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It's kind of hard to believe.But it's been about forty-two years.Since Architect David Vincent(played by Roy Thinnes)took that infamous short cut.A short cut that would put him on the road to meet The Invaders.Beings from another planet dedicated to the destruction of man and all life on earth.And the only person standing in the way of their evil schemes.Is?.You guessed it,David Vincent.This five disc 17 episode DVD set takes us on a journey with David Vincent as we share his nightmare.In his fight against the invaders week after week.The episodes on this DVD set includes attacks by the invaders.On our space program,our nuclear program,the ecology system and even our weather.The Invaders was created by Larry Cohen and was a Quinn Martin production.And over the years has become a Sci-Fi icon and a classic TV show.This show use to give me nightmares.Along with its eerie music and a long list of noticeable guest stars like Roddy McDowall,Peter Graves,Suzanne Pleshette,Jack Lord and Joseph Campanella.Makes this first season DVD set a very enjoyable TV show.And a good forbearer of all the shows dealing with aliens that would follow it.EPILOG...This DVD set also gives us a summary of every episode by Roy Thinnes himself and he also gives us a interview as well.
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what a(nother) nightmare. just popped in the first disc to find the show both time-compressed (the actors' voices sound like the freaking chipmunks) and the video of grossly sub-standard quality, the lines blurred and the picture more than washed out; clearly taken from a source thousands of generations away from the original negative-quality of the recent "fugitive" releases, for example - although in that case, as everyone now knows, they got things even more wrong, ruining the presentation by the music-replacement.
whatever. same old story. they care about neither these old shows or their audiences. we deserve what we get, asking for the abuse, year after year, and ultimately you've got to go where the action is, etc, but they really ought to be charged with fraud and all thrown in freaking jail. they are criminals.
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This movies is really graet it makes me remember my childhood. At that time it was a huge success.
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Do UFO's and little green men from other planets really exist? For David Vincent he's about to put his mental abilities to the ultimate test. Have alien creatures really come from their dying planet to inhabit the Earth and take over its unsuspecting citizens or are these the lunatic hallucinations of a man on the verge of insanity?
While traveling a desolate stretch of road one night David Vincent on the verge of falling asleep pulls off into a very remote area of the woods for a quick nap and witnesses something he can't believe is really happening. To David's surprise an alien spacecraft has in fact landed on Earth and at this point he is the only one who knows of their existence. He quickly realizes he must do something to tell the rest of the people, that the aliens have arrived. The only problem for David Vincent is that the aliens are aware he has seen them; he just doesn't know that they know. Welcome to "The Invaders" Season one.
From the creative genius of Larry Cohen, producer Quinn Martin and special thanks to Paramount Studios we have the first 16 episodes of this classic Sci-Fi television show to enjoy when ever we want. The overall quality of the first 16 episodes is pretty good as it appears the prints are from the 35mm prints and not the original source material. I'm no expert on this, it just seems like that's the case here. The episodes do suffer from dirt, debris and some graininess here and there, but not enough to detract from my viewing experience. This 5 disc single sided DVD set is well done and Paramount Studios should be commended for their efforts. My only complaint is that they split the set up into two volumes instead of a complete series release. Even with the quality issues I've raised, these episodes in my opinion have never looked better!
DVD Features:
- Extended 60-minute version of the pilot
- New interview with and episode introductions by Roy Thinnes
- Commentary by series creator Larry Cohen on The Innocent episode
Episodes
Beachhead
The Experiment
The Mutation
The Leeches
Genesis
Vikor
Nightmare
Doomsday Minus One
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The Innocent
The Ivy Curtain
The Betrayed
Storm
Panic
Moonshot
Wall of Crystal
The Condemned
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What a pleasure it is to have this series available on DVD at last! For those old enough to remember, David Vincent's lonely, never-ending battle to save humanity from secret alien invasion provided plenty of thrills & chills, especially if you were an impressionable child. And it's equally a pleasure to discover that it holds up very nicely, just as paranoid & frustrating as it ever was ... for David Vincent was truly a prophet without honor in his own land, generally mocked & dismissed by the very people he struggled to save. That haunted, unheralded aspect of the series always added an extra punch for me.
Yes, the special effects aren't so special by contemporary standards, and the overall storyline not as "realistic." But the special effects, though crude now, are still effective; and in any case, they're merely frosting on the cake. The same might be said about the "unrealistic" portions of the series -- just how did David Vincent support himself, and so on. TV shows of that era tended to have a heavier, more obviously symbolic content, and trusted in the imagination of the viewers to fill in some blanks. And those "unrealistic" gaps gave it an additional nightmarish quality that can still take a very cold grasp of your primal fears. While everything becomes dated in one sense, I've got a feeling that a great deal of contemporary TV, supposedly far more "realistic," won't age as well as this series has ...
So open yourself up to a different style of storytelling, enter this waking nightmare, and keep an eye out for that deformed little finger -- the aliens are already here! And after all, isn't that what so many of us still fear today -- the Other who looks just like us, but isn't? It's a fear that's always current & relevant, and thus can never become dated, alas.
And the second season should be here shortly ...
Highly recommended!
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