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The Best Episodes of The Invaders Season 1

Every episode of The Invaders Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Invaders Season 1!

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

Season 1 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Invaders" season 1 is "Beachhead", rated 7.7/10 from 307 user votes. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and written by Anthony Wilson. "Beachhead" aired on 1/10/1967 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Experiment".

  • Beachhead
    7.7/10 307 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

  • The Experiment
    7.5/10 302 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

  • The Mutation
    7.5/10 270 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

  • The Leeches
    7.5/10 261 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

  • Genesis
    7.6/10 269 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

  • Vikor
    7.3/10 245 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

  • Nightmare
    7.6/10 252 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

  • Doomsday Minus One
    7.7/10 250 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

  • Quantity: Unknown
    8.3/10 282 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

  • 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

  • The Ivy Curtain
    7.2/10 220 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

  • The Betrayed
    7.5/10 237 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

  • Storm
    7.6/10 226 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

  • Panic
    7.7/10 235 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

  • Moonshot
    8.4/10 5 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

  • Wall of Crystal
    7.8/10 219 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

  • The Condemned
    7.6/10 203 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