8.4/105 votesLoading...#1 - Moonshot
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/18/1967
Vincent helps a security official investigate the deaths of two lunar astronauts in a strange red fog.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Writer: Rita Lakin
8.3/10284 votesLoading...#2 - Quantity: Unknown
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/7/1967
While investigating the theft of a mysterious cylinder from the site of a plane crash, Vincent is captured and suspected of being an alien.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: N/A
8.2/10256 votesLoading...#3 - The Spores
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1967
Vincent is horrified to learn the invaders are using strange seed spores that after cultivated will develop into full-grown aliens.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Ellis Kadison, Joel Kane
8.1/10238 votesLoading...#4 - Valley of the Shadow
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1967
After an alien is captured in a small town, Vincent warns the townspeople, who assume their captive is a madman.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
8.0/10212 votesLoading...#5 - The Enemy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1967
Despite Vincent's warnings, a nurse tries to help an injured alien survivor of a saucer crash.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: John W. Bloch
8.0/10196 votesLoading...#6 - Summit Meeting: Part II
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1967
In the conclusion of a two-part episode, Vincent must defuse an experimental rocket that if ignited will destroy all heads of state gathered at a world summit meeting.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: George Eckstein
8.0/10196 votesLoading...#7 - The Life Seekers
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/1968
A pair of aliens who want to return to their home planet and make a political argument against the invasion of Earth ask David Vincent to help them elude an intensive police manhunt.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.9/10210 votesLoading...#8 - The Saucer
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1967
Vincent battles, then destroys an alien guard and captures one of their spacecraft.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
7.9/10190 votesLoading...#9 - The Peacemaker
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1968
David Vincent arranges a meeting between the alien leaders and an Air Force General, who secretly plans to drop a bomb on the alien leaders despite the fact that many innocent people will die in the process.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: David W. Rintels
7.8/10235 votesLoading...#10 - The Innocent
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1967
The aliens take David Vincent up into their spaceship and then attempt to prove they have nothing but peaceful intentions by showing him what they've done to a desert valley. But all is not what it seems.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: John W. Bloch
7.8/10222 votesLoading...#11 - Wall of Crystal
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/1967
David's brother, who also thinks he is crazy, is kidnapped by the aliens who intend to destroy the oxygen in our planet's air.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
7.8/10218 votesLoading...#12 - Condition: Red
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1967
Vincent attempts to thwart the alien infiltration of a Air Defense Command Unit.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.8/10215 votesLoading...#13 - The Trial
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1967
A man seek's Vincent's aid after he is arrested and put on trial for murder after the incineration death of an alien.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: George Eckstein, David W. Rintels
7.8/10197 votesLoading...#14 - Summit Meeting: Part I
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1967
In Part I of this two-part episode, Vincent uncovers a diabolical alien plot to destroy all of the world's leaders.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: George Eckstein
7.8/10190 votesLoading...#15 - Labyrinth
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1967
When David Vincent brings an injured alien into the doctor for treatment, the patient's x-rays reveal odd results. While David works to alert the authorities, the aliens conspire to destroy both evidence and witnesses.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Art Wallace
7.8/10189 votesLoading...#16 - The Ransom
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/12/1967
David Vincent and Bob Torin capture an alien leader, whom they hope to show to the authorities as proof; however, the leader's alien comrades foil David's efforts.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Robert L. Collins
7.8/10193 votesLoading...#17 - Counter-attack
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1968
David deceives the aliens that he is willing to work with them for a fee, all the while with a plan of attack in mind.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.8/10177 votesLoading...#18 - The Organization
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1968
David Vincent joins forces with the mob when the aliens inadvertently take their illegal shipment of drugs.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Franklin Barton
7.8/10193 votesLoading...#19 - The Pursued
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1968
The aliens’ experiments with artificial human emotions go awry when one of their subjects, prone to homicidal rages, defects to David Vincent’s side.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Don Brinkley
7.7/10310 votesLoading...#20 - Beachhead
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1967
An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: Anthony Wilson
7.7/10252 votesLoading...#21 - Doomsday Minus One
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1967
Vincent is called upon to help avert possible alien infiltration at a government nuclear test site.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Writer: Louis Vittes
7.7/10238 votesLoading...#22 - Panic
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/11/1967
The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: Robert Sherman
7.7/10218 votesLoading...#23 - Dark Outpost
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1967
While investigating the Invaders susceptibility to minor human ailments, Vincent unknowingly is taken aboard an alien spacecraft.
Director: George McCowan
Writer: Jerry Sohl
7.7/10203 votesLoading...#24 - The Believers
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/5/1967
David Vincent is kidnapped in a sneak attack on his new found alien-fighting allies, and he must try to escape an alien installation with a human psychologist.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Writer: Barry Oringer
7.7/10182 votesLoading...#25 - The Vise
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1968
Racist issues arise between David Vincent and the Baxters, a black couple, when David produces evidence that another African American in line for an important position with the space program is actually an alien.
Director: William Hale
Writer: William Blinn
The Best Episodes of The Invaders
Every episode of The Invaders ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Invaders!
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for...
Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:ABC
Best Episodes Summary
"Moonshot" is the best rated episode of "The Invaders". It scored 8.4/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Paul Wendkos and written by Rita Lakin, it aired on 4/18/1967. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Quantity: Unknown".