Movie Reviews for The Invaders - The First Season

The Invaders - The First Season

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Movie Reviews of The Invaders - The First Season

Movie Review: Highly dated, but good!
Summary: 4 Stars

Don't fool yourself: this is an extremely dated TV show. From the cartoonish special effects, stand-alone episodes, no character development, through the almost unbearable never-ending pounding sountrack, it's dated in every aspect.

But it's good. Acting is very satisfactory, Roy Thinnes as the leading actor is solid, plot line (although pretty simple and sometimes altogether obvious) are enjoying. Transfer for DVD coul be better, but both sound and image are highly satisfactory. For the price they ask for it, it's a fair purchase.

There's only one unforgivable flaw, in my opinion: the lack of English subtitles for the hearing-impaired. I know there's a budget and a profit assingned to each product, but I think it's almost an offense to not inlude (at least) English subtitles. Other old shows (or even older, like RAT PATROL) have them. Shame on the producers of this DVD set for this flaw.

Movie Review: They're Finally Here !
Summary: 5 Stars

It's been a long time coming, but worth the wait. The best sequential science fiction TV series of the last 40 years is finally here! Paramount has gone above and beyond in this release of Season 1, with beautifully restored episodes, cool extras including the original length unaired pilot and intoductions to each episode by David Vincent himself - Mr. Roy Thinnes!!!! Not only is this labor of love an answer to every fans' dreams, but it's reasonably priced to boot! If you've never seen this series, you're in for a major treat! Thank you one and all involved, and I hope we'll soon be hearing news of Season 2!!!

Movie Review: The Invaders DVD, First Season
Summary: 5 Stars

The Invaders. Alien beings from a dying planet... David Vincent knows ...the nightmare has already begun.

1967, seventeen episodes, color, mono, approx 15-1/2 hours, five discs, 4:3, and CC... not subtitled. Two versions of the pilot episode... the second version is on the last DVD of this set... half a 'regular' season, since it was a replacement series for a cancellation. Included, an 'interview' with Roy Thinnes... just him, answering questions read aloud and texted onscreen, on the last disc. You can choose to have Mr. Thinnes 'introduce' each episode... or choose -not- to listen to him recite the -very- basic plot outline and title. There is also an -extra- version of 'The Innocent' on disk three, with a sometimes rambling commentary by the series creator, Larry Cohen... who was apparently marginalized, not really part of Quinn Martin Productions. Plus three promos.

Great to see Mr. Thinnes and the guest stars... in basic, well-made '60's TV. You can learn more about the original series online, such as at Wikipedia, and IMDB.com ...and how different was the mini-series almost 30 years later.

Movie Review: Invaders DVD Review
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent collection and glad it's finally available! I watched the original TV series when I was a kid; haven't seen it for over 35 years. Although the props, scenery and technology are dated, the story lines are great and the episodes are still fun to watch if you're a Sci-Fi enthusiast. The picture clarity of these DVD's is crystal clear with great color. The re-mastering is very well done.