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David Vincent has seen them...
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.
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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.
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Episode 1
An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by Anthony WilsonGuest stars Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon, John Milford, James Daly, Ellen Corby, Vaughn Taylor, Skip Ward, Bonnie Beecher
Episode 2
David Vincent meets with an eminent astrophysicist who has proof that aliens are invading the planet.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by Anthony SpinnerGuest stars Roddy McDowall, Laurence Naismith, Harold Gould, Willard Sage, Dabbs Greer, Jackie Kendall, Stuart Lancaster, John Ward
Episode 3
With the assistance of Vicki, a nightclub stripper, Vincent continues his search for an alien spacecraft.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by David T. ChantlerGuest stars Edward Andrews, Lin McCarthy, Suzanne Pleshette, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Argentina Brunetti, William Stevens, Roy Jenson, Val Avery
Episode 4
Vincent is called on by a renowned electronics expert who fears he may soon be abducted by alien invaders.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by Daniel B. UllmanGuest stars Peter Mark Richman, Diana Van der Vlis, Arthur Hill, Theo Marcuse, Robert H. Harris, Peter Brocco, William Wintersole, Noah Keen
Episode 5
Vincent's search for aliens lead him to an underwater sea lab.
Directed by Richard BenedictWritten by John W. BlochGuest stars Carol Eve Rossen, Louise Latham, John Larch, Frank Overton, William Sargent, Jonathan Goldsmith, Phillip Pine, James Devine
Episode 6
A dying telephone lineman's fantastic story leads Vincent to investigate a huge industrial complex owned by a famous war hero.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by Meyer DolinskyGuest stars Diana Hyland, Jack Lord, Alfred Ryder, Sam Edwards, Joe Di Reda, Richard O'Brien, Larry Duran, Hal Baylor
Episode 7
Vincent travels to a small town to check a possible link between the aliens and an attack of carnivorous insects.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by John KneubuhlGuest stars Robert Emhardt, Kathleen Widdoes, James T. Callahan, Irene Tedrow, Nellie Burt, Logan Field, Jeanette Nolan, William Bramley
Episode 8
Vincent is called upon to help avert possible alien infiltration at a government nuclear test site.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by Louis VittesGuest stars William Windom, Andrew Duggan, Robert Osterloh, Wesley Addy, Tom Palmer, Lee Farr, Lew Brown, Rick Murray
Episode 9
While investigating the theft of a mysterious cylinder from the site of a plane crash, Vincent is captured and suspected of being an alien.
Directed by Sutton RoleyWritten by Don Brinkley, Clyde WareGuest stars James Whitmore, William Talman, Milton Selzer, Susan Strasberg, Barney Phillips, Ernest Sarracino, Douglas Henderson, Mel Ruick
Episode 10
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.
Directed by Sutton RoleyWritten by John W. Bloch, Bernard Rothman, Norman KlenmanGuest stars William Smithers, Patricia Smith, Dabney Coleman, Robert Doyle, Paul Carr, Johnny Jensen, Erik Holland, Katherine Justice
Episode 11
Vincent discovers that a school is being used by the aliens as an indoctrination center.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by Don BrinkleyGuest stars Laurie Mock, Jack Warden, Murray Matheson, Barry Russo, David Sheiner, Clarke Gordon, Susan Oliver, Byron Morrow
Episode 12
Vincent discovers a mysterious computer tape that could offer proof of the alien invasion.
Directed by John Meredyth LucasWritten by John W. Bloch, Theodore SturgeonGuest stars Laura Devon, Nancy Wickwire, Norman Fell, Victor Brandt, Ed Begley, Joel Fluellen, Gilchrist Stuart, Garrison True
Episode 13
Vincent is contacted by a meterologist to help investigate the suspicious nature of a hurricane along the Eastern U.S. coast.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by John KneubuhlGuest stars Joseph Campanella, Dean Harens, Carlos Romero, Simon Scott, BarBara Luna, Paul Comi, Allen Emerson, John McLiam
Episode 14
The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.
Directed by Robert ButlerWritten by Robert ShermanGuest stars Robert Walker Jr., Lynn Loring, R.G. Armstrong, Ford Rainey, Joseph V. Perry, Don Ross, Len Wayland, Ross Hagen
Episode 15
Vincent helps a security official investigate the deaths of two lunar astronauts in a strange red fog.
Directed by Paul WendkosWritten by Rita Lakin, John W. BlochGuest stars Kent Smith, Peter Graves, Joanne Linville, John Ericson, Anthony Eisley, Strother Martin, John Lupton, Robert Knapp
Episode 16
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.
Directed by Joseph SargentWritten by Daniel B. Ullman, Don BrinkleyGuest stars Jerry Ayres, Linden Chiles, Julie Sommars, Burgess Meredith, Lloyd Gough, Russ Conway, Mary Lou Taylor, Karen Norris
Episode 17
The invaders frame Vincent for the death of an owner of an electronics plant who had made discoveries about the aliens.
Directed by Richard BenedictWritten by Robert ShermanGuest stars Ralph Bellamy, Marlyn Mason, Murray Hamilton, John S. Ragin, Wright King, Harlan Warde, Paul Bryar, Larry Ward
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