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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!

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 road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.

Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:ABC

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Invaders" is "Moonshot", rated 8.4/10 from 5 user votes. It was directed by Paul Wendkos and written by Rita Lakin. "Moonshot" aired on 4/18/1967 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Quantity: Unknown".

  • Moonshot
    8.4/10 5 votes

    #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

  • Quantity: Unknown
    8.3/10 282 votes

    #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

  • The Spores
    8.2/10 254 votes

    #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: Joel Kane, Ellis Kadison

  • Valley of the Shadow
    8.1/10 236 votes

    #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

  • The Enemy
    8.0/10 209 votes

    #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

  • Summit Meeting: Part II
    8.0/10 190 votes

    #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

  • The Life Seekers
    8.0/10 191 votes

    #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

  • The Saucer
    7.9/10 205 votes

    #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

  • The Peacemaker
    7.9/10 187 votes

    #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

  • The Innocent
    7.8/10 234 votes

    #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

  • Wall of Crystal
    7.8/10 219 votes

    #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

  • Condition: Red
    7.8/10 216 votes

    #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

  • The Trial
    7.8/10 213 votes

    #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

  • Summit Meeting: Part I
    7.8/10 190 votes

    #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

  • Labyrinth
    7.8/10 185 votes

    #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

  • The Ransom
    7.8/10 181 votes

    #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

  • Counter-attack
    7.8/10 190 votes

    #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

  • The Organization
    7.8/10 175 votes

    #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

  • The Pursued
    7.8/10 188 votes

    #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

  • Beachhead
    7.7/10 307 votes

    #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

  • Doomsday Minus One
    7.7/10 250 votes

    #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

  • Panic
    7.7/10 235 votes

    #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

  • Dark Outpost
    7.7/10 215 votes

    #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

  • The Believers
    7.7/10 198 votes

    #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

  • The Vise
    7.7/10 180 votes

    #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