7.1/10188 votesLoading...#1 - The Prophet
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1967
David exposes an alien disguised as a prophet who capitalizes on his ability to glow red as a tool to deceive people into thinking that his ""gift"" is from God.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: N/A
7.2/10221 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.3/10246 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.4/10177 votesLoading...#4 - Task Force
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1967
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
7.4/10189 votesLoading...#5 - The Possessed
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1968
An old college buddy sends David Vincent an urgent message, without any further details other than that it is important. When David arrives, Ted has been brain washed so that he can no longer remember why in the world he'd wanted to see his friend. It soon becomes obvious that the aliens are using mind control of some sort.
Director: William Hale
Writer: John W. Bloch
7.4/10191 votesLoading...#6 - The Miracle
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1968
In a small New Mexico town, a provincial teenage girl witnesses an alien’s incineration and believes it to be a sign from God.
Director: Robert Day
Writer: Robert L. Collins
7.5/10303 votesLoading...#7 - 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 votesLoading...#8 - 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 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.5/10239 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.6/10270 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.6/10253 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.6/10228 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10205 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.6/10195 votesLoading...#15 - The Watchers
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1967
A hysterical hotel manager tells Vincent aliens are taking over his hotel.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
7.6/10194 votesLoading...#16 - The Captive
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1967
A Russian ambassador summons David Vincent after he finds that a burglar caught inside the embassy is an alien.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Laurence Heath
7.6/10200 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.6/10182 votesLoading...#18 - The Pit
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1968
Julian Reed calls upon David Vincent to help him expose aliens who have infiltrated The Slaten Research Center. By the time David arrives at the scene, Julian's having hallucinations. Is Julian truly a lunatic, or are the aliens behind his mental lapse?
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: N/A
7.6/10189 votesLoading...#19 - Inquisition
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1968
David Vincent and Edgar Scoville attempt to warn a senator that a governmental official is an alien, while Andy Hatcher tries to prove otherwise.
Director: Robert Glatzer
Writer: Barry Oringer
7.7/10308 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10251 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10237 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10217 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10181 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.8/10235 votesLoading...#25 - 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 Worst 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...
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Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Prophet" is the worst rated episode of "The Invaders". It scored 7.1/10 based on 188 votes. Directed by Robert Douglas and written by N/A, it aired on 11/14/1967. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ivy Curtain".