Time

CHICAGO ROY:

Again, The "MUTATION"

"...why the charade; why the kids in the HOT ROD?"

HAAAATTTTTTT __RAAAAAADDDDD

Chicago "A's" are AHHHHHH--not Uhhhhhhh or as in Philly--AWWWW--

I don't want a HAUT DAUG-- I want a HAAAT DAWG-

CHICAGO ROY!

Oh--I used some bad English in my Long letter--

"I am not related to Roy, that can be 100% substantiated--" that is MY Chicago Accent/Vernacular coming out-

SHOULD BE: "It is not 100% substantiated that I am NOT related to Roy."

That means, " I may BE"! Get it?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 25th March 2:47 am U.K. Time

Antoinette Bower-- XNYCKID--remembered her in "MUTINY" with Brando--one of the siliest version of a Noble Captain Bligh's voyage-- They made Bligh out to be the bad guy; when the truth was, the entire crew was Scum--And, by the way, Unlike Trevor Howard, or Anthony Hopkins' version--The real Captain Bligh was only 28 years old when this Mutiny occurred!

Antoinette is Canadian, I am sure. She is not that pretty; but, yes Was one of the well wishers in "Mutiny"-- She has done some wholesome Canadian Shows in the last few years--"The Campbells" is one of them.

Is she still alive???

Well--I wish all those folks well.

As for MORE CHICAGO ROY--I am working on it.

Anyone out there pick up on any of Roy's errors? Actually, Roy is a great actor. But, doing that many episodes, your are Bound to make some bloopers--

In "The Peacemaker" he mistakenly refers to the Leader Alien--whos real name is Alfred Ryder--he pleads with him at the end, when they almost get Bombed by Idiot Airforce General--who likes to Rough-house his wife--and I get the feeling James Daly may be got a real "KICK" out of those two scenes--Which were really a bit ODD--those two Roughing up of his "episodic" wife--That was a shock; eh?? I did not expect those scenes; and I did not like them.

Getting back to the Blooper--Roy said, "...but, Mr. Ryder..."!!

He called him by his real name!

In the Two Part Epidodes--Summit Meeting, William Windom had to ad-lib one of his "hotel-room" scenes with Roy--and Roy, noticeably forgot his timing, and William Windom--Experience Experience!!-- ad lib'ed enough to put Roy back on track--

"Let me see that Shoulder" Watch how Windom throughs that in to get Roy back on Track-- and how Roy got a bit nervous with his Cigarette--perhaps, Wondering "IF" they were going to "CUT" --but they didn't.

Any more Bloopers??


Name: lin
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 3:00 am U.K. Time

greetings from cleveland ohio! i would like to say that i am a die-hard fan of roy thinness and of "the invaders" T.V. series of the 43 episodes of the Quinn Martin Productions.besides all of the other characteristics of the show, i am quite intrigued by real and familiar places that are mentioned or shown in certain invaders episodes. examples of this are the pentagon, washington D.C. and its various landmarks, and new york city with the brooklyn bridge and the southern manhatten skyline, as seen in the episodes "the experiment", and "task force". chilling, is it not? right where the 9 11 attacks took place!!!!!!! other places that come to mind are San Louis Abispo, Bakersfield, Santa Barbera, "the forgotten town of Kinny" and highway 166 in Southern California as relates to the episode "beachhead"!! if you check the N.Y.C. skyline, there are still at least two skyscrapers that can be seen today that were in those two episodes. i just thought i would like to make mention of this as a special point of interest to all of the invaders fans who like to imagine and recall that David Vincent and The Invaders were here!!!!!!!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 6:43 am U.K. Time

rudiger, Marlon Brando uses the short-wave alias "Martin Brandeaux" from Tetiaroa..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 6:58 am U.K. Time

rudiger-I hope you now realize that nottoodistantrelative is not me and while your posting was a nebulous questioning of my credibility and character, it serves no purpose for me to get into a dogfight on it..All I ask of you is to make certain that you further check your instincts before you make allegations that wind up untrue...

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 7:24 am U.K. Time

lin--that is your posting name, and of course the name of Lin McCarthy, who was an integral actor on 3 Invaders episodes--THE MUTATION, COUNTERATTACK, and THE PEACEMAKER...was born Feb 23--1918 in Norfolk Virginia and died in Beverly Hills on Nov 23, 2002..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 7:28 am U.K. Time

check out tetiaroa.com for Brando

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 9:08 am U.K. Time

NTDR, maybe the lunk-heads out there will figure it out.. No ex-NYC kid as I am would try and begin to profess knowing Chicago culture and way of speaking, and I have been there 8-10 times..And using the e-mail return address that you did? (Thinnes, et al)..Yeah, like I would want to bring that all down upon myself for scrutiny..Let them believe what they want..You ARE a stand-up guy as I said. ....and defending me here publicly---thanx..You'll hear from me off-site again..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 25th March 11:51 am U.K. Time

Always a pleasure to help out a fellow "Invaders" friend- Yeap--perhaps the "thinnes" e mail is a bit INVITING--but, I have been using it since before I even got interested in THE INVADERS--and I ain't goint to live my life like a paranoid democrat(or Republican, for that matter these days) and "worry"--If I get into trouble being "Myself" --well, so be it. I told you I was a Benedictine Student; and True Catholic--and I refuse to bend to the "Popularity" contest. Even if "ROY" finds it wrong of me to use that e mail address--too bad. I used it before I got involved with this show. I was much too young to remember these shows vividly when they came out; but I like them now. And, Are we related? Cannot say 100% sure NO! But, Does it matter?

ANY MORE "CHICAGO ROY" out there?? I have about 20 incidents to recant for all of you--

HIS acting and TIMING is TREMENDOUS-- THE show's writings were getting weak and inconsistent- The aliens' plans were all over the "map" as they say today- NO CONTINUITY-- That is what hurt that show; plus--I liked the Concept of "DAVID" fighting the GOLIATH--and then the name, "VINCENT" from the Latin--"TO BE VICTORIOUS" or simply "WINNER" --NOT A CONINCIDENCE--

DAVID'S Hebrew analogy to Goliath; And "VINCENT" meaning "Hope to be victorious"

I wonder if anyone picked up on that one??

I liked the first season, He ran it "alone"-A la Fugitive--Q M-

Adios, Amigos


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 25th March 11:58 am U.K. Time

but "n-2-d-r"..thanx for definitely proving that it's not me!

Name: beauty
Email:
beauty1307@aol.com
Thursday 25th March 2:26 pm U.K. Time

Hi there why is it not possible to release this classic series on dvd also am i right in saying that taft broadcasting hold the copyrights to this best tv series ever made please do let me know thanks uk time14 26pm

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Thursday 25th March 3:03 pm U.K. Time

Hi there BEAUTY! Do you have any questions on the first seven and a half episodes....if you do i'll gladly answer them...

Name: matt
Email:
mattg.77@talk21.com
Thursday 25th March 3:15 pm U.K. Time

I am intyerested in purchasing the invaders on VHS format or possibly on DVD, if anyone knows where to obtain these from i would be very grateful if you would e-mail me regarding this. P.S. love the show...

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 26th March 2:10 am U.K. Time

Any Contributors to "CHICAGO-ROY" ?

Anyone at all out there from Chicago?

As are Roy and ME?

Ohh--What does a Chicagoan Ask for when he walks into a bar?

Does he ask for an "Old Style"? "Leinenkugel"? "Hamms"?

NEVER A BUDWEISER-

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Chicago People Ask for---"Gimmeadraught" pronounced: GI'MEEAHDRAAAAFFFT"

Now, Which Episode did Chicago Roy say those words??


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 26th March 2:45 am U.K. Time

Are there ANY aliens who died; where ANYONE actually Felt Bad for them--as perhaps one would feel bad if a human died?

Any "Likeable" aliens?

I have one Favorite Alien. "The Prophet"--Pat Hingle-- Oh-I would have rather "Sister Claire" died; and "Brother Avery" lived!


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Friday 26th March 8:09 am U.K. Time

Hi There, There was someone on TV the other night banging on about how superior British TV was compared with the USA. They were talking comedy at first and then Sci Fi. I grew up watching DR.Who and treated it almost as a comedy even as a youngster the effects, acting etc was so bad! Then this guy dared to suggest that we had the diffinative sci fi show in DR.Who compared to what the USA had to offer around this time. What a joke! Had he ever sat and watched our Show?

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Friday 26th March 3:52 pm U.K. Time

Anybody out there who too, received answer respectively reaction by Paramount?

Seemingly a lot of people have contacted Paramount, but so far I've nowhere read on a concrete reply / reaction by Paramount; apart from my Paramount reply in the last year. Does anybody believe that "THE INVADERS" will release on DVD in the 'foreseeable' future, for example next year?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 2:58 am U.K. Time

Chicago Roy!

Anyone ever see our Hero in "THE FUGITIVE"?

He played a Bad kid--Son of a Winemaker--

Check it out--"I'm goin'ta takem, Pop--"

Pure Chicago-

God bless Roy Thinnes-

nottoodistantrelative


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 3:14 am U.K. Time

BRAVE CHICAGO ROY--

yes; People from Chicago are not "nanny-pandy" sissy-types--"threatening to SUE YOU--if you scratch their BMW's--They're libel to "Kick some--u know what" if you scratch their '57 Chevy, though-- Hear that, all you "East-Coast" tough guys?? "See ya in Court"--NYC/BOSTON/PHILLY- In Chicago, "See ya outside"

ANYWAY--"CHICAGO ROY" actually DID throw that Bottle Filled with "Something" that was on FIRE in "THE SPORES"--IT surely was ROY--NOW--the ROOF of the GREENHOUSE--was electronically FIXED up to Ignite a superficial Flame- and the Backround of the Fire was pretty convincing-- BUT--it must have gotten "HOT" when our hero Threw that bottle--You can slightly see a salve on the Right Side of his face--Roy used to play football, and his THROW was more like a 40 yard pass than a Third base OUT-

Condolences to Lin McCarthy and John Randolph-- They recently "checked-out" RIP guys--I loved you both-

NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE

Oh--our Cousin-Charles Domanico died last year, too- He did the one and only "Slightly-Altered" episodic theme at the end of "THE MUTATION"--The Trumpet Player was Frank Lisanti; I know him well- but cannot tell you who he is-Frank Passed away in 1980--along with Jimmy Zito and the rest of the Dominic Frontiere crew--TOO BAD Chuck(Domanico's) version never took hold- It was only used ONCE--and then they went back to the sardonic exit theme. Chuck's was a bit more Pretty--Check it out.

Chuck was a "VERYCLOSERELATIVE"


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 3:17 am U.K. Time

U all can check CHARLES DOMANICO'S bio on http://www.imdb.com

CAST/CREW--

"Chuck" as we knew him did that pretty theme--on "THE MUTATION" RIP-Chuck-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 3:19 am U.K. Time

"THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL"

Remember that great Movie? 1951--

THREE ACTORS from that movie Played in "THE INVADERS"

WHO were they??????

I bet Roy Remembers!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 8:01 am U.K. Time

ntdr, actually 5 actors on the Invaders were actually in "Day The Earth Stood Still"..Besides Michael Rennie, there was James Seay (THE WATCHERS), Harlon Warde (THE CONDEMNED), Robert Osterloh (DOOMSDAY MINUS ONE), and Harry Lauter (THE INNOCENT)..Not all billed in the end credits but you can go to www.imdb.com for further info..Anyway, thank you for the Roy-connection on "Chicago-speak" from this ex-NYC kid!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 8:08 am U.K. Time

ntdr, I'm replying in order..Just looked up Domanico on imdb.. I see he is Chi-town born..Other than knowing the great work of Dominic Frontiere-- and who his ex-wife is--I had no idea who-else did the music for the show..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 9:14 am U.K. Time

I rest my case on evrrything.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 9:57 am U.K. Time

jamie-your March 26th posting-- what is DR?..I know that Brits must pay a monthly tv-licensing fee which is vigorously enforced by the "TV-Police" using triangulation equipment..But what is the DR?..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 10:07 am U.K. Time

jamie--okay, got it--"DR" Who. I've heard of it but that show never was popular here in 'the colonies'..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 12:54 pm U.K. Time

Ohhhhhhhh--JIM--Chuck Domanico did not WRITE music for the show; he was one of the studio Musicians who PLAYED for the show; but did a small bit-variation on one episode--and man--You are great on that "5" actors from "The Day the Earth Stood Still"! Harry Lauter was the Lieutenant who was in the foreground when the Ship landed--and he checked his side-arm after the Robot did his thing!

He also was an "alien" along with Jackie Gleason buddy Frank Marth, who played an alien in two episodes- Two of the worst episodes of the Invaders-

The all time worst was "The Pit" and "Nightmare"

Really stupid.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 3:24 pm U.K. Time

Frank Marth born 7-29-1922..In THE INNOCENT and TASK FORCE..Still alive.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 3:36 pm U.K. Time

Frank Marth--who looked and sounded like an alien--also born in NYC.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 27th March 3:44 pm U.K. Time

The HONEYMOONERS-INVADERS connection.. If you read the Jackie Gleason biography, you will find that he was a serious believer in UFOs and aliens..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 4:44 pm U.K. Time

oh, Jim-I am SURE when Jackie(Gleason) and Irish-pack'em in Art Carney got together and had their "COFFEE" together, it wasn't long they were both seing ALIENS, FLYING SAUCERS, UFO's and an assorted UNIDENTIFIABLE OBJECTS--FLYING OR OTHERWISE!!!!

As for Frank Marth--He always played the Policeman in the Honeymooners-- Remember when "Ralph" found that suitcase full of money, "Frank Marth" knocked on the door of "Kramden's" apartment, and solicited a charity for the Policeman's benevolent association--"...I can put you down for your usual BUCK..."

hahah!

Ralph gave him a (phoney) Hundred and told him, "...and there's plenty more where that came from"~!

Frank Marth is Too nice a guy to be an Alien--He is just ugly.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 4:49 pm U.K. Time

oh--No offense Intended to NYC Tough Guys--I love NEW YORK--especially MOTT Steet and all those Gorgeous Italian girls--Gina, Marie, Monica, Angie, Francesca and Toni--(Anoinette)--Believe me, all Six of these girls are knock-outs--they are just "Spoiled" to death! They now live in Oyster Bay--

I don't think they know the INVADERS; But the Sopranos, yes. DiScala is also pretty-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 4:53 pm U.K. Time

Any New Invaders Contributions??

How about "Chicago Roy"?

I have one. Check out, "The Believers"--Weired Hypno Beam scene; Roy tells that Friendly Alien, who escorts him to a isolation room just before the Phoney "Rescue" by G I Joes- He says, "Is This where AAAM-S'POZD tASTAY?"

--Chicago Roy.


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Saturday 27th March 5:36 pm U.K. Time

What's the point with the place he is supposed to stay ?

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 27th March 11:57 pm U.K. Time

oh--Frederic

Je faisais référence seulement à l'accent de Roy--Typiquement de Chicago!

Apparemment, Cet Étranger Amical l'escortait à une pièce--mais, c'était juste un truqué--souvenez-vous il se réveille alors dans un Hôpital de l'Armée soi-disant--les Étrangers prétendaient qu'il a été secouru--Seulement commencer à David à Avoir confiance en eux et leur donner les noms des gens qui sont sur terre informé de leur Présence!!

YOU see- "Thinnes" is a French/Germanic name!


Name: jim II (I said, 'TWO')
Email:
jim@925.net
Sunday 28th March 3:08 am U.K. Time

Which "Invaders" episode featured Peggy Lipton (Julie from ABC's late 60's series "The Mod Squad"???? She was only on during the first couple of minutes (if that long), had no lines and

Name: jim II (I said "TWO" again)
Email:
jim@925comcast.net
Sunday 28th March 3:33 am U.K. Time

Part two of above message: She died immediately thereafter.

FYI - our cable franchise added Sci Fi on January 1, 1995. It was then and only then that I had a chance to see the entire series since it originally aired on ABC-TV. Its last run on Sci Fi was January thru the end of March, '95. After that, GONE!!!

I also was fortunate enough to catch the show in syndication during the Fall of 1975. A TV station from Providence, R.I. was running it on weekends.

Oh well, I'll keep searching for people with that deformed finger on their hand.


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Sunday 28th March 11:07 am U.K. Time

Oh , nottoodistantrelative

here Roy has a parisian accent !!!

Since the serie is coming back here on tv next saturday (it had been stopped for a few weeks) I will record it on VHS and make a little clip.

Jim two : beware of people wearing mittens in summer


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Sunday 28th March 3:43 pm U.K. Time

P.S. Finally I will not record it on a VHS but directly into a divx 5 file so that you can watch the french titles "Les Envahisseurs" and hear Roy speaking french !

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Sunday 28th March 6:39 pm U.K. Time

Deutsche Fans machen sich auf dieser Seite eher rar, jedenfalls was die Einträge anbelangt. Das mag daher kommen das "The Invaders", ungeachtet des 'Kultstatus' der Serie, hierzulande ziemlich 'stiefmütterlich' abgefertigt wurde. "Invasion von der Wega" war nicht die einzige amerikanische Serie die unvollständig ausgestrahlt wurde. "Invasion von der Wega", wie manch andere Serie, wurde wohl damals nur als 'Füllmaterial' für das Programm der Öffentlich Rechtlichen gebraucht. Wie dem auch sei, ich habe mehreren deutschen Sendern vorgeschlagen "The Invaders" ins Programm zu nehmen. Ob und wie viele Andere in Deutschland das Gleiche taten weiß ich nicht, aber die Antworten die ich bekam sind in dem Satz zusammenzufassen: "Gegenwärtig ist die Serie bei uns nicht geplant."

Unter dem Link http://miraclefilms.com/roynews.htm findet sich u. a. der Textabschnitt - 03/13/01 WHO OWNS "THE INVADERS"? - Der einzig KONKRETE Hinweis, von dem ich Kenntnis habe, dass Paramount was mit den Rechten zu tun hat. Scheinbar hat auch niemand auf den Fanseiten detaillierte Lizenzrechtliche Kenntnisse. Manchmal liest man auch was von einem angeblichen Mitspracherecht Aaron Spellings, jedoch nichts handfest Nachprüfbares. Jedenfalls habe ich aufgrund des oben genannten Textabschnitts voriges Jahr einen Brief, und keine Email, an Paramount geschrieben und Antwort erhalten. Bis jetzt hab ich nirgends gelesen dass ein Anderer Reaktion erhielt, sollte ich etwa der Einzige sein? Viele deutsche Fans scheinen darüber hinaus auch nichts darüber zu wissen, dass die Rechte (teilweise?) bei Paramount liegen. Möglicherweise ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die Serie auf DVD auftaucht, höher als das "Die Eindringlinge" in absehbarer Zeit im deutschen Fernsehen ihren "Brückenkopf" errichten. Vielleicht sollten ganz einfach vielmehr, oder überhaupt, deutsche Fans an Paramount schreiben, um einen gewissen "Nachfragedruck" zu erzeugen. Andererseits möchte ich mich auch nicht in die Sache verbeißen, denn es ist nur eine Fernsehserie.


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 28th March 6:50 pm U.K. Time

Hey Jim II(THAT'S TWO):

The episode with hottie Peggy Lipton was "WALL OF CRYSTAL." I still cannot believe that she was with Quincy Jones for all those years...the man looks like Fred Sanford on his worst day...I guess it's the money.

NTDR: Keep the Chicago Roy liner notes coming!

Hey MATT,

Email me for any InVaDeRs episodes that you want at Water407@aol.com.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Sunday 28th March 8:37 pm U.K. Time

Hi Evweryone, Hope all is well.

There has been a huge update over on my site http://www.the-invaders.com Including Video, Audio and Images.

Thanks Hope you stop by. Craig.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 28th March 9:34 pm U.K. Time

MORE "CHICAGO ROY"--

Okay, "tough guys"--Chicago is a breed of it's own--

Take Note: "The Trial"--the Jail scene--Roy ain't gonna let his Marine buddy down" They Knew each other from the "INCHON LANDING"--and again, it was reiterated in the ulitmate scene, outside of the court house- ROY/DAVID: "It's been an interesting couple of days--" DON GORDON/Charlie: "The last time I heard that was Inchon Landing..."

YOU SEE HOW TOUGH CHICAGO PEOPLE ARE???

ROY was Born April 6, 1938. "Inchon Landing" was September through October 1950. ROY/DAVID was only 12 1/2 years old then; and he made a Marine Landing on the Korean Peninsula--

"CHICAGO ROY" "GUNG-HO ROY"--

DEN 4 PORTAGE PARK-- BSA-CHICAGO AREA COUNCIL--Land's At INCHON, Korea--


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 28th March 9:41 pm U.K. Time

At 12 years old, and taking on the Chinese Army and the North Korean regulars,aat Inchon Landing,

taking on these delicate, disintegrating, Nine day battery charged, bent-fingered aliens is a Piece of Key Lime Pie for a bratwurst and sourkraut eating, beerdrinking, Riverview Park, Cub fan, French/German Chicago kid like Roy;

Don't you think?


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 28th March 11:21 pm U.K. Time

I will never slam the Cubs again =) Damn, this guy is the stuff in real life too! No wonder he had such realistic on screen fights! He did many of his own stunts!

By the way, anyone have the 1960's GOld Key InVaDeRs comic books? THey have some great publicity shots of Roy and the early issues have a photo section. I used some of the photos when I designed the cases for the videos(the cover for issue #3 where VIncent is ho;ding the gun wearing gloves from "Panic"...used that for Volume 7...I scanned the cover for issue #4...nice shot of Roy wearing the "first season" suade jacket that he wore in "The Betrayed" and "The Ivy Curtain", etc...ised that pic and another of the classic saucer landing to make a neat cover for the videos...this cover is based on the classic publicity still of Roy/Vincent running from a landing ship, but in the classic pic he is wearing a white dress shirt, and in mune he is wearing the jacket...wish I could show the coiver here...of course I used the InVaDeRs logos on the cover as well....


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 28th March 11:33 pm U.K. Time

Anyone have the 1960's Gold Key InVaDeRs comic books? They have some great publicity shots of Roy and the early issues have a photo section. I used some of the photos when I designed the cases for the videos(the cover for issue #3 where VIncent is holding the gun wearing gloves from "Panic"...used that for Volume 7...I scanned the cover for issue #4...nice shot of Roy wearing the "first season" suade jacket that he wore in "The Betrayed" and "The Ivy Curtain", etc...ised that pic and another of the classic saucer landing to make a neat cover for the videos...this cover is based on the classic publicity still of Roy/Vincent running from a landing ship, but in the classic pic he is wearing a white dress shirt, and in mine he is wearing the jacket...wish I could show the cover here...of course I used the InVaDeRs logos on the cover

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 28th March 11:41 pm U.K. Time

ANYONE LOOKING FOR ANY EPISODE OF THE INVADERS EMAIL ME AT water407@aol.com...I can send any episode OR a PREMIUM DELUXE SET of all 43 episodes, MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, 1968 RARE Mad Magazine parody, Starlog articles, 1967 SCREEN STORIES magazine article on Roy(VERY COOL READ!!!), ABC TV TRAILERS AND MORE!!! ****SOME EPISODES HAVE THE ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS FROM THEIR ORIGINAL AIRDATE INCLUDING NOW-BANNED CIGARETTE TV ADS!!!**** I obtained ABC TV 16mm film prints of this classic and beloved series and I had them professionally transfered to VHS...these are SPECIAL and like going back in time and watching them LIVE! I am 33 years old and thanks to these films I can pretend I was around back then to see them new in prime time! Email me TODAY for more details at water407@aol.com. I will ship ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!!! "Keep looking for those mutated fourth fingers" and have a great day! Kick ass!!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 29th March 7:36 am U.K. Time

JIM 2--Peggy Lipton was the newlywed in the opening of WALL OF CRYSTAL

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 29th March 7:53 am U.K. Time

craig--excellent work, much appreciated by me..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 29th March 8:36 am U.K. Time

Mark--it's Monday!..In THE MUTATION I think I told ya that I thought parts were filmed in Bronson Canyon and out by Berdoo..The opening scenes however--where DV gets mugged by the 2 Mexicans-- could that be out by Joshua Tree?..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 29th March 8:45 am U.K. Time

Mark--more on THE MUTATION.. There is stock footage of a gila monster shown..the range of that venomous lizard is the extreme eastern Mohave to Vegas to southern Utah to Phx/Tucson to El Paso (and northern Sonora, Mexico)..The town portrayed was "Rosario Mexico" but of course wherever that was filmed it was as close to Hollywood as the budget would allow..Any ideas?..Could be a set but then again maybe not..YOU are "the man" in SoCal!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 29th March 9:05 am U.K. Time

craig, BTW--on you site I have voted for SuzieP twice as 'favorite' because of course she was on twice!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 29th March 1:33 pm U.K. Time

rudiger, if I get an English-German translative book-- or one of several German-speaking friends--I am one day going to find out what you are saying..I have never met a young person 40 or under in age from your country who was unable to sprechen-ze-english..You are doing a great disservice to this site by using a foreign language to the exclusion of virtually everybody..And yes, I am WAY out of line here after you accused me of duplicity..

Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Monday 29th March 3:44 pm U.K. Time

Jim (and everyone else !) , this is what Rüdiger says (the main)

./ German fans are rare on this page (maybe some read it whithout writing); That is probably because "The invaders" was not recognized as a "cult serie" in Germany and by the way ignored by the channels."Invasion from vega" was not the only serie not entirely shown here. These series were just used to fill holes in tv programs. However , I asked a few german channels to schedule the serie (I do not know if other people did it) but the answers were always "It is not scheduled"

[here the link to an "invaders" page]

It is the only information I have about Paramount and their copyrights. Nobody on the fans'page seem to have detailed legal knowledge../

Friendly,

Fred


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 29th March 6:57 pm U.K. Time

"Open Apology" to all the fans here-I, perhaps, should take some of the blame for starting the "Foreign tongue" routine; and Rutger should not have to take all the blame for it. It was "I" who wrote Frederic in French- and Poor French, I am sure-So, I APOLOGIZE for that; but from here on out--everyone will have to be accountable for their own actions.

I am from Chicago, too--and I aint' no Liberal, here. Stand up to the plate, and hold up your end...

Chicago Roy RULES!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 29th March 7:05 pm U.K. Time

PS--Something nice happened to Roy this week- BUT--I cannot tell--I am "Sworn" to secrecy-- Remember, I am "NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE" so--there!!!!

Good Luck, Roy--

Cent'anni--as we say in Italian!!


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Monday 29th March 7:48 pm U.K. Time

Oh no ! not poor for I could read what you wrote ;just little conjunctions badly placed or english structures unabled to be converted into french !


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 29th March 9:16 pm U.K. Time

People have been posting here in all languages for years. What's the problem? This board is based out of EUROPE. I hate "board cops." I say tupe whatever the hell uoi want about "Les EnVaHiSsEuRs!!!" This fine series has a world-wide fan base. Who has a problem with that?

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 29th March 9:50 pm U.K. Time

Ok guys...In terms of a feature film version of The InVaDeRs...Cast ROY THINNES as EDGAR SCOVILLE, the man of financial means and power to assist Architect DAVID VINCENT(played by PAUL WALKER of "The Fast and the Furious"). Also in the cast is LEE MAJORS as likeable GENERAL COLTON WOODS who is aware of the takeover and assists DV. SHANNON DOUGHERTY as ALIEN WOMAN.

For me, the second most unsettling and outrageous murder of a human by an alien was Anthony Eisley's character Bob Torin(next to Vincent's murder in "The Ransom"). Torin's wife had been blown away the episode earlier by the enemies(thanks to Carol Lynly) and then they sadly kill him too. I feel that if LEE MAJORS' role is introduced fairly early on in the story and then he is killed, this would cause an emotional spark in the viewer, as well as the element that sets Vincent off ala his outburst in "The Mutation." I have been working on a storyline for a while, but the only way a script will be taken seriously is if you are a member of the screen writer's guild and if you have sold a script. Don't want to post too much about it, just a main dramatic turning point. Hardly original, but true to the feel and flavor of the well written and acted original series.

Anyone else have any ideas for a big budget feature film version of The InVaDeRs? The first step is to get the show back in the public eye so that tickets are sold...to have a valid and marketable product is the only way that a studio will even consider a proposed project


Name: Belinda
Email:
comefromheaven@aol.com
Monday 29th March 11:21 pm U.K. Time

What kind of guys you are discriminating other languages? Are you afraid of being accused without understanding what the message says?! Poor boys. Let´s be open hearted and without any prejudices. Our God DV would have complained all that!!

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Tuesday 30th March 1:01 am U.K. Time

CHANCE--Since you really know who I am; and YOU have seen my Photos and you know I am really NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE-- could you possibly find a Place in the NEW FEATURE LENGTH MOVIE, STARING OUR HERO, ChIcAgO RoY--as AGING--but still good-looking "David Vincent"--?

Yes; I could be either is Younger Brother(**), and I am a bit too old to be his son-BUT wait--IF a 12 year old from CHICAGO could make a Landing ON INCHON, Certainly he could have a kid; RIGHT??

David Vincent, Jr.


Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 30th March 1:22 am U.K. Time

Dear friend,

All my congratulation for your extraordinary site !...

I am french man, born in France in the 1953 year, and i live in the south of France, in Provence, near Riviera... I look in "The Invaders" à french television the firs time, for 1969 year... End thancks to this series, and from 1969 year, i am a "Ufologue", a person who study the UFO... On internet, if you write "Christian Macé ovni" (my christian name is Christian, and my name Macé), you ca have my articles on UFO (ovni, in French). Par exemple, if you go on site "Ufoweb-France", at "articles", end "département recherches", you have my article "Générations Envahisseurs", whère i talk of Roy Thinnes and "The Invaders" !... A destiny sign, in n° 16 episode, season 2, "Task Force" , the "Invaders" want take possession of "Publications Macé" ! Like my name "MACE" !

In this moment, at French télévision, on "FR 3" (France Région 3) , public channel, on saturday evening, about midnight, there is a repeat diffusion of "The Invaders" series !

The saturday 03 april 2004, it wil be the episode n° 17 "The condemned", season 1, at French télévision "FR 3"...

I will be very happy if you can forward this lettre on your site, because i am a fan of Roy Thinnes and "The Invaders", and for this informations… ! I thank you very much ! In a friendly way. Christian Macé (Marcel Vincent is my pseudo)


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 30th March 12:23 pm U.K. Time

Hello Christian, you mentioned TASK FORCE which ostensibly takes place in New York City (my hometown)but I do hope that you realize that except for the opening stock-footage, it was all filmed in Hollywood California!

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 30th March 1:05 pm U.K. Time

For written back at dear xnyckid@yahoo.com, for "Task Force", my answer is : Super ! Very good !

There is often "Stranges Coïncidences" on our "Way of Life" !... But...is only "Chance" ? This is a big interrogation !...

Brotherly, Christian Macé


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 30th March 3:06 pm U.K. Time

Thank you for the appx translation Fred..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Tuesday 30th March 3:59 pm U.K. Time

Hey Christian,

Do you have the French book on The Invaders(Les Envahisseurs) with the interview with Roy? It is a big thick book published in 2001 and was written by Didier Liardet! This book has a forward by Roy Thinnes and is 238 pages long...all about the show and LOADED with rare pics!


Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 30th March 4:28 pm U.K. Time

Dear Chance,

Thank you very much for your information about the boock of Didier Liardet ! I have no this book, but I am going to command... I have a big book-shop near at home !

Very friendly.

Christian Macé


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Tuesday 30th March 4:32 pm U.K. Time

German fans are relatively rare on this site. The German TV-company ZDF did neglect "The Invaders" (also known as "Invasion von der Wega/from Vega" around here). The show was aired in 1970/71 and only 20 of the 43 episodes. Just once, apart from one episode, which was repeated in 1973 and since then the series wasn't shown at the German television. Presumably, the series was just used as 'filler' at the German television. Nevertheless or astonishingly, a number of people didn't forget the show. It's amazing. Perhaps, for the present-day fans (in Germany) the series has a nostalgic reference to the childood or youth, when they have seen "Invasion von der Wega" for the first time (and this once) at the German TV. I think "THE INVADERS" combined effective gripping elements of another Quinn Martin series, "The Fugitive" (aka "Auf der Flucht" in Germany), and perhaps Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (German title "Der unsichtbare Dritte") and Don Siegel's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ("Die Dämonischen" around here) with a convincing Roy Thinnes in the main part.

A repeat is improbable in the foreseeable future, unfortunately. At the moment, "THE INVADERS" has no chances to broadcast at the German television. I have contacted several German TV-companies per email, a Swiss TV-company too, but nobody's interested in the series. "In the foreseeable future is not planned to broadcst the series". For the fans "THE INVADERS" is a fascinating sci-fi show, for the TV-managements nothing but an old series from the 60s. What a pity. In the foreseeable future there is no way for "THE INVADERS" around here. Well, that's it.

But perhaps the German market could play a part concerning a possible DVD-commercialization of the series. I think/hope there is a potential German market for the show. "Invasion von der Wega" respectively "The Invaders" to stay unused in the archive would be 'business nonsense' (in my humble opinion). But on the other hand, I've nowhere read on a concrete reply by Paramount, apart from my airmail letter - by Paramount Home Entertainment - in 2003. Seemingly nobody has detailed and well-founded knowledge of the licences concerning the original "The Invaders" series, that would be helpful. It's wonderful, fans from different countries communicate on this chat page, but so far there is no 'official' DVD release. What's the problem for the copyright owner? I don't understand this curious company policy. Well, "The Invaders" on DVD, "to be or not to be" that's the question.

Have a nice day, 'R. Shakespeare'.


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 30th March 8:16 pm U.K. Time

Surely an enormous potential market here in France; Space 1999 pack was released in 2002 ; Logically ,it might have been a commercial success ...; does someone know where wee can get the selling datas ?

In such a case we can have some hope...

I cannot imagine that the "invaders" could be the greatest serie not to be released on dvd.


Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 30th March 8:54 pm U.K. Time

Dear Solaris Rd,

Very nice your informations about Germany, and all our thanks !...

Here in France, the "Invaders" was diffusion the first time, during september 1969 and followinf months , but not all the series, on the public channel "ORTF" (on 1ère channel)!During this period, there was only "ORTF", french télévision of state !..

And during 1987 summer, diffusion of "The Invaders" on "TF 1" channel, a very important private channel : a completely diffusion...

Then since 1989, diffusion some episod on "M 6" channel (a private channel)... And last time on "M 6", at end 1992-beginning 1993...

Then the first half-year 2001, completely diffusion on public channel "FR 3" !...

And in this moment, repeat completely diffusion on pubic channel "FR 3" !...It's all the evening saturday, about midnight...

Saturday 03 april 2004, diffusion on "FR 3" of the episod n° 17 (1ere season), "The Condemned" !...

In a friendly way, Christian Macé


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 30th March 9:11 pm U.K. Time

Ah les apres midi de bonheur devant "La une est a vous" !

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 31st March 11:22 am U.K. Time

NTDR, as per your Saturday posting, there were 5 Invaders actors in "Day The Earth Stood Still"--with Michael Rennie (a former RAF fly-boy) but the one with 6 is "Invasion of The Body Snatchers"--the original directed by Don Siegel--and that movie had future Invaders actors Kevin McCarthy, Dabbs Greer, Dana Wynter, Whit Bissell (related to Bissell Vacuum Company), Robert Osterloh, and Virginia Christine..

Name: nicol
Email:
fluency_one@yahoo.com
Wednesday 31st March 4:35 pm U.K. Time

hi mi name is nicol im 18 end i live in Tocson AZ IM SEXY WELL HOLLA! BACK BOYS

A.K.A "PLAY GIRL".


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Wednesday 31st March 8:33 pm U.K. Time

Hi There, I don't know if there has ever been a vote on the best single episode or our show, the one that has everything, the one that really sums up the whole series...alas i haven't seen all the episodes, in fact, i only remember, well, about ten..but i would be interested in anyone's input and a brief resume of 'why' it is deserving of a special mention. I'll feel silly if no one contributes in favour of more sophisticated observations..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 1st April 2:43 am U.K. Time

THEY ARE ALL GOOD!!! I feel that "THE LIFE SEEKERS" was one of the best for so many reasons...a MUST is to have an alien saucer in the episode...the hypnocrystal...the "Death Disk"...a strong storyline...excellent acting...a bitchin' guest cast...NEW alien contraption...an alien lasergun firing away...the glowing, burning death of an InVaDeR...VINCENT making a major stride towards halting the attackers...a hottie...."TGhe LIfe Seekers" has all of this and MORE!!! In fact, watch the modern "PULP FICTION" from 1994...the main character is named VINCENT and he has a mysterious briefcase that GLOWS....kinda like "KEITH'S" case that glows

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 1st April 2:50 am U.K. Time

Oh, and "THE LIFE SEEKERS" had ORIGINAL MUSIC...checkmate =) It is up there with other favorites of mine "THE INNOCENT" and "THE BETRAYED." I never cared much for the overrated "THE EXPERIMENT" and "THE PURSUED" and I also can't stand smoker's voice, drunk sounding smelly Suzanne Pleashette

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 1st April 3:43 am U.K. Time

{{CHANCE grabs Nicol's neck O.J. Simpson style...pushes her head to the curb...Chance gets captured Death Disk...places it on the back of Nicol's skull until she(or IT) breathes no more.}} "She musta slipped" GO BACK TO THE PORN SITES

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 1st April 5:30 am U.K. Time

Of course I was employing some of my darker humour to Nicol. It is annoyoing how all of these perverts post here randomly

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st April 10:28 am U.K. Time

nicol, I went to the University of Arizona from 1972-1974-- it amazes me that you--a supposed resident of there--cannot correctly spell TUCSON..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st April 10:37 am U.K. Time

jamie, it's apples and oranges.."Best episode" has no definitive answer..It all depends-- if you like seeing aliens 'fry', or alien weaponry, or saucer footage, great knock-down fight scenes, or whatever..My personal favorites are THE SPORES, THE SAUCER, THE LIFE SEEKERS, DARK OUTPOST, PANIC, and THE MUTATION..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st April 10:45 am U.K. Time

Tucson memories--in 1974 KGUN-TV Channel 9 showed Invaders reruns, first I had seen since the show went off the air in NYC in 1968..And then after not until the early 1990s on The Sci-Fi Cahnnel, which I taped..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st April 11:14 am U.K. Time

Correction by me --actually it was KZAZ-TV (Tucson/Nogales)..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 1st April 3:15 pm U.K. Time

Anyone out there seen "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST?" P O W E R F U L film!!!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st April 4:39 pm U.K. Time

jim--and that is relevant to The Invaders because.....

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st April 4:56 pm U.K. Time

note to myself but wondering what a 2004 movie review with no Invaders actors has to do with this site

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 2nd April 9:59 am U.K. Time

CONSPIRACY THEORY?...FACT!!!

Let's face it...The InVaDeRs is "blacklisted" in terms of syndication/video/dvd for a political reason. I have this opinion since I know that other films and series have been taken off of the market such as Walt Disney's "SONG OF THE SOUTH" since it is deemed "racist" by the N.A.A.C.P.(N.ational A.ssociation for the A.dvancement of C.olored P.eople) and thus was banned from video and film distrubution/exhibition. Televison's "Amos and Andy" was also erased for the same reasons. "The InVaDeRs" has a political "red scare" element to it that some have labeled "MCarthyism." The last time that this fine show ran on cable was 1992-1995. The cable deal with the Sci-Fi Channel has been signed long before Clinton and his kind(can you say VINCE FOSTER?) came along. The Hollywood phonies(ala Clinton's gang) are all in cahoots and they know damn that this quality series would wake many a people up...the funny thing is that most folks are already WIDE AWAKE to what's up and "The InVaDeRs" would be a ratings winner if played now in today's world. HollyWEIRD....GET A LIFE


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 2nd April 3:32 pm U.K. Time

Hollywood was WRONG about "THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST" and they are wrong about "The InVaDeRs'" marketability and popularity

Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Friday 2nd April 4:27 pm U.K. Time

Chance , that was your April's fool day !

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 3rd April 5:18 am U.K. Time

"Chicago Roy" --yes--the Picked Chicago Roy, for Obvious Reasons- Chicago is also a great Racist Town--I am proud of this--

I am just kidding!

Otherwise, we are all living in the Land of Oz!

Now--back to reality-- I agree with Chance--however, there was a Cool Scene in "The Vise"-- and I actually liked the Black Alien, Played by Cool, Sophisticated, Educated actor Roscoe Lee Browne--who, by the way was an Olympic Runner--did you know that?

Anyway, "Even the Aliens" are racists--In the final scene, "Roscoe Lee Browne" gets shot, and that white alien jumps in the Van and makes an "I'm outtahere" !

See??

Who is racist?

NOT this show; nor the actors, nor the fans on this website-


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 3rd April 10:54 am U.K. Time

Unbilled Invaders actor makes good-- In THE EXPERIMENT and TASK FORCE one has to look very quickly (especially in the former) but you can see actor Paul Gleason--more screen time on the latter but no dialogue..He is perhaps best known as "Clarence Beeks" in the movie "Trading Places"..His ex-wife Joanna is an actress--the mother in "Boogie Nights"--and she is also the daughter of famed USA tv game show host Monty Hall, who was born in Canada..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 3rd April 11:11 am U.K. Time

Happy 87th BD to Dabbs Greer-- (Born April 02, 1917 in Missouri)..On The Invaders he was the alien priest in THE EXPERIMENT..A veteran of hundreds of movie and tv roles, he was memorable as the gas-station attendant in IOTBS--(which had 5 other Invaders actors/actresses)..and the man Superman rescues from the blimp in "Superman On Earth", and more recently as 'the old Tom Hanks' in "The Green Mile"..

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Saturday 3rd April 4:37 pm U.K. Time

l was sent some exclusive Invaders dance music. It was a CD made back in 1990 and nearly got in to the charts. The tracks take elements of Beachhead and The Experiment, there are five versions. If you want to take a listen go http://www.the-invaders.com and on the left menu you will see a link for "5 EXCLUSIVE DANCE TRACKS"

Thanks Craig.


Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Saturday 3rd April 5:35 pm U.K. Time

Dears friends,

This saturday 03 april 2004, tonigt at 00 H 20, in France, diffusion on public channel "FR 3" ("France Régions 3") of episod n° 17 (season 1) "The condemned" , of series "The Invaders" !... Christian Macé-France


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Saturday 3rd April 6:13 pm U.K. Time

Christian , je le capture en mpeg2 sur le satellite;je passerai quelques extraits en divx5 ou carrément l'épisode entier sur la mule.

[will record it in mpeg2 mode , rip a few samples in divx format and maybe the whole episod (on the mule) !)


Name: Alan
Email:
a.moore@ntlworld.com
Saturday 3rd April 11:28 pm U.K. Time

Hi Guys,

I've managed to erase (err ... it was an accident) my VHS copy of episode 'Nightmare'.

I'm in the UK - if some kind sole has a copy - I'm willing to pay for replication, posting etc.

Thanks,

Alan.


Name: david
Email:
pagongkucha@yahoo.com
Sunday 4th April 1:19 am U.K. Time

Chance, I saw your comment about blackballing in the media and I couldn't agree more. Censorship of any form in the U.S. is an affront to us all. Try getting a movie like creation of the humanoids aired on t.v at any hour since it deals with a society that mirrors the racist society of americas past with respect to blacksor a movie like Attack with stars jack palance and deals with corruption in the military with respect to political appointments and cowardest of the officers during world war 2. I haven't seen these movies for years on the t.v and I don't think It's because it's too costly to aire them.

Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Sunday 4th April 11:54 am U.K. Time

here is the french title :(divx 5 , 720x576,mp3)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lemulot/documents/Les_Envahisseurs.zip


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 4th April 6:03 pm U.K. Time

IT IS SICKENING THAT THIS SERIES SEEMS TO BE SHELVED INTENTIONALLY FOR CLANDESTINE REASONS WHICH DENIES NEW GENERATIONS OF FANS AS WELL AS THE MILLIONS WHO REMEMBER AND WOULD LIKE TO ENJOY THE INVADERS AGAIN! THIS IS AN INTELLIGENT SHOW!!! MEANWHILE, TVLAND KEEPS DIMBING DOWN THE NATION WITH ENDLESS RERUNS OF OVERRATED CRAP LIKE "GREEN ACRES" , "CHEERS"(now that was an original show), "MACGIVER"(what a steaming pile of crap), ETC.

SO I SAY AGAIN:

ANYONE LOOKING FOR ANY epispde of The InVaDeRs FOR HOME VIEWING, EMAIL ME AT water407@aol.com! I WILL SHIP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD...FAST!!!


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 4th April 6:06 pm U.K. Time

Of course I menat to say that TVLAND and other Viacom/Paramount stations are DUMBING down the Nation...what a monopoly of trash

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 4th April 6:23 pm U.K. Time

Le Bon Anniversaire, Roy--De NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE- Personnellement, sans être un SNOB--j'ai peur, ce site Web n'a pas cependant a gagné votre confiance--Et, je comprends ceci--MAIS---la PROCHAINE phrase peut être SEULEMENT de signicicance à VOUS--Roy--Si ici va--Cela devrait prouver la légitimité à notre familie:

"Je marchais en bas Wrightwood sur le chemin à Orchard St. quand j'ai arrêté de dire "Bonjour" à un LAITIER qui était sur son chemin à Alcott école--J'ai dit, "Dites Salut à Grand-maman Hart pour moi"

Je faisais un rapport sur Mon Héritage--Dernier j'en sais de--Alsace Lorraine fait maintenant partie de France--AUCUN???

Maintenant, SI je suis iin prospère mes Examens, je peux être accepté dans Lane Tech--OU--je peux finir par assister à HIgh School de Waller"--Qu'est-ce que vous pensez??

Le Bon Anniversaire, Roy--De--

NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE-

Soixante-six ans--Et Beaucoup de plus de bienheureux ceux pour vous, Dieu Bless vous---


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 4th April 6:40 pm U.K. Time

Sometimes, people ask, "What does that Commentary Have to do with "The INVADERS"? And, from a purely logical point of view--yes--I understand that; BUT it is the SHARING of our Experiences--whether they be related to Inaders Or NOT is what should bond us as a group--hopefully, Decent Group--to be close to one another- In this NEW AMERICA--where Everyone is "out for something" or "what's up with that?" attitide--we are losing the Human touch-

Yesterday, My girlfriend, Eunice and I worked the Special Olympics up near Orlando, Florida--and "BIRTHDAY BOY--CHICAGO ROY(April 6), would get a Kick out of this one:

I was working with these kids--Slightly slow, or physically handicapped--PERHAPS NOT AS HANDICAPPED AS SOME LAWYERS I WORK WITH--OR HARDLY SOME IDIOTS ON THIS CHAT-LINE--Who, Frankly are probably the biggest obsticle to Roy Participating with us-- and I came across a Fellow "CHICAGOAN" who asked me, "Hey--where are you from?"

"Chicago," I responded, Proudly--*(As would ROY, I am sure--); "Where at...?" he asked--"Lawrence and Harlem" I responded-- "Oh, Yeah??" "I'm from Addison and Harlem--" "Franksville" I retorted--referring to a Great Hot Dog joint on that corner of the New Little Italy in Chicago-- I then proceded with my girlfriend, Eunice-Who is from Montreal--to the parking lot to retreive some equipment for the weightlifters--(I am small Like ROY so All 100 pounds of Eunice needed to help me carry this stuff--), and this Chicago guy(ROY WOULD IDENTIFY WITH THIS-)said, "Man, I can't find a decent Hot Dog here in Florida-"

I shook my head and agreed(somewhat cynically), "Yeah--I haven't had a good hot dog since I moved to Florida--

He had a Vanity License Tag(Florida, of course) that read "CUB FAN"; needless to day, My girlfriend said, "If you guys love Chicago--and their Hot Dogs so much-- why in hell are you both living in Florida?"

I said to myself--"ROY WOULD LOVE THAT ONE"!!!

PS--I am A SOX FAN---All the Nerds and Suburban(Chicago wannabees) loved the Cubs.

Remember Ernie Banks?? 500 Homers at "Cubs Park"?????

I could hit 500 homers at Cubs Park--

Go, go WHITE SOX-- HAPPY BIRTHDAY-------------ROY THINNES------66 MORE GOOD YEARS< man-- YOU gave us a lot of Joy; Good tidings to you--buddy-- God Bless--

NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 4th April 7:05 pm U.K. Time

What about this Proposal:

A group of us--Maybe three or four--responsible, Decent Folks from this Site--do somehthing really NICE for Roy--

I work with the Benedictine Order of the Catholic church, and I work with Lawyers, too--and testimonials dinners are in order for those in our respected fields who are both Emeritus and deserving of our Gratitude, no matter what their contributions be. I mean, if our Political Parties(respectively, as inept as are both of them) warrent or even deserve $500.00 per plate dinners to "Honor" some dishonoralbe Crook-- why Can't we-as a decent Fan club--Honor Our Hero-ROY, with a testimonial Dinners??

Paid for by US--his loyal fans?? WHY NOT???

Look--A grand Hotel, maybe in Atlanta, or Miami Beach--OR CHICAGO--

We can Hire a decent Band, Good Caterers, and Pick-Up ROY's Expenses to attend.

Wouldn't that be a great way of showing our Loyalty and Affinity to someone who--without his performances--this show, nor it's favor would not even exist??

Let's get a group of decent, clear and level headed businessmen to put something GALA together for our HONORED hero--What do you say?????

Food, a Band, And Accomodations for Roy--

and A Great Testimonial to be remembered both by us, and ROY???

Let's do it.

NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 4th April 7:10 pm U.K. Time

Roy is getting Old now-and soon this show will be forgotten--to the likes of Brittany Spears(who, by the way, is a gorgeous gal--)BUT--time is marching on-- and we better get with it--or this show--along with Roy--Is History- So, let's make something worthwhile for Roy--and his loyal fans, while we can. I mean, he was a star of a TV show; but he was not a Frank Sinatra--and soon, it will ALL be forgotten-- We MUST do something for ROY--NOW--

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 4th April 8:55 pm U.K. Time

Happy Birthday Jan Merlin!..Born April 03, 1925.. In "THE PEACEMAKER" he is a prominent alien in the entire story and gets into a great fist-fight with Lin McCarthy..(Also memorable on Time Tunnel and in "The St Valentines' Day Massacre"..You can find out more about him by typing his name into Google..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 4th April 9:35 pm U.K. Time

WORST INVADERS EPISODES:

Nightmare The Pit Peacemaker


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 4th April 10:50 pm U.K. Time

QUIZ:

Q.What TWO Canadian Born Thespians were together in the SAME episode?

Q. What Canadian Born Actor played an ALIEN in Two different Episodes? HINT: He was a Shakespearean, and An Accomplished theatre actor. HINT: He, unfortunately, passed away in Toronto in '98.


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 5th April 1:16 am U.K. Time

Nottoodistantrelative that is an EXCELLENT idea and count me in for a Mr. Roy Thinnes roast(but without the loving insults)! I have your number and I will be calling you soon, probably this coming weekend after my ad work is finished for the week. I have some classic and key episodes on film as you know and wouldn't it be nice if the guest of honor chose the episode that we screen from my film library? I feel that Roy should pick where this would take place, though the Ritz Charlton is pretty nice here in HOTlanta!

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 5th April 1:19 am U.K. Time

And I too wish Mr. Thinnes a very happy birthday! He is the best!

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 5th April 3:37 am U.K. Time

Thanks, Chance--You are the Best- And, Yes; It would have to be a really Classy, dignified "put-together"; because, Although, I can Attest that Roy is probably NOT at all a SNOB-- he is just a reserved kinda-guy--and I am sure He would appreciate our Giving him a Gala Dinner Party in his Honor, for Having given us so much joy over the years in his Great performance-- Hardly, could they have selected a better actor to play the role of a young professional(Architect), who finds himself in such a peculiar situation. The '60's still had Sober, True-blue Super-heroes, who were even a bit boring--NOT cynical, Lawyer-types, wise-cracking, sniffle-nosed whimps- as we have today- Roy was absolutely the best choice--Thank God--an All American guy, vanguarding the world, Biblically named "David" and all in the Hopes of a Victory(Vincere-means WINNER in Latin)"Vincent."

Let's also throw in a Prayer for all of our Soldiers who gave their lives today, and last week to maintain some semblance of Civilized form of life. Even the "aliens" don't seem to "inhuman" as this enemy seems. And, My Girlfriend is "Iranian." And, she, too thinks they are insane over there.

God Bless America-

Chicago ROY Rules!


Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Monday 5th April 2:50 pm U.K. Time

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Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Monday 5th April 2:55 pm U.K. Time

sorry for my previous mistake !

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Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Monday 5th April 3:11 pm U.K. Time

damn !

this is the link :

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lemulot/documents/Roy.txt


Name: barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 5th April 5:25 pm U.K. Time

wow!!!! whats all that about ? do we have to decrypt the messege and find out where the aliens are landing reminds me of the episode"COUTER ATTACK"

Name: Fred
Email:
lemulot@wanadoo.fr
Monday 5th April 5:44 pm U.K. Time

I wanted to put an "ASCII" image but the format is not conserved

download the txt file to see it


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 5th April 6:04 pm U.K. Time

WOW

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Monday 5th April 8:20 pm U.K. Time

Bonsoir,

Depuis quelques années, je cherche désespéremment l'intégrale des 43 épisodes de la série de SF "les envahisseurs" sur support K7 VHS. Je suis allé sur différents sites traitant de cette série, en vain. Quelqu'un les aurait-il ou saurait-il comment se les procurer ? (en français si possible) Merci beaucoup par avance. @lain

Hi,

Since many many years, i'm looking for the 43 videos of the invaders. I didn't find them on Internet. Does anybody get them or know what can i do for founding them (in french if possible !!). Thanks a lot. @lain


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Tuesday 6th April 3:09 am U.K. Time

Hello Alain!

Email me at water407@aol.com for any episode of The InVaDeRs(Les Envahisseurs) that you are looking for. I can send individual episodes or a DELUXE SET of all 43 episodes, the RARE and EXTENDED VERSION of the pilot film "BEACHEAD", full color authentic signed still picture(professional reproduction in full color on glossy slick) of Roy Thinnes, 1968 MAD magazine InVaDeRs parody(HARD TO FIND!), 3 Starlog articles from 1978 and 1993, MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, ABC TV InVaDeRs TRAILERS from 1967-1968...****SOME EPISODES HAVE THE ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS FROM THEIR ORIGINAL AIRDATE!!!*** I bought ABC TV 16mm film prints(this is how ABC ran shows before videotape) and I had the films professionally transfered to home video! Watching these ABC TV network versions is like going back in time and viewing this fine series in prime time! EMail me at water407@aol.com for more info! "KEEP LOOKING FOR THOSE MUTATED FOYRTH FINGERS" and have a great day!!! =)


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Tuesday 6th April 3:54 am U.K. Time

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROY--

66 MORE GOOD YEARS---"GO, GO CHICAGO ROY"

We love ya, man!

NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE, and all the Gang From WALLER HIGH--Class of '56


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Tuesday 6th April 5:53 am U.K. Time

Anyone ever notice how grossly overweight actress Shirley Knight is today? This is really shocking. She was thin as a waif in "The Watchers" , "The Man Who Was Never Born"(Outer Limits episode) and other shows she performed in...even in 1981's feature film "Endless Love" she was still in decent shape...but then you get to 1998's "As Good As It Gets" and the bloating is pretty bad. We all gain weight as we get older(except for dear Mr. Roy T...the man's a God), but Shirley Knight looks really awful...it is sad. She still rocks as an actress, and I do not mean to seem negative, but someone had to say something. She is extremely talented, but unfortunately she seems to enjoy Big Macs a bit too much

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Tuesday 6th April 6:00 am U.K. Time

~"H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y to Roy...H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y to Roy.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear R O Y....H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y to Y O U!.... AND MANY MORE....on CHANNEL FOUR!~" Thank you for sharing your gifts with us mere mortals over the years! You sir are captured forever on film and are thus immortal...a living legend! Have a blessed day filled with happiness, hope and love(if you happen to see this message) on your special day and ALWAYS =)

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 6th April 10:16 am U.K. Time

Besides Roy turning 66 today April 6th, on this date was also born Adrian Samish in 1910..You see his name as the very last one in the closing credits as "In Charge of Production"..He died Oct 14th, 1976

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 6th April 10:22 am U.K. Time

NTDR, the answer to your quiz is THE LEECHES, which had Canadians Arthur Hill (Sask) and Diana VanDerVlis (Ont) but she died in the US as a US citizen October 2001..

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 6th April 12:16 pm U.K. Time

Cher "ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr,

La série "Les Envahisseurs" est en ce moment rediffusée en France sur la chaîne publique "FR 3", tous les samedis soirs, vers les minuit !...

Samedi 10 avril 2004,à 00 h 15, diffusion de l'épisode "Alerte rouge", le premier de la deuxième saison...

Bien fraternellement ! Christian Macé


Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 6th April 2:21 pm U.K. Time

Oui cher C. Macé. Pb: comme l'indique mon e-mail, je suis à la Réunion, donc pas de France 3 mais du RFO; et ils viennent d'interrompre brutalement la diffusion. Si tu connais qq'un qui a l'intégrale, je suis preneur (éventuellement me la copier sur DVD) Ben fraternellement aussi @lain

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Tuesday 6th April 11:30 pm U.K. Time

IT is awesome that French Fans have taken to this Website; and my French is a bit Sluggish; but, Remember, ROY and I have some Luxembourger/Alsacisan heritage--Franks-Through and through--Roy, a bit more Germanic-in the AUGUSTIAN tradition- NOW--XNYCKID is Awesome--YOU ARE Great on those Quiz answers; Hat's off to you, man. YOU are "OUR" research expert. Chance--Your "Testimonial" to Roy is Ditto'ed by ME--In fact, You are great, too.

Yes; Happy Birthday, Roy--We all love you--Whether I am related to you or not-- is not important. I Ain't sayin' I am; I Definately Ain't sayin' I ain't!! I had to play Coy and "lay-down" cool for an "X" in your life; who was gracious enought to "slightly Acknowlege you/my Family"--but, in any event, GOD BLESS YOU--66 More Years, man-- "Hey--" from the old Wanzer Milk Company! And, Alcott school is just around the Corner! CHICAGO ROY RULES! NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE-I hope we get together one day, man!

God Bless

NTDR!!

AND< CHANCE: "WE" have to Make this "TESTIMONIAL DINNER" go--OK? ROY is a respected Elder, and we owe him a Vote Of THANKS! LET'S DO IT!

MAKE IT FIRST CLASS!

FOOD, MUSIC, DRINK-- HIGH CLASS FOOD--FIRST CLASS HOTEL--

ROY THINNES TESTIMONIAL--(Not a Roast)-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 7th April 12:14 am U.K. Time

I am so, so Disappointed that Those of "us" who claim to really LOVE this show-- that was, for all intent and purposes, quite a "flawed" show--BUT for Our hero, ROy Thinnes, That show would definately not warrent this much attention; BUT where in heck are the "True-Blue Fans"?

Please this is OUR HERO'S BIRTHDAY, for Crying Out Loud.

Please--when this man passes by the wayside-Who in Hell is going to replace him? The likes of idiots like "TIMBERLAKE"??

PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ

Help--

SOS!

WHERE ARE OUR FANS????????????????????

Happy BIRTHDAY--ROY!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 7th April 3:28 am U.K. Time

This is so sad. I am so sad for Roy. Why are there not enough of us paying Hommage to this great actor? Is he a great Actor? You bet. His timing was almost impeccable. And, as for the Sober, almost Boring, True Blue Hero--Adam West as Batman-- Green Hornet; etc., and then there was Roy Thinnes.

I am sorry that people who worked with Roy--actors, actresses, have not come here and sent him(AND US) a nice Birthday Greetings.

For all those Haughty, snob-types--remember, just as loyal we are to Roy and the show; They, too should remember that they would hardly have a career-IF ANY--if it weren't for the FANS, such as us, that distinguished them from perhaps ending up working in a Farmer's Market somewhere, or perhaps as a Check-Out gal at a Target-- Ohh--By the way, Suzanne Pleshette--I mean, Actress? Bette Davis she ain't!

So, Roy was NOT outclassed; Roy "outclassed" many of THOSE who seemingly went on to BIGGER AND BETTER--in the minds of WHOM? THEM? They can self-certify themselves; but be that as it may, ROY WINS-- ROY RULES-

CHICAGO ROY--God bless you, man-- Happy Birthday, Again--buddy-


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th April 4:07 am U.K. Time

Happy Birthday To R.G. Armstrong, Born April 7, 1917--memorable as Gus in PANIC and Capt.Battersea in THE LIFE SEEKERS.. Like Dabbs Greer a veteran of hundreds of movies and tv shows..And still with us!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th April 6:56 am U.K. Time

Invaders obituary this week-- Word comes out from sources and Canadian newspapers that this past weekend (April 4th) actor/ former CBC broadcaster Austin Willis died this past weekend in Nova Scotia at the age of 86.In THE VISE he was the silver-haired alien advisor to alien-politician Roscoe Lee Browne..I seem to recall that very recently a site-poster called his alien character a coward for leaving his alien compatriate behind in ACT IV when RLB gets shot..But hey, these guys were aliens--no heart and no emotions!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th April 7:20 am U.K. Time

Far as I know, Only 'humans' RG Armstrong and Linden Chiles in both their Invaders episodes were the only ones to see an alien 'fry" besides DV..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th April 8:25 am U.K. Time

NTDR, without a doubt the low point in Roy's film career has to be the TV-movie 1977-"Code Name Diamondhead"..In that one he sports an Afro haircut which looks ridiculous on him..I wonder if he saw On MST3K his acting days from 'General Hospital" being subjected to the scrutiny of 'Joel and the Bots'..Hilarious!..I was fortunate enough to tape that segment..

Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Wednesday 7th April 9:12 am U.K. Time

Hi, Jim and anyone else interested:

RG Armstrong and Linden Chiles weren't the only humans to see an alien evaporate. How about:

Tom Wiley (Mark Richman) in 'The Leeches'; Selene Lowell/Ken Harrison/Greg Lucather (Carol Rossen/William Sargent/John Larch) in 'Genesis'; Rick Graves (William Windom) and other human soldiers in 'Doomsday Minus One); Leo Rinaldi (Ernest Sarracino) in 'Quantity Unknown'; Father Joe (Joseph Campanella) in 'Storm'; Morgan Tate (Ralph Bellamy) in 'The Condemned; Dan Keller (Jason Evers) in 'Condition Red'. There's loads more in the second season! What a pity that all these humans (those who survived, that is) didn't sign a collective affadavit in DV's support!

Yeah - happy birthday to Mr Thinnes. If he visits this website, let's hope he's not put off by some of the crackpots who contribute to it.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th April 9:57 am U.K. Time

Hello Taugus, I believe that you got confused in your reply on what I was trying to say..I still stand on that RG Armstrong & Linden Chiles were the only humans to play humans in 2+ episodes and to also see aliens die before their eyes in both episodes..Think about what I am saying here, assuming you can access ALL 43!..I welcome any addition to this if I am in omission of perhaps one more connection on this that I might have missed..Will be news to me!

Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Wednesday 7th April 11:49 am U.K. Time

Hello again, Jim,

Your first posting on this was unclear, but I stand corrected - I think!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 8th April 12:32 am U.K. Time

To "TAUGUS" at alien@invaders Great new Contributor! Hope to see you here more often.

Decent, honorable contriburtors may induce Roy Thinnes to one day participate with us. IF we keep it straight and dignified.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 8th April 1:39 am U.K. Time

My Sunday, April 4th QUIZ Question was 1/2 answered by a great fan here; but, the other Half is still "pending"!

Any guesses as to what Canadian born thespian played an alien in two different episodes, and died in each of them?

HINT: His Elocution is perfect; and his straight, emotionless face is convincing as an alien. Not so sinister, as an "all business" type alien.

C'mon--! Someone knows.

Unfortunately, he passed away a few years back.


Name: Francis Foster
Email:
FFFoster@Fitzvizion.com
Thursday 8th April 6:02 am U.K. Time

It would really be great to be able to read the episode reviews. I miss them -- please bring them back!

Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Thursday 8th April 8:32 am U.K. Time

To Mr Thinnes' not-too-distant-0relative,

I expect you mean Donald Davis, whose accent was almost English. Curiously, what I remember about his performance in both Invaders episodes is that he had a very peculiar gait when he ran! Amazing what stays in the mind.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 8th April 10:21 am U.K. Time

yes it's Donald Davis..He died in Toronto in January 1998 age 69 and the Invaders episodes THE BELIEVERS (#31) and COUNTERATTACK (#34) were the last acting jobs that he ever had..I recall it seeming a bit odd to see the same alien actor in a major role in episodes so close together..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 8th April 10:40 am U.K. Time

re: Donald Davis--actually COUNTERATTACK was episode #35--my mistake--but still that was only 4 apart..However, in #21 VALLEY OF THE SHADOW we see actor Hank Brandt as alien Joe Manners die in the Carterville Wyoming town square..(This town square also used in "Back To The Future") .In the very next episode #22 THE ENEMY he plays the alien who dies in Utah in the saucer crash in the opening scene!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 8th April 11:30 am U.K. Time

One of the most blatant errors on the show-- THE LIFE SEEKERS takes place entirely in Indiana, though not filmed there of course.. Officer Joe Nash (Stephen Brooks) is an Indiana State Police (ISP) patrolman..In ACT IV we see the 2 alien ISP cops pull out a road map which the camera briefly zooms in on.. But this map shows Great Bend, which is in Kansas!..The same shootout scene in this act is also portrayed as being in West Virginia in PANIC wherein DV slugs the alien cop (played by Rayford barnes) and takes capture of 'Nick"..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 8th April 1:23 pm U.K. Time

Interesting to note that actor R.G.Armstrong was in both episodes noted above, PANIC and THE LIFE SEEKERS which made use of the same set--and he also to my knowledge is the only human besides DV to see a saucer in 2 different episodes..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 8th April 1:36 pm U.K. Time

TO: alien@invaders-- Yeah--Incredible--I made that note on "The Believers" when he was Running towards Carol Linley! Donald Davis was in a lot of Canadian productions, and frankly was a FINE, fine Legitimate actor. He did Aedopus Rex-- I think he played a good alien. But his keen sophistication, sober, almost boring personality may have been lost by not putting him in a Role more suitable as an Ally of David, in some ensueing shows; rather than and alien.

Aliens, for the most part were kinda stupid. They were odd-balls, and certainly not "light-years" ahead of us. Some of their contraptions had extension cords. And their planning was really dumb. I like actor, "Roy Jenson" Alien No. 1 in "the Mutation" Great Lines: "We will be ready" and "Now" and "We will be waiting" God--how much did he earn from that one?

Hal Baylor--who was related to the Family for which the famous medical school was named; was cast as "Friendly Alien" in the credits- He was also an Alien in Vikor--A security Guard! That episode was one of the best. I liked "The Trial"- Only that Russell Johnson, who has had a plethora of terrible tragedies in his life--was just too nice a guy(in real life, too) to play an alien!

Thanks again for you great commentaries-- and Please--Call me "Paul"

I am not saying I am related to Roy--Nor am I not! In any event, it really doesn't matter. Unfortunately, I don't know him. There is a (not too)distant connection-- CHICAGO ROY!!

hahah!

Keep this thing alive--He deserves it! They couldn't have selected a more sober, almost boring Superhero as Roy Thinnes; don't you think?


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 8th April 4:30 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, Roy Jenson is a son of the maple leaf by birth..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 9th April 1:50 am U.K. Time

Yeah--there are a lot of Danish Canadians up on Calgary, Alberta--along with Ukrainians, and now a lot of Italians! Roy Jenson(en)is not only an alien, a Canadian, and sometimes spells his name with an "e" is still around. He is also a US Citizen.

Man, these Canadian Aliens; eh?

get it?? EH????

hahah--

I like CHICAGO better than CANADA---

huhhhhhhhhhh!

Right, Roy?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 9th April 1:52 am U.K. Time

Slight Adjustment: I have lived in Florida for 24 years; Do I like Florida? Not really. But, when it is colder in Chicago than on some places on Mars--I am certainly pleased that I am here. But, as far as personality is concerned? Chicago, Canada and then FLORIDA! For sure--EH?

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 9th April 3:30 am U.K. Time

Good night, gang- happy easter

Name: UFO
Email:
gibsm2@aol.com
Friday 9th April 4:11 am U.K. Time

Can anyone please let me know where it's possible to purchase the Invaders on DVD or VHS format, i'd much appreciate it...

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 9th April 4:11 am U.K. Time

Donald Davis DID have an ODD Gait!

But, his enunciation was great-What a voice. AND, you said, "almost English"? Well, most Canadians, now sound almost exactly like Americans from the East Coast, without the strong Brooklyn, or Boston accents. You get an "eh" or a "Oh-OOT" for Out--and we tend to say AU0OOT for OUT--

the same with the ABOUT---Abooot--but maybe because he did so much Stratford, Ontario work(Shakesperean), the accent just became more BRITISH-- Also, his Age-Group--a bit closer to the British immigration, I am sure.

He was good, though.

Yes; Funny Gait~!

He played a "Rat" in "The Wild, Wild West," too.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 9th April 9:32 am U.K. Time

Okay--the list of native Canadians to act on the show in both major and minor roles includes Donald Davis, Austin Willis, Roy Jenson, Donald Harron, Diana VanDerVlis, Arthur Hill, Lawrence Dane, Larry Thor, Barry Cahill, Willard Sage, and director George McCowan (DARK OUTPOST, a favorite of mine)..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 9th April 9:38 am U.K. Time

Only one native Australian though-- Murray Matheson, the alien "Dr Reynard" in THE IVY CURTAIN..Also memorable as the clown in the Twilight Zone episode "Six Characters In Search Of An Exit" (which also featured Invaders actor William Windom)..Mr Matheson also appeared in the ill-fated TZ MOVIE..He died April 12, 1985 in Hollywood age 72..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 9th April 9:46 am U.K. Time

Donald Harron--'Jeff' in THE PIT-- is not known here in the US but up north in Maple Leaf Country he was a well-known personality on Canadian radio and stage..He turns 80 this September 19th 2004..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 9th April 11:15 am U.K. Time

THE RANSOM by the way the only Invaders episode that did not have at least one actor/actress who had also appeared on The Twilight Zone.. All the other 42 had at least one who was on TZ..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 9th April 2:05 pm U.K. Time

Murray Matheson born July 1, 1912 in Casterton, Victoria, Australia..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 9th April 3:04 pm U.K. Time

Hey UFO and ANYONE looking for THE InVaDeRs on home video....email me at water407@aol.com....I can send you any single episode OR a DELUXE SET of all 43 episodes, a signed authentic color pic of Roy Thinnes(color slick reproduction of a signed publicity still of Roy running from a saucer), ABC TV InVaDeRs trailers frm 16mm film, original InVaDeRs commercials from 16mm film, MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, InVaDeRs articles from Starlog Magazine, 1968 RARE MAD Magazine parody, SUPER RARE EXTENDED version of the pilot film "BEACHEAD"(this version is 60 minutes as opposed to the 51 min. aired version and opposed to the time compressed/distorted/sped-up 45 min. Sci Fi Channel version...this version is 60 min and has longer scenes, totally differnt end credits, different "take"/orchestration of main title musical theme, longer fight scene between Vincent and the honeymooning alien, alternate takes AND MORE! !!)....some episodes have the ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS from ABC TV 16mm films in my library that I had professionally transfered to home video for your enjoyment...watching these original episodes with funny cigarette ads is like going back in time and watching the series new and in prime time! The DELUXE SET has all this AND MORE! I of course can send single episodes as well. Email me at water407@aol.com for more details and have a great weekend! As always I will ship ANYWHERE in the world...FAST!!! "Keep looking for those mutated fourth fingers" and HAPPY EASTER =)

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Friday 9th April 7:04 pm U.K. Time

Hi There, When The Invaders was first shown in America in the late sixties does anyone know what sort of television audience figures it achieved, what channel it was on, and how many other channels were available at that time?

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 9th April 11:51 pm U.K. Time

There were only THREE Major Networks, out of USA--each of which had a local affiliate; starting with Regular Programming after the Local News-

In Chicago, where I was when this show was first shown on ABC, it started out on Tuesday Nights; at 8:00 pm CST-

The ratings were "fair" the first year; poor the second.


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Saturday 10th April 1:34 am U.K. Time

The InVaDeRs routinely beat Star Trek in the ratings. I have a book that chronicles this. Something new to add to the deluxe sets of all 43 episodes and extras! Thanks for posting, Mr. Maddox and DTDR!

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Saturday 10th April 2:58 am U.K. Time

Dear Friends,

This saturday night 10 april 2004, at 00 H 15, diffusion of n° 18 episod "The Invaders" series, "Condition : Red", the first episod of season n° 2. This in France, on public channel "FR 3" !...

Friendly,

Christian Macé

Chers amis,

Ce soir samedi 10 avril 2004, à 00H 15, diffusion de l'épisode n° 18 "Alerte Rouge" de la série "Les Envahisseurs", qui est le 1er épisode de la saison n° 2. Cela en France, sur la chaînne publique "FR 3" !...

Bien amicalement,

Christian Macé


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 6:51 am U.K. Time

jamie, The show was on ABC-TV..Tuesday nights at 10pm if I recall and in NYC it was on Channel 7--WABC-TV, the flagship station of the network.. In the larger cities in the US most ABC stations are on Channel 7..As for back then, in NYC we had a total of seven channels..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 10th April 9:05 am U.K. Time

Hi, So in terms of viewing audience how many people watched the show?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 12:16 pm U.K. Time

jamie, originally every show began with an announcer saying "Next--The Invaders--In Color!"..as did the other QMP "The Fugitive" when it went to color, Hank Sims doing double-duty on both..I was there and recall well what a technological marvel the concept of 'color tv' was..Imagine trying to picture an alien dying or alien zap-gun being used and shown in b&w! BTW, Hank Sims also did the same opening for the QMP "The FBI"..(QMP = Quinn Martin Production)..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 12:20 pm U.K. Time

Actually it's Hank Simms--my error-- and he was born May 25, 1923--and still with us!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 12:23 pm U.K. Time

Hank of course the guy who says "The guest stars in tonight's story"...

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 12:40 pm U.K. Time

jamie again, you are asking how many people watched the show..which inevitably leads to 'why was it cancelled'?.. In America we use The Nielsen Ratings, a super-secret system wherein random families are contacted (and paid) to keep track of their tv-watching habits (with sophisticated attachments) in order to draw up a representative slice of the viewers out there..It could be argued that our-favorite-show was cancelled due to less-than-great ratings..I personally adhere to the idea that the show essentially had nowhere to go after 43 episodes..DV goes to investigate alien activity all over the USA--finds the aliens, kills them and thwarts their evil plans, and basically nobody believes him or arrives on-scene just moments after-the-fact..There are MANY more possibilities for plots had the show been done since at least the Challenger disaster of January 1986 and as I said previously, a cel-phone would have enabled DV to get the troops out faster instead of constantly searching for a pay-phone as he does..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 1:22 pm U.K. Time

jamie, what pisses me off is that The Show was replaced by a musical/variety show called "That's Life" starring Robert Morris and the very leggy E.J. Peaker..I have despised Mr Morris ever since..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 10th April 1:26 pm U.K. Time

Make that Robert MORSE..I still hate the guy for his idiot show replacing The Invaders in September 1968..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 10th April 5:29 pm U.K. Time

It is unfortunate, that the "Thinnes" family(that I know)are good and decent people; but, friendly, they AIN'T--and poor Roy is NOT a snob; he is just kinda hurt; because he was not enthusiastic about this "Pretty Boy" crap; he is more grounded and deeper than that; and NO ONE in Hollywood Took him serious; they just used him as a comodity; and whence that was used up--"Get lost, Whitebread--" and he surely was a victim of (and I am NOT an advocate of this VICTIM, DEMOCRAT BULLCRAP), and theyp slotted him for this IDIOTIC, "Devil" in "Satan's School for Girls" garbage-- villifying his ethnicity--(Mine, too), and meanwhile, he came from Humble beginnings and had the "fortune" of being a good looking white guy, from Chicago? That was his curse.

Even 30 years hence, he was put in a "LAW AND ORDER" episode, where he was put in the role of a SMUG, arrogant, "Caucasian" politico--whose political connection, interfered with his ability to convict a triple murderer-- It was his "personality" that was "indicted"; not, his protagonistic role. Roy is no idiot. He comes from the same, dignified, hard working Alsacian heritage as mine; and I don't care how much success he has acheived, he was Characterized incorrectly, and I --as NSDR--resent it.

When is America going to get it's (you know what) back?

"cojones" was Madeline Albrights' terminology. Can I use it, as NTDR THINNES?

Remember,"THINNES" is an old, Catholic name--God bless Roy--

Thank God, he had the dignity--no matter how much money he made--he did NOT compromise his HONOR--

NOTSODISTANTRELATIVE---Loves you, man-

GOD BLESS, and Congrats on your new "life"--if you know what I mean; and HAPPY EASTER--from your Cousin--

NTDR


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 11th April 1:00 pm U.K. Time

Happy 69th birthday to Nancy Kovack of TASK FORCE, born April 11, 1935 in Flint, Michigan..In that episode her wardrobe actually changes from the shoot-out scene with her driving to where she parks the car..Since 1969 she has been married to NY Philharmonic maestro Zubin Mehta..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 11th April 1:07 pm U.K. Time

Nancy K also played "Queenie" in the 3rd and 4th episodes of "Batman" (girlfriend to The Joker) and in his memoirs Adam West called her the most beautiful and glamorous woman that he ever met..About 35 actors/actresses appeared on both our-favorite-show and 'Batman"..The most notable of course being Burgess Meredith...

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 11th April 1:12 pm U.K. Time

My mistake, Nancy K was actually in Batman episodes 5&6

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 11th April 5:41 pm U.K. Time

Kovack was in the Bewitched pilot as well, not that anyone gives a darn. All those actors of the 1960's were in the same shows.

Some actors/actresses that were regulars in the Quinn Martin stock which appeared in The Fugitive, The FBI, The Untouchables, etc should have been in The InVaDeRs and probably would had it not been cancelled. There was a lot more to see and tell before ABC pulled the plug...a full third season with Edgar Scoville and "The Believers" would have been interesting and entertaining. Some actors in the QM family that I would have liked to see on TI are Nita Talbot(as an alien woman), Lois Nettleton, Leslie Neilson, Telly Savalis, Bruce Dern, Earl Holliman, Jud Taylor and more...if only ABC had stayed the course


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 11th April 10:29 pm U.K. Time

We here, at the "theinvaders.co.uk/" fan club--love the show; obviously. But, strictly speaking, I like the "fad" of the show; and of course, "David's" character; but, the show--for me--was not all that great. Am I hurting anyone's feelings? It is JUST an Opinion, fellows/gals. Chance is right; if only there were more "cast-regular" Quinn Martin's cast- but, they simply ran out of ideas, I guess.

Happy Easter--

Take care-


Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Sunday 11th April 10:37 pm U.K. Time

Hi, everyone,

Of course, it's fun to spot bloopers and continuity errors in 'Invaders' episodes, but the programme makers naturally would not have taken all of these terribly seriously in the 60s, as none of us had VCRs to replay time and again. Anyway, while I'm here, how about Gail Frazer (Barbara Barrie) measuring the 'heartbeat' of alien Blake in 'The Enemy'. I suppose the makers would say he had a pacemaker fitted just for that episode! (cf. Donald Harron's character, Jeff Brower in 'The Pit'). Also, I gather that the false human skin the aliens develop in re-generation is some sort of cellulose. In that case, why did the insects/ butterflies find the alien constable Gabbard so tasty at the end of 'Nightmare'? Ugh!


Name: edmund
Email:
ecretens@new.rr.com
Monday 12th April 3:10 am U.K. Time

I have the entire series on VHS. All 43 episodes.

Edmund


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th April 7:27 am U.K. Time

NTDR, I was a fan of all the Quinn Martin productions..THE INVADERS not only had great casting, but it was played dead serious, never condescending to its audience..The Howard A Anderson special effects were top notch for the time..And of course it was the first tv show to deal with UFOs.. The one QMP that spoon-fed a bunch of bull**** to the American public was "the fbi".. Each and every episode had to be personally approved by jedgar-the-cross-dresser..So there were no stories of the lives and reputations of innocent people that they destroyed in those turbulent times..just bank-robbers and kidnappers.. Many actors in the QMP company in many different shows..I am friends with actor Pat Cardi, who was 'Billy Concannon' in THE PEACEMAKER and acted in "In a Plain Brown Wrapper' on "The Fugitive"..(co-starring Kurt Russell)..His girlfriend at the time was Mary Badham, best remembered as 'Sport" in "To Kill a Mockingbird"..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th April 7:37 am U.K. Time

Hello Edmund, glad to hear you have all 43..Here is a helpful hint-- get hold of another VCR and connect it up to the one you have..Get a blank 6 HR tape and on it re-record your 7 favorite episodes of the 43..(7 episodes will fit on a 6hr tape via ELP tape speed.)...Keep that tape handy should something bad befall the ones you have..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th April 9:06 am U.K. Time

Hello Taugus, re: NIGHTMARE-- Those butterflies were under alien control!..Obviously from a plot point-of-view the logistics and production realities weren't able to come up with an actual scene of those insects actually devouring the alien cop so we only get to visualize that alien cop fry off-screen....Remember too in LABYRINTH how a fully accredited doctor medically examined an unconscious alien in his office... and while he found the chest X-rays to be unusual, there is no mention of him taking heartbeat and pulse, which is the first thing they teach in medical school..In THE CAPTIVE, Dr. Dana Wynter also notes the discrepancy with the chest X-ray but makes no further tests on Don Dubbins..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th April 9:23 am U.K. Time

In THE CAPTIVE, alien Don Dubbins tells his captors that he is from "Langley, Virginia" which of course is the home base of 'The See-Eye-Yay'...

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 12th April 9:28 am U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, I think its very difficult to really judge how good The Invaders was..of course there are mistakes and bad acting (not from DV ) dodgy plots etc but Roy's acting held it all together and made it believable. Even in the seventies when me and my brothers watched the show on saturday teatime we used to laugh at the Alien gadgets etc. Roy's acting and the subject matter were i think the main ingredients for me..it must have had something very special for us to be still talking about it! Roy's character Mr David Vincent staying cool in the face of ridicule ,(he's that nut who sees flying saucers) still managing to conduct himself possatively in order to try and save mankind, this brave thankless existance had some stange and powerful hold on me and still has. And then EPILOGUE...We usually see David Vincent looking a bit more relaxed as he say's farewell to an aquaintance who is now not so sure...Oh i'm going to have to watch The Mutation Again Damm!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th April 9:38 am U.K. Time

Lynn Loring was the wife of Roy when they made PANIC together, and she also played the daughter of Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Z Jr) on the QMP "The Eff-Bee-Eye"..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th April 9:40 am U.K. Time

hi jamie old pal, just keep your eye on those chickens!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 12th April 10:41 am U.K. Time

Hi again, Chance mentioned 'Bewitched' in a post recently..there could hardly be a greater contrast, i would, for a bit of fun like to know if there were any more connections between The Invaders and Bewitched! I know that DV could sure have used Tabatha's skills a few times had they been allies!

Name: Not Roy Thinnes
Email:
powellehc@aol.com
Monday 12th April 8:21 pm U.K. Time

The Invaders is a much under-rated show and I thought th eongoing battle between Roy and the aliens was brilliant.

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 12th April 11:18 pm U.K. Time

Hi Jamie, l don't know if there were any true connections between Bewitched and The Invaders, but strange one could be, Agnes Moorehead [Endora] starred in a Twilight Zone episode entitled "The Invaders"

Thanks Craig.

www.the-invaders.com


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Tuesday 13th April 3:49 am U.K. Time

Yeah--That Twilight Zone episode has an unusual "Twist" as to who the "Invaders" are! I won't spoil it for those who have not seen it!

I have a classic "UNTOUCHABLES" episode from 1962, with Guess who? Chicago Roy! Yes! He plays an Irish kid named "Danny Brannon"--and his acting is superb! Really--this Roy Thinnes is perfect in his timing, and he is not an "over-actor"--He is Truly an ACTOR--

NTDR-

take care, gang--

Au revoir-- and, to xnyckid--You are so, so informed, and interesting- Thanks for you imput.


Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Tuesday 13th April 7:34 am U.K. Time

Hi, everybody,

Word is that 'The Waltons' series 1 and the first four series of 'Little House on the Prairie' are out on DVD Region 1. Really makes you wonder why 'The Invaders' still isn't, especially as there are so few episodes to handle, compared with these two long-running series. I bet websites like this are periodically examined by copyright holders to gauge the enthusiasm for potential DVD releases, so keep the posts coming!

Incidentally, 'The Untouchables', an excellent series and another QM production, deserves to be out on DVD too, along with 'The Fugitive'. I have a few episodes of each and there's no doubt at all that QM was brilliant at establishing the right sort of atmosphere for his shows, terminally miserable David Janssen notwithstanding.


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 13th April 8:13 am U.K. Time

Hi everyone, at the risk of sounding like a bit of a nut(i've taken that risk before and so did DV) i am going to conduct a little experiment today. I am going to ask some randomly picked friends and aquaintances, (whoever i come into contact with today), who have no idea of my interest in The Invaders, to recall their memories of watching the series (if they have any) and what they remember.... This should be interesting in the sense that my theory about the POWER of this show staying in one's memory will be put to the test..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th April 8:31 am U.K. Time

The ELP format is the one I have all the episodes on..The SP format provided a crisper picture but only on ELP can you slo-mo and freeze-frame..plus 7 episodes fit on one 6hr tape..With about 35 minutes left at the end to re-record great shoot-outs, fistfights, etc..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th April 8:43 am U.K. Time

Hi Taugus, you like the bloopers.. Like I said, in ACT IV of THE MUTATION keep your eyes on the chickens in the cages during the shootout scene..As well, in ACT IV of THE ORGANIZATION pay attention to the last alien that DV shoots in the museum..This alien starts to fry and fall on 'the shipment'..If you slo-mo and freeze-frame the scene, you will see that 'the shipment' actually starts to fry via optical effects split-seconds before the dying alien actually makes contact with it.... For every episode I can come up with trivia, bloopers, bios etc so feel free to ask any time--and anyone else reading this!..As the great Jimmy Durante used to say, "I got a million of 'em!"..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th April 9:10 am U.K. Time

hi jamie, in answer to your latest posting--- I was 12 years old and in the 7th grade in junior high school in NYC when the show debuted in January 1967..10PM-11PM on WABC-TV Channel 7..Since I had to be at school next day at 7:30AM--a 1 mile walk--I had to make many promises to my mom to be able to stay up that late to watch the show..But watch it I did, every episode and rerun because I knew that there was something special about this show..Being the voracious reader that I have always been, back then when the show was 'new' I recall reading a lot of ink about Roy..He had previously been on other shows as a guest and on "The Long Hot Summer" but THIS SHOW made him a star..And I always remember that back then he was never shy about expressing his own personal belief in UFOs.(NTDR knows this)..So essentially the casting of him in the role of David Vincent was brilliant!..Not just another hack actor going through the motions but a guy who truly was the role he played, to a degree!..So this among many reasons that I HAD to see it back then..Remember, no VCRs back then--only about 7 channels in the bigger cities-...You always figured that you'd see any tv show 1x original + 1x rerun for many of them and never again..I count 'the VCR' as one of the greatest inventions of the last century, but a poor 2nd to 'tv'..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th April 9:54 am U.K. Time

jamie, in-re the above, The Show was on Tuesday nights originally..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th April 10:31 am U.K. Time

Hello again Taugus, in regard to the copyright people.. It's probably a given that they are 'periodically examining' websites like this and many others but not to 'gauge enthusiasm' for potential releases but to find the video pirates..

Name: JOSEPH TURNER
Email:
JOSEPH-TURNER@MYWAY.COM
Tuesday 13th April 12:38 pm U.K. Time

MR JIM DAMN RIGHT. TITLE 17 US CODE SECTION 201.(a)

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Tuesday 13th April 2:31 pm U.K. Time

ANYONE looking for THE InVaDeRs on home video....email me at water407@aol.com....I can send you any single episode OR a DELUXE SET of all 43 episodes, a signed authentic color pic of Roy Thinnes(color slick reproduction of a signed publicity still of Roy running from a saucer), ABC TV InVaDeRs trailers frm 16mm film, original InVaDeRs commercials from 16mm film, MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, InVaDeRs articles from Starlog Magazine, 1968 RARE MAD Magazine parody, SUPER RARE EXTENDED version of the pilot film "BEACHEAD"(this version is 60 minutes as opposed to the 51 min. aired version and opposed to the time compressed/distorted/sped-up 45 min. Sci Fi Channel version...this version is 60 min and has longer scenes, totally differnt end credits, different "take"/orchestration of main title musical theme, longer fight scene between Vincent and the honeymooning alien, alternate takes AND MORE! !!)....some episodes have the ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS from ABC TV 16mm films in my library that I had professionally transfered to home video for your enjoyment...watching these original episodes with funny cigarette ads is like going back in time and watching the series new and in prime time! The DELUXE SET has all this AND MORE! I of course can send single episodes as well. Email me at water407@aol.com for more details TODAY and as always I will ship ANYWHERE in the world...FAST =)

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 13th April 9:17 pm U.K. Time

Right here we go..Johnathan Cadman a digital image technician aged 45 remembers DV as looking like a younger Bill Bixby and said,"didn't he travel round trying to convince people".(about what i don't know , we didn't get any further).Graham walsh aged 50, a production engineer for British Nuclear fuels said, "i remember the name, was it a science fiction series from the sixties".Veronica Walsh a ladies fashion retailer aged 56 said, "oh he was hansome with his hair going back and he was on the run and didn't they do signs with their hands so they knew one another." Nick Taylor a squash professional aged 32 said, " is that the one where the Aliens burned up and dissapeared so that everyone thought he was lying." And my final victim was Andy Brylski aged 40 who is a detective with Manchester drugs squad..he said,"he was a journalist on the run called David Vincent who was trying to stop aliens cloning humans." Out of the five people asked only one didn't remember any details of the show. Interestingly three of the five remember watching it in Black and white...they must have had B&w televisions. These were all people i know well...the next time i'll be asking unsuspecting people who i don't know....yes i am bored at the moment but find it interesting anyway. I hope there are some other people who share the same wiew!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 13th April 11:01 pm U.K. Time

I mean the same Veiw.


Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Wednesday 14th April 9:32 am U.K. Time

Hi, Jim and everyone,

Yes, Jim, I expect you're right about looking for video pirates - a cynical view, yet probably true! But in that case, why has Chance not been arrested? I still think that a website like this is a good marketing indication to those who have the power of DVD release.


Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th April 2:13 pm U.K. Time

Mr Turner--no worries with me!

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th April 2:20 pm U.K. Time

Taugus, I'm just here to provide Invaders info... And I have no interest in selling anything..I do get asked a lot off-site..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 14th April 3:11 pm U.K. Time

I say release the series Mr. Turner or whoever you are. The InVaDeRs is in the public domain. Read the Burne Act. The InVaDeRs are offered on a collector to collector basis for home use only with no rights given or implied AT COST. This is a fan page and all trades are conducted OFF SITE via private communication. Go bother someone else and for the love of God RELEASE THE INVADERS OFFICIALLY and then you would have a case if I did not cease and desist AFTER an offiical product is available. Until then, I am doing nothing wrong. If this is not a prank and Turner is really "wathing" us, then please realize that we want an official release and instead of harrassing me, do something constructive and worthwhile and satisfy the legions of InVaDeRs fans.

Jim, I told you I will not reply to your messages since I know how great you are...hell you tell us how great and wonderful you are everyday with no less than five posts back to back daily. You do not offer any assistance to fans in obtaining a set of all 43 episodes(Of course you only have the edited and time compressed Sci-Fi Channel versions that you admitted to recording in SLP mode-inferior mode). You are too cool! All kidding aside, you do post some good links and you cut and paste real good and tell us about all of the great Twilight Zone guest stars that appeared on The InVaDeRs, so I guess you do perform some useful service on second thought =) God bless you


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 15th April 2:59 am U.K. Time

Title 17 does not apply- Stop the "Clarence Darrow" bit--Why would ANYONE want to stop ANYONE from providing a fellow FAN from enjoying this show? This is supposed to be a unified, clear fan club--NOT this egocentric, "I am smarter than you" nonsense- Chance is Doing a great service for those out there who are more interested in promoting Janice Jackson, and a who plethora of idiotic "Artists"

Face it, this show is beyond 30 plus years--Truthfully, It was NOT that great of a show-- All of YOU rear-view-mirrow Know it alls--Stop--OK? What was great is, the gimmick, and the actors--Particularly Chicago Roy-

Please--man, Give Chance a break-

He is NOT violating any laws-- Anyway, Who the hell cares about idiotic laws- This guy is providing us with a way to enjoy our Favorite Show! OK? Stupid--

YOU are acting like kids who cannot have the toy; so, I will "Break" his!

I work in the criminal justice system- There are no copywrite laws that prevent private sales-- NOW--"IF" someone has "Commercial" showings--one may be hedgeing= But, making a copy of a tape, as long as it was taken from a TELEVISION program, is weak, if at all--and there is no Law enforcement agency that can stand on any law--IT will be balked at. Believe me.

ONLY "IF" Chance were to take a Commercially Packeaged VHS as in the Green Covered one that I have with "the Mutation" --and reproduce by "Computer Scanner" a Package with an exact reproduction, and sold it on E bay, or some other commercial Vendor, as AUTHENITIC as GOODTIMES VIDO- THEN-- MAYBE then, Chance might be "pushing it" -BUT IF THE CUSTOMER IS HAPPY WITH A $6.00 buck Tape of SUZANNE PLESHETTE from 1968---WHO THE HELL CARES? SUZANNE Has the acting ability of a cat; and though she is awefully Cute; She should be proud as a peacock, people even know who in hell she is. IF she wasn't pretty, she might be a good waitress at a Jewish Deli or Italian Pizzeria in Chicago-

YOU self-certified "copywrite "LAWYERS" are morons-

Back off- And, enjoy the website- I have purchased stuff from Chance--and the guy is honest, and honorable--and He sends nice little perks-- Even to those who seek to criticize him.

Oh, by the way--We are Doing Chicago Roy a service by keeping a show like this from being completely buried or shipped off to "France"! In fact, it is very popular in France!

CHANCE---"TRANSFER ALL YOUR TAPES FROM NTSC-to PAL, and Expand your Business!!

France--your next Frontier!!!

And, so you don't get into their socialist, mafia tactic TAX laws--- Just Swap, High Quality Tapes for B&G WINES/ Or, GOOD Martell Cognac-- Some of your not so quality tapes; Swap for some Grocery Store, French Crap wine--

Satisfied, "Labor-Law"-Armed Chair-Copywrite Experts??

Morons

Chicago Roy is a real man-

Believe me, He would punch sissy-panzy-asses in the nose-- even if they did like his show-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 15th April 3:14 am U.K. Time

Good Night!

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Thursday 15th April 11:55 am U.K. Time

Just the facts-- I'm not here to say 'how great and wonderful' I am..Just to provide the info and trivia about the show..For example TODAY--April 15th--is the 63rd birthday of actor Robert Walker Jr, most memorable as 'Nick' in PANIC..A dead-ringer for his actor-father who died at a very young age..His mother--still alive--is Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones.

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Thursday 15th April 12:11 pm U.K. Time

my error, Robert Walker Jr (born 1940) turns 64 today..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 15th April 3:17 pm U.K. Time

Thank you Not Too Distant Relative...your kind words made my day! Hopefully I can type on this message board from my prison cell. I am joking. I apologize to Jim since he truly does know his stuff. The only post that was not informative was the one about the opening of the show stating "NEXT...The InVaDeRs IN COLOR" since most versions have this intact...only Sci Fi cut that back in 1992-1994 and I have some Sci Fi versions too

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Thursday 15th April 3:32 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, There are new videoclips and images available at my site now.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 15th April 9:56 pm U.K. Time

Hey, XNYCKID--"you" are Great and Wonderful for this website; and My criticism was really not of Anyone in particular; but we all need to be kinder to each other here. YOU are the best--Really-I have written to you and you to me off this, On e mail--and

I really treasure our relationship-- You are very informed and a true Contributor to this website-

Hope you are here always-

NTDR


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 16th April 1:46 am U.K. Time

XNYCKID-"You" are a fountain of Knowlege! In fact, I saw Jennifer Jones in a movie with Peter Lorre, called, Beat the Devil-Not bad; nice Italian Scenes- She got mixed up with a Hollywood Mogul who truly put the "arm" on poor Robert Walker, Sr., and the poor guy died when his son- "Nick-the Alien with the Cold hands" was only a baby- Yes; those Hollywood Moguls, along with some self-centered women, can ruin people's lives. Just as an aside; Robert Walker, Jr. and his mother haven't spoken in years.

I wonder why??

Good for you, Robert, Jr.

His dad and he look not a like--They Look "exactly" alike- "THAT" is incredible-

Thanks for the Info, XNYCKID--

God Bless-- Keep this thing "Alive"!

Roy is counting on it--

(he probably doensn't even know this thing exists!)


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 16th April 1:49 am U.K. Time

OHHHHHHHH, My letter about "Clarence Darrow" lawyers, was not for JIM the XNYCKID--At all! Oh, what a misunderstanding- sorry, Jim!

I was responding to someone else's "lawyer" comments on Articles, etc.

I am sure he meant well, too-BUT this country is getting too darn litigeous.

Freedoms are FLEETING us-- All in the name of "Fighting Terrorists" or, is it "Fighting Aliens"?


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Friday 16th April 2:55 am U.K. Time

Since my last posting on Thursday [Afternoon], more videoclips and images have been uploaded.

If you have a request for a videoclip, sound file or image let me know through my site, and l'll see what l can do.

Thanks Craig.


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 16th April 5:41 am U.K. Time

Hi gang!

I just watched a Bionic Woman episode on film titled "MAX" and there were 3 interesting bad guys from The InVaDeRs...the alien from "The Betrayed" that interrigates Vincent and goes "THE TAPE" and the "papa" alien with the kid from "The Saucer" as wel as the "American Indian" 'alien' from Star Trek's "The Paradise Syndrome."(the Indian is an alien since he is from another world)...three "aliens" in one scene...COOL!

CRAIG...YOUR SITE IS AWESOME!!! GREAT WORK!!!


Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th April 11:01 am U.K. Time

Craig, you are a stand-up guy!

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th April 11:04 am U.K. Time

Ralph at http://www.theinvders.com.ar--you too if you are reading this!

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th April 11:09 am U.K. Time

All 'show' fans, you really should check out the 2 excellent Invaders websites that are run by Craig from the UK and Ralph who lives in Argentina..

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th April 11:11 am U.K. Time

Actually Ralph lives in Brazil but the website is from Argentina..

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th April 11:20 am U.K. Time

cb--apology accepted on that one

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th April 11:37 am U.K. Time

Invaders-Titanic connection-- The Titanic sank 92 years ago yesterday on April 14, 1912..In the 1958 movie 'A Night To Remember' at the critical moments we are shown a guy--ostensibly J. Bruce Ismay --who sheepishly enters a lifeboat near the end ..this scene also repeated in the 1997/98 movie..In the '58 movie, that actor is Laurence Naismith of Invaders episodes THE RANSOM and THE EXPERIMENT..Was also in "Jason and The Argonauts" with Nancy Kovack..He was born in the UK in 1908 and died in Australia in 1992..

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Friday 16th April 2:46 pm U.K. Time

Thanks for the kind comments and the site plug. l've enjoyed creating it. There's plenty of more content to come.

Thanks Again Craig.


Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Friday 16th April 11:00 pm U.K. Time

Hi, everyone,

Laurence Naismith - yeah, fine actor. The earliest film I ever saw him in is 'The Happiest Days of Your Life', a British comedy from 1948 in which he plays a short-tempered school governor, a far cry from the fairly kindly old men he played in later years.

Over recent months, mention has been made on this website of the actual locations where 'The Invaders' was shot. I am particularly interested in this - some day, it would be good to visit these places in Southern California, starting maybe with Vasquez Rocks, used in so many episodes, and Laguna Hills, used in 'The Innocent'. Has anyone compiled a definitive list of these places?


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 17th April 7:14 am U.K. Time

hi everyone, I haven't had time to complete another slightly barmy survey but will be on the case soon..The scene from The Experiment where Lawrence Naismith is in his room when the Aliens come up and get him is genuinly scary..his helpless thrashing about and the way they his feet laeve the floor as his hopeless expression is seen close up..wonderful. I haven't seen the other episode with him in but look forward to seeing it sometime in the future!

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th April 11:28 am U.K. Time

Hey there Taugus, While sadly it looks like markymark has left the site due to politics, if you back-access the site and find a past-posting of his you could probably contact him as he is the Southern California Invaders expert on filming locales and in particular THE INNOCENT..

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th April 11:39 am U.K. Time

jamie, in THE EXPERIMENT in one scene there is a brief shot of a passing alien (no dialogue, no credit) who is also in TASK FORCE (no dialogue, no credit)..And to me this appears to be actor Paul Gleason--best known as 'Clarence Beeks' in the movie "Trading Places" and the teacher in "The Breakfast Club", which I have never seen--not my generation..For years he was married to actress Joanna Hall-Gleason, a major actress in the great film "Boogie Nights"...And the daughter of Monty Hall, who was born in Winnipeg Manitoba and was the host of the tv show "Let's Make A Deal", a true piece of American TV history..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Saturday 17th April 3:38 pm U.K. Time

Too bad Sherry Jackson never did an InVaDeRs...she was smokin' hot post Danny Thomas Show back in the day(the 1960's)

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th April 3:40 pm U.K. Time

jamie, in THE RANSOM- which features a very young cross-eyed Karen Black--Laurence Naismith portrays the renowned '71 year old' poet Cyrus Stone, when in fact the actor was actually age 59.

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th April 4:02 pm U.K. Time

Robert Walker Jr--'Nick' on PANIC.. was extraordinary in that he truly was a a carbon-copy image of his father..Only other instance that I can think of in this case are The Hales, Alan Sr & Jr, both actors and the latter best known as 'The Skipper' on "Gilligan"..

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Saturday 17th April 5:49 pm U.K. Time

Dear Friends,

In France, this sathurday 17 april 2004, after midnight, at 00 H 50, always diffusion "THE INVADERS" series ! This is episod n° 19 (n° 2 of second season) "THE SAUCER" !..

Friendly, Christian Macé

En France, ce samedi 17 avril 2004, après minuit, à 00 H 50, toujours la diffusion de la série "LES ENVAHISSEURS" ! C'est l'épisode n° 19 (n° 2 de la deuxième saison) "LA SOUCOUPE VONANTE" !..

Amicalement, Christian Macé


Name: Mark
Email:
mowakeling@ntlworld.com
Saturday 17th April 9:19 pm U.K. Time

I just sat down with a couple of beers and watched "Beachhead" on DVD, it was awesome. The last time I saw the Invaders I was a boy and it was great to see that unlike most 'fondly remembered' tv series, this one lived up to expecations. I love the 'Alien' camper chap at the end Many many thanks to Jon at http://www.tv-series-collection.com/ for sending me the dics. Good picture, great sound, slick presentation and fantastic price. Assuming they will not be officially released, I'll be back for more - good work !

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 18th April 1:12 am U.K. Time

LA SOUCOUPE VONANTE" !..

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 18th April 1:13 am U.K. Time

LA SOUCOUPE VOLANTE"

"Correction"!


Name: bret200383
Email:
bret200383@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th April 2:36 am U.K. Time

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Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Sunday 18th April 2:43 am U.K. Time

Dears Friends,

OK ! I have made a mistake : It is "Soucoupe volante" in french, in english "Flying saucer" !...In France, "The invaders" series are diffused in this moment on public channel television "FR 3" ("France Régions 3")... All saturdays evening, about midnight... Friendly, Christian Macé


Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th April 12:02 pm U.K. Time

hello bret, what are you trying to say or ask about The Invaders?

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th April 12:08 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, I noticed that Roy had aged when I saw him as an eff-bee-eye agent on a show on ABC "Eff-Bee-Eye--The Untold Stories" from the early 1990s as an agent after plane hijacker Richard McCoy..He wasn't the star of that 30 minute drama either, just an incidental character but him then being in his mid-50s I did notice the age progression..

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th April 12:14 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, when I recorded my Inavders episodes in 1993 or so from tv, in between 'acts' a few times there was a shot of Roy wherein he says "I'm Roy Thinnes, and you're watching The Sci-Fi Channel"..and he gives a nod to it too! Glad I taped those segments! Plus the MST3K segment critiqued by Joel and 'the bots' for Roys' GH appearance..

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th April 12:17 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, thanx for the Roy photos..

Name: jim
Email:
xncykid@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th April 12:31 pm U.K. Time

hello Christian, would be interesting to hear the show dubbed in your native language..Obviouslty not done by Roy Thinnes..A side note here--for about 15 movie-shorts that Laurel&Hardy did back in the early 1930s, they recorded them in English, French and Spanish 3 times with L&H doing the dialogue phonetically..No way THAT is done any more..

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Sunday 18th April 1:42 pm U.K. Time

Dears Friends,

In France, this sunday 18 april 2004, at the big private television channel "TF 1", at 20 H 55, diffusion of film "Independance Day " !... Friendly, Christian Macé


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 19th April 1:23 am U.K. Time

Rare Roy Thinnes "TV -GUIDE" Cover page from 1966!

Also, Has anyone ever seen Roy in "The Untouchables"?

Where is everyone?


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 19th April 9:04 am U.K. Time

The setting for THE MUTATION and for THE MIRACLE both take place in 'sleepy' New Mexico towns..The 1947 UFO crash at Roswell NM had been out of the public eye but it had only been a short time before in 1964 that the Lonnie Zamora incident in Socorro, NM made world headlines..He was a cop, couldn't be discredited..That landing is also what absolutely turned Dr J. Allen Hynek around in his way of thinking about UFOs..(He has a small cameo in "CE3K)..I think Quinn Martin and the producers/writers used the New Mexico settings to bring a sense of reality ripped-from-the-headlines in locale..

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 19th April 9:42 am U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, l've been sent more material. This time it comes from the book

THE INVADERS: Alien Missile Threat.

There's 8 images in all. If you want to take a look, you will find them at http://www.the-invaders.com

in the Multimedia section, under Contributed Media.

Thanks Craig.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 19th April 11:06 am U.K. Time

Sorry, forgot to mention, there's also two new videoclips. These come from the episode Captive.

Thanks Craig.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.the-invaders.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 19th April 12:12 pm U.K. Time

These Invaders directors were born outside the USA-- Lewis Allen--b. Shropshire England 1905-d.Y2K..THE RANSOM and THE PIT.....George McCowan- (DARK OUTPOST) born in Canada.....Robert Day (THE MIRACLE, THE PEACEMAKER) born Sept 11th 1922 in Sheen, England.. Richard Benedict (THE CONDEMNED) was born January 1920 in Palermo..Very distinctive jaw and smile, a good looking guy by any standards and this lent a distinctive menace to his on-screen appearances usually as a thug--notably 3 appearances on 'The Adventures of Superman'..He died April 25, 1984..Robert Douglas (b. Buckinghamshire England Nov 1909--d. Jan 1999) directed COUNTERATTACK and THE PROPHET..He also directed the movie "Fame"..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 19th April 1:28 pm U.K. Time

In addition, THE IVY CURTAIN also takes place in New Mexico USA!

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Tuesday 20th April 1:50 am U.K. Time

Sophisticated Alien Poll.

My vote goes to: "DONALD DAVIS" One vote.

YOUR TURN- PLAY SOPHISTICATED ALIEN POLL--

PLAY FRIENDLY ALIEN POLL: My vote goes to "HAL BAYLOR" Security Guard-VIKOR FRIENDLY ALIEN GUARD- "THE BELIEVERS" ONE VOTE HAL BAYLOR-

STUPID ALIEN POLL--

Ohhhhh--God, there are a lot of them-

WORST EPISODE OF INVADERS-- ONE VOTE--THE PIT That one was truly the "PIT"- Roy's acting showed his lack of enthusiasm in that episode- Don't even bother watching it; just take my word for it, and don't waste your time.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Tuesday 20th April 11:11 am U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, A new videoclip from Peacemakers, plus a new desktop image [wallpaper] have now been uploaded.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 21st April 1:17 am U.K. Time

Hey Craig!

The site looks great! Thanks for posting those pics with Diana Muldaur. I have another request...can you post a pic from "Panic" where Lyn Loring's character Madelyn sees the saucer fir the first time(she is hanging on to Roy's arm and has a bewildered look). I just love that shot!


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 21st April 1:34 am U.K. Time

****ANYONE LOOKING FOR ANY EPISODE OF THE InVaDeRs, email me at water407@aol.com. I can send ANY of the 43 or ALL of them at once with tons of cool extras...I call it my DELUXE SET which consists of EVERY INVADERS EPISODE EVER MADE...many from ABC TV ORIGINAL UNCUT 16mm films that conta*in the COMMERCIALS(including now banned and totally cool cigarette ads) that ran when they ORIGINALLY AIRED on their 1967-1968 airdate!!! I had these converted to home video professionally for YOUR enjoyment! In addition to all 43 episodes(not merely time compressed, sped up and distorted Sci Fi Channel versions), you get the 1968 MAD Magazine InVaDeRs parody(RARE!!! Never been reprinted!!!), ROY THINNES AUTOGRAPHED COLOR PUBLICITY STILL PIC(reproduction in full color...NOT a computer print out, but a high quality slick)...the pic shows Vincent with a look of horror running from a hovering deadly alien saucer, STARLOG Articles from 1978 and 1993, a VERY personal 1967 Screen Stories interview with Roy and his wife and the time Lyn Loring( who was in the episode "Panic") which is extremely hard to find, InVaDeRs MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, Roy Thiness on THE FUGITIVE("Wine is a Traitor", episode #98 of 120...aired Nov. 1st, 1966) and SO much MORE!!! I am the BEST and ship FAST as lightening! ***Deal with a REAL fan and the one you know....Chance!**** Email me at water407@aol.com for more details! ~~~~I WILL SHIP ANYWHERE ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH VIA AIR MAIL DELIVERY!~~~~ "Keep looking for those mutated fourth fingers" and have an awesome day!

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 21st April 3:18 am U.K. Time

Dear NTDR,

I love every episode, but there is one that contains a very weak moment at the very end of the teaser...it is in "Quantity: Unknown" with hairy actor James Whitmore. Ok, in the teaser, the D.A. guy from "Perry Mason" is totally awful in his entire performance and at the end of the teaser where he is hiding in the bushes from the police is so bogus. I always laugh at how bad he is as he turns and runs away just before the opening titles in that one. I dislike little about my favorite drama, but that guy was rank(in a stinky way).

On an unrelated subject, ever notice how the aliens dig cigs? Watch the remake of "The Mutation" and "Panic" titled "The Pursued" and you'll even see an enemy buying smokes from a machine! One was smoking in "Doomsday Minus One" and in many others as well. Since oxygen is lethal to the InVaDeRs, I suppose they the carbon monoxide LOL! Then again, Camel, Winston, Salem, Chesterfield Menthols, etc were sponsors


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Wednesday 21st April 12:25 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, Here comes another site plug :-) But on the positive side, just added are, 5 new video clips [a mixture from The Saucer, Spores and Valley of the Shadow] and 8 new images, from Panic.

Thanks Craig

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Wednesday 21st April 5:53 pm U.K. Time

Thanks Craig ! Let's go on... I download them with pleasure...and i try to translate the dialogs into french ;-) @lain French fan of "the invaders" that we call in french "les envahisseurs")

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 21st April 11:54 pm U.K. Time

Most Sophisticate Alien Prize goes to:

ROSCOE LEE BROWNE! yeah--He is the Best Sophisticated Alien; Don't you think?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 21st April 11:56 pm U.K. Time

...then, the late, great Donald Davis.

I have an Old Canadian version of Aedipus Rex; and This Donald Davis was a master actor.

God Rest his soul, too. He is gone, now.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 21st April 11:57 pm U.K. Time

Prettiest Alien:

First Prize goes to: Diana Muldaur Second Prize Goes to: Diana Hyland Third Prize goes to: Suzanne Pleshette

Any corrections?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Wednesday 21st April 11:59 pm U.K. Time

By the way, Roscoe Lee Browne was an Olympic Track and Field Champion; and he is a professor of Elocution. And, it shows. What a great voice, eh?


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 22nd April 12:01 am U.K. Time

Ugly Alien:

Frank Marth

Sophisticated Alien should not miss Michael Rennie-- sorry about that-- Yes--He is great, too--But his Two Roles in "the INVADERS" fell short of this accomplished Brit's ablities-- He could have been in better episodes; Don't you think?

His parts were a waste for this class of talent.


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 22nd April 12:03 am U.K. Time

Funny Scene:

In "Panic" when Lynn Loring's Father-the Great GW ARMSTRONG --falls from the auxiliary water tower, Check out her "Scream-Scene" with her hand over her mouth!

WOW--that was frightening!

Roy "MARRIED" her!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 22nd April 12:04 am U.K. Time

Prettiest Alien:

Diana Muldaur;

Then, Barbara Luna,

Then Hyland,

Then Pleshette--What do you'all think????


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 22nd April 12:21 am U.K. Time

where is everyone these days??

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Thursday 22nd April 7:37 am U.K. Time

Hi there, I'd love to give my opinion on the prettiest Alien female but in my eight episodes there is only one in the running and that's susan Plashette, but it's a great idea!One question i haven't asked before that i would like an answer to is when they were casting for the parts was there anyone else in the running for the David Vincent part? and what was Roy else was Roy doing around that time?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 22nd April 9:47 am U.K. Time

On Diana Muldaur-- Her brother Geoff the husband of "Midnight at the Oasis" singer Maria Muldaur.. Diana--born Aug 19, 1938 in NYC, always portrayed a woman of reserved emotions in all her roles, though she is the only alien to smooch DV!..In THE LIFE SEEKERS we see that the aliens may possess extraordinary futuristic technology but we also see that "Claire" didn't do too much research on earth-girls because she wears the same clothes for more than 24 hours (the episode spans more than a day)..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 22nd April 9:53 am U.K. Time

NTDR, Roscoe Lee Browne indeed a great elocutionist-- This May 2nd he turns 79..Born in New Jersey..A master of the witty repartee--he gives and takes in THE VISE..On "All In The Family" when stuck in an elevator with 'Archie Bunker' RLB dishes it back to the bigot very admirably, even says he is from 'Far Rockaway', my home turf in NYC..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 22nd April 10:04 am U.K. Time

more on THE LIFE SEEKERS.. Besides the other stuff about this episode that I have mentioned, in the 'epilog' I find it un-credible that Police Sgt Battersea (R.G.Armstrong)-a cop in uniform--would willingly allow non-cop DV to drive the marked cop-car away in the final scene with him as the passenger!

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Friday 23rd April 1:28 am U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, The 7 low quality "real" videoclips at my site, have now been replaced by the same clips, but in higher MPEG quality.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd April 1:56 am U.K. Time

Hello, Invaders fans! I have some good news, but it is going to require massive effort on the part of everybody to really bring this good news to reality. I found out who owns the rights to all of the Quinn Martin property, including "THE INVADERS" and all of its 43 episodes. It is Paramount Pictures. We all want THE INVADERS to be released to the PUBLIC AT LARGE, so everyone tell everybody and post it all over the internet to write to: PARAMOUNT PICTURES VIDEO, 5555 MELROSE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 90038.

Write to them and demand that "THE INVADERS" be released in all 43 episodes in DVD and VHS to the public, so that we can get it at our favorite video stores. And even if we fail in our efforts to do this, at least we will have gone down fighting, because this is the best opportunity that I have come across since THE INVADERS were first made in the 1960's! It would be really good if Roy Thinnes himself could endorse and advertise the sale of the series and be the public relations expert. So fans, write! write! write! I do not have their e-mail or web page site addresses, only the street address. But if that is all we need, then so be it and good luck! Thank you, one and all!

Sincerely yours on the lonely country road,

Lindsay


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd April 9:11 am U.K. Time

40th anniversary tomorrow -- of the Socorro New Mexico landing witnessed by Police Officer Lonnie Zamora on April 24, 1964..World wide news..I am convinced that Quinn Martin and the producers had this incident on their minds when creating the show..Certainly 3 episodes take place in New Mexico..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 23rd April 1:02 pm U.K. Time

I've never heard of this landing. Probably the cop needed some rest. Get it? I have heard of the Roswell incident, but that proved to be a hoax...or was it?

Hey NTDR...I agree with your list of InVaDeR babes! I disagree with Barry since I find Pleashette to have a "rat like" facial quality similar to overrated Sarah Michelle Gellar. I can't stand chicks who look like vermin


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd April 1:51 pm U.K. Time

Type in "Lonnie Zamora" into 'google.com for the UFO facts.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd April 1:53 pm U.K. Time

Type in 'Lonnie Zamora' into google.com for the com[lete landing story.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd April 2:15 pm U.K. Time

oops I did it again-- but the Lonnie Zamora case IS classic and the one that turned Dr J. Allen Hynek around in his UFO philosophies..This case was extensively re-portrayed on "Unsolved Mysteries" and "Sightings" and several other UFO investigative shows..I have been through Socorro maybe 25 times--starting in 1972--and always had that case on my mind even back then..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 24th April 2:01 pm U.K. Time

Happy Birthday to J.D. Cannon-- born this day in Salmon, Idaho 1922--the mini-cigar smoking guy in BEACHHEAD and THE ORGANIZATION..A QMP veteran of many shows..Only other Idaho-born native on the show that I can think of is Ford Rainey, in PANIC and Pt 1 SUMMIT MEETING..(born Twin Falls Idaho August 1908 and still with us!)..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 24th April 2:11 pm U.K. Time

Here's to you Lonnie Z!..40 yrs ago today--you got it in gear!

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 24th April 8:53 pm U.K. Time

Of course, As are all our comments--My "Picks" for Lovely Alien Women are Opinion, ONLY- "IF" I had a chance to "date" any of them--I guess I would Pick Diana Muldaur- She currently heads an Asthma Foundation--Good for her--and, is As Irish as they come! What a colleen! I also like the Latin/Jewish/Mediterranean look-Barbara Luna(Italian/Hungarian) was a cutie-and Pleshette-is DEFINATELY PRETTY--NOT DOUBT--BUT--she definately got into this business by her looks; not her abilities--(Sorry, Suzanne).

Roy--On the other hand--is actually an OUTSTANDING ACTOR-- His takes and reserved responses make him very "tailored" "IF" ever you get a chance to really observe his THREE specific scenes in "THE PROPHET"--watch his timing- Watch the way he swallows an askance side snot, when "Brother John" lures him to go out to the desert -- Take note also, at his guarded, almost phychological ablity to wait, listen and then respond to "Sister Claire's Rant--in the trailor scene-- Then, the last scene--when he is on the sofa, speaking to Sister Claire.

If ever you get a chance to see "Law and Order" he plays Politico Appointed Prosecutor, "Victor Penatti" He is smug, and all "Politics"--not Justice-and, that comes through- AND his two strong scenes --CHICAGO ROY ACCENT AND ALL-- is in his Cross examinination of the Defendant--(ALLOWED ONLY IF THE DEFENSE PUTS THE DEFENDANT ON THE STAND- THE STATE IS ONLY ALLOWED TO CROSS A DEFENDANT-NEVER TO CALL HIM ON DIRECT-) He is Awesome(Roy). His breathing, and his disgust at the verdict shows what a good, dedicated actor this man really is. Why in hell wasn't he ever put in TOP BILLING Movies?

I know the reason. I dont' dare say. AND truely, I love everyone--"Don't have a drop of prejudice in my body" but-- Think about it. WHY NO TOP BILLING FOR ROY IN THE LAST 30 YEARS??

The answer lies in, "where has American been heading in the last 30 years?"

And, it had to be done--NO question--We had too, too many disciminatory practices going on--and things had to be changed.

Look--another unfortunate thing--NO BLACKS in the Invaders-BUT for the PIT-- and there, two Blacks--One alien; one HUMAN--Raymond St. Jacques--And that was done with care--and it was dignifed.

I always loved Roscoe Lee Browne- He is a credit to all races.

Yes; America had moved forward, and it has a long way to go- BUT--Roy was a bit of a casualty of this--you know--

Ohh--Suzanne is CUTE--C'Mon, Chance--she doesn't look like a Mouse-- My wife was as pretty a version of Suzanne-- In fact, I have a great photo(SEXY AS ALL HELL) of my Ex wife, "playing" with a CRYSTAL-CHRISTMAS Present--Two Large Crystal Christmas Ornaments-- Focusing on my Buddy, Bobby's EYES on NEW YEARS EVE!! THEY were both feeling crazy--And I played the episode of "THE BELIEVERS"--and Jasmine grabbed the two Christmas Ornaments, and began "Hynotizing my Buddy(and owner of the Firm I work with), stating(AS A CUNNING, MODERN AMERICAN WOMAN WOULD) "...TRIPLE PAUL'S PAYROLL EVERY TWO WEEKS---IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?"

It's an awesome photo--She is dressed in a Black New Year's Eve gown, with High Heels and leather Gloves--and it matches so cool with those "Hypnobeams"

Photo is on the Market for sale- Contact CHANCE at water407@aol.com

$100. per download--

JUST KIDDIING!!!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 24th April 8:59 pm U.K. Time

CORRECTION TO THE ABOVE LETTER-- I SHOULD HAVE PROOF-READ IT--

"... and ASKANCE SIDE SHOT"---certainly not what I mistakenly wrote there---SORRY---

NTDR--


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 24th April 9:04 pm U.K. Time

ANOTHER CORRECTION:

The Black Actors were NOT IN THE PIT; but, "THE VICE"--

Ohh-I am Glad they were not put in the "PIT"---it is bad enough, there was only ONE episode with African Americans--And a Good one,too!--BUT, THE PIT??

They should Destroy the PIT--it is the worst of all of them--

AGREE??

Roy's acting shows his absolute disgust with that one, too.

ONLY REDEEMING SCENE: "DOG BITING THE ALIEN GUARD"!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Saturday 24th April 9:09 pm U.K. Time

Three redemptions to "The Pit"- One, the Dog Bite; Two, the Alien burning up in the water-- Three, when the Pit was over.

Uhhhhh--I really don't like that episode- Next worst is the One with Dana Wynter -- the One with an Alien captured in an Eastern European (Communist) Embassy--Ohh--Lousy acting, with TWO GREAT ACTORS(Actress)--Fritz Weaver and Dana Wynter-


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Saturday 24th April 11:02 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, 20 new images have been uploaded, plus two audio files. All images now have their episode title underneath [hope there correct, if not please let me know].

TIP: You might have to hit refresh/reload to see the titles on the older images.

Thaks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 25th April 12:39 am U.K. Time

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JD CANNON! THE GUY WAS A GREAT COP in the "PILOT"--showing is Scepticism; and A good Gangster in "The Organisation" as spelled the British way on this website; but, "The Organization" in USA--where the "Aliens" landed--and, quite frankly, Since 1967, have taken up considerable residences in Miami, Los Angeles--and a Variety of different North American cities- Toronto, for example, is "loaded" with Aliens--According to the Lastest Canadian statistics!

Aliens!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 25th April 2:37 am U.K. Time

Where is everyone?

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 25th April 8:20 am U.K. Time

HA HA HA and very funny NOT too distant "Relative." I got more chance of being kin to the Statue of Liberty LOL! Just kiddin', bud! We all know that you are Roy's brother Racer X....RIIIIIIIIGHT

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 25th April 8:25 am U.K. Time

Not to post like Jim(back to back to back to back to back to back and then yet another post), but I hope NTDR realizes that I have a dark sense of humor and was only joking and getting revenge for his gag. I give you the benefit of the doubt on terms of if you really are a relative of Roy's and not a nut

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 25th April 12:18 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, actually it's THE VISE..!

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Sunday 25th April 2:03 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, For those who are interested, there's a slight chance l wouldn't of been able to update the weekly parts of my site tomorrow so, it's been done a day early this week.

[weekly part] New Poll New Random Gueststar Video Sequence

Plus unrelated additions today: Videoclip from The Condemned 4 new images Form added so you could contribute a POLL question, if you wish.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 25th April 9:47 pm U.K. Time

Chance, YOU are the Best--You know how I feel about you--- I Knew you would like it! Suzanne: Mouse? More like the "B" word, in real life! You KNOW I love you, when I can say whatever tries to bring a good laugh, here. What is wrong with people here? We need to lighten up; Right Chance?

God bless you, man--You know how I stick up for you--

Dah DohhhhhhDAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

That is the Music!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Sunday 25th April 9:58 pm U.K. Time

Oh, Man JIM-I must have had too many YEUNGLING(Sounds Chinese) Beers yesterday--In teh True sense of an Alsacian, Chicagoan--BEER, BEER, BEER-

I know ONE habit of Roy's--

"Draught"-- He loves "Draught" beer...It is his Mother's Germanic influence--OR Is it Just CHICAGO?????

Take care, JIM-- GB- GOD BLESS-


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 26th April 12:35 am U.K. Time

Anyone want to comment on "Sophisticated Aliens"? Or, "PRETTY ALIEN WOMEN"?

or "Stupid Aliens"?

Ohhh--there are too many of them--

Does anyone disagree with "THE PIT" being the worst of the series??


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 26th April 12:38 am U.K. Time

I remember one episode, where John Milford had two Aliens on a gurney, and they were checking out their brain waves; and he said, "...they are light years ahead of ours..." Talking about the alien's brains--

LIGHT YEARS?

THOSE WERE TWO OF THE MOST IDIOTIC ALIENS! Even Donald Davis' role in that one was to be forgotten--Except for his "browsing" of the Police "hiring list" at the police station-- I said to myself, "those two aliens are looking for part-time work"!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 26th April 1:25 pm U.K. Time

NTDR--"Tingling with Yuengling"--oldest brewery in the USA, in Pottsville, Pa..Took the tour over 30 years ago..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 26th April 1:27 pm U.K. Time

NTDR--THE PIT was boring, but TASK FORCE was too..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 26th April 1:30 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, that was COUNTERATTACK... No mention is made of what DV will do with the video-tape footage, nor is there any future reference to the alien weapon left behind!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 26th April 1:42 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, didn't realize that they got Yuengling where you are.. I grew up in NYC but had relatives in Pottsville who lived on the same street as the brewery.. I KNOW where you now live--way more miles away from Pottsville..In NYC we weren't able to obtain Yuengling so it amazes me to hear you mention it here --much further away..!

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 26th April 6:24 pm U.K. Time

****ANYONE LOOKING FOR ANY EPISODE OF THE InVaDeRs, email me at water407@aol.com. I can send ANY of the 43 or ALL of them at once with tons of cool extras...I call it my DELUXE SET which consists of EVERY INVADERS EPISODE EVER MADE...many from ABC TV ORIGINAL UNCUT 16mm films that conta*in the COMMERCIALS(including now banned and totally cool cigarette ads) that ran when they ORIGINALLY AIRED on their 1967-1968 airdate!!! I had these converted to home video professionally for YOUR enjoyment! In addition to all 43 episodes(not merely time compressed, sped up and distorted Sci Fi Channel versions), you get the 1968 MAD Magazine InVaDeRs parody(RARE!!! Never been reprinted!!!), ROY THINNES AUTOGRAPHED COLOR PUBLICITY STILL PIC(reproduction in full color...NOT a computer print out, but a high quality slick)...the pic shows Vincent with a look of horror running from a hovering deadly alien saucer, STARLOG Articles from 1978 and 1993, a VERY personal 1967 Screen Stories interview with Roy and his wife and the time Lyn Loring( who was in the episode "Panic") which is extremely hard to find, InVaDeRs MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, Roy Thiness on THE FUGITIVE("Wine is a Traitor", episode #98 of 120...aired Nov. 1st, 1966) and SO much MORE!!! I am the BEST and ship FAST as lightening! ***Deal with a REAL fan and the one you know....Chance!**** Email me at water407@aol.com for more details! ~~~~I WILL SHIP ANYWHERE ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH VIA AIR MAIL DELIVERY!~~~~ "Keep looking for those mutated fourth fingers" and have an awesome day!

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 26th April 9:52 pm U.K. Time

Hey NTDR, CHECK THIS OUT!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=2240921491&rd=1

WHAT A SCUMBAG! SO IS LANCE BASS WHO WAS HERE IN ATLANTA YESTERDAY...he left his wife for C. bag Sheryl Crowe after he recovered from testicle cancer after his wife stood by him(even after one of his nuts was removed). I hate that creep and Kerry too


Name: barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Tuesday 27th April 10:16 pm U.K. Time

Christoph please get in touch again, i was so pleased with the last vcd quality id like so more ,jim i see what you mean about the chickens in "THE MUTATION" LOL

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th April 1:08 pm U.K. Time

barry/baz, glad you noticed those chickens eventually!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th April 1:14 pm U.K. Time

what NYSYC, Sheryl Crow, and John Kerry have to do with this site is beyond me..I thought that this was all about Invaders-related stuff..Political beliefs and foul language have no place here..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 28th April 2:53 pm U.K. Time

Board cop, thy name is Jimmy boy What about your posts about fake alien landings? Dude, we can post whatever we want(as long as there is no porn or anything terribly offensive). Most message boards have a main forum(about The InVaDeRs, natch) and another forum for other topics. In lieu of a secondary topic board we only can lump everything in one area. I posted a link to a traitor's book...so what? You post about about that Twilight Zone and other off topic stuff, but do I stick my nose in the air like a stuck up snob and say "That has no place here?" NO I don't. Lighten up, Jim

Name: barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Wednesday 28th April 3:48 pm U.K. Time

come on guys dont start all this childish caper again,longs the stuff on here is interesting and of knowlege im willing to read it ,what i dont want to see is you two barking on,you both know your stuff keep it at that guys ,question for you as well ,i forgot his name but the guy who is one of the belivers who is the computer expert(dies in INQUISITION" what episode does he 1st apear and how many episodes does he star in ,cheers guys,Barry fae Scotland

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Thursday 29th April 1:15 am U.K. Time

"TO ALL INVADERS FANS" My Appeal to ALL: Please try to keep this website clean and avoid personal attacks of one another- Roy is avoiding this website, NOT 'cause he is a snob--He isn't--But, the "Science Fiction" cultists tend to be on the obtuse side--NOT to say we are--but if the show fits--!

C'mon--You all know how much I love my French Friends here; and Christophe, my Great German buddy, and Chance, and Of Course XNYCKID-- BUT--We "Must" keep this thing dignified--PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZ???

AND, I bet "Roy" will one day participate--

Just watch-- You know--He actually has a line on this chatpage-- His handle is just not what you think it is...


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 29th April 11:31 am U.K. Time

Let it be known that I push no political leanings on anybody.. I digress at times but NEVER do I resort to using derogatory terms toward any actor/actress on 'The Show' or in any other venue..As for the accusation of "posts about fake alien landings"...Hmmm...I merely provided the information about the Socorro landing--available to anyone--and am accused of making it all up!..Anybody who wants to learn of the Socorro UFO landing, just enter that (or Lonnie Zamora) into google.com....Seems kind of strange that an Invaders-site poster here would accuse me of making up something about UFO landings, especially since it is there on the Internet all along..The condescending 'Jimmy boy' is actually quite humorous coming from a person who was not even a 'spore' when the show debuted, and has far more interest in spewing personal venom and selling tapes.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 29th April 11:41 am U.K. Time

Barry/Baz, you are thinking of John Milford, in INQUISITION, b. Sept 7, 1929---died Aug 14, Y2K..He was also the cop of nebulous alien/human identity in BEACHHEAD and also in COUNTERATTACK as a human who helps out DV in the alien-capture scenes..Takes a bullet for DV in the 1st one mentioned by me..Will contact you off-site..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 29th April 12:26 pm U.K. Time

In Re an April 26th posting-- Can someone please enlighten me on what "he left his wife for C. bag Sheryl Crowe" means? {sic}..

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 29th April 2:02 pm U.K. Time

Jim, please stop these personal attacks. And C stands for a slang term for a female body part. Look, you can post about bogus alien landings all day long and I don't get all snotty about it. Sometimes your upitty attitude is really annoying. Stop being a baby, please

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Thursday 29th April 4:28 pm U.K. Time

Hi All, At the time when they were looking for the right person to play David Vincent does anyone know if any other actors were in the running for the part, and, what was Roy doing around that time?

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Thursday 29th April 10:48 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, Thumbnail colour image's of every gueststar have now been uploaded, under their relative episode information.

If you want to take a look, you will find them on the EPISODE AND SYNOPSIS PAGES, in the behind the show section.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Jan
Email:
janlafata@cox.net
Friday 30th April 6:49 am U.K. Time

Does anyone know where I can get The Invaders on VHS or DVD?

Name: Jan
Email:
janlafata@cox.net
Friday 30th April 7:06 pm U.K. Time

Greetings all good guy Earthlings!

Just wanted to get some feedback on what others do to either obtain or view some of their favorite classic Sci-Fi shows including The Invaders. As many have done over the years I have searched high and low through peer to peer and other avenues to find any or all copies of shows. I have found nothing on KaZaa or other sites but I was able to download all 24 episodes of Space Above and Beyond. I also have seen a few of the Invaders episodes on Amazon.com. I will probably end up going through Chance to get all of them eventually but I just wanted to hear what others have done. Also does anyone know if The Sci-Fi channel ever plans to air them again. Finally...Lindsey I am behind you 100% on writing in to get the big companies to release these things on DVD. Hope everyone else supports you too.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 1st May 12:37 pm U.K. Time

Well Duh!-- The lad from Atlanta thinks that I am so stupid that I did not know what he was referring to on 'the C word'..I anticipated. He then tried to educate me that the 'c-word' stands "for a female body part"..His words, there to see..I ask once again--what does this have to do with The Invaders?


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Saturday 1st May 7:57 pm U.K. Time

Jim said: "Can someone please enlighten me on what "he left his wife for C. bag Sheryl Crowe" means? {sic)"

So I answered you...so what. Not every single post has to be about our beloved show, and who died and made you a board cop anyways? Let's just try and get along and not be a couple of crybabies with memory loss. Peace out


Name: barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Saturday 1st May 9:35 pm U.K. Time

good call Chance,and in "MUTATION" watch the fight vincent has with the first alien in the desert ,DV punches him que the roll down the sand dune ,cant belive it kills him ,just thought id mention that hehe ,used to do that all the time when i was a kid at the beach.

Name: Richard
Email:
richard@fincher.uk.com
Sunday 2nd May 12:20 am U.K. Time

Anyone else think this guy would be a good bet to play David Vincent in a 21st Century remake of The Invaders?

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-1321/Rob_Lowe/


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 2nd May 4:28 am U.K. Time

Hi Richard!

Good to see you post again! The last time we "spoke", we discussed how the 1980 Olivia Newton-John film "Xanadu" was underrated and also contained the InVaDeR alien spacecraft in the opening of the film just after the Universal logo! Been a while and for those who don't know, he is one of the creators of this fine site and the official master of the board! I have been posting here since 1997 and enjoy this and Craig's site very much. Kudos to both men! Interesting that you mention Rob Lowe...I agree that he is a good InVaDeRs big screen feature film casting choice. I've never considered hin! He is notorious here in Atlanta, GA USA since 1988 when he was caught on videotape having sex with a 17 year old High School senior at Sprayberry High while he was in town for the '88 Democratic convention for big Michael Dukakis. Sorry to get off topic, but it is a funny fact about him. The girl went on to become a successful pilot and currently is a commercial pilot for Delta Air Lines here in Atlanta.


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 2nd May 9:00 am U.K. Time

Hey Jim,

In the interest of starting over fresh and being cool, I only have one Twilight Zone in my film collection. The one that I have is titled "The Hitchiker" and was based on a radio drama of the same name. I obtained this print in 1998 from a gentleman here in Atlanta who is sadly no longer with us. His name is Claude Carrol, and he was a wonderful senior citizen who was almost 90 when he passed on. The episode is pure gold and starred Inger Stevens who was lovely. I understand that she unfortunately died young under dubious unclear circumstances. I am off to check IMDB.com. This episode contains no InVaDeRs actors...but the guy with the flare looked familiar. I also watched another film that I bought in 1998 from another seller...it is The Outer Limits "I, Robot" and a big screen summer film and remake hits the theaters this June in America. This version deviates from the original Iaasic Asimov story and looks lame. Bad casting too and looks a ripoff of the dreadful STAR BORES: "Attack of the Clowns." Heck, I want it to do well since my film print would go up in value(unlike my The Incredible Hulk comic books after that summer stinkbomb tanked). The fanboy in me has a bad feeling about the new "I, Robot." Hollywood is all out of ideas, that town's films have lacked innovation for a decade...and yet amongst the vast remake fleet, a true high quality classic like our The InVaDeRs is ignored. What the hell is up with that???!!!!???


Name: Gonzalo
Email:
Gonzalo-Gomez@virtualtourist.com
Monday 3rd May 12:01 pm U.K. Time

I write from Spain. I have reviewed some episodes of "the invaders" recently. I am seeking the name of the lake where the episode "The Watchers" was filmed. A beatiful hotel or lodge, standing close to the shore of a nice, not too large, lake appeared in it. PLEASE Anyone knows the name of this hotel and this lake? I have fallen in love with that landscape. I think that it was in California, and probably in the south Sierra (The forest didn't seem too wet, with a lot of pines).

I think that a "location list" of the episodes would become a interesting section of the web.

Thank you


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Monday 3rd May 11:44 pm U.K. Time

I saw two aliens today running to their regeneration station--and, Roy Pulled the Plug-- They both turned red, and vanished-- No one but me and Roy saw this- IT happened in Chicago. Then we went for a Vienna Hot dog, had two draught beers at a local Tavern--As they say, "ON TAP" in Chicago-- ROY and I had a few good laughs, talked about pretty women- debated about who the prettiest "Alien" woman on the show was. My Choice was always Diana Muldaur and then Pamela Curran; his favorite is the Lady who tried to kill him in "THE PIT"- I couldn't believe it-- "HER?" I exclaimed--

THEN I WOKE UP!!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 4th May 8:19 am U.K. Time

Hello Gonzalo, sad about Madrid indeed...In answer to your question, without a doubt the scenes you mention were filmed in southern California--as was all the show..Not the southern Sierras though, production/ location costs would be too prohibitive..My educated guess would be that it was filmed north of San Bernardino up near Running Springs..The area is alpine in appearance..It snowed there 3 weeks ago yet was 90 degrees F just an hour away at the same time..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 4th May 8:23 am U.K. Time

NTDR, that would be actress Elizabeth Field (playing "Fielding") in THE PIT born June 3rd, 1923 died April 13th, 1996..So in essence "Roy" had it for a gal 14 years his senior, you say..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 4th May 11:16 am U.K. Time

MarkyMark-we need you to identify Gonzalos' request on the location. I myself am curious but I think that I am near 'the mark'...I hate that you had to leave 'the site' due to 'politics' but I understand why you did..Your input is missed..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 4th May 11:41 am U.K. Time

CB, "The Hitchhiker" episode of TZ was the only episode that Rod Serling instantly paid on the spot someone--Lucille Fletcher-- for a TZ idea, and she had put this on the radio in 1941 based on having seen the same hitch-hiker in at least 2 NY-area locales..The character "Nan" Adams comes from the nickname for his daughter "Ann"..There was no mystery about the death of Inger Stevens..She had attempted suicide several times previously.

Name: Jan
Email:
janlafata@cox.net
Tuesday 4th May 5:33 pm U.K. Time

Update on my search for Invaders videos.

After doing a little digging I have come across some sites that sell old Invaders videos. I found the sites after doing a search at Amazon.com. Hers's one link that has a few, but they do seem a little expensive: http://www.rarevideo.com/video_results.asp


Name: Jan
Email:
janlafata@cox.net
Tuesday 4th May 5:37 pm U.K. Time

Oops! Correction.

The link that I listed in the previous post was incorrect. Just go to this one, http://www.rarevideo.com/ scroll down and do a search for The Invaders. That's where you'll find the few I mentioned. Sorry all...I must have been overcome by exhaust fumes from The Invaders UFO when it landed!


Name: kuntakunta
Email:
mugu@com
Tuesday 4th May 11:34 pm U.K. Time

keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep offffffffffffffffffff

Name: Markymark
Email:
Markymark1300@sbcglobal.net
Wednesday 5th May 8:00 am U.K. Time

Gonzolo & Jim:

"The Watchers" was filmed in Big Bear Lake, California. The City of Big Bear and Big Bear Lake is in the San Bernardino mountians east of Los Angeles. The city has a small (mostly tourist) population and the lodge filmed in the episode is typical of the resorts. The area offers skiiing and snow boarding in the winter and hiking and swimming in the summer months. It is a beautiful place to vacation.

PS - I will be visiting "Mom" in Pennsylvania for Mother's Day this weekend which is 10 miles from Pottsville where the Yuengling brewery is located. I grew up with Yuengling and Kaier's beer. Some people mentioned this site in this room!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 5th May 1:45 pm U.K. Time

Markymark, Great to see you back! I said Running Springs but Big Bear was also on my mind, and you know they aren't far apart!..Give my regards to Mahantango Street (pronounced "Mon-tongo", as we both know)..You have been very much missed here..

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Wednesday 5th May 3:32 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, Today 4 interactive word search games have been added, covering:

#1 Female Gueststar Surnames #2 Male Gueststar Surnames #3 One Word Titles Season 1 #4 One Word Titles Season 2

And yesterday, 3 new videoclips and 8 images were uploaded.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Markymark
Email:
Markymark1300@sbcglobal.net
Wednesday 5th May 5:56 pm U.K. Time

Jim:

The episode "The Watchers" could have been "Running Springs", but Doug (a friend and Invader freak, like us) said that he recognized the area as "Big Bear." I have been to Big Bear several times, but for sure I will investigate the area to find out if there are or were any alien regeneration facilities or stations in existence!

On my way to Mahanoy City or shall we say, "Makhanoy or Mahoney" City. Thanks for the nice words, Jim! Markymark


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Wednesday 5th May 7:53 pm U.K. Time

Hi All, If anyone hasn't yet read the article by Mark Philips on this website i strongly recommend they do! Anyway does anyone know how long the Aliens had supposedly been on Earth after DV sees them?

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 6th May 6:56 am U.K. Time

Hey InVaDeRs fans!

Here is a link to a funny as heck site! Listen to the show...it's GREAT!!!

http://www.kimmershow.com/


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 6th May 11:01 am U.K. Time

jim, if anyone saw what was posted here the past few hours.. --the venom and bigotry by a person that I shall not name--I am proud to say that I believe through my appeals to the web-site people here that they saw it all for what I was telling them it was..And I thank them for removing it..Too bad the past-posted hatred and misogyny and lewd remarks remain on the site but maybe the jerk will figure it all out.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 6th May 11:09 am U.K. Time

TO THE WEBSITE POWERS-THAT-BE...THANK YOU, SINCERELY!!!!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 6th May 11:23 am U.K. Time

markymark, my suggestion of "Running Springs" was just that.. on the location for THE WATCHERS..No doubt you and your friend Doug--being in there much closer to the area--are closer to 'the mark' on it being Big Bear but you must admit I was close on it!. I cringe if you saw the posting to you by some idiot the past few hours but I am happy to say that I got it erased!

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Thursday 6th May 3:41 pm U.K. Time

Hello !

Recently, you talk about "The Watchers", episod n° 20 of "The Invaders"...

Strange coïncidence, saturday evening 1er May 2004 (after midnight), in France, diffusion of episod n° 20 "The Watchers" of "The Invaders", on public channel television "FR 3" ("France Régions 3") ! ! ! In this moment, "The Invaders" are always saturday evening, on public channel television "FR 3", in France...

I love very well this nice "Big Bear Lake" of "The Watchers" !....

Friendly, Christian Macé


Name: Markymark
Email:
Markymark1300@sbcglobal.net
Thursday 6th May 5:50 pm U.K. Time

Jim:

I did see the posting. I couldn't help but notice at what time it was sent and compared it to other postings at that time. I received some nice personal emails which far outweigh that immature nonsence. Ok, Invaders, back to work! I'll chat back at you when I return next week. I'm due for regeneration!


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Thursday 6th May 5:58 pm U.K. Time

Several German media companies are interested in the Quinn Martin production "THE INVADERS" to release this series on DVD around here; for example Twentieth Century Fox Germany. It seems the only barrier is the copyright of the show. For example the manager of KSM (released the German DVD box of Gerry Anderson's "UFO" series) was interested, if I can tell him who the right owner is. I mentioned Paramount respectively Spelling-Worldvision. He mailed that Paramount sells no licenses. Otherwise he would look after the license rights. What a pity. This year the classic 60s "STAR TREK" series is going to release in Germany on DVD (Info by Paramount Germany). If Paramount realizes there is a potential market for the show in Germany, then will be 'sometime' in the future a DVD edition of "THE INVADERS" series, at least here in Germany in my opinion.

Name: Gonzalo
Email:
Gonzalo-Gomez@virtualtourist.com
Thursday 6th May 9:08 pm U.K. Time

Hello Jim, Hello MarkyMark, Hello Christian:

Thank you very much for your interest in answering my question about "The Watchers". I think it has been, and maybe is going to continue beeing, an interesting theme to talk about. I was redirected to this forum from an US forum that is going to be closed because lack of use. It was a good idea!

I have been searching the hotels in the area on internet and i haven't encountered any match with the appearence of the hotel that was filmed in that episode. But the mission is too difficult from Spain. A suggestion: Could it be a hotel named "North Shore Inn" in the Lake Gregory, near from Big Bear Lake?

All my interest is the following: It would be exciting to travel to California, It would be more exciting to see its forests, its lakes, its Pikes, But it would be more and more exciting to do all those things and to lodge in the hotel where the aliens tried to intercept the US Security secrets to invade the earth and where our hero David got into troubles!

I am from Valencia and i see "The Invaders" in valencian, a language spoken in Valencia, Catalonia and Mallorca: It sounds like this: "Els Invasors" "Tot va comencar quan buscaba una drecera que mai va trobar... David Vincent els ha vistos...". :-)

Good bye


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 7th May 1:46 am U.K. Time

Anyone else upset that FIENDS is going off the air? I am so depressed that I am about to cry like a little girl. JUST KIDDING! I am SOOOOOO happy that this overrrated trash is finally dead. The only Friends cast member worth a damn is Matthew Perry(but even he is not worthy of a million bucks an episode...our dear Roy Thinnes was worth 7 million per InVaDeRs show IMO). SEE YA FRIENDS!!!

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 7th May 1:50 am U.K. Time

I doubt that Paramount will ever see the light...they just don't get it

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 7th May 1:53 am U.K. Time

****ANYONE LOOKING FOR ANY EPISODE OF THE InVaDeRs, email me at water407@aol.com. I can send ANY of the 43 or ALL of them at once with tons of cool extras...I call it my DELUXE SET which consists of EVERY INVADERS EPISODE EVER MADE...many from ABC TV ORIGINAL UNCUT 16mm films that conta*in the COMMERCIALS(including now banned and totally cool cigarette ads) that ran when they ORIGINALLY AIRED on their 1967-1968 airdate!!! I had these converted to home video professionally for YOUR enjoyment! In addition to all 43 episodes(not merely time compressed, sped up and distorted Sci Fi Channel versions), you get the 1968 MAD Magazine InVaDeRs parody(RARE!!! Never been reprinted!!!), ROY THINNES AUTOGRAPHED COLOR PUBLICITY STILL PIC(reproduction in full color...NOT a computer print out, but a high quality slick)...the pic shows Vincent with a look of horror running from a hovering deadly alien saucer, STARLOG Articles from 1978 and 1993, a VERY personal 1967 Screen Stories interview with Roy and his wife and the time Lyn Loring( who was in the episode "Panic") which is extremely hard to find, InVaDeRs MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, Roy Thiness on THE FUGITIVE("Wine is a Traitor", episode #98 of 120...aired Nov. 1st, 1966) and SO much MORE!!! I am the BEST and ship FAST as lightening! ***Deal with a REAL fan and the one you know....Chance!**** Email me at water407@aol.com TODAY for more details! ~~~~I WILL SHIP ANYWHERE ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH VIA AIR MAIL DELIVERY!~~~~ "Keep looking for those mutated fourth fingers" and have an awesome day!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 7th May 11:00 am U.K. Time

markymark, you can see it all for yourself now!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 8th May 10:11 am U.K. Time

Here's a list of the 10 oldest-still-alive to be on the show.. With a nod to the late great John Randolph (Sgt Ernest Goldhaver in THE SPORES--born 1915, died this year..#1--Argentina Brunetti b.Aug 1907 'Mama' in THE MUTATION..#2--Ford Rainey born Aug 1908 in PANIC and SUMMIT MEETING Part One..#3-Mary Jackson b.Nov 1910 a nurse in BEACHHEAD..#4-Russ Conway--b.April 1913..He was the silver-haired detective in the closing of WALL OF CRYSTAL who shows his mutated 4th-finger while lighting a cigarette in the Epilogue..#5--Kevin McCarthy--born Feb 1914.in THE WATCHERS as "Paul Cook" and the alien duplicate of him..Of course alien duplicates was the entire premise behind his role as Myles Bunnell in IOTBS..He is the younger brother of noted author Mary McCarthy (now dec..)I am proud to say that I met him personally around 1979..Of course he also is well-remembered for his Twilight Zone starring role in "Long Live Walter Jamison", about a man who has lived centuries..#6--Dabbs Greer b.April 2nd, 1917..The alien priest in THE EXPERIMENT..Was also in IOTBS as the gas attendant..A veteran of over 400 film and tv appearances and last was cast as "old-Tom-Hanks" in "The Green Mile"..#7--R.G. Armstrong b.April 7th, 1917...also a veteran of about 400 movie and tv appearances..He was "Gus" in PANIC and Captain Battersea in THE LIFE SEEKERS..#8,#9,#10 (and #11)--These 4 born 1918--Milton Selzer--QUANTITY UNKNOWN Oct25th--Claudia Bryar--b.1918--VALLEY OF THE SHADOW--minor role (and her husband Paul was in THE CONDEMNED)..Peter Hobbs and Richard Eastham, both born 1918, both in SUMMIT MEETING..Eastham--also a durable actor--was only in "PART ONE", Hobbs was in both--again, both actors in minor roles but also listed in the credits..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 8th May 10:23 am U.K. Time

The Invaders-TZ connection once again Of the "top 11" actors/actresses that I mentioned in the above posting, it IS interesting to note that of them all-- Kevin McC, Dabbs G, Claudia B, RG Armstrong, R. Eastham, and R. Karlan--more than half--have been on both shows..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 8th May 10:49 am U.K. Time

Left out actor Bill Erwin born December 1914 He is the hotel manager that is approached by Jon Larch in GENESIS right after Larch shoots alien Jonathan Lippe..Bill Erwin is also in a classic TZ episode "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up"? (Which also features future alien Morgan Jones as a cop)..Bill Erwin was in a "Naked Gun" movie but he might be best remembered as 'the old millionaire' that Al Bundy sits in the hot-tub with in an episode of 'Married W/ Children'..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 8th May 11:02 am U.K. Time

Add Milton Selzer and Bill Erwin to the Invaders-TZ list.

Name: Christian Macé
Email:
e.marcelvincent@wanadoo.fr
Saturday 8th May 7:24 pm U.K. Time

Hello !

In France,this saturday 8th May 2004, midnight 10, at public channel television "FR 3" ("France Régions 3"), diffusion of "The Invaders", n° 21 episod "Valley of shadow" ("La vallée des ombres", in french) ! ! !...

Friendly, Christian Macé


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 9th May 1:05 am U.K. Time

I just saw a CLASSIC comedy on tv today that I love called "TRADING PLACES" from 1983 with Eddie Murphy, Dan Ackroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. Hadn't seeen it in years and laughed my ass off. Guess who is in it from The InVaDeRs? Ralph Bellamy from "The Condemned." Denhem Elliot from Raiders of the Lost Ark/Last Cruscade was also great in this film. I love the part where the caged ape sticks it to the principal(Paul Gleason) from "The Breakfast Club" and also I never knew that that ugly fool Al Franken is in "TP" as a stoner baggage handler!

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 9th May 1:09 am U.K. Time

Hey Bud! You are lucky that The InVaDeRs is running in France! That is awesome! Too bad it is not in it's true English, though =( You gotta hear lame voicover actors/translators, but that's cool! At least Dominic Frontiere's great music is original. Is he French? He must be with that name

Hey, jim, nice post about the living guest stars =) I like Twilight ZOne, but The InVaDeRs is vastly superior and "IN COLOR" =)


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 9th May 1:16 am U.K. Time

Oh, crap I forgot to mention that John Landis who directed "Trading Places" and other great films like "An American Werewolf in London" also directed the ill fated "Twilight Zone" remake from 1983. I have footage of Vic Morrow being beheaded by a helicopter blade and it is NOT for the weak of heart. Still pics are on the net. Horrible loss of a great actor and talent(and the kids too that died). His character saves these Vietnamese kids and becomes a hero in the original ending that was altered after the tragedy

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 8:23 am U.K. Time

Paul Gleason (Clarence Beeks) of "Trading Places" born May 4, 1944 in JCNJ was also in The Invaders in 2 non-speaking roles in THE EXPERIMENT and TASK FORCE..The husband of actress Joanna Gleason ("Boogie Nights") and son-in-law of famed game-show-host Monty 'Lets Make A Deal' Hall..In both episodes he is only on-camera very briefly but it's him!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 8:39 am U.K. Time

Twilight Zone The Movie features these Invaders actors--- 1--Kevin McCarthy (THE WATCHERS)..2--Peter Brocco (THE LEECHES)..3--Murray Matheson (THE IVY CURTAIN)..4--Bill Quinn (LABYRINTH)..he was the father-in-law of comedian Bob Newhart at the time of his death April 1994..5--Burgess Meredith (WALL OF CRYSTAL) as the narrator. .....And it was no accident that Kevin McCarthy had the name "Walter" in the flick..

Name: Chance
Email:
water407@aol.com
Sunday 9th May 8:40 am U.K. Time

Hey Jim that is cool about Paul Gleason.

Who was he in "The Experiment?" Was he the other hat and black trenchcoat alien standing next to Laurence Montaigne when they grab Dr. Lindstrom at the phone in the Inn? Who was he in "Task Force?"


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 9th May 8:49 am U.K. Time

Jim,

I see that you are on the board now as I am. I like K. McCarthy and he was great in his cameo in the 1978 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." "They're coming, they're coming!!!" {{THUD}} I have a film print of The Twilight Zone: The Movie for my projector, but I have not screened it in a while. Bill Mumy("Will Robinson") is in it also in a cameo since he was the original evil kid in "It's a Good Life" as well as his being in "In Praise of Pip" and tons of other shows prior to Lost in Space


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 11:31 am U.K. Time

CB, near the end of ACT 1 in THE EXPERIMENT you can plainly see Paul 'Clarence Beeks' Gleason shut the door on another alien and plainly see him show his 'mutated 4th finger'..He has no dialogue nor any billing credits but it it "him", no argument there..In TASK FORCE--which I do not have handy at the moment-- he is one of the aliens plainly visible in the scene wherein they decide to torture the 'father' of Linden Chiles..(And with regard to WALL OF CRYSTAL, Linden Chiles being the brother of DV..that should be DV's dad too)..Point is, he is visible in a scene there too!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 11:45 am U.K. Time

Bad police procedure--in THE LIFE SAVERS-- you will note that 'Indiana State Police' cop Joe Nash (Stephen Brooks) goes on a pursuit of a car (with 3 aliens in it) and makes the text-book mistake that they teach ALL police officers not to do--he approaches the suspect vehicle from 'The front' and winds up getting shot for his efforts..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 12:09 pm U.K. Time

on the above posting--it's of course THE LIFE SEEKERS.. But here is another from the files of "the unbelievable"--There is no way! that in the epilogue that a cop (Captain Battersea/R.G.Armstrong) as a uniformed cop would allow a non-cop (DV) to drive the cop-car away..NO cop in uniform would let a non-cop drive a cop-car!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 12:19 pm U.K. Time

For those younger, actor Paul Gleason might be best remembered as the taskmaster principal in "The Breakfast Club"..

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Sunday 9th May 3:23 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, Yesterday 24 new images were uploaded. New additions today include - all character names added on the episode guide and synopsis page's, new video gueststar sequence, old one archived [The miracle], new word search [Aliens & Collaborators], Two new images added to Contributed Media and a new poll question.

Thanks Craig.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Sunday 9th May 3:25 pm U.K. Time

Sorry! l forgot the address:-) http://www.the-invaders.com

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 9th May 4:09 pm U.K. Time

Milton Selzer--a durable actor who was in QUANTITY UNKNOWN-- might also be remembered by some as the grandfather of Nancy Laura Spungen in the 1986 movie "Sid and Nancy"....And I was there in NYC when it all came down in the late 70s at the Chelsea Hotel.

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 10th May 9:51 am U.K. Time

Hi, Is there anyone who can help with this request? l've been asked to include a videoclip on my site, but they and l can't place the episode:

Scene Description: Vincent and maybe one or two other people are riding in a car. I think I remember the car being either a Lincoln or a Thunderbird. All of a sudden the car sputters and dies. They get out and open the hood just in time to watch the whole engine burn up and dissolve away.

Thanks Craig.


Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Monday 10th May 11:47 am U.K. Time

Hi, Craig,

If memory serves, the episode you are looking for is 'The Leeches' (ep. #4). DV and Tom Wiley are parked off the road in order to keep an eye on Warren Doneghan as he drives by. The aliens kidnap Doneghan and just as DV and Wiley are about to pursue, their auto engine starts to crackle, they jump out, open the hood, and the engine dissolves. I can't recall any other episode where this happens to an engine.

Incidentally, this scene location is also used in 'Valley of the Shadow' (ep. #21)where the deputy sheriff and friend challenge the aliens who are using a device to drain the town of power.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 10th May 1:52 pm U.K. Time

Thanks Taugus,

That has got to be clip, that they wanted to see. For those who want to refresh their memories, like l had to, the clip is now available on video page 2.

Title: Tom Wiley's Car Engine is Destroyed - Leeches

TIP: If by chance you don't see the file straight away, hit the reload/refresh browser button.

Thanks Craig

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 10th May 10:44 pm U.K. Time

Taugus, If you listen closely in THE LEECHES you can hear Arthur Hill called both Doneghan and Donovan..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 11th May 10:34 am U.K. Time

The Invaders-Brady Bunch connection.. One or two actors have been on both shows..But Barry "Greg Brady" Williams stands out on this.In his autobiography "Growing Up Brady-I Was A Teen-age Greg", the actor born Barry William Blenkhorn Sept 30, 1954 writes of his glee in regard to our-favorite-show that "this was the first time that I actually appeared on a show that he I was a fan of".. He is the alien newspaper boy with the bicycle in THE PURSUED..In the book he tells you of all he went through just to get the Invaders production crew to film the shot.

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Tuesday 11th May 3:38 pm U.K. Time

My sister had that book and I picked it up and read about how Florence Henderson(the mom on that show) molested young Barry. I never liked her after I read that...she is so sick. That is neat about Barry mentioning The InVaDeRs, Jim. I will have to call my sis and see if she still has that somewhere.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 12th May 3:54 am U.K. Time

Dear Chance: If they ever made a clone from me, you would probably be the closest one to be that clone, seeing that we think so much alike!!!! You're certainly right about "FRIENDS" being so overly over-rated, and so many people crying big tears over what to us is so ridiculous! That show has been on for ten freakin' years!! All "THE INVADERS" ever got was a lousy year and a half. Where were all of the boo-hoo people back in 1968 when we needed them for "THE INVADERS??!?!!?!?" I am so desparate that today, I taped an 8" by 11" page copy of the saucer landing with the words "THE INVADERS" on it to the inside ofmy rear window in my car, with black marker printed at the bottom of it saying: "SCI-FI FANS LOG ONTO http://www.the-invaders.com" just to try to attract some much needed attention to the show. Hopefully, there will be a few motorists who will take an interest in my little advertiz(s)ement, and log on to find out about our good website, and maybe even join us! I sincerely hope that those German broadcasting companies that are interested in putting "THE INVADERS" into DVD will not give up in securing that from Paramount Pictures. I do not know what it is going to take to get this thing to happen. Another thing that I think is very pathetic is that Roy Thinnes himself, the very star of the show had to have a friend of his give him the 43 episodes of "THE INVADERS" just so he could watch them and see how it turned out! You mean to tell me that Paramount Pictures would be so cheap as to not even give Roy his own vidio tapes?!??!?! I am thankful for Roy's good friend in Las Vegas, Nevada USA for being his long-time friend and caring enough for him to give him the 43 episodes so that he could watch them for himself and see more than just the pilot of BEACHHEAD. Again, you can write to Roy Thinnes in care of: COSMIC FILMS< 4754 East Flamingo, Suite# 538, Las Vegas, Nevada USA and e-mail him in care of the same place at Cogency1aaol.com. I just hope that Paramount will soon see the light, and come around full circle! Sincerely, Lindsay

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 12th May 4:37 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay!

This is very shocking that Mr. Thinnes himself was denied episodes! If this is true, then it is an outrage. I too heard a rumour 2 years ago that a French company was going to release the series on DVD WITH AN ENGLISH seperate audio track. I was excited when the book "Les Envhahiseurs"(The InVaDeRS in French) was published in 2001 with a forward by dear Roy and I thought this gave substance to the story of the video/dvd release on region 2 home video...then it never happened. This was the closest we came to getting a long overdue official release. In the USA, the pilot was reissued by Republic Pictures in 1996 restored(though time compressed and missing the "NEXT...THE InVaDeRs IN COLOR!" teaser leader). Some have used this restored version of the pilot as a sample to make it seem as if the rest of the episodes are of the same high grade nature. Anyhoo, the now defunct Goodtimes Home Video released a dozen episodes back in 1988, which was awesome, even if they were in the LP video mode(as opposed to SP mode or the horrible EP). I always wanted more...then I discovered 16mm film prints of several episodes. These are very hard to find as other collectors keep these in their film libraries for years. In 1992, The Sci Fi Channel began airing this fine show and all was right with the world. That was then...NOW is the time for a real release! In today's world, this show is not only entertaining, but RELEVANT as we all are faced with a cowardly UNSEEN enemy who hides in the shaddow like a rat. France of all countries airs the series weekly...I believe that this is the only nation to play them! What we need


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 12th May 4:37 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay!

This is very shocking that Mr. Thinnes himself was denied episodes! If this is true, then it is an outrage. I too heard a rumour 2 years ago that a French company was going to release the series on DVD WITH AN ENGLISH seperate audio track. I was excited when the book "Les Envhahiseurs"(The InVaDeRS in French) was published in 2001 with a forward by dear Roy and I thought this gave substance to the story of the video/dvd release on region 2 home video...then it never happened. This was the closest we came to getting a long overdue official release. In the USA, the pilot was reissued by Republic Pictures in 1996 restored(though time compressed and missing the "NEXT...THE InVaDeRs IN COLOR!" teaser leader). Some have used this restored version of the pilot as a sample to make it seem as if the rest of the episodes are of the same high grade nature. Anyhoo, the now defunct Goodtimes Home Video released a dozen episodes back in 1988, which was awesome, even if they were in the LP video mode(as opposed to SP mode or the horrible EP). I always wanted more...then I discovered 16mm film prints of several episodes. These are very hard to find as other collectors keep these in their film libraries for years. In 1992, The Sci Fi Channel began airing this fine show and all was right with the world. That was then...NOW is the time for a real release! In today's world, this show is not only entertaining, but RELEVANT as we all are faced with a cowardly UNSEEN enemy who hides in the shaddow like a rat. France of all countries airs the series weekly...I believe that this is the only nation to play them! What we need


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 12th May 4:37 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay!

This is very shocking that Mr. Thinnes himself was denied episodes! If this is true, then it is an outrage. I too heard a rumour 2 years ago that a French company was going to release the series on DVD WITH AN ENGLISH seperate audio track. I was excited when the book "Les Envhahiseurs"(The InVaDeRS in French) was published in 2001 with a forward by dear Roy and I thought this gave substance to the story of the video/dvd release on region 2 home video...then it never happened. This was the closest we came to getting a long overdue official release. In the USA, the pilot was reissued by Republic Pictures in 1996 restored(though time compressed and missing the "NEXT...THE InVaDeRs IN COLOR!" teaser leader). Some have used this restored version of the pilot as a sample to make it seem as if the rest of the episodes are of the same high grade nature. Anyhoo, the now defunct Goodtimes Home Video released a dozen episodes back in 1988, which was awesome, even if they were in the LP video mode(as opposed to SP mode or the horrible EP). I always wanted more...then I discovered 16mm film prints of several episodes. These are very hard to find as other collectors keep these in their film libraries for years. In 1992, The Sci Fi Channel began airing this fine show and all was right with the world. That was then...NOW is the time for a real release! In today's world, this show is not only entertaining, but RELEVANT as we all are faced with a cowardly UNSEEN enemy who hides in the shaddow like a rat. France of all countries airs the series weekly...I believe that this is the only nation to play them! What we need


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 12th May 4:37 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay!

This is very shocking that Mr. Thinnes himself was denied episodes! If this is true, then it is an outrage. I too heard a rumour 2 years ago that a French company was going to release the series on DVD WITH AN ENGLISH seperate audio track. I was excited when the book "Les Envhahiseurs"(The InVaDeRS in French) was published in 2001 with a forward by dear Roy and I thought this gave substance to the story of the video/dvd release on region 2 home video...then it never happened. This was the closest we came to getting a long overdue official release. In the USA, the pilot was reissued by Republic Pictures in 1996 restored(though time compressed and missing the "NEXT...THE InVaDeRs IN COLOR!" teaser leader). Some have used this restored version of the pilot as a sample to make it seem as if the rest of the episodes are of the same high grade nature. Anyhoo, the now defunct Goodtimes Home Video released a dozen episodes back in 1988, which was awesome, even if they were in the LP video mode(as opposed to SP mode or the horrible EP). I always wanted more...then I discovered 16mm film prints of several episodes. These are very hard to find as other collectors keep these in their film libraries for years. In 1992, The Sci Fi Channel began airing this fine show and all was right with the world. That was then...NOW is the time for a real release! In today's world, this show is not only entertaining, but RELEVANT as we all are faced with a cowardly UNSEEN enemy who hides in the shaddow like a rat. France of all countries airs the series weekly...I believe that this is the only nation to play them! What we need


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Wednesday 12th May 4:37 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay!

This is very shocking that Mr. Thinnes himself was denied episodes! If this is true, then it is an outrage. I too heard a rumour 2 years ago that a French company was going to release the series on DVD WITH AN ENGLISH seperate audio track. I was excited when the book "Les Envhahiseurs"(The InVaDeRS in French) was published in 2001 with a forward by dear Roy and I thought this gave substance to the story of the video/dvd release on region 2 home video...then it never happened. This was the closest we came to getting a long overdue official release. In the USA, the pilot was reissued by Republic Pictures in 1996 restored(though time compressed and missing the "NEXT...THE InVaDeRs IN COLOR!" teaser leader). Some have used this restored version of the pilot as a sample to make it seem as if the rest of the episodes are of the same high grade nature. Anyhoo, the now defunct Goodtimes Home Video released a dozen episodes back in 1988, which was awesome, even if they were in the LP video mode(as opposed to SP mode or the horrible EP). I always wanted more...then I discovered 16mm film prints of several episodes. These are very hard to find as other collectors keep these in their film libraries for years. In 1992, The Sci Fi Channel began airing this fine show and all was right with the world. That was then...NOW is the time for a real release! In today's world, this show is not only entertaining, but RELEVANT as we all are faced with a cowardly UNSEEN enemy who hides in the shaddow like a rat. France of all countries airs the series weekly...I believe that this is the only nation to play them! What we need


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Thursday 13th May 1:18 am U.K. Time

Dear Chance: Thank you so much for your quick and great e-mail reply! It is strange how it repeated itself four times though, and was cut off with the words "what we need" at the end of it. I am anxious to read the rest of what you have to say! Check the chat page and see. it is wierd! Anyway, hope to hear from you soon. But last but not least, I read that you have all 43 episodes on DVD, VHS, or whatever format that you may have, plus a lot of neat extras to boot, for $250.00 ? You'll be happy to know that I am VERY interested in your offer. I just have to talk it over with my friend Dana, as he has the way to be able to make the purchase on the internet from you and then I will pay him for it. I also wrote a "thesis", so to speak, about what I call "The scientific speculation concerning the nature and native alien form of "THE INVADERS". I hand-printed it rough-draft, and Dana's girlfriend typed it up on professional format. As soon as I can get it transliterated onto CD or DVD, (maybe it only needs to be CD) I will send the whole report in its entirety instantaniously to this, our unofficial INVADERS website for all to read and consider. Anyway I've got to go now, but take heart we'll keep in touch. Your new internet junkie friend, Lindsay


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Thursday 13th May 1:34 am U.K. Time

CHANCE: I stand corrected! your message repeated itself FIVE times! Hey! I must be very important on this web site!!! Thanx!! Hope to hear from you soon, again! Sincerely, Lindsay

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Thursday 13th May 4:55 am U.K. Time

DEAR CHANCE: One more point of interest before I close down the computer for the night. You made mention of "THE INVADERS" series not only being entertaining, but seriously RELEVENT! Although our UNSEEN enemies are human, they did strike in two places that are both mentioned and seen in episodes of "THE INVADERS", namely,'THE EXPERIMENT' and 'TASK FORCE', in which is briefly shown the downtown NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE in SOUTH MANHATTEN ISLAND, from beneath the southern end of the BROOKLYN BRIDGE, and you can see the Trump building and the Bank of America Building!!! In photographs of the 9-11 hijacked plane crash attacks, you see the very same buildings, although there has been changes in the New York City skyline since the 1960's. You can see those two afore-mentioned buildings, as well as the Brooklyn Bridge as the two jet airliners crash into the two gigantic WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS!!!!!!! The other plane crashes into the PENTAGON, also shown in SUMMIT- MEETING PART ONE, as well as the PENTAGON being made mention of in several other INVADERS episodes!! The fourth plane crashed into an empty field in south-western Pennsylvania.I have the Secial Commemoritive Edition of "9-11 ONE YEAR LATER A NATION REMEMBERS" In the magazine, there are pictures of the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks and also as they were actually happening. They show the Brooklyn Bridge, the Trump Bldg. the Bank of America Bldg., and the Pentagon. They also show the Sommerset County field where the other plane crashed in Pennsylvania, Where Sommerset County Coroner Wallace Miller is shown standing still with his head bowed quietly. The field is a large one. surrounded by woods, and is said to be an abandoned coal mine area. I can just imagine "THE INVADERS" landing their saucers in that remote-looking place to infiltrate their people into our society!! Anyway, got to go. but this is real food for thought! Again, hope to hear from you soon. Bye! Lindsay P.S., Remember the "PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO BUS LINES" that David Vincent Rode into "Covington, Penna." on in 'THE EXPERIMENT', and the nearby West Virginia area where 'PANIC' took place, as well as the many mentions of New York. Also, the plane that crashed into the Pennsylvania field turned around from its west-ward flight just south of Cleveland Ohio where I am, and the one that hit the Pentagon turned around from its west-ward flight over the southern tip of Ohio, and flew over West Virginia.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 13th May 9:44 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay, Your name is ambiguous so I have no idea of your gender, but no matter..Nobody calls the lower part of 'Manhattan' (correct spelling) "South Manhattan Island"..It's 'downtown Manhattan'.In your first few latest lines you say "You see the very same buildings" but give no reference to what you are talking about..If you mean The World Trade Center Towers with regard to 9/11...when The Invaders went off prime-time for good in Sept 1968 the WTC Towers were just an idea on paper..Construction on the Twin Towers wasn't even begun until mid 1969 and completed around 1971..The Invaders episode TASK FORCE shows a brief NYC skyline to establish the setting, but it was all filmed in Hollywood and well before the WTC was built..Forget about "Trump Tower" too..THE DONALD (You're fired!) was a young pup in military school at the time..His father was a local NYC realtor-mogul at the time but the Trump Bldg on 5th Avenue was non-existant....You ALSO mention "The Bank of America" bldg. (your words)..BOA is a west-coast USA firm and has NEVER had a building by that name in NYC---EVER! And I not only grew up in NYC, I also drove a yellow taxi there for 7 years.. And finally, the rural county in Pennsylvania where Flight 93 in Shanksville is "Somerset" County (sic), just 1 'm'..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 13th May 10:02 am U.K. Time

in regard to the above---"just the facts"

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Thursday 13th May 11:30 am U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay, As per your request, left in my Guestbook - l've now uploaded 6 new audio files. Three are more of Dominic Frontiere's music pieces from Beachhead. When David arrives in Kinney is included. A "page 3" has now been added. A ususal, if you don't see the new page, when you first arrive, hit the refresh/reload button.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 13th May 12:21 pm U.K. Time

If an innocent peck on the lips qualifies as "molestation".. Florence and Barry--that's news to me! I guess one should actually READ what Invaders actor Barry Williams of THE PURSUED wrote in his book on this. My sole reason to mention the book and Barry (young alien) Williams was to give the connection to "the show" and the tech stuff that he describes in what it took to wire him up to speak his lines into the alien talking device that he speaks into in San Pedro..Certainly saw no reason to bring any sexual stuff into this on MY part.

Name: Chance Bartels
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 13th May 2:28 pm U.K. Time

Jim, please cut the attitude. That thirtysomething tramp Flo Henderson did indeed have a sexual relationship with 12 year old Barry Williams ACCORDING TO HIM. Jeez, you can be an arrogant jerk at times.

Hey Lindsay! Not to play board cop and correct everything that you post(or act like I run the board when I do not and dictate to you what you can and cannot post as some like to try to do), but I do not remember emailing you! The rate you posted is for international 5-7 day air mail service of the deluxe package big box of InVaDeRs fun(the big box is HEAVY)...it is much less domestically. I do not care what gender that you are...you are a fan and that is all that matters in my book. Have a great day sir or madame


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Thursday 13th May 2:30 pm U.K. Time

****ANYONE LOOKING FOR ANY EPISODE OF THE InVaDeRs, email me at water407@aol.com. I can send ANY of the 43 or ALL of them at once with tons of cool extras...I call it my DELUXE SET which consists of EVERY INVADERS EPISODE EVER MADE...many from ABC TV ORIGINAL UNCUT 16mm films that conta*in the COMMERCIALS(including now banned and totally cool cigarette ads) that ran when they ORIGINALLY AIRED on their 1967-1968 airdate!!! I had these converted to home video professionally for YOUR enjoyment! In addition to all 43 episodes(not merely time compressed, sped up and distorted Sci Fi Channel versions), you get the 1968 MAD Magazine InVaDeRs parody(RARE!!! Never been reprinted!!!), ROY THINNES AUTOGRAPHED COLOR PUBLICITY STILL PIC(reproduction in full color...NOT a computer print out, but a high quality slick)...the pic shows Vincent with a look of horror running from a hovering deadly alien saucer, STARLOG Articles from 1978 and 1993, a VERY personal 1967 Screen Stories interview with Roy and his wife and the time Lyn Loring( who was in the episode "Panic") which is extremely hard to find, InVaDeRs MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK, Roy Thiness on THE FUGITIVE("Wine is a Traitor", episode #98 of 120...aired Nov. 1st, 1966) and SO much MORE!!! I am the BEST and ship FAST as lightening! ***Deal with a REAL fan and the one you know....Chance!**** Email me at water407@aol.com for more details! ~~~~I WILL SHIP ANYWHERE ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH VIA AIR MAIL DELIVERY!~~~~ "Keep looking for those mutated fourth fingers" and have an awesome day!

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 1:51 am U.K. Time

Dear JIM: Thank you for those corrections, especially in the spellings. I often refer to the dictionary if I,m not sure of how certain words are spelled. Just as Cathy Adams in 'BEACHHEAD' told DV, "WE'RE ALWAYS LEARNING", so I guess I'd better stiffen my pinkies, and reach for that dictionary a bit more often, just to be sure, and save myself a bit of embarassment. Yes, concerning those buildings in Manhattan, I meant to put them in the context of the here and now, or the present, 2004, as opposed to 1967, and give them their present names. As for the "Bank of America" Bldg. I,m going to have to look that one up and find that out for sure what the real name of it is. maybe I got the name mixed up, or am referring to another building altogether, by mistake. But you know the jist of what I mean, the building presently called the Trump Tower is the one with the green, tall point on the top of it. Even though it was filmed in Hollywood, we know that it was meant to portray those New York City buildings. Plus, I know that the twin towers were not built until the early 1970's. But the thing is, I apologize if I have given out any misleading information in my description of the "Big Happenings" in N.Y.C. I am thankful that I'm encourging dialog between us. That is what we Invaders fans are for. Anyway, my name is Lindsay, and I am a single 48-year old straight male who has been an Invaders fan since 1967, when the series was first coming out. Well, I think I,ll go to Craig Pierce's website now and listen to some new music that he has added to the sound bank. I,m a fan of the old "OUTER LIMITS" series also, and enjoy the music of Dominic Frontiere. Again, thanks for everything and hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, Lindsay

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 14th May 4:28 am U.K. Time

In my opinion, one of the best qualities of the classic show The InVaDeRs (besides the fine drama and excellent writing, actind and directing) is the political implication which is open for the viewer to interpret. Many have noted in magazine articles about the series that The InVaDeRs was written around the "Red Scare" of the communists that existed in America in the 1950's and 1960's. I find this fascinating! It truly depends on one's viewpoint as to who the bad guys are...the aliens who are attempting to change and take over our world could be an analogy for not only the Russians, but the Jews as well. For example, say you are a Christian American who sees how the basic celebration of Christmas is being slowly erased and toned down in our schools, workplace, city streets, etc. One may feel threatened and a bit angry. Meanwhile, though they are still very much in the American population minority, Jewish customs and holidays are accepted and are in fact protected in that if one is critical of a Jewish takeover, then you are labeled a "hate monger" or worse a dreaded "anti-semite." Pretty sneaky stuff and there are many other examples of an attempted cultural "takeover" via the "New" Hollywood, the liberal news network television media and newspapers. One who is alarmed by these brainwashing attempts may view the aliens as the Jews when watching The InVaDeRs. "Poor pitiful us"("dying planet"...holocaust?) yet we own today's Hollywood, most major Sports franchises, AOL Time Warner, Disney, the newspaper monopolies and most televised news...a total springboard for propaghanda and agenda in a quest for world dominance and power.

Here is another example of how this series makes one think based upon your own experiences, environment and upbringing: If you are French and have resided there all of your life, the odds are that when YOU watch the bad guys in "Les Envahisseurs" you think of Americans...the American Militia in particular. AMERICANS are the evil ones in your mind based upon what you are exposed to in your country. Today the Americans occupy another innocent country and are stealing their natural resources and are doing no good(in your mind). I have no doubt that this is why The InVaDeRs is currently being screened in France on a major network...a recent development. I believe that France is the ONLY country airing the episodes on television.

Here is yet ANOTHER example...you are a black man in America. The aliens want to "enslave mankind." The white man is the alien in your mind.

Finally, in today's horrible dawn of terrorism, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE the aliens in our beloved show are just like the Muslim extremist murderers from the Middle East...a DYING AREA OF THE WORLD("DYING PLANET" if you will). It is really scary how this series mirrors reality in today's times...unseen InVaDeRs who look like us...killers...no emotion, etc, etc, etc. Were the bloodthirsty evil terrorists watching this show in their training camp? Makes you wonder

ONE of these reasons is why this thought provoking series is not seen today in a major marketplace, in English and on home video. Who owns the series? Aaron Spelling? Paramount? Hmmmmmmmmm

The point of this post is to say that this show is IMPORTANT and WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME. The bad guys are open to personal interpretation. The aliens are not to be taken for sci-fi face value. I feel that fear is the main reason that The InVaDeRs remains shelved. It is a political powerhouse


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 5:36 am U.K. Time

CHANCE: You're right. You didn't e-mail me personally, its just that I read your quote from your general e-mail on this web site and I thought that was the price for shipping overall. Of course, there is a difference when distance in shipping is considered. If you say that the cost of shipping the DVD's would be cheaper, then all the better!! I just didn't know if you were in the USA or in Britain. Its okay, just a little misunderstanding. I heard some very discouraging news about Paramount Pics. It seems that they have shut themselves off from the public like a thick steel door after we fans started sending all of these e-mail messages wanting THE INVADERS to be released on DVD. I think we need to come up with some other plans, but what could they be? Anyway keep sharing ideas as they come up. There has got to be something we can do. Lindsay


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 8:13 am U.K. Time

CB-- IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BARRY WILLIAMS ADMITTED THAT NOTHING HAPPENED!..It's laughable that you said you haven't read the book in years--if probably ever--and yet you profess to know all about it..Yeah, just like the "shotgun" in THE MUTATION..As for your insults to me, they bounce right off--I could return in kind but refuse to lower my IQ and sensibilities to your more primal level.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 9:02 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay, great posting from you on that and look for an off-site e-mail from me.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 10:56 am U.K. Time

CB-- your obvious ignorance of the whole issue is showing..You claim that 'Flo Henderson was with 12-yr old'(sic) Barry (THE PURSUED) Williams..(your words)..Why not just actually READ the copy of the book and find out that he had a drivers' license at the time...You obviously hate women in any capacity, but for those that you like they are "hot" and anybody who disagrees is on your s**tlist.. Should a female actually attempt to post on this site, you have at least twice expressed your homicidal fantasies toward them, albeit under the guise of "killing them with an alien suicide capsule"..Insult me again on this all you want--no worries to me, you just just give more insight into your true character. And the webmaster too.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 11:11 am U.K. Time

Lindsay--on that "clone issue"--say it isn't so!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 1:54 pm U.K. Time

A note on the marriage laws of the state of (Atlanta) Georgia-- My antagonist on the Barry Williams book obviously didn't read it or do the math-- he thinks Florence Henderson--who he denigrates--went 'all the way' with BW and so is a child molester, in his words..Where he comes from, the minimum age to marry WITHOUT parental consent is 16, only other state with that is Hawaii..In Georgia one can marry their betrothed, cousin, etc with parental consent at an even younger age! Source is The World Almanac.

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Friday 14th May 2:42 pm U.K. Time

Jim,

Why the hell would I want to read a book about the damn Brady Bunch? That show sucks IMO and is for girls and morons. Not a deep show at all. I think you have your head stuck in a the Twilight Zone cloud of dellusion. Barry Williams HIMSELF said in a televised interview to promote his book that that sick bimbo Florence Henderson and he had sex when he was a minor! I am gonna use one of your lines and say "What has this got to do with The InVaDeRs?" Of course it does not bother me if you go off topic, but THE BRADY BUNCH? C'mon, man. You are 50+ years old and reading books on this fluff? I thought you were more cerebral, but hey, that's just me. To each their own. As for the "suicide pill" joke that I aimed towards a looney tune non-fan who posted here ONE time....it was exaclty that A JOKE.....GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!

I love women, in fact I am engaged to one of the most beautiful woman of all time....and a California girl to boot! She is a blonde bombshell and the daughter of an actor.


Name: barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Friday 14th May 3:45 pm U.K. Time

i dont know about the other who visit this site but ive made my view on the topic of you two constantly at each other quite plain ,ive said all along i come to this site to learn more about a series i like not to read you two trying to out do each other cause thats what its looking like to me !!!!,in my eyes your both legends to have such knowledge on the series ,please dont spoil it !!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 4:12 pm U.K. Time

Always deign to the cheap shots and vulgar language..I rest my case..Interesting to note that the one who just days ago said that he had to get a copy of the book now says "why should I read it?" when it will of course show what I was saying on that all along..Note that ALL I did was mention an Invaders connection to The Brady Bunch and Mr Barthels has twisted it all around into his own spin on it, and I come out the villain--with the expected escape clauses of 'lighten up', etc..I spew no poison on this site unlike SOME people..I just react to it and stand up to it..And their natural reaction seems to be that their only reply other than to pimp off tapes is to insult anyone who disagrees with their biased views.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 14th May 4:49 pm U.K. Time

Somewhere in Georgia today they will be grabbing at a dictionary--if they have one--to find out what 'deign' means.

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Saturday 15th May 7:12 am U.K. Time

Hey Jim:

YO MAMA. Go read your Brady Bunch book now. Get a life


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Saturday 15th May 10:34 pm U.K. Time

“THE INVADERS” was running in more than 30 countries including Germany. I suppose so, the series was just used as ‘TV-program-filler’, because the German TV-company ZDF showed only 20 German-language episodes of the 43 in 1970/71 under the series title “Invasion von der Wega”. In 1973 one episode was repeated and since then this series is ‘vanished’ in Germany. Some of the then German reviewers viewed „science-fiction“, “mystery” or “horror” in general respectively fundamentally as “not seriously” and “trivial” or in other words as “trash”. For me actually incomprehensible, because film directors like Murnau (Max Schreck as count Orlok in “Nosferatu”) or for example Lang’s “Metropolis” were early pioneers for these genres, or the expressionistic German film (“Caligari”) in general inspired the early Hollywood.

However, “Invasion von der Wega” became a success in Germany with on average of 46% viewer-share (ok, then there were only 3 television-programs around here). Even so the show was not repeated inexplicably. Nevertheless, “Invasion von der Wega” or “THE INVADERS” became a so-called ‘cult series’ in Germany as well. By the way, the German title “Invasion von der Wega” isn’t the translation of the term “The Invaders”, but pure invention. “The Invaders” in German means “Die Eindringlinge” or “Die Angreifer”. But the show is known under the title „Invasion von der Wega“ around here, I don’t know who has ‘invented’ this title. Actually the origin sun-system and the home-planet of the Invaders were unknown. The series is still fresh in the mind of the then ‘Invaders viewers’, such as the comments and the charts of the “TV Wunschliste” demonstrate http://www.wunschliste.de/links.pl?s=0312 .

Several German DVD publishers are interested in Quinn Martin’s series and would release it on DVD around here, if there wouldn’t be the copyright problem. In other words these companies see a potential market for “THE INVADERS” in Germany. But in the meantime I doubt (but I don’t know it) that other DVD publishers get the licences to release the series. If there will be an ‘official’ DVD release of this QM production, then – I think – Paramount itself will release the show on DVD. For me it doesn’t matter which company will release the series, main thing there will be an appropriate DVD edition with the entire series and informative bonus material ‘sometime’ in the future here in Germany. Apart from there is an international potential market for the original “THE INVADERS” series.


Name: Mark
Email:
mowakeling@ntlworld.com
Sunday 16th May 12:37 am U.K. Time

Lindsay - please try to avoid drawing parallels between the sci-fi of the Invaders and anything connected to 911 or current events. Any comparison is rooted in conservative paranoia or fear of the unknown, or don't want to know. Don't confuse the actions of extremists with wider events, there are extremists everywhere (inc the White House). Leave the Invaders to it's time, (maybe the context of the cold war etc) and leave modern events out of it. The Invaders was an exciting TV show, let's leave it as that. The temptation is to view anything you don't agree with or understand as an 'Invaders' parallel, watch 'Starship Troopers' for an amusing example of how this standpoint can easily morph into fascist extremism itself, not a good place to be.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Sunday 16th May 5:31 am U.K. Time

Dear Mark: Yes, I certainly do not wish to say anything that would put our favorite television series into any kind of bad light. I was meaning to place the emphesis on the significance of places and geographical locations, not really meaning to compare the aliens with human extremism. If the way I worded it was wrong, then I apologize both to you and to the entire membership of our website. I guess I could get a little carried away at times, but it is only because I am such an avid fan of "THE INVADERS." Anyway, thank you for your input, and let us try to keep our website strong. Sincerely, Lindsay

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 16th May 8:56 am U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, I've just seen STORM for the first time after a guy called Edmund sent me a sample DVD. Unfortunately the quality wasn't to good and i won't be buying any from him, but thanks anyway. There were some stock footage of tornadoes and hurricanes presumably from the US? does anyone have any info on these clips? And also where the harbour scenes were shot?

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 16th May 9:15 am U.K. Time

HEY MARK

What's up? Dude, you gotta admit that The InVaDeRs was WAY ahead of it's time tnad the alien murderers in this chilling series were very much like the terrorist cowards that we are wiping out as I type this. EXAPLE: I screened a 16mm film print of "Panic" tonight with a pal and it was UNCANNY to me how the plot was practically ripped from today's headlines....A woman("Madelyn" played by Lynn Loring) is whining and bitching about how Vincent is (enter crying baby: "WAAAAAAA") hurting the innocent guy's hands by tying him up...she basically pleads that this person is being "humiliated." It turns out that this "innocent" dude is really a killer and a bastard(BIG SURPRISE) and she was wrong which cost her her father's life. This storyline mirrors the joke uproar about the "innocent" and "abused" prisoners in Iraq that we "tortured." Of course these "victims" are sick killers and demented psychos who have done far worse to the women of their country. "Madelyn" reminds me of the nimrod liberals who prove daily that they do not have a clue. How pathetic


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Sunday 16th May 9:15 am U.K. Time

HEY MARK

What's up? Dude, you gotta admit that The InVaDeRs was WAY ahead of it's time tnad the alien murderers in this chilling series were very much like the terrorist cowards that we are wiping out as I type this. EXAPLE: I screened a 16mm film print of "Panic" tonight with a pal and it was UNCANNY to me how the plot was practically ripped from today's headlines....A woman("Madelyn" played by Lynn Loring) is whining and bitching about how Vincent is (enter crying baby: "WAAAAAAA") hurting the innocent guy's hands by tying him up...she basically pleads that this person is being "humiliated." It turns out that this "innocent" dude is really a killer and a bastard(BIG SURPRISE) and she was wrong which cost her her father's life. This storyline mirrors the joke uproar about the "innocent" and "abused" prisoners in Iraq that we "tortured." Of course these "victims" are sick killers and demented psychos who have done far worse to the women of their country. "Madelyn" reminds me of the nimrod liberals who prove daily that they do not have a clue. How pathetic


Name: trev
Email:
trevorkane99@bigpond.com
Sunday 16th May 12:23 pm U.K. Time

Hi guys.

I really do find it amazing!!! that anyone can link "THE INVADERS" series to events in the 21st century, a great series & a sci fi great as far as I am concerned but hey guys! There is life out there let's live it!!


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Sunday 16th May 6:13 pm U.K. Time

A Copyright tip for German fans, because some of the Invaders fans around here don’t know who the right owner is.

In Deutschland schreiben Fans zwar immer wieder ans ZDF, um die Serie wieder ins Programm zu bekommen und wünschen sie auf DVD, teilweise scheint ihnen aber nicht bekannt zu sein wo die Rechte liegen. Auf der Seite http://miraclefilms.com/roynews.htm wird im Textabschnitt – 03/13/01 WHO OWNS „THE INVADERS“? – Paramount als Eigentümer genannt.

Einen weiteren Hinweis gibt’s auf der Seite, auf welcher die von Paramount ‚kontrollierten’ Filme und Fernsehserien aufgeführt sind, auf http://www.paramount.com/filmcliplicensing/libraries.htm#pp klicken. Unter dem Abschnitt „SPELLING / WORLDVISION“ ist u. a. „The Invaders“ aufgeführt. Das Beste und wohl Einzige, was auch deutsche Fans tun können, um eine DVD Freigabe wahrscheinlicher zu machen, ist, direkt Paramount anzuschreiben um zu zeigen, daß es in Deutschland einen Markt für „THE INVADERS“ gibt.

Als Email wird immer wieder homevideo@pde.paramount.com genannt, um Paramount wegen einer DVD Freigabe zu schreiben. Aber wie ich gelesen habe, gibt es mitunter Schwierigkeiten bei dieser Email Adresse und es ist fraglich ob die Email Paramount überhaupt erreicht. Vielleicht ist ein „altmodischer“ Brief wirkungsvoller als eine Email. Jedenfalls hab ich voriges Jahr auf meinen Brief Antwort von Paramount bekommen, im Unterschied zu den Leuten die Paramount per Email kontaktiert haben. Fazit, es ist möglich das in Zukunft über eine Freigabe entschieden wird. Also, wer in Deutschland „THE INVADERS“ auf DVD möchte, kann schreiben an:

Paramount Pictures / Home Entertainment / 5555 Melrose Avenue / Hollywood, CA 90038-3197 / USA


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 17th May 8:12 am U.K. Time

Ahoy there, I've had an 'Invaders weekend' and have re-watched my ten episodes again.Anyone who thinks that going out for meals, spending time with family, going to gigs,chasing women, in fact all the things that these morons insinuate that you should be doing when they level this 'get a life' cliche at you now and again, well they should try watching ten Invaders episodes back to back! Fantastic. Anyway, my guess when watching 'Beachead' was that the bit that was missing ie the bit that is in the extended version is some kind of shoot-out or fight at the point where DV finds Alan Landers dead behind those boxes. I couldn't believe that Carver just knocks DV out with his torch and then the Epilogue! Could someone with the extended version please enlighten this sad telly watching nerd just what does the extended version contain..and please remember i'd like as much detail as possible as i have nothing else to do.

Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 17th May 2:21 pm U.K. Time

Here is a fun site to visit while sitting at the computer bored at work(or at home):

http://www.tvsgreatesthits.com/

It contains the Television musical theme songs of many shows. There are some themes that are so darn catchy! Many songs are good of shows that suck and many EXCELLENT shows with super music have YET to be on the site...like The InVaDeRs!

Email Neil TODAY and let's get Dominic's classic score on there!!!


Name: Chance
Email:
Water407@aol.com
Monday 17th May 2:37 pm U.K. Time

Hi Jamie!

I have the RARE Extended version of the pilot movie and I will post a detailed description of the long cut later on. There is no "shoot out." There is a much longer fight between Vincent and the "honeymooning" alien, in terms of extra ACTION. There is much more dialogue starting with Vincent's description of the saucer landing to the authorities in the police station and at the landing site("This tree..I rember the evergreen! It came down right here and stretched out right along in here", Vincent extends arms in a circular motion...this is before the "It looks as if no one has been here for a hundred years"). "Mr. Vincent insisits! Mr. Vincent is a very important citizen...RIGHT MR. VINCENT?" sarcasm mode off...this is extra dialogue spoken by actor J.D. Cannon just before it cuts to the landing site, more examples to follow). I love the alternate special effect of the saucer landing and the different main theme in the long version too! You are not a nerd, by the way. An InVaDeRs episode is as thought provoking and of the same intellectual quality as ten novels IMO LOL!!!


Name: Mark
Email:
mowakeling@ntlworld.com
Monday 17th May 7:25 pm U.K. Time

Chance, without doubt you know lots of fascinating info about The Invaders.....but your knowledge clearly doesn't seem to extend to modern day geo-political issues. There is no meaningful allegory, and resist the temptation to share your black and white political insights with Invaders fans, I recommend you try avoid subjects outside of your area of expertise - stick to the Invaders !

Name: Chance
Email:
water407@aol.com
Monday 17th May 9:17 pm U.K. Time

I am only pointing out a theory as to why this fine series is shelved. Think "Passion of the Christ." Remember the cries of antisemitism that were heard before the film was released and proved to be a smash and totally thumbed it's nose to today's whacko Hollyweird. Sorry, Mark

Name: Chance
Email:
water407@aol.com
Tuesday 18th May 2:57 pm U.K. Time

I screened a film print of "Quantity: Unknown" last night and I noticed a couple of things that could be considered "bloopers." Although I dislike to post mistakes in a show that in my mind is a near flawless series, here are a couple of noteworthy things to look for:

1.) The masquerading alien "Harry Swain"(played by James Whitmore) calls David Vincent and tells him that he is cornered in an alley by guys with discs. Check out his face! He has blood and cuts all over his face. How can this be if aliens don't have a pulse, heart or BLOOD? Naturally, the bad guys could have used makeup to make him look more human, but I chalk it up to an error.

2.) Look closely at the end of "Act II" where we see the cylindar floating in a tank in front of Susan Strassberg....you can see the black wires the are suspending the cylindar plain as day! Granted, this film print is perfect and you can see fine details, but on my video you can see the wires too!

I thought that the episode was excellent as usual and the death of "Harry Swain" was the best! I just love it where he falls and then makes his way to the cylindar and as he burns up, grabs it and incinerates it!

The original music by Markowitz was good, but too repetitive. Not as dramatic as Dominic's. They looped the same music over and over again too much.

The actor from Perry Mason(Perry's nemesis attourney) was awful.

Hey, did you all hear that they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? I always felt that President Bush was like Vincent in terms of knowing something is there, but the bad guys are "very good at covering their tracks" and thus he is discredited. This is good news IMO!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 18th May 3:53 pm U.K. Time

Mark, Welcome to the site but hey--I like the way that you have figured things out.

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Wednesday 19th May 11:04 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, Just to let you know, over the last couple of day's 12 new video clips have been uploaded.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 20th May 10:16 am U.K. Time

upcoming Invaders birthdays this weekend-- Quinn Martin b. May 22, 1922 in NYC...died August 6th, 1987 in Ranch Santa Fe, California--THE richest annual income city in the USA..Also--Barbara Barrie--(nurse Gail in THE ENEMY)..born May 23, 1931 in Chicago..While it was just one more role for an aspiring actress--she later went on to meatier roles on tv. I always felt that she gave quite a believable passionate performance and it's a shame that she wasn't even in the running for an Emmy award on this one.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 20th May 10:18 am U.K. Time

make that "RANCHO" (sic) SANTA FE, Cal on the above posting.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 20th May 4:15 pm U.K. Time

THE ENEMY--like THE VISE--were the 2 Invaders episodes that dared to question The Vietnam War--while it was going on! In a passing and passive way via suggestion. But considering that the QMP "THE EFF-BEE-EYE" also seemed to deal with the agents going after any long-haired hippie subversives (LOL!) it was ironic indeed that this paradox existed at all from QMP!

Name: Gil Whaler
Email:
gil_whaler@juno.com
Friday 21st May 2:17 am U.K. Time

Sorry for neglecting this forum for so long, but I'm back. Here's why:

because Lindsay (invaders1965@yahoo.com)

has started _quite_ a discussion in the Yahoo group, causing me to jump right to attention & respond... Lindsay brings forth some very significant items, observations, details, inquisitions...MOST provocative...enlightening...informative...and just plain FUN! I hope you will all come visit: mailto:invaders@yahoogroups.com

...that's where I've been all these past 10 months or so; the only advantage is having the discussions coming directly to your email-box...convenient. I hope This Group can enjoy this convenience soon. I like it better than RSS, but that's just me...haven't found any Invaders-RSS feeds anywhere yet...I hope it's just a matter of time.

I welcome you all to join us, as I also hope this forum can unite with our Yahoo group. I see no need for any of us to stand alone...at least not if we all are "believers', ok?

Still great site &, yes, I have missed it, & you as a group!

Gil Whaler


Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Friday 21st May 4:06 pm U.K. Time

Craigs,

Thanks for all your video clips ! I'm French but i download and try to translate all of them... Fortunately for some of them, i remember the french version: it's useful... Let's the show go on and thanks again ! ;-) Alain.

PS: i visit your website eveyday: i play the games...i watch the news pictures...it's a real pleasure :-)


Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Friday 21st May 4:06 pm U.K. Time

Craigs,

Thanks for all your video clips ! I'm French but i download and try to translate all of them... Fortunately for some of them, i remember the french version: it's useful... Let's the show go on and thanks again ! ;-) Alain.

PS: i visit your website eveyday: i play the games...i watch the news pictures...it's a real pleasure :-)


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Friday 21st May 11:35 pm U.K. Time

Alain, you're welcome,

Glad you like the clips etc.. l'm working on several more at the moment that have been requested. They will appear over the weekend.

Thanks Craig.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Friday 21st May 11:41 pm U.K. Time

Gil mentioned the Yahoo group, well to join or if you wanted to check out previous messages here's the address http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/invaders/

Thanks Craig.


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 22nd May 8:14 am U.K. Time

Hello everyone, A couple of our French contributors keep mentioning that The Invaders is being periodically shown on one of their tv stations. How is this possible when the people who own the rights to the show aren't allowing it to be shown anywhere? Or have i got it wrong?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 22nd May 9:33 am U.K. Time

about Barb Barrie--born 73 years ago tomorrow- She is best known in later work from her roles as (MRS) "Barney Miller" and also on the show "Suddenly Susan", and 'the mom' in the movie "Breaking Away"..But in THE ENEMY she truly gives what should have been an Emmy-Award winning performance..Problem was that at the time, our-favorite-show was seen as 'fantasy/sci-fi' and not taken seriously by the voting Emmy members..Alas..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 22nd May 10:13 am U.K. Time

To Richard (UK) and Mark P (Canada)--thanx guys! My best to you.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 22nd May 11:02 am U.K. Time

Aliens kill aliens--in these episodes-- Deliberately: THE MUTATION, PANIC, THE BETRAYED...By Accident: LABYRINTH and THE CONDEMNED..It could also be construed that the aliens knowingly killed one of their own in THE SAUCER and WALL OF CRYSTAL..

Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Saturday 22nd May 1:33 pm U.K. Time

Hi, Jim ....

Additionally ... alien Blake kills Sawyer and Lavin in 'The Enemy' (btw, don't you think Barbara Barrie has beautiful eyes?), alien Ellie Markham shoots the alien sergeant-aide in 'Summit Meeting' Part 2 and , alien Anne Gibbs kills alien Corwin in 'The Pursued' (sorry - did you get that one?). I'd like to say 'bloodthirsty lot', but - no blood!


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 22nd May 1:58 pm U.K. Time

Hey Taugus, those were just off the top of my head! You are correctamundo on what you have added!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 22nd May 2:13 pm U.K. Time

Quinn Martin would be 82 today if still alive...born May 22, 1922. Let us give pause to this brilliant producer who gave us so many great shows as THE INVADERS and The Fugitive, Streets of San Francisco, Dan August, Barnaby Jones, O'Hara US Treasury, and so many more realistic shows--and in his own unique style gave tv-land the concepts of 'an opening, 4 acts, and an epilogue'..A true tv genius unparallelled..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 22nd May 2:23 pm U.K. Time

Taugus, I'm guessing that you are from The UK..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 23rd May 1:42 pm U.K. Time

Hi There, through my perculiar 'research' into people's memory's of The invaders series i present to you three common myth's...

1.Roy thinnes actually died in real life from a cerebral hemeridge. 2.The American goverment took it off the air because it was getting too close to the truth. 3.That the show was made in Black and white.

If anyone has any others please share with me.


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 23rd May 1:46 pm U.K. Time

Also that Roy Thinnes spelt backwards reads YOU ARE AN ALIEN..... When closely examined it actually reads YOR SENNITH which doesn't mean anything.

Name: Taugus
Email:
alien@invaders
Sunday 23rd May 10:16 pm U.K. Time

Jim -

Don't you know that I'm from a dying planet?!!!


Name: charles valvo
Email:
fcv442olds@yahoo.com
Monday 24th May 3:57 am U.K. Time

how did the series end?

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Monday 24th May 3:11 pm U.K. Time

Hello everybody !

Do you know what happened to the charming Ahna Capri ? (seen in Counterattack) ? I tried to get informations on the web with google : she made an apparence as a guest star in "colombo" (2nd season) and after ??? Is she still alive ? Thanks a lot for your answers ! @lain


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 24th May 3:28 pm U.K. Time

Hi Alain, Here's a link for the Internet Movie Database listing for Ahna Capri.

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0135622/

Craig.


Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Monday 24th May 3:38 pm U.K. Time

Oh Craig : you check the website every hour ? :-) Thanks for a fast answer ! But it's difficult to get pics of her ! See you soon on the web ! @lain

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 25th May 9:09 am U.K. Time

Taugus, That says it all! Keen insight there..When will WE be building spaceships bound for wherever?!..Hopefully not in several lifetimes.!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 25th May 9:20 am U.K. Time

Hello Charles Valvo, your question is a valid one for a new poster, although the issue of "how does it end" has been discussed before..It all came down to Nielsen ratings and 'our-favorite-show' wasn't wildly popular enough to last more than 1.5 seasons.. Alas, it was replaced on ABC in Sept 1968 by an asinine musical-comedy show called "That's Life" starring Robert Morse and E.J. Peaker--it was cancelled shortly..As for how 'the show' actually ended--episode 43 INQUISITION--major alien equipment gets destroyed by our hero DV but that was it..I'm sure Roy was hanging by a thread wondering if there would be another season but there wasn't..So the show stays in limbo, whereas on The QMP "The Fugitive" there was a resolution..Will gladly answer any questions you further have.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 25th May 9:47 am U.K. Time

alain, The imdb site that Craig sent to you is indeed a valuable source of information..He told you before just before I would have.. Ms Ahna Capri is still alive but obviously has not acted in many years..If you go to the website http://www.findagrave.com you can work your way into seeing many graves and headstones for not only the deceased actors/actresses that have been on The Invaders but any other famous/infamous person that you care to name..

Name: Caig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Tuesday 25th May 3:23 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, 21 new images have been uploaded. - Alain, several are of Ahna Capri.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Tuesday 25th May 10:15 pm U.K. Time

Greetings, Invaders fans!! I must have E.S.P., because I just KNEW that "THE INVADERS" or any of its stars never recieved any kind of academy awards for their performances. I try not to put down other people's favorite shows and programs, because I understand how people like what they like. But I cannot help but get steamin' mad whenever they have these academy award ceremonial shows on, and they are always giving out tons of awards to the stars of "FRIENDS", etc., over and over again, while our heroes and heroines on the Invaders are never mentioned. Or if they do have somebody on the show, like Gene Hackman, who we know was in an episode of "our show", they never make mention of "THE INVADERS", or any of its episodes!! I wonder who we can talk to to lodge a protest about this! Sometimes I get so mad, that I feel like marching right into the academy award show(FANTASY ONLY) and saying, HEY, YOU PEOPLE!!! WHEN THE HECK ARE YOU GOING TO GET WITH IT AND GIVE SOME ACADEMY AWARDS UNTO WHOM THEY THUS SHOULD GO? i.e. "THE INVADERS" and ROY THINNES, along with the ASSOCIATE STARS that are still alive today??!?!!??! I say let us give credit where credit is due, for once!!!! Anyway, I thought I would share with you all my feelings and thoughts on this matter. Lets give the BEST to the BEST!! AMEN. Lindsay

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 26th May 8:28 am U.K. Time

Lindsay, while the show won no Emmy Awards, it did have a past Oscar winner-- Ed Begley (THE BETRAYED, LABYRINTH) and 2 future ones -Gene Hackman (THE SPORES) and Lou Gosset Jr (THE VISE)..The latter two were both relatively unknown when they appeared on the show..I seem to recall reading that QMP paid the guest stars about $2,000 per appearance..Good money at the time for a weeks' work, and residuals for the rerun, and that was it!..It was Ronald Reagan who as President of the Screen Actors Guild essentially insured that virtually ALL 1960s tv actors would get nothing for endless reruns..Roy Thinnes, like Bob "Gilligan" Denver and the rest indeed get nothing..Compare that to today, where syndicated reruns of 1980s-to present shows reap millions for the actors..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 26th May 8:32 am U.K. Time

LIndsay, and Ed Asner (WALL OF CRYSTAL, THE MIRACLE) did go on to win several Emmy Awards in his later career..I believe he was also SAG Prez for a time..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 26th May 8:44 am U.K. Time

Ahna Capri (COUNTERATTACK) was born in Budapest but there's no ZsaZsa Gabor accent there, leading me to believe that she grew up in North America...On the other side of the coin, Eduard Franz--Thor Halvorson in SUMMIT MEETING (I& PT II) has what to me is a European accent but he was born and raised in Wisconsin USA.

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Wednesday 26th May 10:29 am U.K. Time

Oh...these pics...only for my pleasure ? ;-) Thanks a lot Craig ! @lain

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Wednesday 26th May 11:16 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, 5 new MPEG video clips have been uploaded [27 May]

They've come from The Mutation.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Thursday 27th May 12:26 am U.K. Time

Thanks, Jim! I guess I stand rebuked and corrected on that one. I just wish I could have seen these actors recieve their Oscars, and be able to take a note of it. I wonder if the library might have some record of these events. If not, can anyone display some articles on this web site, that is, if any articles exist? Today, I got my new library card. So I am going to start looking for some special materials, such as academy awards, obituaries,etc. Thanks, again! Lindsay

Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 28th May 1:07 am U.K. Time

Hey--Looks like an "alien" has infiltrated this "Loyal" INVADERS chat page; and unfortunately for us, Extreme measure had to be taken--THE IMPOSTER was captured--but tied to take a "suicide pill" but, fortunately, "CHICAGO ROY" grabbed the suicide PILL out of the dasterdly Imposter's hand, and saved that darn rascal alien from committing suicide, enabling "NOTTOODISTANTRELATIVE'S" Wife to Turn the Tables on that Darn Alien Intruder/Imposter--and "Hypnobeamed" that Alien--BUT-- Since that alien was "OVERDUE" for Recharging, a considerable amount of Electricity was required to "CHARGE" that Rascal up--so, they had to conserve on energy, and shut down for awhile-- THE CHAT PAGE IS NOW taking Measures to "keep the power up and running" BUT--Take HEED--"Negative comments; Anti-Semitic or Racist, or just plain HARSH interchanges will automatically SET OFF A SPECIAL "HOMELAND SECURITY" Device, and shut this "Great Chat Page Down" AGAIN--SO PLEASE-- CONSERVE ENERGY--!

Happy Memorial DAY-- AND bow our heads for a moment, to all of the Soldiers who gave great sacrifrices, both survivors, and especially those for which the "MEMORIAL DAY" holiday ws originally made for(It was called "Decoration Day" when CHICAGO ROY was a SOLDIER), AND ALSO GIVE THANKS we live in a FREE COUNTRY--So far--BUT NOT FREE TO SAY OR DO OR ACT IRRESPONSIBLY-"THAT" is NOT what "Freedom" means--

Great so see "ALL" OF you here again--

Chicago Roy must be pleased!

Oh---MORE CHICAGO ROY-- Check out the accent in "CONDITION RED"-- THE interview with Roy and the General "AFTER" ROY visited Smart-wise-guy Jason Evers, and his "Alien WIFE"- Chicago Roy's accent AGAIN comes out:" Suppose there are Aliens here on earth, without pulse or heartbeat-one of them is knocked unconscious after a fall from a horse--now you can see how a doctor can..."

Check out the Accent--NAAAA'KT un KAHN-SHUS AFF'TR a FAWL --

"CHICAGO ROY RULES"!


Name: nottoodistantrelative
Email:
thinnes38@cs.com
Friday 28th May 1:14 am U.K. Time

"CHICAGO ROY"-- WHO IS THE PRETTIEST ALIEN WOMAN?

RUNNERS UP: BLOND IN THE BARSCENE IN ONE WITH DONALD DAVIS IRISH COLLEEN DIANA MULDAUR

ITALIAN-HUNGARIAN BOMBSHELL BARBARA LUNA

MAGYAR PRINCESS AHNA CAPRI

TWO-TIME ALIEN SUZANNE PLESHETTE

CANADIAN ACTRESS ANTOINETTE BOWER

MY VOTE--"DIANA MULDAUR"--

WHO ARE YOURS'?


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 28th May 1:34 pm U.K. Time

nope--didn't notice a thing about the site being down.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 28th May 1:44 pm U.K. Time

NTDR, I could ask you this off-site-- as you know we keep in touch that way--but for the sake of the site, I haven't been able to find ANY birthplace for Antoinette Bower..I know well that she was born Sept 30, 1932 but I have never seen ANY place of birth listed for her on various web-and-other sources..So with tutti de respetto, WHERE did you learn she was Canadian? Just curious!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 28th May 1:46 pm U.K. Time

The down-time--if so--a blessing in disguise, perhaps.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 28th May 3:56 pm U.K. Time

Great bit of Invaders trivia-- Jack Lord and Diana Hyland were both in VIKOR (and she also in SUMMIT MEETING I & 2 ) and when she died in March 1977 age 41 and he died in Jan 1998 age 77 they BOTH were cremated and had their ashes scattered in the sea..Other cremated Invaders actors include Susan Oliver (THE IVY CURTAIN, INQUISITION) and Roddy McDowall (THE EXPERIMENT).None of these ever 'fried' on our-favorite-show.!

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Friday 28th May 5:46 pm U.K. Time

I want this "damn" series on DVD; an official first class release of "THE INVADERS" as so-called "special edition" with the entire show and many and informative backgrounds on this series. Surely, Paramount has a huge archive. We have a "damn" market for the series in Germany. C'mon Paramount, I haven't a mind to wait till I've a long white beard. Give us the show on DVD! German fans, if you want "THE INVADERS" on DVD around here, then write:

Paramount Pictures / Home Entertainment / 5555 Melrose Avenue / Hollywood, CA 90038-3197 / USA


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Saturday 29th May 2:32 am U.K. Time

Dear Invaders Fans: When this website went down, I thought something went wrong with my computer"s net connection. (WHEW!!!) Glad everything is back online again. Ahhh!! Mein Heir Brudiger!! You're my kind of guy!!! I am sure that all of our patience is wearing thin with Paramount and its dickering around politics. On the news, they are saying that the people of France and Germany have a lot in common, and that is what is making the two countries almost join together in a lot of ways. Perhaps Germany might become, if not already, the next "French Connection" of INVADERS fans and show cult following. I am with you all of the way, to get "THE INVADERS" released on DVD uncut, and first, world class representation. A toast to France, Germany, Britain, and hopefully soon, the USA. Keep on truckkin' brother!! With best regards, Lindsay

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Saturday 29th May 2:36 am U.K. Time

Sorry I misspelled your name, Mr. Rudiger. My apology. Keep on truckkin'!! Lindsay

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 29th May 12:47 pm U.K. Time

Lindsay, I apologize for a certain person posting a site letter to YOU in which they attempted to insult Me with bad language..It's like H2O off a ducks' back to me considering that they were not even born when the show debuted!..THAT poster chose to vent their anger at me via a letter to YOU rather than a direct one to Me on the site. The off-site e-mails from that narrow-minded bigoted person are always insulting and use vile language that they seem to have a fondness for..Again, I apologize Lindsay for that particular person dragging their opinions onto a letter to YOU!

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Saturday 29th May 3:59 pm U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay, previous year I wrote an “old fashioned” airmail letter (no email) from Germany to Paramount in Los Angeles/Hollywood. I’ve suggested a “special edition” of the 60s “THE INVADERS”. By “special edition” I mean all of the 43 eps (uncut/restored), the extended “Beachhead” version, backgrounds about the show, for example: making-of-THE INVADERS, behind-the-INVADERS scenes, archive-interviews (for example with Quinn Martin), a new Roy Thinnes interview, a report on the 25th anniversary (I’ve read there was a convention in Paris, with Roy Thinnes, in the book “Kultserien und ihre Stars”, chapter: “Invasion von der Wega” page 93, by Dieter Berz Verlag/Berlin). And I received a letter by Paramount Home Entertainment in reply to my airmail letter; my suggestion was forwarded to the appropriate department. Ha, ha, I hope “appropriate department” is not the waste-paper-basket. At the moment, there is no release date, but be assured that Paramount frequently re-evaluates its inventory and may in the future decide to make the INVADERS available on DVD. Mark Phillips wrote the show runs in 30 countries at that time, I think that’s an international potential market for a future DVD release of the original Invaders-show. B.t.w. I know the “theory” respectively the rumour “THE INVADERS” is ‘too political’ for a future release and I don’t believe it. “THE INVADERS” was probably inspired by the “commi-paranoia” in the USA during the cold war in general, and the “McCarthy era” specially. Is the term “dying planet” the equivalent of the Soviet Union? Are the “invaders” actually the communists? Who was Nikita Chruschtschow, the “real alien leader“? And who is David Vincent, maybe Senator Joseph McCarthy? Ok, that’s just a play on words. The so-called “cold-war-paranoia” was merely the impulse for the idea to this series (I think). B.t.w. “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is (allegedly) inspired by the cold war (and available), one could the 50s “Invaders from Mars” movie (available) interpret as “communistic infiltration”, “James Bond” (available) is inspired by the conflict between West-hemisphere and Eastern-bloc, and so on and so forth. In my humble opinion there is hope for a future release of “THE INVADERS”. What do Paramount and Spelling-Worldvision risk if they release “THE INVADERS? They risk nothing; they would make ‘cash’ with this cult-show in my opinion, because “THE INVADERS” was on the air in more than 30 countries. Around here several German media/DVD publishers would release “THE INVADERS”, if they (would) get the licence-rights, because these companies see a German market. “THE INVADERS” is a fascinating show for the fans, besides with nostalgic reference to childhood or youth when they’ve seen the show for the first time. The “THE INVADERS” series to stay unused in the archive would be a peculiar corporate policy. Have a nice day and ‘nerve’ Paramount.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Sunday 30th May 1:27 am U.K. Time

Dear Mr. Rudiger: Thank you for the good word message. These thirty countries, can you name them for me? I'm curious to know if they are mainly made up of the "European white and lighter complectioned caucasan" populations. Thirty countries is also a small number when compared with all of the world's nations, which number about two-hundred twenty-nine. I read another e-mail that "THE INVADERS" were shown also in Japan. What is the greatest number of countries that any American television show has ever aired to? If the numbers go any higher than thirty, I would wager that Paramount would profit even more if they were to expand "THE INVADERS" into those extra places that have never even seen it before. For example, if "THE INVADERS" was never aired in Mainland China, but shows like "MAVERIC", "WAGON TRAIN", "WILD, WILD, WEST", "FRIENDS", and "SEINFELD" were aired there, would something like "THE INVADERS" become really intriguing to the Chinese people? I am curious about that. anyway, keep up the good work, and bug the heck out of Paramount!!!! Sincerely, Lindsay

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Sunday 30th May 5:29 pm U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay, concerning the 30 countries; I have read this in the article “A story of watching The Invaders” by Mark Phillips. Under “contributed article” on the “Unofficial Invaders website” you find that article, scroll to the text-passage beginning with the words: “By 1969, Quinn Martin had four shows in syndication – The Fugitive (which didn’t do well in reruns), 12 O’Clock High” … and ending with: “The series was also running in 30 countries at the time, including England, Australia, South America, France (where its still a huge cult hit), Germany and Japan.” Unfortunately, I have no other info about the names of these countries or the exact / well-founded number of the ‘Invaders-countries’. In another - German-language - article I read that ABC sold “The Invaders” ‘all around the world’. Maybe, Mr. Phillips or/and the ABC network have exact and well-founded information about the ‘global beachheads’ of the series. On the other hand, I think the national DVD markets of countries like USA, Canada, Brazil, France, England, Australia, Japan or Germany are relatively huge, so the business risk is ‘irrelevant’ for Paramount. I believe it, but I’m not Paramount insider … and Paramount has a marketing-department (they ‘have to’ know this). Sincerely, Rüdiger

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Monday 31st May 1:35 am U.K. Time

Dear Mr. Rudiger: I tried scrolling down the "Contributing articles" section, but could not find it. Please tell me how the artical began, that way I'll have a better chance of finding it. It is impressive that "THE INVADERS" were aired so widely across the North American, European, and South American continents. I wonder what it is about the French that they seem to love the series so much, when everywhere else, it has simply evaporated. But you say there is considerable interest in the show in Germany? I would like to know more about that, if you can provide more information. If not, then that's okay. It does seem that the three main countries that interest is high are France, Germany, and England. At least they seem to be the top ones, with France the leader. Anyway, thank you, and any more information would be appriciated. Over and out, Lindsay

Name: Gary
Email:
garyrea@cox.net
Monday 31st May 1:51 am U.K. Time

I was 15 when The Invaders premeired. My mother used to watch it with me and my little sister and brother. She always got a kick out of it, especially when I'd hum the incidental music that always accompanied a scene in which a human was killed by an alien, and I'd put my cupped hand on the back of my little sister's neck, pretending to be holding one of those metal discs the aliens used to induce the usual cerebral hemorhage with. Kids at school used to do this, too. That, and extending our little fingers. ;)

I also had the Monogram model kit of the aliens' spacecraft. I think I blew it up with firecrackers one July 4th. Thanks for creating this site. It brought back a lot of memories, and reminded me of what "hotties" Susan Pleshette and Diana Muldaur used to be.

Gary


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Monday 31st May 4:01 am U.K. Time

Gary: I love your teenage-hood memory story. It kind of makes me wish we could all be doing that again.(Ha, ha!) So even the kids at school did that, eh? I remember I played with my cousins, and a school mate on different occasions, pretending to be Tom Jessup(GENE HACKMAN) or Pierre Alquist MICHAEL RENNIE when they used the hemorrhage disc in their "SPORES" and "SUMMIT MEETING 1" parts!! I made a disc replica out of paper and shaded the five dark spots around the edge and the larger dark spot in the center to make it look realistic. I have since made other disc replicas thatlook much more professional, using metal food jar lids, paper and glue to fill in the space inside, then paste a round paper jar lid seal on the top of it and paint it to make it look really Invaders-ish. I wish I knew a metal worker that could make Invaders ray guns for me. The original props from the series sell for like 3,000 to 5,000 dollars!!!! Anyway, thanks for sharing some good old memories with us. Lindsay

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Monday 31st May 3:27 pm U.K. Time

Lindsay, that’s the passage: “By 1969, Quinn Martin had four shows in syndication - The Fugitive (which didn't do well in reruns), 12 O'Clock High (which also disappointed in syndication due to its black and white episodes and limited appeal) and The Untouchables, which was hurt because of its violence. Surprising, with its 43 color episodes and cult appeal, The Invaders became something of a dark horse. It began to pop up all over the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with runs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Seattle, Charlotte (North Carolina), Dayton (Ohio) and New York. Canadian cities such as Vancouver, Victoria and Montreal picked up the series. The series was also running in 30 countries at the time, including England, Australia, South America, France (where its still a huge cult hit), Germany and Japan.”

Scrolling down to the boldface word “Interestingly”, the fifth passage under “Interestingly”.

Concerning the ‘German interest’ in the show: There is a German web portal – “TV WUNSCHLISTE” – this site is specialize in television series and includes thousands of TV-shows (national and international, old and new, sci-fi mystery, crime, comedy, documentations, family-series, adventure). This web portal includes discussion-forum (German–language), comments, merchandising and weekly voting. The results of the voting – the “charts” – demonstrate the ranking of the popularity among the participants of the “TV WUNSCHLISTE”. By the way, monthly the German TV-companies get the poll-results to influence their programs (but many factors influence the program-planning, ok that’s another thing). The weekly voting is a method of representative opinion poll concerning of the desired television-series. If the participants of the “TV Wunschliste” are representative of a large number of fans, then also the poll-results of the “TV Wunschliste” are representative. In my opinion, the poll-results for a longer-term period of time indicate the degree of the real interest in a series, and as a result the indication of the potential market for a series. If that’s the case, then the TV-series “THE INVADERS” has real market-chances for a DVD release in Germany; “THE INVADERS” is in the “TOP TEN” under the category “sci-fi & mystery”. Clicking on http://www.wunschliste.de and see left-hand side “Serien & Abstimmung” and click on “SF- & Mysteryserien“(clicking on the button/title to get info about the series). You see “THE INVADERS” (in Germany “Invasion von der Wega”) is on rank 7 of a lot of sci-fi mystery series. Several series are already available on DVD. Under it ‘modern’ shows as well as ‘classics’, that’s why the Quinn Martin production has a potential market around here. I have not any figures concerning this potential market, but the weekly voting/charts of the “TV Wunschliste” is an indication of the potential market. B.t.w. Paramount knows that, I sent the info about the “TV Wunschliste” Paramount (as enclosure of my letter).


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Tuesday 1st June 4:26 am U.K. Time

Great website, Mr. Rudiger!!!! I checked out http://www.wunschliste.de, and it was more than I bargained for!! That is one good webpage!! Yes, I saw how "INVASION VON DER WEGA" (THE INVADERS)is now number # 7 in the top ten sci-fi and mystery category. We do have a case to Paramount, but Paramount is being stubborn, and I don't think we are merely being overly emotional about it either. There are certainly a lot of links on the web page, and a lot of interesting facts being presented. I wish I could know where I could freely advertize these web and e-mail addresses to in order to attract more attention and support to these web sites. I think I should check up on that one link on "How to build up a clientele." Thanks lots!! Lindsay

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 1st June 10:49 am U.K. Time

Hi !

Does everybody know what's happening to the excellent Craig 's web site ? Since 2 days, i can't reach it ? Thanks

@lain


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 1st June 11:15 am U.K. Time

Hey Lindsay, I've made a 'death disc' by following your instructions and tried it out by sneaking up on my wife and four year old son over the bank holiday weekend. Unfortunately they do not share my fascination with The Invaders and refused to play the part of any human dying from a cerebral hemaeridrge.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 1st June 1:28 pm U.K. Time

Hello Gary, I was 12 in January 1967 when the show premiered.. I had to make promises to my mom to be able to stay up 10PM-11PM on Tuesday nights to be able to see The Show--which meant I'd still be awake in my room an additional hour+---and stil had to be in my jr high school classroom seat at 8AM!.And it was ALWAYS great to flash the "mutated 4th finger" to friends in school the next day who REALLY knew what it was all about!.THOSE OF US who were alive back then and Invaders fans, you know what I mean on this!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Wednesday 2nd June 9:45 am U.K. Time

Hi there, It would be great to hear everyone's individual stories of how they came to watch the series and how it affected them etc...and what aspects of the show got them 'hooked'. There must be people who visit this page who don't contribute for whatever reason, well come on and tell us your story.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 2nd June 11:42 am U.K. Time

Lindsay, I always questioned why DV didn't shoot Alquist... (Michael Rennie, aka "Klaatu" in another great alien role) in SUMMIT MEETING PT1 to prove to the entire world in front of the media to absolutely 'Prove' that aliens exist!!! (???!).. THERE was DV's ultimate 'chance' to make his case but of course THAT would confound the Invaders writers as to where to take the next 16 episodes, so logic was thrown out the window on that one!.And thanx Lindsay, you know why.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 2nd June 11:46 am U.K. Time

hi jamie, so what are YOUR menories of the show?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 2nd June 11:47 am U.K. Time

jamie, make that "MEMORIES" on the above posting by me.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 2nd June 2:07 pm U.K. Time

Gary, if you recall.. The first episode BEACHHEAD caught your attention as a viewer, but the next one--THE EXPERIMENT--went nowhere..No saucers and no aliens get fried!..But in the 3rd week, we get to see a saucer--twice--in THE MUTATION--in which we get to not only see a saucer 2X, but this is the first one in which we get to see how aliens actually die..And their weaponry.! And how fast they are to turn on their own!..A classic episode that set the stage for all others to follow!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 2nd June 2:12 pm U.K. Time

Gary, what Ep#2 DID reveal was the "cerebral hemorrhage" disc, which changed in time from a dark triangle with 3 lit spots to a truly round and glowing disc in later episodedes..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Wednesday 2nd June 2:20 pm U.K. Time

Hi there, Well jim, seeing as you asked...I remember coming home from watching my beloved Manchester City football club on Saturday afternoon at about six o clock, getting home and it was usually just starting. My dad liked it but wanted to watch it in peace so any attempt by me and my brothers to mimmick any of the action was met by 'knock it off you bloody clowns'.I remember being enthralled and a bit spooked bt the fact that there was no comedy bits and i did seem very real.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 2nd June 8:35 pm U.K. Time

Dear James: Jamie, you kill me!!! (HA! HA!) your fellow Invaders comedian, Lindsay. Dear Alain: No, I do not know the answer to that. I tried getting Craig's website also, and cannot get it. We'll have to tell Craig via this web site that we can't reach his web site, and ask if he has any answers on what is happening. Lindsay Dear Craig: We can't reach your website, something is wrong with the server. We miss you!! Hope to see you soon again. With best regards, Lindsay,Alain, and friends.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 3rd June 11:16 am U.K. Time

jamie old friend, thank you for sharing the memories! The fact that you said that you watched our-favorite-show on a Saturday at 6PM--HERE in the USA it was on at 10PM-11PM Tuesday nights --(EDT/EST) when it debuted January 1967...You didn't quite say what approximate month it was that YOU first saw the show..But you can bet the farm that the British censors were holding back. and it makes me wonder.. In the episode THE CONDEMNED, at the end we see a BRITISH ALIEN! announcing that "Command Roster 1 has been lost!"" So what I need to ask of ya, is THAT scene shown in the episode that you have or have seen? I ask this because just this week I was surfing one great Simpsons site-- snpp.com--and was amazed to see how much to-this-day the UK censors cut out on US tv sent to them. 'censors'!..On Page 6 "anything goes", but if you go to snpp.com--the ultimate website for The Simpsons--you'll find that to-this-day the British censors cut out various references that you never knew of..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 3rd June 11:30 am U.K. Time

jamie, and anybody else who cares to know-- Have you seen my list of ALL Invaders actors/actresses born in The British Isles and Europe?...Regardless, I will supply the info again upon formal request on the site...Anyone requesting info on native Canadians to appear on the show--I've posted that list too but will be glad to repeat it again for anyone formally requesting so on the site..

Name: Michael
Email:
norvella@juno.com
Thursday 3rd June 11:56 am U.K. Time

Where can I purchase a complete set of The Invaders. Is this possible? (VHS or DVD)

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 4th June 12:38 pm U.K. Time

Ellen Corby born June 3, 1913..In BEACHHEAD she is "Aunt Sara"..And THE VERY FIRST alien to let us the viewer know that the aliens are watching DV!..She died April 14, 1999.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 4th June 12:43 pm U.K. Time

At least 1 Invaders actor has their own website/home-page.. B-movie actor/producer Ross Hagen was an alien in PANIC and a human in THE ORGANIZATION.You can view his own site at http://www.rosshagen.com The name might not be familiar but when you see his photo on the site you will know who he is..Interesting bio and name change.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 4th June 12:49 pm U.K. Time

OOPS--let me add to my above posting-- I have previously also mentioned the website for Peter Mark Richman, who was a human guest-star of both THE LEECHES and INQUISITION..His site is http://www.petermarkrichman.com and truly he is a renaissance man far beyond a mere actor..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 4th June 1:04 pm U.K. Time

Another Invaders actor home page-- The alien boy in THE PURSUED-- http://www.barrywilliams.com ..aka greg of Brady Bunch.

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Friday 4th June 4:45 pm U.K. Time

The Invaders novels were published in Japan by Hayakawa. Clicking on http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.seymour1/ukbookguide/USASeries/i.html and scrolling to "The Invaders"; moving the cursor on the small symbols beside the book titles to see small cover images of the Invaders books. There is a small Japanese cover image at "Army of the Undead".

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 5th June 9:47 am U.K. Time

Today June 5th, 3 notable Invaders actors died on this day 1--d.1992 in Australia age 83-Laurence Naismith (THE EXPERIMENT, THE RANSOM)..2--d.1998 in Montana age 86--Jeanette Nolan (NIGHTMARE)as the alien 'Miss Havergill'. Notably, her son Tim McIntire was an alien in GENESIS and a human in DARK OUTPOST--a favorite of mine..3--d.1976 age 56--Ray Kellogg..His most noticeable role on our-favorite-show is as the uniformed cop in the epilogue of WALL OF CRYSTAL, and he also had a minor part in THE LEECHES..Mr K did most of his Hollywood work behind the cameras--he directed the low-budget movie "The Giant Gila Monster", et. al. Have to say that info on him dying in 1976 at age 56 is a guesstimate..In my research I have seen several dates given but I think that I am on the mark here.

Name: samkay
Email:
samkay92003@yahoo.com
Saturday 5th June 7:42 pm U.K. Time

i neeed a beautiful lady within less than 17 to 21.i am a gentle guy and handsome guy .i good in sport and s**....

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Sunday 6th June 9:20 am U.K. Time

mmmm ooookkkaaayy, there must be some alien invaders whom fit that discription !!!! ????

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 6th June 9:35 am U.K. Time

samkay, what color is the sun in your world?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 6th June 9:38 am U.K. Time

BarryBaz, great to see you here again!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 7th June 3:37 pm U.K. Time

Hi There, Just got back from holiday..visited Sherwood forest and saw the actual oak tree used by Robin and his merry band of thieves..urmm better find an invaders connection quickly or face the wrath of Alex(i think he was called)..i know , the Sherrif of Nottingham was like the Aliens in that he wanted to control the Kingdom. does Samkay realise that he could meet someone on specific dating sites...he doesn't have to pretend to be an Invaders fan for a couple of weeks first but if he does then he'd better contact Chance and get a stock of episodes quickly!

Name: barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 7th June 10:02 pm U.K. Time

back Jim? ive never been away hehe, im on here every day its just i like reading the posts rather than posting myself basically because you guys know your stuff about the series .

Name: Markymark
Email:
Markymark@sbcglobal.net
Tuesday 8th June 8:56 am U.K. Time

Thanks for the email, Jim. I view the site quite often, reading other posts and reading about reactions as to when and where they first viewed the series is fun. I agree with a recent post, it was "tough" to convince my Mother to stay up on a Tuesday night until 11 pm. It was a school night and it took major convincing.

Monday's trivia.. the interogation plant and site used in the final scene of "Wall of Crystal" is now a shopping mall in southern California.


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Tuesday 8th June 3:31 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone,

http://www.the-invaders.com has finally returned. Sorry for the downtime over the last week or so. All is now fixed. 6 new video clips have been added along with a new wallpaper/desktop image.

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 9th June 7:40 am U.K. Time

markymark, hey there-okay, in THE PIT can you tell me where that abandoned amusement park was?..Was it the same one in the finale of "The Fugitive"? It doesn't look like Santa Monica to me but it obviously is by the shore..perhaps HB? (Huntington Beach for those who are wondering)..Great scene by the way when the alien fries in the water.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 9th June 7:47 am U.K. Time

great work Craig as always!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 9th June 8:21 am U.K. Time

Invaders bios next few days- June 8, 1931 Dana Wynter (THE CAPTIVE) born..Best known of course for her role in IOTBS which also had about 6 other Invaders actors.....June 9, 1935 Diana VanderVlis (THE LEECHES) born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada..She died Oct 2001 in Missoula, Montana as a US citizen.. June 10, 1918 Barry Morse (THE LIFE SEEKERS) born in the UK..Of course one cannot watch this episode--another favorite of mine--and not keep in mind that he of course was Lt Gerard of the QMP "The Fugitive"..On loan too, because both shows were in production at the same time..Like quite a few UK and Australian actors he was able to project a middle of the road accent that had most Americans believing that he too was from this country..Happy 86th to Mr Morse tomorrow!..And finally, June 10, 1971 Michael Rennie (THE INNOCENT, SUMMIT MEETING 1&2) died at age 61..A former WW2 RAF flyboy..Of course best known as Klaatu in TDTESS which also featured about 5 or 6 Invaders actors..An actor of great presence who never got due credit..And like Burgess Meredith (WALL OF CRYSTAL) he also played a villain on Batman.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 9th June 8:38 am U.K. Time

added info by me to the above-- Dana Wynter (b. June 8, 1931) born in Berlin, Germany as Dagmar Winter..In THE CAPTIVE she is 'Dr Katherine Serret'..Interestingly, in the same episode Fritz Weaver 'Peter Bork" has what could best be described as an Eastern European accent but he was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA..And was a conscientious objector during WW2..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 9th June 8:53 am U.K. Time

markymark, I had to LOL that another original Invaders fan 'back then'--it being Tuesday, a school night--also had to make promises to "Mom" to be able to stay up watching it until 11PM!..I was Eastern Time Zone (TZ) and you were Pacific TZ, and as we both know they run on the same time slot..But the kids on Central TZ and Mountain TZ all viewed the show from 9pm-10pm..Like I said, next day in jhs some of my friends and I flashed a 'crooked 4th finger'! Either ya lived it or ya didn't! Once the show was over that was the end of that!

Name: BARRY
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Wednesday 9th June 9:15 pm U.K. Time

longest i remember back for invaders being on tv in Britian is 1989 BBC 2 at 6pm ,they had a good decent run of the series ,they had like a show starting at 5 mins before "the invaders" which used to tell you the line up for the evenings viewings but cant remember what it was called ,ring a bell with anyone?

Name: Markymark
Email:
Markymark@sbcglobal.net
Thursday 10th June 8:52 am U.K. Time

Hey Jim:

FYI - I grew up on the east coast - "Yuengling beer" -Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. (10 miles from Pottsville) OK - part of the Amusement scene was filmed at Magic Mountain in Valencia, California.. about 45 minutes north of LA. Parts (few) of the amusement park are left..LOOK CLOSLEY, you will see the freeway in the distance in one of the scenes. Also, aquick eye will also catch, "Colossus" the two track wooden rollarcoaster. That scence was probably filmes just as Six flags magic mountain was open for business!

Now, about the alien frying in the water, that had to be filmed in an enrirely different location! (The cleverness of film splicing!) It looks like the Santa Monica pier because of the amusement rides and beach and proximity to the Pacific ocean. Certainly not, Huntington Beach pier, as I work in HB!! -Markymark


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Thursday 10th June 9:12 am U.K. Time

Hi Barry, The name your thinking of is DEF 11. They always had a music program on after the Invaders had finished. The way they did was great with the intro music etc. One time they had a fantastic Jimi Hendrix documentary on after and ive still got it on tape if you want to borrow it.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 10th June 9:22 am U.K. Time

Markymark, Mahantango Street, I remember now!.Thanx again for the amusement park info..Although you are a native Keystoner, you obviously have a wealth of knowledge for Southern Cal as I do for NYC, alas nothing filmed there except the stock opening for TASK FORCE.....Now here's one that stymies me about CONDITION RED..I've been through Colorado Springs but never to the front gate of NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain, which is where the episode is set..Somehow I doubt that this episode was filmed on location not only due to prohibitive production costs but military security too..The opening drowning in the lake scene is obviously up in high country but could have been easily filmed within 100 miles of Hollywood..It's the actual tunnel that is shown that gets me wondering as to where THAT was filmed--if it is a real place or just a 'set'..Any ideas?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 10th June 9:37 am U.K. Time

Hey BarryBaz, so had you ever heard of the show before 1989?

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Thursday 10th June 2:14 pm U.K. Time

DEF 11 thats it James you hit the nail on the head ,i just couldnt remember what it was ,and yeah the music in the intro to DEF11 mixed into "the invaders " was a nice touch,to answer your question Jim ,no i hadnt watched it before 1989 but had heard of it,first episode i ever saw on DEF11 was "DARK OUTPOST" which to this day remains my all time favorite episode .

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Friday 11th June 7:58 am U.K. Time

Hi, Seem to agree that it was a damm shame that The Invaders was discontinued after the two series but assuming it had carried on how could the story have evolved without losing it's magic? I personally wouldn't have minded another hundred episodes along the same lines as the first series but i guess if you were writing for the show there would have to be some progression in Dv's fight against the alien's. Any good ideas worth posting along these lines would be great to read!

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Friday 11th June 5:19 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, New additions added [11 June] 2 new images, 5 new video clips and an exclusive video sequence with a backing track.

The new video clips are on a new page [page 5]. You might need to refresh/reload your browser to see this page at first.

Hope you take a look and enjoy.

http://www.the-invaders.com

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 12th June 7:09 am U.K. Time

BarryBaz, DARK OUTPOST also one of my top 3 favorites..I believe it was the first acting job for Dawn Wells after Gilligan's Island was cancelled..Same for Russell Johnson ("The Professor") in THE TRIAL..In DARK OUTPOST, Andrew Prine wears the same boots that he did in many other tv shows and movies..The only fault I have with this episode is how easily DV kills the alien sentry by strangling him on his rifle.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 12th June 11:35 am U.K. Time

Notes on STORM--always had a problem with this first one-- 1--In the church scene we see DV kill an alien in a fight in ACT 2 by taking the alien death-disc and 'frying' the alien with it..If a disc can kill an alien merely by application, so why then do aliens carry them in their coat pockets?..I have a feeling that the writers regretfully realized this gap in logic when it was too late..2--Joseph Campanella ("Father Joe")--born Nov 21,1927- only the 2nd person to play themself on the show--HE IS named 'Joe', after all...In THE PEACEMAKER, Our Hero bursts thru a door and yells to actor Alfred Ryder by name..3--Barbara Luna born March 2, 1929 in NYC though she is obviously of Latina heritage..4--Simon Scott ("Dr Gantley") b. Sept 21, 1920 and died Dec 11, 1991..Also on The Show in CONDITION RED and THE PIT, always as a human..5--Actual stock hurricane footage is shown--replete with swaying palm trees! but we all know that it was filmed in Hollywood..6--One of the aliens is Edward Faulkner, who along with Strother Martin, Dawn Wells, and Russ Johnson were also on Gilligan's Island..7--Note that when DV is outside the church in ACT IV it is absolutely pouring rain--everyone totally soaked! He breaks into the church through a window...We see that his hair and face are wet, but it doesn't match up once he is inside..His clothes aren't exactly dry but they aren't as wet as they should have been!...8--From what I can surmise, ostensibly the aliens are creating hurricanes off of the East coast of Florida--this is backed up in ACT IV in a video showing "Cape Kennedy"--but yet mention is made of 'Tampa' as being nearby..For those unaware, consult a map of Florida and you will see that Tampa is in Western Fla, on a different body of water!..9-Joe Campanella still very active in show-biz today, primarily as a voice-over for documentaries, etc to this very day. Very distinctive refined voice!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 12th June 1:23 pm U.K. Time

Hi, Does anyone have any info on the studio sets used in THE INVaDERs? I have noticed that the alien bases, (usually where Dv ends up finding the regeneration tubes etc), are all very similar in that there are stairs up on the right hand side of the room and the room is usually sunk down like a basement. I wonder if they filmed a few scenes after contructing such a set and spread them throughout the series? It would make sense as far as costs were concerned, or would they have fimed each individual episode?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 12th June 2:56 pm U.K. Time

Jamie, if you look at PANIC and THE VISE you will see DV run up and down the same warehouse ramp--it's in another one I forget at the moment, although they take place in entirely different US states, so to speak..Looks like an ABC soundstage to me!..Note too that in PANIC and THE LIFE SEEKERS that in the former DV slugs an alien cop when he pursues "Nick" and in the latter he and Captain Battersea (RG Armstrong) both shoot aliens there...(And RG in both episodes).PANIC takes place in West Virginia and LIFE SEEKERS in Indiana..I also believe that the same set was used for STORM (Florida)..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 12th June 2:59 pm U.K. Time

jamie, on PANIC and THE LIFE SEEKERS--what I meant was that DV slugs the cop in what appears to be an outdoor park, ACT2-in West Virginia--and the same set in LIFE SEEKERS in the penultimate ACT 4

Name: Jeff T.
Email:
jtalbot45_@hotmail.com
Saturday 12th June 9:47 pm U.K. Time

How does a nightmare begin? For David Vincent, architect, returning home from a business trip, it begins at a few minutes past four on a lost Tuesday morning, looking for a shortcut which he never found. It began with a welcoming sign that gave hope of black coffee. It began with a closed, deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. In the weeks to come, David Vincent would go back to how it all began...many times!"--Opening narration from the premiere episode of THE INVADERS entitled "Beachhead."

"Twenty-five years before THE X-FILES posited that aliens are already among us and up to no good. David Vincent began his lonely two-year quest to save the world. Alternately pursuer and pursued, openly unhappy about his role as a modern-day Paul Revere, and often pessimistic about his chances of success, Vincent proved a far more complex hero than 1960s television audiences were used to, and the perfect centerpiece of a sci-fi series more downbeat and realistic than any that had preceded it. Using subterfuge to infiltrate human society, the aliens relied on humans' natural skepticism toward 'crackpots' like David Vincent to protect them from anyone who stumbled onto their existence and tried to blow the whistle on their invasion plan."--Stephen Bowie, SF Television Historian.

"It's an oft-repeated statement that KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER served as the inspiration for THE X-FILES, but Chris Carter's cult tv series owes a lot to Larry Cohen's 1967-68 series THE INVADERS. Carter should be thankful for THE INVADERS' mood, atmosphere, persistent paranoia, and not least, the alien conspiracies that abound in Earth's society without the knowledge of the general public. Although he's credited with creating the concept of the series, what's not so well known is that Cohen actually had no participation in the making of the series. Cohen left THE INVADERS in executive producer Quinn Martin's capable hands and departed, occupying himself with other projects. Martin's series focused on the life-changing events for architect David Vincent (actor Roy Thinnes), as he stumbled across the starkly cold and sober realization that extraterrestrial aliens were among us, and were preparing for an invasion of our planet. THE INVADERS lasted for two seasons and detailed the adventures of Vincent as he wandered throughout the United States, trying to penetrate the aliens' agenda on Earth. Frequently, he tried convincing important people that he's not crazy and that THE INVADERS are real and alive on the planet. Eventually, a group of 'believers' joined him in the crusade including a billionaire who helped on the financial side of things. But THE INVADERS went off the air, as many series do, without a resolution."--Frank Garcia, SF Television Historian.

"THE INVADERS was no kiddie SF outing like LOST IN SPACE. In fact, it was so unrelentingly serious, it made STAR TREK, which had a season's jump on THE INVADERS, look like CAPTAIN VIDEO. Where STAR TREK had fun amid its moralising, THE INVADERS was a bleak, uncompromising examination of an obsessive hero trapped in a world-wide conspiracy. THE INVADERS was cancelled after two seasons. ABC-TV had a problem with it. It was too sophisticated for a SF show and too wild for the audience that enjoyed THE FUGITIVE."--Will Murray, Author (Doc Savage, The Shadow).

For those who haven't already done so if you wish to contact Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment the copyright owner of THE INVADERS and request a DVD release of this 1960s SF tv classic provided is the e-mail address to do so:

homevideo@pde.paramount.com

Sometimes this address is "down" so continue attempting to e-mail periodically until you get through. Lately it seems to be operating just fine. Also note that Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment most probably will not respond specifically to your e-mail request so don't be discouraged about this.

Make certain you "clearly" request the right tv series (i.e. THE INVADERS starring Roy Thinnes) so it's understood just what you want and if you have any friends who are also interested in acquiring THE INVADERS on DVD then have them e-mail Paramount Home Entertainment as well.

It's certainly gonna take a lot of public demand to convince Paramount Home Entertainment to commit itself to a DVD release THE INVADERS so obviously the "more" who request it the better the chances will be.

Everybody has his (or hers) favourite classic SF tv series I'm sure but anybody who has actually seen THE INVADERS is well aware that it is truly one of the best (and currently most neglected) efforts of the 1960s. Many friends have contributed already to this great cause and surely in a discussion group like this with so many members there must surely also be some INVADERS fans (like myself) here so please your help is needed.

WE WANT THE INVADERS STARRING ROY THINNES ON DVD!!!!!!

"How does a nightmare end? Not here in the forgotten town of Kinney...perhaps in Bakersfield. Perhaps at some undiscovered beachhead in another state...or another continent. Perhaps for David Vincent it will never end!"--Closing narration from "Beachhead."

Footnote: I've actually sent several requests to Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment so I don't think it would hurt if some members who've already done so in the past sent still another.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 13th June 11:58 am U.K. Time

Hello Jeff T., sounds like you and Larry Cohen are friends.. He turns 66 this coming July 15th, and like me is a NYC kid too!

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Sunday 13th June 12:37 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, All the weekly updates have taken place. Plus a new video montage has been added today [13 June] - video page 4.

http://www.the-invaders.com

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 13th June 1:03 pm U.K. Time

Notes on THE CONDEMNED-- 1-Alien Murray Hamilton in ACT 1 places a call to "KLondike 5-7414"..Klondike-5 is the generic equivalent in phone #s---555--a fictitious numeric used in many tv and movie productions..2--One of the teenage boys who witnesses 'the body going over the cliff' and listed in the credits is Geoffrey Deuel, younger brother of Peter Duel (sic) who starred in "Alias Smith and Jones" until he committed suicide..3-Ralph Bellamy--Morgan Tate--best remembered by me in the movie "The WolfMan"..and 40 years later in "Trading Places"..4--The episode takes place in Coos County Oregon--as shown--A REAL place in Oregon--but there is no such town as "Sand Springs, Oregon"..The 'Coos County Morgue" sign is bogus, just a prop..5--I always had trouble with the pharmacy DV goes to that is being left in charge by a 12 year old lad..Totally unbelievable, especially when DV offers the kid "a buck--wow" to be able to peruse confidential medical records.6--Seymour Cassell plays the cabbie who delivers DV to the site in AVT IV--he's born Jan 22, 1935 (NYC) and is STILL acting to this very day..7--Bellamy did a good job as FDR in "Sunrise at Campobello"..8--Marlyn "Carol" Mason born August 7, 1940..8--The little girl who screams "oh mommy mommy" in the opening--Debi Storm--is best known from a Brady Bunch episode as 'Molly" wherein Marsha turns her from ugly to popular..9--For the UK Invaders fans out there, in ACT 1 a British alien says "There will be a landing 5 miles east of Bournemouth {odd no km's used!} on the night of July 7th, three a.m..18 of our people to be moved into the London area..Repeat--(repeated)..Take the usual preparatory steps"..10--This episode clearly shows 2 aliens who harmlessly swap electricity, in ACT 1, which grabs the attention of DV..Yet in THE WATCHERS and RANSOM the juice clearly kills the aliens..11-Alien Murray Hamilton--"Lewis Dunn"--best known from his work in "The Graduate" and "Jaws"..Born March 1923, died Sept 1986..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 14th June 10:56 am U.K. Time

Notes on Seymour Cassell--cabbie in THE CONDEMNED-- 1--Born Jan 22, 1935 Detroit, Michigan..2--Show biz career began in 1959 and STILL acting in movies today!!.3--A close personal friend of the late great John Cassavetes and appeared in several movies directed by JC..4--Played "Dusty" in the 2001 flick "The Royal Tenenbaums" which of course starred Gene Hackman of THE SPORES..5--Had a role in the 1964 film "The Killers"---THE very last flick that Ronald Reagan acted in..That movie also had Invaders guest stars Norman Fell (THE BETRAYED) and Virginia Christine (LABYRINTH)..Anybody reading this stuff?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 14th June 12:27 pm U.K. Time

markymark--it's FLAG DAY and Monday--whattaya got 4 us?

Name: didier
Email:
tacomajoy@yahoo.fr
Monday 14th June 4:44 pm U.K. Time

hi everybody, I m looking for paperbacks of the invaders by (Keith Laumer,Rafe Bernard,Anthony Lebaron,etc...).where could I buy them? Thx

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Monday 14th June 6:32 pm U.K. Time

Hi, everybody!! The phone lines in my apartment building are giving me trouble, and I had to come to the library to send this e-mail. Just wanted to let you know that I am still here. As soon as the phone company repairman comes and fixes things, I will return. Love you all! bye! Lindsay

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 15th June 7:53 am U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay, I was wondering if you could do me a favour and ask the telephone line repairman when he comes to mend your line if he can recite any of the opening intro to the Invaders. If he gives you a blank expression and shrugs his shoulders just give him some clues like it was in the late sixties and the aliens glowed when they were killed etc. If he still has no idea what your on about just say you'd better go now, thank you.

Name: Francis Foster
Email:
fffoster@fitzvizion.com
Wednesday 16th June 6:02 am U.K. Time

Does anybody know what's the problem with the reviews? It's been many months since I could read one -- I keep getting this error message:

"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, richard@room101.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error."

Apache/1.3.27 Server at http://www.theinvaders.co.uk Port 80


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 17th June 9:44 am U.K. Time

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TODAY TO actor Ralph Bellamy, who was born on June 17th, 1904 in Chicago and of course was 'Morgan Tate' in THE CONDEMNED...Truly a fine actor, in films from 1931 to 1990!..To me the roles I remember best are "The Wolf Man" and "Trading Places"..He died Nov 29th, 1991.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 17th June 12:21 pm U.K. Time

The 'above mentioned' died in Santa Monica, California on the date listed..

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Monday 21st June 6:52 pm U.K. Time

My personal “wish list” concerning a future DVD-release of the Quinn Martin production “THE INVADERS” with Roy Thinnes in the main part as David Vincent:

The DVD-edition should have optional audio tracks including the original English sound track as well as the synchronization version in the national language of the respective country where “THE INVADERS” will come out on DVD (if it’s an non-English-speaking country, for example Germany); complementary optional subtitles in the same languages.

The DVD-edition ‘really must’ include the entire series with all of the 43 episodes and the extended version of the pilot “Beachhead”, “naturally” UNCUT/NOT compressed and RESTORED, every episode should have a chapter menu; not forgetting the trailer.

Interesting would be informative bonus material about the “THE INVADERS” series: Making-of-THE-INVADERS, behind-the-INVADERS-scenes, documentation on “QM Productions” and an archive-interview with Quinn Martin, 60s archive-interviews from the series debut with Roy Thinnes and other actors/actresses of this show, a new Roy Thinnes interview, an anniversary report and a booklet. I’m not interested in pseudo-documentations (like these so-called making-of-documentations by HBO - these ‘HBO adulations’, that’s just cheat packages - promotional rubbish). A future and appropriate DVD-edition of “THE INVADERS” includes real documentations about the production-backgrounds.

Paramount isn’t a “backyard company”; I’m assuming there is a huge archive with a lot of material and skilled film restorers who can bring out a good quality of this cult classic. The Paramount western “ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST” (aka “Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod” in Germany) is an example for an appropriate DVD-edition (film-restoration and special features) of a classic in my opinion.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 22nd June 9:42 am U.K. Time

WHERE ARE THEY NOW---DIANE BAKER--- Born Feb 25th, 1938 in Hollywood..Memorable of course as "Kathy Adams" in BEACHHEAD and still acting to this day-a movie appearance due out this year..Currently, she is teaching an acting course at the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco and making tv ads urging hopeful actors to apply.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 22nd June 10:11 am U.K. Time

WHERE IS SALLY KELLERMAN NOW? Born June 2, 1936 in Long Bch, Cal--gave 1938 as her birth year for many years...She was 'Laura Crowell' in LABYRINTH in a hazy role in which we the viewer were kept unsure as to whether she was an alien or human..In the 1950s she took acting classes with a young Roy Thinnes...Today, she is trodding the boards as 'Madame Zinzanni' in the traveling stage play "Teatro Zanzinni" which currently is on stage in San Francisco...www.zanzinni.org

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 22nd June 10:15 am U.K. Time

from jim--adding to the above--it's ZINZANNI.

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Tuesday 22nd June 7:45 pm U.K. Time

hey guys and girls just back from holidays in Greece but to the annoyance of finding the sasser virus had taken up residence in my computer argggghhh, alls good again though ,Craigs helping me out with some episodes so i cant wait

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 22nd June 9:18 pm U.K. Time

Hi,

I think that the crash of the rocket(the summit meeting 2)is a real crash. Does anybody know the name of this rocket and the year of the evenement ? thanks

@lain


Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Tuesday 22nd June 11:27 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, Excuse the site plug, but if you need to refresh your memories of the rocket crash scene, and help Alain out, then you can find it on video page 3 of my site.

Title: Ellie & David Just Escape-Summit Meeting 2. It is a large file 6.1MB and runs for 3:47 sec. [ http://www.the-invaders.com ]

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 23rd June 9:16 am U.K. Time

Hello Alain, yes that is real footage of either a Saturn or Titan rocket failure launched at US taxpayer expense by NASA (which stands for "Never A Straight Answer")..Besides SUMMIT MEETING PART 2 it also seems to be the same one in MOONSHOT..Somewhere in my research I actually found out exactly what that stock footage was from but alas have forgotten it right now...In any event, it was un-manned..

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Wednesday 23rd June 12:32 pm U.K. Time

Thanks Craig and Jim for your help;it seems to be a little hard to get the name of the rocket because of all the crashes in the 60's !!!. If you find the real name ... For all the fans who read french books, follow this link http://www.yris.net/enter.html?target=dept_1.html&lang=fr . You 'll find a very complete book dedicated to "the Invaders". I bought it and i 'm very glad of it ! (Craig, you can mention it in your website: "contributed media")

@lain


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 23rd June 1:03 pm U.K. Time

Hello again Alain, Without a doubt THAT particular rocket-crash film-footage was shot in 1966 or before.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 23rd June 1:56 pm U.K. Time

What is Richard Anderson of THE ENEMY up to nowadays?.. Played "Blake" in the episode and of course best known as 'Oscar Goldman"..Born 08-08-1926 in Long Beach Calif., hometown of Sally Kellerman too..TODAY he is the voice for the tv-ads for AOL which feature him saying "we can rebuild, ..stronger, faster..."..Last on-screen appearance was 1998.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 23rd June 2:08 pm U.K. Time

Richard Anderson further trivia-- He was also of course the brother-in-law of Dr Richard Kimble on the QMP "The Fugitive" as revealed in the final episode..And briefly considered as a 'suspect' in the death of Helen Kimble..But THAT is a different Quinn Martin chat-site!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Wednesday 23rd June 7:44 pm U.K. Time

Hi there, My lines been down with the bad weather hence the lack of postings but i had sky television on the other day and there was an episode of the Hulk starring Bill Bixbie. I was struck by some of the similarities between this series and The Invaders ,particularly the ending where he walks away and 'onto another town'. Obviously inferior in every way to our series but can anyone tell me if there were any links between the two?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 24th June 11:29 am U.K. Time

Hi Jamie, in answer to your Hulk-Invaders question-- Upon reading that I did some in-depth research..All 43 Invaders episodes vs all 70+ Hulk episodes..Found no director-in-common, but HOWEVER, an episode of TIH--"Blind Rage" was written by Dan Ullman (born Oct 18, 1918--d.Oct 23,1979) who also wrote Invaders episodes THE SAUCER (a fave of mine), WALL OF CRYSTAL, and THE LEECHES..Looking over the casts for TIH vs The Invaders, I can tell ya that when I totaled it all up, about 18 thespians were on both shows..(Whit Bissell, Walter Brooke, Dabbs Greer, Diana Muldaur, et. al.)..And thanx for the off-site e-mail!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Friday 25th June 7:54 am U.K. Time

Hi There, Thanks for the info on 'The hulk' Jim, there wasn't quite the strong link i suspected but i thought you might find something! I suppose links with most American seventies shows could be found if you looked hard enough.It's funny because when The Invaders dissapeared from our screens after the first time i remember it being shown in the seventies i kept looking for Roy Thinnes to pop up in another series but he never did. Then one Friday after returning from a drunken night out i put the telly on when i got home to give me something to focus on to stop the room spinning round and would you believe it..Roy Thinnes in Satan's school for Girls! I can't remember much about it but i don't think it was much good..a nice idea though.I mean if Satan was going to have a school for girls then you might as well stick Roy Thinnes in there. does anyone remember this film or any other quirky cameo's that Roy's been in? There are enough people reading this to get this page buzzing again!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 25th June 10:29 am U.K. Time

If you ever want to see ROY at his worst, get hold of the 1977 tv-movie "Code Name-Diamondhead"..Filmed on lacation in Hawaii, in this movie Roy sports a 'blonde-Afro' style hair-do, plays a character named "Johnny Paul" and looks embarrassed to be in it..This is the only time on film that you will be able to see him with that particular hair-don't!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 25th June 10:30 am U.K. Time

make that "location" --proper spelling--for the above posting.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 25th June 10:59 am U.K. Time

Satans' School For Girls--featuring ROY.. Jamie, that 1973 movie was directed by veteran Twi-Zone director David Lowell Rich and besides Roy from our-favorite show it also had in the cast Invaders actors Bill Quinn and Frank Marth (a 2-episoder)..Roys' film and tv appearances can be viewed at http://www.imdb.com... Getting to what you said, in the 1960s and 70s there were many actors/actresses on various dramas of the week on TV and in the movies..Especially on QMP--watch any episode of a QMP-- "Streets of San Francisco", "The Fugitive", "Dan August", "Barnaby Jones" et. al. and you are sure to see at least several names in the credits--(and I pay attention to the creditds!) that list people who also acted on The Invaders..As I have said before, of the 43 Invaders episodes, only "Ransom" is the only one to not have at least one actor who was also on "The Twilight Zone"..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 26th June 2:51 pm U.K. Time

Hi, Over here in the UK we have been lucky enough to have had such quality American tv shows such as The Invaders, Alias Smith and jones, The rockford files and of course bewitched but i have to mention also one of the worst. I am of course referring to BJ Mackay and his best friend Bear, who was the chimpanzee trucking companion of BJ. I don't remember who the star of this show was it really did push the boundries. It did however inspire myself and a friend. years later, to devize a spoof series of our own called 'Monkey submarine' in which a submarine steered by a chimp unsurprisingly crashes at the bottom of the ocean. This is where the adventures began battling against various sea monsters etc.

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Saturday 26th June 7:21 pm U.K. Time

The following website http://www.Lgoldberg.com/index.html includes, among other things, main title video clips; U.F.O., SPACE: 1999, THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY …

Other things, the German publishing house “SCHWARZKOPF & SCHWARZKOPF” is interested in Didier Liardet’s book “LES ENVAHISSEURS”; hopefully they get the licence to publish a German-language version for the German market. “SCHWARZKOPF & SCHWARZKOPF” publishes literature to film- and television productions.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 27th June 10:43 am U.K. Time

jamie, Greg Evigan was in the title role..The show did feature a recurring role by Invaders actor Murray Hamilton of THE CONDEMNED..and it was mindless drek, bottom-of-the barrel but a notch above "My Mother The Car"..And in regard to your 'monkey submarine idea'--you could call it "Chimp Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea"!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 27th June 11:37 am U.K. Time

Recent and upcoming Invaders cast bios.. 1--June 26,1925 Richard X. Slattery--'Riley' in MOONSHOT--the red-haired assistant to Peter Graves..RXS was originally a New York City(my home-town and his) Police Officer for over a dozen years before he wound up in acting..Many people in the US midwest and those who got WGN-Chicago remember him as "Murph" in the Union 76 tv ads..Died Jan 27, 1927 in Woodland Hills, California--That's The TV and Motion Picture Hospital/ place where they all die..2-June 27, 1927--George McCowan born in Canada. He directed DARK OUTPOST--a favorite of mine. Only Invaders episode he did..Died in Canada Nov 1995..3--June 28, 1928--Don Dubbins born in NYC..In THE CAPTIVE he is called both "Sanders" and "Saunders"..Died August 1991 in South Carolina, USA..4--June 29, 1930 Robert Sorrells born..Most remembered tv role might be on Twilight Zone as "The Mighty Casey"..(featuring Jack Warden..)..On our favorite show he has a minor role as a gas station owner in PANIC--and it still amazes me how quickly he just hands over his truck to DV!...Sorrells--still with us--has a much meatier role in 2nd season VALLEY OF THE SHADOW as a deputy sheriff in Carterville..5--July 1st, 1912..Murray Matheson (alien "Dr Renard" in THE IVY CURTAIN) born in Victoria, Australia..Died April 1985 at the Woodland Hills actors' hospital.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 27th June 11:58 am U.K. Time

correction on the death of Invaders actor RXS above--he died 1997, not 1927 as I erroneously posted.

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 27th June 2:25 pm U.K. Time

Hi, hey Jim nice idea about the name change but we felt it would be too similar to 'Voyage to the bottom of the sea' and at the end of the day ours had a monkey in charge!! please tell more about 'my mother the car' it sounds unbelievably bad and thats just the title. We never had this series or i would have remembered it! I'll take a guess at perhaps the soul of a henpecked son's mother reincarnated in the form of his car setting the stage for all kind of madcap antics...refusing to start due to her not agreeing with him on some issue...weeheyyy

Name: Phil Nixon
Email:
Brownedger@ntlworld.com
Sunday 27th June 6:14 pm U.K. Time

IT'S BACK!!!!

Thought you might like to know that the Invaders is i think about to begin a series run on Channel 5 UK, the first episode 'Beachhead' is on next Sunday morning 4th July at 4.20am and there is a series link in my Skytv planner for the next episodes.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 28th June 7:44 am U.K. Time

jamie, Yes you nailed it..MMTC is considered to be the worst tv show ever put out by Hollywood.. The henpecked son played by Jerry van Dyke, his mother reincarnated as a "1928 Porter" (note--no such car) who nags him via the car radio, voiced by Ann Sothern...In the above posting, you Brits are lucky to have The Invaders back on the air, if true..I don't believe that it is playing anywhere in the USA, though I do have "all 43"...Sad note to MMTC--I still remember the words to the theme song..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 28th June 10:10 am U.K. Time

Hi all, If this is true then i thank Mr Paul Nixon more than he will ever know!!! Jim, i'm pleased to be pretty accurate about 'my mother the car'. I know it will be difficult for you but could you please share the words to the theme song of this show on this page! I'm sure most other Invader enthusiasts are discerning enough to appreciate them. If The Invaders is being shown again over here then i will post any information/ observations on the showing of the series. stuff like how it's intro'd by the ( too young to remember it being on before) telly presenter and i bet that they disrespect it by giving it a slightly tongue-in-cheek introduction. They do this with a lot of classic shows that are suddenly re-shown after a long absence. These are the same people who think shows like 'Friends' are the wittiest most 'happening' shows on tv.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 28th June 2:46 pm U.K. Time

okay jamie-- If you know me at all, you know that I seldom if ever like to stray too far off from The Invaders, and we are talking minor fluff here as compared to a person who in the past on this site espoused beliefs contrary to the heart of the site. So I will contact you off-site and provide the lyrics to the theme song to MMTC..Anyone wants them too, let them contact you or me off-site too!

Name: Phil Nixon
Email:
Brownedger@ntlworld.com
Monday 28th June 3:31 pm U.K. Time

Yes confirmed it starts next week on channel 5 with "Beachead" followed the next week by "The Experiment".

Get your DVD burners ready.


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 28th June 5:28 pm U.K. Time

hey Jim, i don't think there will be a queue of people wanting the lyrics to 'my mother the car' but yes i do now have them and yes they are fantastic thanks. I have also just read with my own eye's that The invaders is indeed starting as Phil very kindly posted, this saturday night/ sunday morning(4.30pm Sunday morning) It's the moment we have waited Twenty years for.....

Name: lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Monday 28th June 10:47 pm U.K. Time

Bonjour Monseur Alain!! I read your question poll on Craig Pierce's web site about how the climax of "THE INVADERS" 40 years later should be like. I voted for the first scenerio where the officials believe David Vincent and the great war of conquest vs. liberation begins. However, I was tempted to vote for the last one: "I DON'T WANT THIS MOVIE", only because I am scared to death that the quality standards of the old 1960's Quinn-Martin Productions-style character of the original "Magnificent 43" will be quashed by some new Fox TV Bullcrap nonsense!! It is good that Roy Thinnes and the old Dominic Frontiere music would be in it. That's good, but still not enough. I would like to have ALL of the old characteristics that were in the old original series to be present in any new movie. This is not to say that I don't want anything new to be in it. New things and ideas are important. But I would like to see the old style ray guns, death discs, hypnotyzing prisms, etc., die, glow red, and burn up, and our original space ships, etc. I think that if a new movie departs from any of the old standards and characteristics, it isn't "THE INVADERS" anymore, but may as well be something out of Twilight Zone, or some other sci-fi show. Forgive me guys, for being an old stick in the mud, but I think the reason why the old series was such a hit with us is because of its originality, and old standards of Quinn-Martin. Your friend, Lindsay

Name: Alain
Email:
ab.reunion@wanadoo.fr
Tuesday 29th June 4:29 am U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay

Good your introduction in french :-) First, my question poll is a simple contribution for the excellent Craig Pierce's web; if he wants, you 'll discover the 2nd next week... But i agree 100% with you; only a REAL fan of the Invaders could make a movie with ALL of the old characteristics of the show.(the movie with Scott Bakula didnt' respect them !) See the exemple of "impossible mission force": the new show (with the "old" Peter Graves and the sons of his collaborators) was good in my point of view. The spirit, the soul of the Invaders must be respected also; if no, all of us 'll boycott it ? Well, we can dream: miracles arrive sometime...

@lain


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 29th June 9:13 am U.K. Time

Hiya Lindsay, and hello to Cuyahoga County.. You have some very good points there..Indeed, it would be great to see the alien zap-guns in a modern day Invaders episode..They might look crude but they DO get the job done! The main difference would be that our hero DV would now ALWAYS carry a cel-phone on his person. In several episodes you must remember that he was often searching for the nearest pay phone- PANIC and THE MUTATION come to mind but there have been others--and we all know how it all wound up!..So in keeping with the 21st century, DV would not only have to have a cel-phone but you can bet that he would have a computer too!..And he would have visited Rachel, if you know what I mean by that..So there is fodder for a 2-hr TV movie (minus the ads it's 1hr32min).

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 29th June 10:33 am U.K. Time

Hello Invaders fans, DO NOT OPEN any e-mail sent unsolicited to you that comes from "Invaders" and the subject is "Barbara Luna, Invaders DVDs, and keeping in touch"...I have my suspicions as to who sent it but will not name names..IT VIOLATES EVERY RULE OF PROTOCOL ON THIS SITE--when fans who post here send one another an off-site e-mail, you should immediately identify yourself under 'subject'..as I always do...You would think that I would be quick to click on an e-mail to me that has "Invaders" on it-----I was born at night, but it wasn't LAST NIGHT!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 29th June 10:37 am U.K. Time

And to add to the above posting by me-- I was sent THREE of those unsolicited "Invaders" e-mails on Monday, June 28--yesterday.And anyone so desperate to contact me via that format is obviously up to no good.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 30th June 2:59 am U.K. Time

My apologies to everyone!! I am the one who posted to Jim the message mentioning BARBARA LUNA. I am sorry if I did not mention my name in the "subject" section. I will try to remember to do that from now on. Thanks!! Sincerely, Lindsay

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st July 8:27 am U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay, it wasn't so much "sublect" as it was "sender".. There was only INVADERS with no return e-address whatsoever and I would have recognized yours from the site! So I deleted it right away without opening it, which when you think about it is just playing it safe! One never goes wrong erroring on the side of caution. And thanks for the reply here.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 1st July 8:28 am U.K. Time

make the above word "subject"..

Name: DSJK
Email:
ebertkennedy@yahoo.de
Friday 2nd July 10:28 am U.K. Time

Hi all, just discovered that Channel five (united Kingdom) is starting to show The Invaders Saturday night/Sunday morn- 3rd July at 4.20am english time. Its been about 10 years or more sice I last saw it and am really looking forward to it DSJK

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 3rd July 9:03 am U.K. Time

Hi all, I wonder if there is a way of finding out from channel five how many episodes of The invaders they plan to show in this upcoming sequence? If anyone has this information please could they let post the details on this site. I saw a film yesterday starring susan Plashette and George Hamilton about a man with special powers..there were really similar special effects to stuff in the invaders, particularly the dream sequence's. Is there a link to the series?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 3rd July 9:57 am U.K. Time

hi jamie, you are thinking of the 1968 movie "The Power"..It also has Invaders actors Michael Rennie and Vaughn Taylor in it..The brains behind this movie were Byron Haskin and George Pal, who originally gave us the great 'invaders' movie "War Of The Worlds"...Suzie P is now married to actor Tom Poston, and George Hamilton is currently starring in a fast-food commercial for Jack-In-The-Box, a nationwide US hamburger chain.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 3rd July 10:43 am U.K. Time

Look over the closing credits to any Quinn Martin Production and his many shows -The Fugitive, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Dan August, Streets of SF, O'Hara US Treasury, The eff-bee-eye, et. al. and you are virtually guaranteed to see in the credits at least one actor who was also on The Invaders...The QMP machine used many of the same actors on all shows and often too..(I think Bruce Dern was on The Fugitive 5x.).So it was a tight-knit ensemble..Love bound to bloom somewhere along the line and it did..Suzanne Pleshette of course Vikki in THE MUTATION and Ann Gibbs in THE PURSUED..She was also in at least 2 episodes of The Fugitive and it's now common knowledge that Suzie at the time was romantically involved on the sly with David "Fugitive" Janssen even though both were married to other people at the time...And as we all also know, Lynn Loring of PANIC also played the daughter of Efrem Z Jr on the QMP "the-eff-bee-eye"..Somewhere along the line there she met Roy and love blossomed, because they were married when they were in PANIC.

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Saturday 3rd July 8:48 pm U.K. Time

cant wait just 7 hours till beachhead ,get your videos recorders set guys or you will regret it for the next 10 or 15 years

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Sunday 4th July 2:59 am U.K. Time

Hi, guys!! I just wanted to share with you a fantastic idea on how a new "INVADERS" movie or sequel should go. Sequel #1, "OFFICIALS BELIEVE DAVID VINCENT, FINAL STRUGGLE BEGINS". Using and incorporating the old Quinn-Martin style of characteristics(i.e., weapons, how to spot an alien, how they glow red and vanish when they die, the original space ship, Dominic Frontiere's music, etc) David Vincent teams up with JAMES BOND 007 and some, if not all, of his British cohorts, along with believing U.S. officials in the grand finale, either as an "INVADERS" movie, or as a whole new series. See Craig's website READ/SIGN GUESTBOOK for more detail. Anyway, tonight, the "Battle Of Britain begins!! Lindsay

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 4th July 12:03 pm U.K. Time

Speaking of Dominic Frontiere, It might not be known to many on both sides of the pond but for many years during his marriage to Georgia Frontiere she was the owner of the St.Louis(Missouri) RAMS football team.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 4th July 12:20 pm U.K. Time

from jim to all you Invaders fans east of the Atlantic Ocean.. I have all the 'classic 43' on tape but I have long suspected that many of you in Europe and The British Isles do not..If it is true that our-favorite-show will be shown to all of you once again, you'd better beg borrow or steal a VCR/DVD to record each episode! You may never get the opportunity again!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 4th July 12:33 pm U.K. Time

Dominic F born June17,1931 in New Haven, Connecticut..And still with us. Truly a memorable music genius.

Name: George Windsor
Email:
george56@tiscali.co.uk
Sunday 4th July 3:58 pm U.K. Time

Did you know that Channel 5 have started showing The Invaders? It was on this morning, Sunday 4th July at 4.20 hours, yes, 4.20 AM! I taped and DVD recorded the first episode, Beachhead. The DVD recording is stunning quality to what I had before, that awful quality Screen entertainment sell through. The funny part is they did not show any adverts and have edited out the act number cut out revelation animations. Also, there is no anoying channel 5 logo! Anyhow, congratulations Channel 5,I only hope they continue to show all episodes. Then we can get the quality at last. The colour temperature by the way is very good, nicely saturated. Good luck to all..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 4th July 4:10 pm U.K. Time

Hi All, The intro to this mornings Beachead went like this... (All said in slightly condisending, tongue in cheek tone)(as predicted) "well, it always happens now on channel five,you see a flying saucer and when you go and show it to someone...it dissapears..in The Invaders! In the national papers there was no review, it just said The invaders but in the Manchester Evening news it said, The Invaders..a man reports a ufo...about a brief a discription of Beachead as you could possibly get!! Fantastic to watch and record it at this time in the morning.(great atmostphere) Looking forward to getting through to some episodes i haven't seen yet. Are you sure the female alien camper got married to wavy gravy Jim! she looks far too good!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 4th July 4:24 pm U.K. Time

Something else worth mentioning was that i noticed on ITV a little earlier (3.30am) 'The Fugative' was being shown (the old Quinn Martin series).

Name: Francis Foster
Email:
fffoster@fitzvizion.com
Monday 5th July 6:40 am U.K. Time

Does anybody know what's the problem with the reviews? It's been many months since I could read one -- I keep getting this error message:

"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, richard@room101.co.uk and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error."

Apache/1.3.27 Server at http://www.theinvaders.co.uk Port 80


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 5th July 8:58 am U.K. Time

Hi jamie, Yes, Bonnie Beecher -'Mrs Brandon' in BEACHHEAD--married Hugh Romney aka Wavy Gravy in 1965 and are still together, they run The Hog Farm-an educational resource-in Berkeley and Camp Winnarainbow in Laytonville, California. He was best known of course as the emcee at Woodstock in 1969 and also has a flavor of ice cream named after him. He was born May15, 1936 upstate NY...Other than acting credits I've not yet found ANY bio info for Bonnie Beecher..But the fact that BEACHHEAD debuted January 1967 means it was filmed 1966. I think a reasonable age range for her in the episode is about 26-28 years old, making her a mere 4-6 years younger than WavyGravy..If you ever see him in the 1972 movie 'Cisco Pike' (with Gene Hackman of THE SPORES as a corrupt LAPD cop and Roscoe Lee Browne of THE VISE as a marijuana buyer) you'd never reckognize him...He is still out there in the public eye but Bonnie Beecher last acted in the late 1960s.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 5th July 9:18 am U.K. Time

To add to the above about Bonnie Beecher of BEACHHEAD I failed to mention that The Hog Farm, and Camp Winnarainbow in Mendocino County 200 miles away from Berkeley--both run by Wavy and Bonnie--are non-profit organizations to benefit underprivileged youths..So in BEACHHEAD it's amazing to see Bonnie--the very first alien woman we ever see!!--is out there doing her best for the human race all these years later!

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 5th July 11:30 am U.K. Time

Hi, Thanks the info Jim, i've just remembered something a little odd about Sunday mornings showing of Beachead...the narrater say's "a QM production" instead of a Quinn martin Production...is this the only episode this happens?

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 5th July 1:38 pm U.K. Time

The Marlon Brando tributes this week remind me that in "Mutiny on The Bounty" you can see an unbilled Antoinette Bower (Laurie in CONDITION RED) in the opening scenes.

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 5th July 5:15 pm U.K. Time

hi guys ,just a quick question ,in "BEACHEAD" i never noticed any act 1 ,2 ,3 ect ,which episode does this begin

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Monday 5th July 7:25 pm U.K. Time

Hi Barry, As someone else pointed out, i think channel five decided to cut them out! Shame really because it's quite a nice touch. Its like missing out the captions in the fight sequences in the Batman and Robin series with Adam West. Incidentally they are showing this series on i think a channel called FX at the moment.

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 5th July 7:48 pm U.K. Time

yes James the FX channel is quite good for your old classics ,a month or so ago it had ,voyage to the bottom of the sea , batman , land of the giants , lost in space and the time tunnel on in a row ,nice if your a Irwin Allen fan 10AM till 6PM solid exellent :)

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 5th July 9:48 pm U.K. Time

Hi Barry, You mentioned the fact that act 1, 2, 3 etc was missing. Well there's a sound file of Roy talking about the layout of the show on Regular Audio Page 1 of my site.

TITLE: Another Interview With Roy About the Series 307KB

http://www.the-invaders.com

l know the series is airing at around 4:20am, but l was still surprised, they ran it commercial free.

Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th July 9:10 am U.K. Time

jamie, yes BEACHHEAD is the only episode that starts out with Hank Simms saying "A QM Production"..In THE EXPERIMENT--which I presume you will be watching this weekend--he says "A Quinn Martin Production" and for the next 41 too..By the way, William Woodson (b.1917, still alive) is the voice who says "alien beings from a dying planet..." It switches back to Simms saying "the guest stars in tonights' story.."....In the QMP "The Fugitive" the opening narrations are done by Simms and William Conrad...I think QM was the only one to do this.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 7th July 9:25 am U.K. Time

notes on James Daly--Alan--of BEACHHEAD.. He was also Samuel Concannon of THE PEACEMAKER..You will note that in the latter he has silver hair and brown hair in the former, yet the 2 episodes were filmed less than a year apart...The father of actress Tyne Daly and actor Timothy Daly, he was born Oct 23,1918 and died July3,1978...I recall his appearance on Star Trek--along with many other Invaders actors/actresses--and I seem to recall that he had silver hair in that one too..I'm not a Star Trek fan though I have seen probably every original episode--fake monsters in rubber masks just didn't do it for me..The Invaders were far more menacing.!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 8th July 7:20 am U.K. Time

jamie, and anyone else.. If the UK is showing Invaders episodes in order, next up at 4:20am (weird time!) should be THE EXPERIMENT, guest-starring 2 Brits, Roddy McDowell and Laurence Naismith..If you wish to view my 'notes' on the episode just request it..

Name: Philip Nixon
Email:
brownedger@ntlworld.com
Thursday 8th July 9:20 am U.K. Time

That's right its THE EXPERIMENT this week and next its THE MUTATION.

Name: stu
Email:
sgcollier@ntlworld.com
Thursday 8th July 11:57 am U.K. Time

I sent an email to channel 5 inquiring if they would show the complete collection but unfortunatly they only own the rights to show the first series

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Friday 9th July 8:04 am U.K. Time

Hi, I've just thought of a great idea. Why don't all you American's watch the same episodes of The Invaders at the same corrisponding time to our 4.20am showing and then we can exitedly discuss our recent viewing. The next episode is The Experiment as has been pointed out. Pretend that you have to be really quiet as to not wake up the rest of the house or neighbours and this should be pretty similar experiance. Thank you for your assistance.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 9th July 1:35 pm U.K. Time

Notes on THE EXPERIMENT-- 1.Bios--R.McD born Sept17,1928UK d.Oct3,1998Hollywood.Harold Gould b.Dec10,1923 still alive.Laurence Naismith bDec14,1908Uk.d.June 5,1992.Dabbs Greer--the alien preacher--born April 2, 1917 and still alive also--last seen in "The Green Mile" as 'the old Tom Hanks'.. 2--As jamie pointed out, THIS is the first episode to start out with "A Quinn Martin Production" by the narrator..3--DV takes a bus in Act 1--what happened to his car fro the first episode? 4--This is the first episode to make use of an alien cerebral-hemorrhage disk though this one is vastly different from ones used in the future episodes. 5--In ACT 1, you can see an unbilled Paul Gleason as a hospital orderly (no dialogue) but he has several moments of screen time..best known for his memorable roles in "Trading Places" and "The Breakfast Club"..6--ACT 3 begins with a NYC skyline shot from under the Brooklyn Bridge, stock footage..7--Act 3--the note that DV looks at mentions March Air Force Base, a real military installation in Southern California at the time...8--In ACT 4, we hear alien preacher Dabbs Greer scream in horror at the place falling apart on fire, yet aren't aliens supposed to feel no pain and have no emotions? 9--Also in ACT 4, much of the sound effects made by the alien machinery to torture DV are thereafter used for alien ship landings--just listen!..10--And in ACT 4 another case where the aliens could easily have ended their "DV problem" by just killing him on the spot!.10--One of the 'saucer photos' that DV holds up to the camera will be repeated in ep#19 THE SAUCER. 11--This is the first episode--in Act 4--that we first see the aliens dressed in their green jump-suit gas-station attendant clothes.12--We also learn via a phone call that DV makes that he has a friend at the "see-eye-yay" by the name of Jack Ryan..hmm, Harrison Ford comes to mind..The phone # is ENdicott 2-9971..(Presumably in NYC, so at the time was 212-362-9971 and presumably still a valid Manhattan phone #.) Odd, no use of the dead-end 555 prefix..Anybody reading this from me?

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 10th July 4:55 pm U.K. Time

The local paper review of 'The Experiment'(tonights episode on channel five), states incorrectly that 'David prevents the assasination of famed astrophysicist' Correct me if i am wrong but i seem to recall the Alien's getting him in his hotel room.....

Name: lyndon
Email:
lyndonshipston@msn.com
Saturday 10th July 11:16 pm U.K. Time

well all u invaders fans,almost time for the second episode.just hope i dont forget 2 set my tape

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 11th July 9:07 am U.K. Time

To all the UK fans of the show who stayed up in the wee hours of the morn, you are dedicated indeed and I hope that you were able to tape THE EXPERIMENT..If you haven't seen THE MUTATION in years or if ever, you are in for a classic episode if it is ep#3 set for next weekend..Any questions on it, just ask me and I will reply.

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 11th July 2004 6:10 pm U.K. Time

Hey Jim, I had the option of setting the timer or getting up at 4.00am and watching.....i got up! Something about watching it instead of taping..of course i taped for future viewing as well. Just a couple of questions for you to help me out with..I think you mentioned that the 'priest' was called Dabbs Greer..was he in 'The little house on the prairie? Also watching the fight scene in the control centre near the end seems to back up my view that the DV's stunt double does appear to be left handed. The appearance by Roddy Mcdowell also reminded me of how good an actor he was...we saw him years later in 'Fright Night' starring as Peter VINCENT vampire hunter...superb!

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Sunday 11th July 2004 10:19 pm U.K. Time

Hi James, l'm sure Jim will have more information on Dabbs Greer, but you're right:

Dabbs Greer - who played Rev.Alden in 'Little House On The Prairie' - played an alien in the episode 'The Experiment'.

Source - http://www.the-invaders.com [trivia section]

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th July 2004 10:03 am U.K. Time

Hi guys, yes Dabbs Greer was a 'human' preacher on LHOTP.. Born April 2, 1917 in Missouri USA. A veteran of 104 movies dating back to 1949..In IOTBS (which has 5 other Invaders actors) he was the gas station attendant who places the alien pods in the trunk of the car driven by Miles Bunnell (Kevin McCarthy of THE WATCHERS)..And a veteran of 103 tv shows going from the 1950s (Lassie, 3x on Adv. of Superman, et al) up to the Lizzie McGuire show in Y2K..On the TZ episode "Hocus Pocus and Frisby" Dabbs Greer played a guy who laughed at the idea of 'flying saucers'--That episode featured Milton Selzer as an alien, he was a human in QUANTITY UNKNOWN..Obviously Quinn Martin liked Mr Greer because besides THE EXPERIMENT, he was in these other QMPs--3x on The Fugitive, 9x on The Eff Bee Eye, 2x on Cannon, and once each on Streets of San Francisco, and Barnaby Jones, making a total 17 paychecks he picked up from his work with QMP. Good utility actor who could play janitors, preachers, delivery men, the everyman roles of everyday life though I can't ever remember him playing a cop. Most people do not know him by name but have seen him on I Love Lucy, Bonanza, Little House, among many others.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th July 2004 10:42 am U.K. Time

jamie, reviewing a July 5th posting you and Barry.. Is this really true, on the 2 Invaders episodes shown so far, (one at the time posted) are they REALLY cutting out the ActI,ActII,ActIII,ActIV openings?..What about "Epilog"? These divisions on tv were the signature of all Quinn Martin shows..If British tv is editing that out (!!) it is my hope that they are not butchering more than a total 5 seconds or less total of any episode....Here in 'the colonies' reruns of popular shows often have a few seconds edited out--notably any Simpsons rerun now--but it's done to squeeze in that much more ad time and not germane to the story...But cutting out the openings like that--boggles my mind!..And jamie, I gather that you haven't seen 'all 43', so let me know which ones they are and I'll give you the lowdown on them before you watch them for the first time.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 12th July 2004 11:01 am U.K. Time

IF YOU TAPED THE SHOW THE PAST 2 SATURDAYS AT 4:20AM Here in The States virtually ALL 1-HR episodes on tv in the 1960s were comprised of 46 minutes of the show and 14 minutes of advertisements, including Our Favorite Show..So I ask a Brit viewer/taper to please let me know how much of that 46 minutes was shaved off by using your VCR/DVD time-counter, and I'm requesting "in seconds" (hopefully NOT minutes!)

Name: Perry Ravenscroft
Email:
pr006c4040@blueyonder.co.uk
Monday 12th July 2004 1:51 pm U.K. Time

Have only just discovered this excellent website & only found out that they have started showing The Invaders again on Sat night/Sun Morning & I noticed that some of you have taped or DVD'd them, can I be bold & ask if anyone will do me copies of them, will pay for them or trade if you are up for it? Best Wishes Perry

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 12th July 2004 5:36 pm U.K. Time

hi Jim ,your question about the acts ect, i posted that the 1st episode "BEACHHEAD" didnt have any acts which i thought was strange , but on sunday they were back again for "THE EXPERIMENT" , tell me if im right but right at the start of act 1 when Vincent gets a taxi only to find out an alien is driving he kicks the door open to escape ,the music thats played during this sounds like one of the sound files from the home page ?

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 12th July 2004 8:26 pm U.K. Time

Jim dont we see the green suits the aliens wear in the first episode when Vincents friend Allen goes to look for DV at the reseviour ,he goes one way only to find a couple of aliens and the turns to find two behind him ,they then corner him into the tube ?

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Monday 12th July 2004 9:11 pm U.K. Time

Hi Jim, Going by my counter, The Experiment was 48mins 10 sec. That includes the opening and closing credits and no commercials.

Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 4:12 am U.K. Time

Greetings, once again!!! Well, I broke my own promise to myself that I would not visit any of "THE INVADERS" web sites until August 3rd. I was planning to do that in order to give all of you British lads a chance to watch the first five episodes, so that you would have your memories refreshed, and be more ready to answer any questions I might have. However, I must take the liberty to ask a certain question now, so as to give preparation to you to give some close attention when the episode is aired and you're watching it. My question is concerning an incident that takes place in the episode #4, 'THE LEECHES'. Does anyone recall a strange, hand-held device that the aliens used on Warren Donaghan right after he had his talk with fellow kidnap victim Dr. Bill Hastings? The devise, which resembles a dagger, or screw-driver with an oblisk-shaped shaft and point, was used on Mr. Donaghan after his conversation was interrupted by the aliens coming into the room where they were held captive, and before the next scene where he is strapped into the brain-probing machine chair. The device is never shown or used in any other episode, and is never shown again throughout the same episode. It was never called anything, and its purpose and affect is totally unknown. Also, I have never heard of any fans of our show even once mention it. This mystifies me, and I am VERY curious to hear about any comments on it. When 'THE LEECHES' is shown, please don't miss it. I hope they don't cut that part out in order condense the episode, but since I hear that the British airing is more complete, I am hopeful that it will be shown. The mysterious device also rotates, and makes a wierd little noise, and has a five-point pentagonal shape in front of the handle at the base of the shaft. Again, the size of it is about as large as an ordinary screw-driver. Also, it does not seem to be a lethal weapon, as Mr Donaghan was perfectly all right, and seemingly unharmed afterwards. He also seemed to have handled his brain-brobing incident quite well also. Anyway, when 'THE LEECHES' is shown, I look forward to reading your comments on this rarity. Lindsay

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 4:49 am U.K. Time

I would like to add a little something. In "THE PLAIN DEALER" newspaper, here in Cleveland,USA, they had a tribute to Marlon Brando, in which they had this sign-in guestbook to express our gratitude and thoughts on Brando's movie career. I e-mailed my thoughts, and voted 'THE GODFATHER' as my favorite movie, as I was not familiar with anything else anyway. After that I typed in the guest book that I thought it would have been good if Marlon Brando could have co-starred in at least one of the episodes of "THE INVADERS" with Roy Thinnes, because " I THINK HE WAS A NATURAL FOR SOME SCI-FI DRAMA AND ADVENTURE." Anyway, I din't know how that went over with the editors, as they had stated on the page that all of the e-mails are editied for appropriate content. I never did get to see the final results, but I am glad to have at least gotten a word in edge-wise to advocate "THE INVADERS" and our hero, ROY THINNES/DAVID VINCENT. We're family and we're an army, YESSIR!! Lindsay, of Cleveland,Ohio USA P.S. in the episode 'QUANTITY UNKNOWN,' My home town, Cleveland, Ohio is mentioned!!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 9:14 am U.K. Time

Barry, you're absolutely right, The aliens do wear the green suits in BEACHHEAD..My mistake.Notice this weekend in THE MUTATION that the one DV fights seems to have almost super-human strength, yet dies rolling down a hill..Will post my notes on this episode (probably once more) in a few days.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 9:44 am U.K. Time

Craig, thanx for the research and reply-- That amazed me that you came up over 2+ minutes MORE than I had expected!..Somehow though I can't bring myself to believe that you guys are seeing more than originally telecast--and 2 minutes is a lot of footage!..I tend to think that there might be some distortion in time on tape from perhaps different formats across the pond.. But IF in real time you are seeing Invaders footage that I haven't, alas I wouldn't know where to begin on what I didn't see! ..regardless, thanx again for the research!

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 10:05 am U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay, l don't know if you recieved my email, but on July 4 you requested the video file of this device you mentioned from The Leeches, that was only seen once. Well l did upload this file for you, and it's on video page 4.

TITLE: Warren Doneghan Speaks w/ Dr Hastings-Leeches

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 10:10 am U.K. Time

Lindsay, Welcome back from your self-imposed exile!..You put it on yourself--and were missed as a poster!..Anyway, yes that alien device is never shown or referred to in any of the 39 episodes to follow THE LEECHES..If it still exists in the hands of the prop-man I'll bet that he could make a fortune selling it on e-bay..There was an Invaders zap-gun for sale -- from the show--on ebay not long ago and I should have bought it...I'll post notes (probably once again) on THE LEECHES next week.

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 10:11 am U.K. Time

Hi Jim, You're right, there's no way we are seeing 2 minutes extra. It has got to be the different formats.

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 10:26 am U.K. Time

To Lindsay once again re: Brando-- Of the 42 movies that Brando was in, exactly 20 had at least one or more Invaders actors/actresses in them.."The Chase"--1966-had 5--answer on request...In VIKOR, the part of the "houseboy" ( a derogatory term even for the 1960s) was played by Larry Duran--in the closing Invaders credits--and Larry Duran was also in the Brando movies -in order--"Viva Zapata", "Guys&Dolls", "One-Eyed Jacks", and "Mutiny On The Bounty"..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 10:36 am U.K. Time

Hey Craig again, Thanx for the feedback..I don't profess to know at all the on-air time for any UK shows..But I know American television enough to know that a 1Hr tv show is 46 minutes with 14 minutes of commercials, and a half hour show is 22minutes with ads, give or take a few seconds but in Hollywood, time is money! Quinn Martin was a genius at this, still being the only one to divide the show into a total of 6 parts--"opening, Acts I-IV, and Epilog"..

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 13th July 2004 3:54 pm U.K. Time

Hi everyone, Well with the clock ticking and only 4 days to go to 'The Mutation'. I am particularly looking forward to the infamous shotgun/rifle scene that was discussed at length not so long ago. Is this the first episode where we see an alien show some feeling for human life? If i remember correctly Susan Plashette warns DV not to go near the saucer or something similar.......

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 4:04 pm U.K. Time

You enviable fans in the United Kingdom, '"THE INVADERS" have landed on Channel 5'. Ha, ha and we are in the "Invaders wilderness" here in Germany, at least at the moment. The "blokes" at our TV-stations, who plan the programs, 'are heartless to the German saucer-heads'. The C 5 broadcast of "THE INVADERS" could motivate Paramount/Spelling Worldvision to think over a date concerning a DVD release of the series, or is that wishful thinking? Who knows? This QM Productions production is an alternative to other science fiction series like "STAR TREK" and possibly particularly interesting for people – to say potential buyers – beyond the Star Trek fuss. By the way, I've read – in the German edition of "100 Years of Science Fiction", page 38 – Roy Thinnes was originally taken into consideration for the part of "Captain Kirk". Not all of the fans of THE INVADERS are interested in - for example - STAR TREK. For Paramount this could be an additional potential of buyers/customers, beyond Star Trek. So far, the Paramount DVD series-editions were released including bonus material, at least here in Germany; and likewise the in Germany upcoming DVD season box-sets of the original Star Trek series will include documentations. In case of a DVD release of THE INVADERS it would be interesting bonus material to draw a comparison concerning the different ideas by Larry Cohen and Quinn Martin; respectively to demonstrate the development of the cult series THE INVADERS. The development of a TV-series probably walks along with the balance of different ideas and thus not without disagreements. Roy Thinnes, Alan Armer, Larry Cohen and Quinn Martin (via archive interview) could surely tell a lot of insider-stories about the development and the production-process. Besides I'm assuming there is a rich archive at Paramount – in other words, hopefully a future DVD release will meet the cult status of the series.

"Ladies and gentleman at Paramount, please give us THE INVADERS in foreseeable future on DVD, and PLUNDER your archive to this end. Dear Paramounters, is there a place in your heart for the Invaders-fans (or at least a commercial calculation)?"


Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Tuesday 13th July 2004 4:20 pm U.K. Time

Just a reminder: When you record 'THE MUTATION' next Sunday morning, over there in the UK, be SURE to record the end credits music, as it is different and unique from all of the other episodes' end credits music!! Very romantic and wonderful, rather than ominous and wonderful!! Take care y'all. Lindsay

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Tuesday 13th July 2004 9:51 pm U.K. Time

hi again ,Jim i have a question for you ,i introduced a friend to "the invaders" when it was about to start on CH5 here in Britian hes watched both episodes with delight i must add but yesterday he asked me this ,he seems to recoingise one of the two aliens in "THE EXPERIMENT" who come as detectives to take the doctor to washington he only relises they are imposters when they ask about the evidence the doctor has in his case (which nobody knew about) ,he recons one of them went on to star in a police drama possibly ,can you help Jim? thank you

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 3:52 am U.K. Time

Yes, 4:20 A.M. is a significant time, but 4:20 A.M. Sunday morning in the UK still isn't quite the same as 4:20A.M. on a lost Tuesday morning along highway 166 in Southern California!! P.S., When you watch 'THE MUTATION' Sunday morning,pay particular attention to ACT 1 at the beginning. There is this peculiar looking, tall eucaliptus tree several hundred feet down the road on the right side. As the hotrodders try to run David Vincent down, or at least try to scare him away, this tree does something wierd. I'll let you guys watch it, then tell me what happens, and what you notice about the tree. Lindsay

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Wednesday 14th July 2004 9:14 am U.K. Time

Hey lindsay, I think this tree must be one of Quinn Martin's 'stunt tree extra's'. He used men in tree suits quite a lot at this time in both The Invaders and other productions that needed trees in treeless areas.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 12:30 pm U.K. Time

Barry/baz, in answer to your question to me, I believe the actor you are speaking of is Lawrence Montaigne b.Feb 26,1931 in Brooklyn NY, my home turf originally. He was also in THE RANSOM episode with Laurence Naismith,who was also in THE EXPERIMENT..Assuming that your friend hasn't yet seen THE RANSOM episode, Mr Montaigne might look vaguely familiar to him in other roles as 'Stonn", a Vulcan on Star Trek, or "Hayes--Diversions" in 'The Great Escape' or "Mr Glee"-a robot-in a 'Joker' episode of the original Batman show..Hope that info helps.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 12:53 pm U.K. Time

Hello Lindsay, From your posting I have re-watched that scene several times..It does appear that the placement of the trees does change--is that what you mean?..If you don't want to spoil the surprise, contact me off-site.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 1:13 pm U.K. Time

Hi Rudiger, Speaking of Larry Cohen--Invaders creator--he was born July15,1938 in my hometown NYC. And Alan A. Armer, Invaders producer, he was born July7,1922 in Los Angeles..both still with us..Mr Cohen most recently the writer for the 2002 movie "Phone Booth" starring Kiefer Sutherland.

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 1:23 pm U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, 14 images of props and their prices, that were available in the "Profiles in History" Auction Catalogue #18 have now been uploaded.

SECTION: Multimedia.

PAGE: Contributed Media - Page 18.

http://www.the-invaders.com

Thanks Craig.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 1:26 pm U.K. Time

jamie, on the shotgun/rifle scene in THE MUTATION- Yes, good memory on that one!..One simple viewing will show that it was a rifle that DV uses in ActIV, but as you know a former poster who I will not name was not only adamant that I was wrong on it but was actually quite hostile and vulgar about it to me until he actually re-watched it again! Then he made me out to be the villain for bringing it up to begin with!.Thankfully he is hopefully gone from here.

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Wednesday 14th July 2004 9:21 pm U.K. Time

thanks Jim , i rekon its the star-trek character is where hes proberly seen him before .Lindsey as well as the tree watch the chickens in the pen in "MUTATION" ,and as mentioned above the alien is getting the better of Vincent in their fight in the desert until DV pushes him down a small dune and amazingly turns to ashes HEHE .

Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Wednesday 14th July 2004 9:33 pm U.K. Time

Hi Jim, thanks for the information (14.7.2004 1:13 pm U.K. Time), I believe Larry Cohen was director of the film "Q – The Winged Serpent" (in Germany entitled as "American Monster").

Hi Lindsay, yes I think the "ultimate" DVD edition of "THE INVADERS" should include piles of bonus material.

Concerning a DVD release of THE INVADERS, it seems Paramount is like a "black hole". Every info from the Invaders websites drops through the "event horizon", but no info about a release date gets to us. At least up to now. The original 60s "Star Trek" series is scheduled (1 season 31.8.2004, 2 season 4.11.2004, 3 season 9.12.2004) with optional audio tracks (German, English, Spain, Italian, French), optional subtitles and opulent bonus-material around here. I’m not a "trekkie", but I think the 60s Star Trek show is an example to demonstrate the possibility an old series to release as high-quality DVD edition. If Paramount can release the old 60s Star Trek show completely and including special features, then Paramount can release the old 60s THE INVADERS show completely and including special features. Wishful thinking? In an earlier chat message, I mentioned the release of the 60s Paramount western "ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST", so the age of a production isn’t a barrier for a first-class DVD edition. Another example is the DVD release of the 'ancient' Boris Karloff "Frankenstein" film. Optional audio tracks and a fine documentation. This film is from 1931! Universal did a good job of it. B.t.w., hopefully Universal will release the "The Rockford Files" (in Germany "Detektiv Rockford: Anruf genügt!") on DVD. James (Baum-) Garner as Jim Rockford is just wonderful and naturally Noah Berry as "Rocky", not forgetting Stuart Margolin as Evelyn 'Angel' Martin.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 15th July 2004 10:05 am U.K. Time

So does anybody want my 'notes' on THE MUTATION here on-site? I think I've past posted them before months ago but will do so again upon request.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Thursday 15th July 2004 10:46 am U.K. Time

Hey Craig again, The fact that your counter read 2m48s MORE is intriguing! I do tend to think it's probably some NTK/PAL format distortion..There are 2 other schools-of-thought on this but both contradictory. One could say that since the show was born and bred in Hollywood, we the American audience saw the 14 minutes of ads and 46 minutes of show, and in can not only time The Invaders at 46 minutes but virtually every other US 1-hr tv show when rewinding or FFwding in regard to the time-counter. As I have previously pointed out, when US tv shows go into syndicated reruns, as much as 10 seconds are shaved off on a half-hour episode--notably The Simpsons to this day..(more ad revenue!)..Yet on the other hand, in many movies shown on regular tv certain scenes are deleted for whatever reason and original footage edited and on the floor is restored--in such movies as "Scarface" and "Trading Places"--the latter gives more air time to Paul "Clarence Beeks" Gleason of THE EXPERIMENT and TASK FORCE..It is a slim possibility that you UK viewers could be seeing extra footage that we here in 'the colonies' have not seen, but I doubt it somehow...And just out of curiosity-- if the show starts at 4:20am and is 48m48s long, what comes on your tv at 5:09am immediately after the show?...Thanx!

Name: DSJK
Email:
ebertkennedy@yahoo.de
Thursday 15th July 2004 12:21 pm U.K. Time

Hi all, just thought I'd mention that film is run faster in America than britain, which explains the extra running time. I'm not sure of the full techie bits but its to do with frames per second DSJK

Name: amy nagy
Email:
anagy1014@hotmail.com
Thursday 15th July 2004 6:47 pm U.K. Time

hi my name is amy nagy have you ever heard the world greatest vitamin but im telling every body about it if you want to call the 1800-544-8482 and ask them and let them know that you want to order a vitamin from amy nagy. thank you.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 16th July 2004 7:41 am U.K. Time

DSJK, that makes sense to me!

Name: Andy Bloor
Email:
andymark.bloor@virgin.net
Friday 16th July 2004 5:39 pm U.K. Time

Please can someone help a fan who missed last weeks episode. I would love to have someone do me some DVD copies just to tide me over till they come out on DVD officially.

I will reimburse whoever's kind enough to help. Please get in touch - I Live in the UK btw :)


Name: Rüdiger
Email:
solarisRd@aol.com
Friday 16th July 2004 6:11 pm U.K. Time

The upcoming DVD season box of the 60’s original "Star Trek" series could be exemplary for a future DVD box of "THE INVADERS" http://www.paramount.de/details/497/index.html . This DVD edition is quite good equipped with bonus material and optional audio tracks in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. I'm not 'keen on' Star Trek, but it's an example for a well done DVD release of an "old" series. "Well, dear 'Paramounters' the same again with THE INVADERS, please."

Perhaps there is somebody from a German speaking country who interested is in the "German voices" of Roy Thinnes. Here is an – incomplete - list with the German dubbing voices of Roy Thinnes, respectively his German speakers http://www.synchrondatenbank.de/actor.php?id=4338 . His parts in other films which ran around here, for example "Dark Shadows", or his appearances in "Law and Order", "Poltergeist", etc. were not listed. I don’t know why. I found no info about his German David Vincent dubber. His films run with bilingual facility in Germany, optional English or German. I have "The Hindenburg" with optional English/German tracks on tape.


Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Friday 16th July 2004 9:10 pm U.K. Time

Hi Amy Nagy, I've tried the number you left to order a large tub of super vitamin pills but all i got was a transvestite prostitute offering certain un-vitamin-like services....i really do need the pills due to the ridiculously early time i have to get up on SUNDAY MORNINGS. (4.20 this sunday for 'the mutation'.)

Name: Caroka
Email:
ashley913417@hotmail.com
Friday 16th July 2004 10:23 pm U.K. Time

Hey everyone I am new in deaf chat i look for new friendly

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Saturday 17th July 2004 10:32 am U.K. Time

Dail Mail television magazine preview of The Invaders episode 'Mutation'.

"David Vincent searches the mexican desert for a saucer site".


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th July 2004 12:58 pm U.K. Time

jamie--on the above posting-- well that could summarize it I suppose, though the key issue to THE MUTATION is the fact that one of "them"--Vikki--is willing to help DV vanquish them!.And that's how it appeared in most TV Guide issues/newspaper tv summaries here in The States at the time...As for Amy, her posting merely proves that there are snake-oil sellers out there who will give it a go on ANY website!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th July 2004 1:09 pm U.K. Time

Hello there Caroka, Your posting is not only confusing, but unfinished too--what are you asking?..I will gladly reply to any Invaders questions that you might have.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 17th July 2004 1:15 pm U.K. Time

Stock animal footage on The Invaders-- In THE MUTATION you get to see a gila monster, native to the southwest US desert and one of only 2 poisonous lizards in the world..In the very next episode--THE LEECHES--you Brit viewers will get to see stock footage of bats..If you get to THE MIRACLE, you'll get to stock footage of a rattlesnake, which bites an alien who dies/fries.

Name: Andy Collins
Email:
andyhomercollins@ntlworld.com
Sunday 18th July 2004 11:27 am U.K. Time

Hello fellow Invader addicts!! I just found out that c5 have been showing the invaders over the past couple of weeks, therefore have missed the first two!! can anyone provide a dvd with the first two on it? I will pay of course. A BIG thank you to anyone who can help

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 18th July 2004 12:42 pm U.K. Time

Hello Andy, sorry you missed the first 2 episodes-- You might see my name on this site many times..I'm only here to provide info on the show---trivia, bios, bloopers,etc. Have no desire to sell anything. But will be glad to answer any questions that you have about the show!

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Sunday 18th July 2004 8:00 pm U.K. Time

did you see the alien in MUTATION when DV sends him falling off the dune ,the camera switches to him falling on his back but when he lands its feet first a little roll and frys ,didnt think much of his fighting technique either hehe ,and why didnt he just shout on the 3 other aliens who were just ahead of him !!!!!!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 19th July 2004 11:37 am U.K. Time

Barry/baz, I have a problem with THE MUTATION.. to begin with--notice in the first fist-fight with an alien that DV has, he swings Vikki's handbag and jolts the aliens' zap-gun off to the side somewhere. DV then winds up sending the alien down the hill to be fried..Logic would say that DV has "Proof of Aliens" merely by walking over and picking the death-gun up!..But we never hear of this again!..Similarly, DV does the same thing in ActIV of COUNTERATTACK with an alien weapon that could be "proof!"

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Monday 19th July 2004 9:41 pm U.K. Time

then i suppose that wouldnt of made the next 45 episodes or so not so exiting ,had the gun been used as evidence ,the fight scenes have been very poor in the opening episodes like in MUTATION with the fight between DV and the alien in the desert ,and also the scrap in the episode before that with Roddy MC Dowell and the aliens ,its very i punch you and i ll punch you back with very bad timing .

Name: phil matthews
Email:
philm@football8.freeserve.co.uk
Monday 19th July 2004 11:50 pm U.K. Time

Hi Guys, Just found this message board devoted to my all time favourite tv show.

I'm actually old enough to have seen the show when atv first showed the opening few episodes in the sixties.

Subsequently saw all 43 episodes on the BBC2 re-run.

How many episodes to 5 have to show and if it is all 43 does anyone know if they are running the whole lot in one go?

Can anybody tell me what Channel %s plans are for the series.


Name: Richard
Email:
richard@fincher.uk.com
Tuesday 20th July 2004 10:02 am U.K. Time

Condition: Red

I remember when I first saw this episode as a boy, my younger brother asked if the horse was an alien. I said not to be stupid. But why not?


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 20th July 2004 12:23 pm U.K. Time

Barry/baz, on that note on THE MUTATION-- I don't know if you have seen COUNTERATTACK or not..Please let me know..But in THE MUTATION, DV could have at least reckognized a weapon as a weapon, and walked over to pick it up! Even if not as 'proof of aliens', he could have at the very least used it to defend himself instead of running away with Vikki in fear!..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 20th July 2004 12:44 pm U.K. Time

Richard--alien horse on CONDITION RED-- Hmm, never gave that one any thought!..Seems to me though that if you wish to conquer any planet, you would want to learn the language of the '2-legged species', and I don't mean birds!..Trying to talk to horses (alien-to-alien) other than Mr Ed would probably involve many more yrs in "The Univ. of The Invaders" for the aliens! To give it more thought on that, the aliens would know that horses here on earth are basically an enslaved species to begin with..And the one in CONDITION RED has reins and a saddle, so my wild guess is that it was an "earth" horse.! But then again...

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 20th July 2004 5:12 pm U.K. Time

Hi everyone, The intro guy on saturday's episode really excelled himself having previously said very little to intro the show. On saturday's 'mutation' his intro went like this.."On five now almost thirty years before Mulder and scully were running around trying to prove existance of extra terrestrials, David Vincent was doing the same thing...it's a cult classic, it's The Invaders and as usual i've never heard of any of the guest star's." Also just a quick mention about the incident where DV was nearly killed by the car..It seemed a bit strange that they had gone to all the trouble of tricking David into Vikki's trap as a back up plan if the 'running over with car plan' had failed?

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Tuesday 20th July 2004 8:39 pm U.K. Time

Hello again, I was just thinking it was about time i thanked Mr Jim Bryan on behalf of all the people that he has taken the time to answer, sometimes, in great detail, all the quieries and questions relating to our show. Jim was the first person to reply directly to my somewhat nieve question about The Invaders and this interest and enthusiasm has got me hooked. Thanks Jim and keep up the good work.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 21st July 2004 5:01 am U.K. Time

Dear crew: ALIEN HORSES?!?!?!? Now I have heard everything!!!!! Next you'll be saying that the very trees, bushes, rocks, and even cars and trucks that the aliens drive are all from the Invaders native planet!!! Maybe that would explain why the aliens would incinerate some vehicles with their death ray guns, and not most others, because the ones that they spare from destruction are "of them". HA,HA,HA! If it is true that the horse on 'CONDITION RED' is an "Alien horse", then what must its native alien form have been like? And imagine the size of regenerating tubes that would be required to keep these alien horses alive on earth, and to prevent them from burning up and vanishing!! And what if these horses were in fact, ordinary earthly equinarians? Would you all have expected the Invaders to kill them by pressing cerebral hemmorhage discs against their large beautiful necks, or annhilating them with their ray guns, at the slightest act of unruliness, on their part, as horses occasionally do, and in fact did when it threw its alien rider to the ground? Come, on, guys!! come out of orbit, and back to earth,again. Even if it is an Invaders invaded earth. HA!HA! Anyway, what would we do without humor, right? Your fellow crew-member, Lindsay.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 21st July 2004 9:51 am U.K. Time

Richard--BTW, good to see you put up a posting!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 21st July 2004 10:05 am U.K. Time

hey jamie, Thanx for the kind words!.I am what I say that I am, just here to provide the info/trivia/ production notes on "the show" that past or new viewers might want to know or find interesting...I post on the site more than anyone for the most part but my postings speak for themselves..Sometimes too I must repeat myself, but it's always Invaders-related!..And I always welcome any Invaders questions of any degree and as you know I do my best to come up with the answer ASAP.!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 21st July 2004 10:35 am U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay, Forget about horses in CONDITION RED and THE MUTATION!.If the aliens were doing their homework, they would've known that "the dog" is 'mans'-best-friend'..In THE PIT we get to see a Rottweiller fatally bite an alien, who then fries, though the whole scenario is badly filmed and not very credible..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 21st July 2004 10:47 am U.K. Time

Any UK viewers want 'notes on' THE LEECHES before you view it? Just ask, I'll supply the relevant info here on the site.

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Thursday 22nd July 2004 10:28 am U.K. Time

Hi Jim, Is it possible for you to give us a quick run through of any points of interest to look out for in 'the Leeches',its a bit difficult to ask anything specific having only a small portion of it on tape.

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Thursday 22nd July 2004 1:25 pm U.K. Time

Hi folks, I'm a UK-based long-time Invaders nerd, and about as sad a detail freak ("anorak" as we say here) as you'll find anywhere :o)!!!! Excellent site this, also great to read the postings from you guys - with special mention to Jim of course. I must confess I hadn't noticed The Invaders re-run on Channel 5 until I read about it here! Essential "Invaders" background: 1. I got four questions wrong in the first quiz, and one in the second. How does that rank (apart from the complimentary remarks that got posted with my score)???? 2. I also got hooked from the original 1967 UK broadcasts - mega pissed-off that they were discontinued when my then local ITV station 'Rediffusion' were taken-over by 'Thames TV' in 1968 - I seem to recall "the Watchers" was among the last to be shown. Nine years later in 1977, TV South screened a few episodes for about seven or eight weeks, but not in any order and certainly not from the beginning - but at least I saw a couple of episodes that Rediffusion hadn't got around to in '68. 3. Finally got to see the complete series when BBC2 (bless them!) broadcast them from 1984 to '85 - with all the 'Acts' intact and NO ads :o) Didn't keep any on tape, but taped them religiously when they repeated them again in two spells, in 1990 and 1992. However, I noticed certain bits missing from some episodes which were definitely there previously!!!! Also, on BOTH re-runs I failed to cotton-on until AFTER the first episode "Beechhead", so missed both seeing AND taping it! :o( Be in touch y'all!


Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Friday 23rd July 2004 8:35 am U.K. Time

Hi again folks, sorry to follow-up so soon after my previous message. First-off, just to let you know I use my surname as well because, as you know, we have another Phil - Matthews (hi Phil!) - who, like me, remembered the original UK screenings in '68/68 and who also acknowledges BBC2 for providing us with the entire series for the first time (twice). NOTE FOR JIM - look forward to exchanging views in the near future, I'm especially impressed at your knowledge of the show's guest stars. However, you've made one major goof - you've wrongly named the photo of the main 'guest star' in Episode 5 ("Genesis") as Tim McIntire, it is in fact John Larch - notable for his cop roles in "Play Misty For Me" and (I think) "Coogan's Bluff" (both starring Clint Eastwood, of course). Cheers for now.

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Friday 23rd July 2004 1:10 pm U.K. Time

I sent this message earlier at @08:35 this morning, but it seems to have disappeared (Jim, I hope it didn't offend in any way, to the extent you deleted it ?!?!?):

Hi again, sorry to post again so soon after my previous (and first) message. I'm using my surname as well because we already have a contributor called Phil (Matthews - Hi Phil!) - who, coincidentally, also saw the original 1967 UK ITV broadcasts and acknowledges BBC2 for giving British audiences their first opportunity to see the entire series in 1984/85 (and again 1990-92).

Jim, I'm particularly impressed with your in-depth knowledge of the supporting cast (not limited to the billed 'guest stars'), although there's one faux-pas in Episode 5 where the name Tim McIntire appears by mistake against the photo of principal guest star John Larch (notable for senior cop roles in "Play Misty For Me" and - I think - "Coogan's Bluff", both of course starring Clint Eastwood). Tim McIntire is I believe one of the young lads in "Dark Outpost". However, this is but a minor oversight - I look forward very much to comparing notes with you and all the others from now on....


Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Friday 23rd July 2004 4:35 pm U.K. Time

OOOOPS.... sorry again folks!!!! I should have waited before sending the last one which effectively duplicates the preceding one - which, as I said, seemed to "disappear" soon after I posted it this morning, for most of the day(?!?!?). Jim? Phil? Lindsay? Anyone else out there care to interrupt my 'sequence' and post a message? :o)

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Friday 23rd July 2004 8:41 pm U.K. Time

....back to the one-man 'Phil Forster' chat page.... :o). Just seen the "Troubleshooting" tips (on the "Posting Guidelines" page) - mystery solved!

While I'm here, I'll add to a point made previously by Jim and others (and Mark Phillips), and agree that I too was immediately and profoundly perplexed (as an 11 year-old viewer back in 1967, indeed) that DV so blatantly passed-up golden opportunities to pick-up and use alien handguns after successfully clobbering the owners! Firstly in "The Mutation" of course, but also in the follow-up episode "The Leeches" - and, I believe, occasionally in others. The only time he actually picks one up and threatens anyone with it is in "The Enemy", when he's holding crashed alien saucer pilot - played by Richard Anderson - captive pending arrival of the local fuzz (or whoever). However, the advantage is quickly lost as he is dispossessed of said weapon during a 'convenient' moment of distraction....

While I appreciate this may have been seen as 'too easy' a solution to DV's alien problem for the scriptwriters to flesh-out the plots (and/or the series), they could easily have given the aliens' superior technology the ability to 'home-in' on any of their stolen hardware and either auto-disable or zap it into oblivion(?). A definite "fly in the ointment" factor for such an otherwise mature, well-thought-out and otherwise superbly-conceived program.

Notice also how the guns shrank significantly about a third of the way into the series, to about a quarter of their overall original size. I believe the cerebral haemmorage-inducing discs "slimmed-down" in similar fashion, at some stage.

Hello - is anybody out there ?!?!?!? :o))


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd July 2004 11:42 pm U.K. Time

hi jamie, Re: THE LEECHES-- Noteworthy for 2 Canadians being in it--Arthur Hill and Diana VanderVlis--and she is gone after ACT 1..The guest star Mark Richman has his own website http://www.petermarkrichman.com and he is quite an accomplished painter as well..This episode also features Hank Brandt as an alien ("your'e not going anywhere Mr Doneghan") in the first of 3 Invaders appearances.. Also note that Arthur Hill is called both Doneghan and Donovan..

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Friday 23rd July 2004 11:46 pm U.K. Time

hello Phil, You must be thinking of something else--I didn't mixup any photo of Tim McIntire and Jon Larch--actors I know well by sight--because I do not deal with photos on this site, just the printed word here.

Name: Craig
Email:
invaders.contact@ntlworld.com
Saturday 24th July 2004 9:43 am U.K. Time

Hi Everyone, As Jim mentioned Arthur Hill, thee's a mini profile of him at my site. It's on the homepage at the moment, but from tomorrow it will go in to the archived section of the profiles, as a new one will go live.

Thanks Craig.

http://www.the-invaders.com


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 24th July 2004 11:03 am U.K. Time

Hi again Phil, on Jon Larch of GENESIS-- You were correct on him appearing with Clint Eastwood in "Play Misty For Me" but he wasn't in 'Coogans Bluff', he was however playing one more cop in "Dirty Harry"..The late Mr Larch is perhaps also best remembered as the dad of Anthony Fremont in the Twi-Zone episode "It's A Good Life" (with Billy Mumy as an evil telekinetic kid) and his best known 1980s role in "Airplane the Movie"..Mr Larch was born Oct 4, in Salem, Massachusetts..I have seen his birth date given as both 1914 AND 1922 on various sources. As if that isn't enough, he died in 1994 but also checking out a half dozen sources I have yet to be able to come up with ANY specific date that he died on that year!.Nor where he is buried.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 24th July 2004 11:43 am U.K. Time

THE LEECHES further note-- I have watched the ACT IV fight scenes many times, and in slo-mo too..There's no doubt about it, Peter Mark Richman is performing his own martial-arts skills live on-screen when fist-fighting the aliens---no stunt man used unlike many scenes for "our hero DV".

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Saturday 24th July 2004 1:36 pm U.K. Time

Joe Sargent born July 25, 1925 in JCNJ-- That's Jersey City, New Jersey..Still with us..The director of BEACHHEAD--the pilot episode-and THE IVY CURTAIN (ep #11), and WALL OF CRYSTAL (ep# 16). Just three, but he set the stage for the series..The other Invaders directors after him of note are of course Paul Wendkos, and Don Medford and Robert Douglas..

Name: Gary
Email:
gmarsh@aol.com
Sunday 25th July 2004 8:32 am U.K. Time

Hello,

U.K. Invaders fan here appealing for help! I have accidentally lost my recording of last week's (18/7) Channel 5 episode, The Mutation. If anyone can supply me with a dvd-r or dvd+r, or even a good vhs, I would be grateful if you could contact me. I am willing to pay well or trade for similar.

Thanks in advance,

Gary


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Sunday 25th July 2004 1:05 pm U.K. Time

THE LEECHES writer and director-- Dan Ullman wrote the story, and 2 other Invaders episodes..Born Oct 18,1918 in NYC--my home turf--and died Oct 23,1979 in Hollywood.....Paul Wendkos directed this and 8 other Invaders episodes, the most of any director on the show. Born Sept 20,1922 in Philly and still with us--in filmwork from 1957-1999.

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Sunday 25th July 2004 1:58 pm U.K. Time

been a while since ive seen THE LEECHES but it was well worth it ,great episode ,did you notice though when the guy who helps DV in the end sneeks up behind the alien and has a small fight ouside the mine he knocks him to the ground but look at the way hes lying when the camera goes to Richman just afterwards the alien is flat out but his head isnt touching the ground by the looks of it .

Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Sunday 25th July 2004 2:00 pm U.K. Time

the special effects they used for the car electrics blowing up was really amaturish they didnt even look like they were coming from the car .

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 25th July 2004 7:14 pm U.K. Time

Hi, The Leeches was better than i had remembered it being, the acting by everyone was superb and Mark Richman a true star. Pity he and DV couldn't have teamed up to fight the aliens they looked quite a formidable partnership! Studying the credits at the end i realised there was someone who we had never mentioned before or given credit to. 'Annabel' the hair stylist of course. David Vincent's hair looks pretty manageable in the most part but the alien quiffs must have needed constant attention. If anyone has information about 'Annabel' or her work please share it with all the hair conscious Invader fans....

Name: jamie
Email:
james@jamesmaddox.co.uk
Sunday 25th July 2004 7:21 pm U.K. Time

Also could phil Forster, Andy Bloor and Gary please tell us their experiances of how they first got 'into' The Invaders.........................

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Monday 26th July 2004 8:06 am U.K. Time

hi jamie, Annabel is listed on imdb.com as a hairdresser but only for one tv special she did in 1955 and nothing else..Absolutely no other bio info listed about her..It is possible that she was on THE LEECHES for Diana VanderVlis' hair-do only..

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Monday 26th July 2004 10:05 am U.K. Time

Hi everyone, hope you all enjoyed "The Leeches" - some interesting and meaty discussion having already kicked-off, I see!

James: in response to your request for my story of how I first got into The Invaders, you get a fairly comprehensive overview in my first posting on Thursday 22nd July 2004 (1:25 pm U.K. Time) - just scroll-up a few pages and you'll find it OK. I would only add to this, thaty I had been an avid fan of the Gerry Anderson series "Fireball XL5", "Stingray" and "Thunderbirds" prior to The Invaders, but my appetite for this program was greater stirred-up by an ITV children's TV drama (meaning it went out at 5:25 p.m.) series "Object Z", about a mammoth space 'colony' ship from a dying alien planet which approached (and then finally landed on) earth. The lead character was very much a Brit version of Mr. Vincent, and I recall it came out just ahead of The Invaders.

Be in touch, look forward to further exchanges with you....


Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Monday 26th July 2004 11:14 am U.K. Time

Hi Jim. Sorry, I thought you were the owner & architect of this entire website. Who do I get in touch with to correct the name that appears under John Larch's photo?

Re. 'The Leeches', great to see other fans' eagle eyes have spotted all sorts of anomalies and other points of interest. My own thoughts are that it was a superb episode, spoiled only by David passing-up yet another blatant opportunity to pick-up an alien handgun after disabling it's owner in a fist-fight (and "putting the boot in" as I recall!). I thought the idea of the aliens vapourising the car engine was a good one, but why didn't they take-out the entire vehicle (as they did in a couple of other episodes - including the soon-to-be-screened 6th episode "Vikor")? Sorry if I missed something in the plot itself that would explain this, as I didn't actually see it on Sunday (in fact, I haven't seen it since 1990!).

All the best for now Jim, RSVP at your leisure. Likewise, regards to all.


Name: Gary
Email:
gmarsh@aol.com
Monday 26th July 2004 1:14 pm U.K. Time

How I got 'into' The Invaders.... well, I was there from the start when my local ITV station showed the series in the late sixties. I remember when the time slot changed to late night Saturday, and I pestered my folks to lat me stay up to watch it. Been a fan ever since, and I am pleased that Channel 5 are showing it - even in that graveyard time slot. I noticed all of the 'act' break captions were edited out of the recent showing of The Leeches - which for me, leaves the episode incomplete.....but still vey welcome.

Gary


Name: Peter Reynolds
Email:
preynolds@daventrydc.gov.uk
Monday 26th July 2004 5:23 pm U.K. Time

How can we get Five to use a better slot? Ideas?

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Monday 26th July 2004 8:12 pm U.K. Time

In response to Peter Reynolds, I doubt Channel 5 would consider moving The Invaders slot at our request. The only thing I reckon would stand any chance of success at all would be a HUGE petition - or else we ALL individually write or e-mail in at once. But don't let my pessimism deter you (or any one else for that matter) - if my support is needed toward any collective initiative, I'll gladly oblige!

Andy Bloor, now you remind me I recall that I also had to beg my parents to let me watch "The Invaders" when it moved to the late Saturday night slot! How many episodes did your regional ITV Channel broadcast before pulling the plug? Mine (Rediffusion) was actually taken-over by another company (Thames TV) who promptly scrubbed it altogether from the schedules, so it wasn't until 1985 on BBC2 that I saw the remaining episodes.

Back to "The Leeches".... another oddity about the alien technology, it's sophistication was hardly in evidence in the operation of that monster 'brain drain' device. Note how the alien operator had to constantly push two humungous great handles protruding out of the floor, alternately back and forth to activate it? Imagine if propelling their flying saucers required the same 'stone-age' manual effort - the crew would have to take it in turns with plenty of rest (and regeneration) in between!!!!


Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Monday 26th July 2004 8:16 pm U.K. Time

Aaaah - sorry (again)!!!!!!!! It was of course Gary Marsh, NOT Andy Bloor who reminded us all about the original 60's ITV broadcasts swirching to the late Saturday slot.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 6:59 am U.K. Time

The Aug 1-Aug 7th issue of TV GUIDE here in The States lists the top 25 all-time sci-fi characters on TV, and David Vincent made the list! They show the classic photo of him running from a saucer..Oh, UK fans, Dr Who made the list too..

Name: Gary
Email:
gmarsh@aol.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 7:17 am U.K. Time

From memory, my regional ITV (Tyne-Tees) showed the entire run. This, of course, was back in the days before episode guides existed, and I have memories of the later episodes from these screenings. I still have my mid-seventies original copy of Gary Gerrani's book 'Fantastic Television', which I still reference - a groundbreaking volume which I'm sure educated a lot of us TV fans. The Invaders chapter was, for a long time, the essential guide.

Gary


Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 8:24 am U.K. Time

Thanks for that Gary - if I'd been a little older, I'd probably have gone to the trouble of travelling on Saturdays to a town in a region which continued showing them, and staying in a hotel room with a TV just to see it! As it was, I was only 11 and had no friends I could have stayed with, outside of my circle of local school pals.... :o(

I can only assume it was moved/axed due to a UK ratings decline - which I can relate to, for I recall trying to convince my then school pals what a fantastic program it was, and all but one or two of them weren't in the least impressed - or, at best, thought it was "OK". I was totally besotted with it, and aften used to dream of being chased or hounded by aliens (although, strangely, rarely battling them alongside David Vincent). Sadder still, when the 1984 repeats started-up, so did the dreams!

Jim - repeat question (sorry if it's available within this site, and I haven't searched thoroughly enough): who do I contact to seek a correction to the wtrong name under Jon Larch's photo (not that I'm losing sleep over it!)?

All the best, Phil F.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 11:20 am U.K. Time

Hello Gary, yes I have that same book too.. And as you can see it also lists casts from Outer Limits, TZ, Batman, Adv of Superman (first up in the book), Star Trek, Land Of The Giants, VTTBOTS, et al--Invaders too!--and as you can see, there were many actors/actresses who were on "our-favorite-show" and those ones too!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 11:44 am U.K. Time

Hello again Phil, By you seeing so-many postings by me you jumped to the conclusion that I run this site, but you need only look at my past-postings and you will see that I am just here to provide the info on The Show--which I do! Nothing more than that!..People who post often come up with questions that I can answer several times in a day, and I like providing the trivia too-- some posters tell me off-site that my efforts are appreciated..As I have said, this is why I post more than most people..but RICHARD(UK), MARK(B.C.) and CRAIG are the guys who deserve all the kudos..And they know who I am.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 12:22 pm U.K. Time

Once more Phil, Have tried to see where you saw some photo mis-identification but no success so far..Craig and Mark and Richard (and me--written word only) )are way-too-deep into the basic knowledge of the guest-stars on "The Show" to make an error like that, so I respectfully ask you to let me know where-in you saw the photo-ID error!..If so, it does need correction but I have yet to find it! For the record, I've done my homework on this. Thanx

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 12:44 pm U.K. Time

Anyone in The UK/Europe awaiting a friend from the USA by air this week- If you are an Invaders fan, talk to them on the phone and ask them to be sure to bring along a copy of the TV Guide issue this week ("The Top 25 Science-Fiction TV characters of All Time" issue Aug 1st-7th)..On the stands NOW!...If you are an Invaders fan you will for-sure be enjoying it....It will inform you that Roy Thinnes was an honored guest-speaker in Roswell a year ago.

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 2:01 pm U.K. Time

Hi Jim - first-off, thanks for the reply. The reason why I thought you were the site 'moderator' was an expression of thanks I noticed in an earlier posting to you (can't remember who from) which I took to imply you were the instigator of the chat forum - and, I thought by proxy, the site. As you rightly say, re-inforced by your frequent postings I jumped to the wrong conclusion!

Another wrong conclusion I appear to have jumped-to is that everyone accesses this chat page via the website "www.theinvaders.co.uk". If you open this site and select the saucer icon on the left of the page titled "Episodes", it takes you to a listing of every one. By clicking-on the relevant episode title, it takes you to a photo gallery of the guest stars, most (but I believe not all) of which hold a URL to a basic statistical "biography" of the actor in question. There, under "Genesis", you see the name "Tim McIntire" under the photo of Jon Larch. I also noticed "Tim McIntyre" (slightly different spelling) under the names of one of the young lads guest-starring in "Dark Outpost" - I presume that's the correct one!

Great to hear about the 'TV Guide' article - does the magazine have a web site (like most publications do)? If so, maybe the article is posted there!?!?! What was the actual event at Roswell where Roy Thinnes did his guest-speaker bit (i.e some sort of annual convention or similar get-together)?

Finally, belated heartfelt thanks to Craig, Mark and Richard - you've done us all proud!


Name: Richard
Email:
richard@fincher.uk.com
Tuesday 27th July 2004 2:10 pm U.K. Time

Please email me with corrections to the web site.

Cheers,


Name: Barry
Email:
baz10@baz10.force9.co.uk
Tuesday 27th July 2004 8:02 pm U.K. Time

watched the episode THE SAUCER last night couldnt belive DV didnt change his film on his camera or hid it when confronted by the aliens he had a few minutes to do that :( .

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th July 2004 3:20 am U.K. Time

Hi, Jim!! Lindsay here. Say, I'm really curious about that appearance of Roy Thinnes in Roswell. Is that Roswell, New mexico, where all of that alien crashed flying saucer activity was supposed to have taken place back in 1947? Please tell me/us more about it. Thanks!! Lindsay.

Name: Lindsay
Email:
invaders1965@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th July 2004 3:31 am U.K. Time

To: Phil Forster: Strange, I do not recall a car incinerating into nothing in 'VIKOR'. You must be referring to 'MOONSHOT', 'THE SAUCER', 'CONDITION RED', or 'WALL OF CRYSTAL', all which have cars incinerated by alien ray hand guns, or in the case of 'MOONSHOT' a suitcase with an alien incindiery device in it that is as affective as a ray gun. 'THE CONDEMNED' also comes to mind with the destruction of a pickup truck by alien ray guns. This was in referrence to your mentioning the incineration of Tom Wiley's car engine by unknown alien sabotage causes in 'THE LEECHES'. Lindsay

Name: Phil Forster
Email:
PhilForster@AOL.com
Wednesday 28th July 2004 10:05 am U.K. Time

Hi Richard - e-mailed you last night, presume received OK and message understood?

Lindsay - good point, and thereby hangs a tale.... As I stated in one of my earliest postings, I didn't actually video-record any episodes until the second BBC2 broadcast, split between 1990 and 1992. In at least two (or three?) episodes, I clearly recall noting some scenes missing, which I'm damned sure were present in the same episodes when shown in 1984/85. The most blatant was in "Condition:Red" where David collapses in exhaustion after fleeing pursuing aliens (who I think had just incinerated his car) - the actual pursuit itself is completely omitted!

The other omission is - I'm pretty certain - in an earlier episode, where a 'planted' alien device incinerates a car in a car park. I recall that David and whoever he's with (some guy!) actually witness it, and it's similar to the incident in "Moonshot" but definitely in a previous episode. I also recall it from the original 1967 broadcast, which DIDN'T include "Moonshot" (in my ITV region at least!) and I've always believed it to have been in "Vikor". If you know otherwise, and that no such scene ever occurred in this episode, then I'll stand corrected! Either way, I'll make sure I catch the Channel 5 screening in two Sundays' time....

Thanks for the response, good to hear from you.


Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th July 2004 12:37 pm U.K. Time

Hi Phil, the website for TV GUIDE is that one, dot com. And for the next 5 days or so, get hold of the Aug 1-7 copy and you'll see our hero DV pictured in a classic and memorable Invaders photo. TV GUIDE is the most-sold magazine in the USA on a weekly/yearly basis......You are a relatively new 'poster'..In the recent past there was a guy on here more than me who provided some Invaders info while also trying to sell videotapes--but he also espoused political beliefs bordering on hatred, and his own brand of racist/misogynistic hate-mongering got him hopefully thrown off this site..Chances are he won't be back..He never seemed to like the fact that I REALLY am here just to provide the info!

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th July 2004 1:00 pm U.K. Time

Hi Lindsay old pal yes it's Roswell, New Mexico. Seems appropriate that Roy would sooner or later wind up there as a guest speaker because even back in 1967 while acting in The Invaders, Roy wasn't just going through the motions as an actor..He let it be known back then and to this day that he has always believed in aliens and UFOs...What we see on the small-screen drama is a guy who was an actor but also passionately believed in the role he had, most rare in Tinseltown...I could get into entire diatribes about Roswell but won't..But notice that several Invaders episodes do take place in "The Land Of Enchantment"..THE MUTATION, THE MIRACLE, THE LEECHES, THE IVY CURTAIN... believed in what he was acting in.

Name: jim
Email:
xnyckid@yahoo.com
Wednesday 28th July 2004 1:16 pm U.K. Time

Phil, yes I see what you mean-- somehow that escaped me..Interestingly, Tim McIntire has very little dialogue in