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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 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

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "The Invaders" is "The Prophet", rated 7.1/10 from 184 user votes. It was directed by Robert Douglas and written by N/A. "The Prophet" aired on 11/14/1967 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ivy Curtain".

  • The Prophet
    7.1/10 184 votes

    #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

  • The Ivy Curtain
    7.2/10 220 votes

    #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

  • Vikor
    7.3/10 245 votes

    #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

  • Task Force
    7.4/10 176 votes

    #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

  • The Possessed
    7.4/10 188 votes

    #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

  • The Miracle
    7.4/10 189 votes

    #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

  • The Experiment
    7.5/10 302 votes

    #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

  • The Mutation
    7.5/10 270 votes

    #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

  • The Leeches
    7.5/10 262 votes

    #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

  • The Betrayed
    7.5/10 237 votes

    #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

  • Genesis
    7.6/10 270 votes

    #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

  • Nightmare
    7.6/10 252 votes

    #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

  • 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

  • The Condemned
    7.6/10 203 votes

    #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

  • The Watchers
    7.6/10 193 votes

    #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.

  • The Captive
    7.6/10 193 votes

    #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

  • The Pit
    7.6/10 181 votes

    #17 - 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

  • Inquisition
    7.6/10 186 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Beachhead
    7.7/10 307 votes

    #19 - 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

    #20 - 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

    #21 - 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
    7.7/10 216 votes

    #22 - 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

    #23 - 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

    #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

  • The Innocent
    7.8/10 234 votes

    #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