7.7/10308 votes#1 - 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
7.5/10303 votes#2 - The Experiment
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1967
David Vincent meets with an eminent astrophysicist who has proof that aliens are invading the planet.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: Anthony Spinner
7.5/10270 votes#3 - The Mutation
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1967
With the assistance of Vicki, a nightclub stripper, Vincent continues his search for an alien spacecraft.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Writer: David T. Chantler
7.5/10262 votes#4 - The Leeches
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1967
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
7.6/10270 votes#5 - Genesis
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1967
Vincent's search for aliens lead him to an underwater sea lab.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: John W. Bloch
7.3/10246 votes#6 - Vikor
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1967
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
7.6/10254 votes#7 - Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1967
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
7.7/10251 votes#8 - 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
8.3/10284 votes#9 - 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
7.8/10235 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
7.2/10221 votes#11 - The Ivy Curtain
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/21/1967
Vincent discovers that a school is being used by the aliens as an indoctrination center.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: Don Brinkley
7.5/10239 votes#12 - The Betrayed
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/1967
Vincent discovers a mysterious computer tape that could offer proof of the alien invasion.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: John W. Bloch
7.6/10228 votes#13 - Storm
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/1967
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
7.7/10237 votes#14 - 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
8.4/105 votes#15 - 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
7.9/10220 votes#16 - 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
7.6/10205 votes#17 - The Condemned
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/1967
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
The Best Episodes of The Invaders Season 1
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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...
Genres:Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyDrama
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Beachhead" is the best rated episode of "The Invaders" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 308 votes. Directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Anthony Wilson, it aired on 1/10/1967. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Experiment".