The BEST episodes of The Invaders
Every episode of The Invaders ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. 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 short cut 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.
#1 - Beachhead
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1967
Architect David Vincent searches for someone who will believe he sighted the landing of a spaceship.
#2 - The Saucer
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1967
Vincent battles, then destroys an alien guard and captures one of their spacecraft.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Condition: Red
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1967
Vincent attempts to thwart the alien infiltration of a Air Defense Command Unit.
#6 - The Experiment
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1967
David Vincent seeks the help of an astrophysicist's son to prove that the earth has been invaded. But David doesn't know that the young man is in the aliens' power.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Watchers
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1967
Aliens have taken over a hotel in a plot to replace an electronics expert who is helping the US military update defenses.
#16 - 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 claims to want to create a treaty with the invaders.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Innocent
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/14/1967
An alien (Michael Rennie) captures Vincent and convinces him he'll be taken to a paradise as proof of the invaders' peaceful intentions.
#20 - 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.
#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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.