Article on 'The Invaders'

Nice job Stephen did they ever tell you what was cut from the original pilot(the 75 minute one)? I would love to get my hands on a copy of that. I have one that is a little longer than the aired pilot, taped from Canadian television, and it has different closing credits and a few extended scenes but it was only about 57 minutes.

Have you interviewed Mr Thiness?

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I actually stumbled onto your article through searching for info on The Invaders and the article was just the answer to my queries!

Thank you so much for the efforts including uploading it to the web. It's great to read accounts from the times and read a perspective from I presume a viewer from that era too.

Being a younger viewer a few generations removed, younger generations may view this series without the surrounding context of the time this series was produced, for better or for worse. But indeed while in a number of ways it was a cutting edge series, in terms of it's direction (Little if anything like it before on TV, well not US TV it seems anyway?) - a precursor to the X-files indeed - it was also a product of the times and it's also those times which both saw it's initial success it seems, but also it's short run. But being a little ahead of the curb, I suppose we didn't see that kind of serious and mainstream Sci-Fi/Mystery take hold till the 70's and especially 80s, the latter decade with shows like 'V,' I suppose and that's when shows of a very similar genre (Sci-Fi/Mystery) started to break through with ratings and so 'mainstream' success I suppose?

Though in saying that, even today the more serious and mysterious in tone Sci-Fi shows can still struggle for an audience - As evidenced by the cancellation of the recent 'V' remake, as too Stargate Universe and some other shows. Though thankfully 'Fringe' is hanging in there, though only 'just' it seems.

"If anyone wants me I'll be in my room" - Lisa Simpson

What a comprehensive and beautifully written article, a public service to INVADERS fans (and indeed QM fans) everywhere.

But the story you tell is a depressing one, because you lay out in no uncertain terms just how good THE INVADERS was most of the time, and thus how lamentable its cancellation was after only a couple of seasons.

Wish it had gone at least five.