How did THE INVADERS end? Did David Vincent ever convince the “disbelieving world” that “the nightmare has already begun”?
(Voice of William Conrad: “THE INVADERS, a Quinn-Martin Production starring Roy Thinness as architect David Vincent. 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 the Invaders are here, that they’ve taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun!” Then you hear the two-note theme that strikes throughout the stories too. I think it is an descending interval of a half-step or maybe it’s a minor third).
I don;t think so. He did a walk on in the mini-series.
How did it end?
It’s stuck in my memory as “THE INVADERS (in color!), a Desilu Production.” I’m probably short-circuiting two memories together.
I have fond memories (flawed as they may be) of it, as it was one of the only things on when I hit that nebulous age when I stopped going to bed early and stayed up as late as I could. That, and my local CBS network had a glorious string of time when they showed kung-fu movies along with Godzilla flicks and random bad horror things.
One of my favorite every-episode plot elements was how David Vincent never actually carried his own gun around, but always managed to wrestle one away from someone just in time to shoot an INVADER (in color!), thus demonstrating the truth to an army general, police commissioner, some senator, etc.
I’m also interested in hearing how it all ended.
Apparently not.