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The Best Episodes of The Invaders

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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 him it began one lost night on a lonely country

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Invaders Season 1 Episode 9 - Quantity: Unknown
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Quantity: Unknown

    S1:E9

    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:Unknown

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  2. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 14 - Panic
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Panic

    S1:E14

    The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Robert Sherman

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  3. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 16 - Wall of Crystal
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Wall of Crystal

    S1:E16

    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

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  4. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 17 - The Condemned
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #4 - The Condemned

    S1:E17

    The invaders frame Vincent for the death of an owner of an electronics plant who had made discoveries about the aliens.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Robert Sherman

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  5. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 1 - Condition: Red
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Condition: Red

    S2:E1

    Vincent attempts to thwart the alien infiltration of a Air Defense Command Unit.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Laurence Heath

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  6. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 4 - The Leeches
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #6 - The Leeches

    S1:E4

    Vincent is called on by a renowned electronics expert who fears he may soon be abducted by alien invaders.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:Daniel B. Ullman

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  7. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 10 - The Innocent
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #7 - The Innocent

    S1:E10

    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

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  8. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 13 - Storm
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Storm

    S1:E13

    Vincent is contacted by a meterologist to help investigate the suspicious nature of a hurricane along the Eastern U.S. coast.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:John Kneubuhl

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  9. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 15 - Moonshot
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Moonshot

    S1:E15

    Vincent helps a security official investigate the deaths of two lunar astronauts in a strange red fog.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:Rita Lakin

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  10. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 2 - The Saucer
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #10 - The Saucer

    S2:E2

    Vincent battles, then destroys an alien guard and captures one of their spacecraft.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writer:Daniel B. Ullman

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  11. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 7 - The Spores
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - The Spores

    S2:E7

    Vincent is horrified to learn the invaders are using strange seed spores that after cultivated will develop into full-grown aliens.

    Director:William Hale
    Writers:Ellis Kadison, Joel Kane

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  12. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 12 - Labyrinth
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Labyrinth

    S2:E12

    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

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  13. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 14 - The Believers
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Believers

    S2:E14

    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

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  14. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 16 - Task Force
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Task Force

    S2:E16

    David Vincent is called in to aid a huge magazine publishing company that has been experiencing disruptive behavior in its company heads, and David believes that the aliens are behind the troubles.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Warren Duff

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  15. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 18 - Counter-attack
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Counter-attack

    S2:E18

    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

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  16. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 22 - The Vise
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #16 - The Vise

    S2:E22

    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

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  17. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 3 - The Mutation
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #17 - The Mutation

    S1:E3

    With the assistance of Vicki, a nightclub stripper, Vincent continues his search for an alien spacecraft.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:David T. Chantler

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  18. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 11 - The Ivy Curtain
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #18 - The Ivy Curtain

    S1:E11

    Vincent discovers that a school is being used by the aliens as an indoctrination center.

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  19. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 4 - Valley of the Shadow
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Valley of the Shadow

    S2:E4

    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

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  20. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 1 - Beachhead
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #20 - Beachhead

    S1:E1

    An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Anthony Wilson

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  21. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 2 - The Experiment
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #21 - The Experiment

    S1:E2

    David Vincent meets with an eminent astrophysicist who has proof that aliens are invading the planet.

    Director:Joseph Sargent
    Writer:Anthony Spinner

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  22. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 5 - Genesis
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Genesis

    S1:E5

    Vincent's search for aliens lead him to an underwater sea lab.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:John W. Bloch

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  23. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 7 - Nightmare
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Nightmare

    S1:E7

    Vincent travels to a small town to check a possible link between the aliens and an attack of carnivorous insects.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:John Kneubuhl

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  24. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 12 - The Betrayed
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #24 - The Betrayed

    S1:E12

    Vincent discovers a mysterious computer tape that could offer proof of the alien invasion.

    Director:John Meredyth Lucas
    Writer:John W. Bloch

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  25. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 3 - The Watchers
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #25 - The Watchers

    S2:E3

    A hysterical hotel manager tells Vincent aliens are taking over his hotel.

    Director:Jesse Hibbs
    Writers:Earl Hamner, Jr.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Quantity: Unknown" is the best rated episode of "The Invaders". It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Sutton Roley and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/7/1967. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Panic".