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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!

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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 10 - The Innocent
    8.3/10(336 votes)

    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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  2. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 7 - The Spores
    8.3/10(297 votes)

    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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  3. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 4 - Valley of the Shadow
    8.1/10(272 votes)

    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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  4. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 10 - Summit Meeting: Part II
    8.0/10(219 votes)

    S2:E10

    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

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  5. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 24 - The Life Seekers
    8.0/10(223 votes)

    S2:E24

    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

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  6. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 1 - Beachhead
    7.9/10(474 votes)

    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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  7. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 16 - Wall of Crystal
    7.9/10(252 votes)

    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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  8. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 2 - The Saucer
    7.9/10(244 votes)

    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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  9. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 5 - The Enemy
    7.9/10(241 votes)

    S2:E5

    Despite Vincent's warnings, a nurse tries to help an injured alien survivor of a saucer crash.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:John W. Bloch

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  10. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 21 - The Peacemaker
    7.9/10(219 votes)

    S2:E21

    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

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  11. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 11 - The Ivy Curtain
    7.8/10(276 votes)

    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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  12. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 15 - Moonshot
    7.8/10(273 votes)

    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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  13. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 1 - Condition: Red
    7.8/10(253 votes)

    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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  14. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 6 - The Trial
    7.8/10(249 votes)

    S2:E6

    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
    Writers:George Eckstein, David W. Rintels

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  15. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 9 - Summit Meeting: Part I
    7.8/10(225 votes)

    S2:E9

    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

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  16. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 12 - Labyrinth
    7.8/10(219 votes)

    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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  17. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 18 - Counter-attack
    7.8/10(217 votes)

    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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  18. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 20 - The Organization
    7.8/10(201 votes)

    S2:E20

    David Vincent joins forces with the mob when the aliens inadvertently take their illegal shipment of drugs.

    Director:William Hale
    Writer:Franklin Barton

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  19. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 25 - The Pursued
    7.8/10(219 votes)

    S2:E25

    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

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  20. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 2 - The Experiment
    7.7/10(353 votes)

    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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  21. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 6 - Vikor
    7.7/10(314 votes)

    S1:E6

    A dying telephone lineman's fantastic story leads Vincent to investigate a huge industrial complex owned by a famous war hero.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:Meyer Dolinsky

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  22. The Invaders Season 1 Episode 9 - Quantity: Unknown
    7.7/10(291 votes)

    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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  23. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 8 - Dark Outpost
    7.7/10(257 votes)

    S2:E8

    While investigating the Invaders susceptibility to minor human ailments, Vincent unknowingly is taken aboard an alien spacecraft.

    Director:George McCowan
    Writer:Jerry Sohl

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  24. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 14 - The Believers
    7.7/10(229 votes)

    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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  25. The Invaders Season 2 Episode 15 - The Ransom
    7.7/10(219 votes)

    S2:E15

    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

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Innocent" is the best rated episode of "The Invaders". It scored 8.3/10 based on 336 votes. Directed by Sutton Roley and written by John W. Bloch, it aired on 3/14/1967. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Spores".