Box art is now available with this update:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Invaders-Season-1-Box-Art/8899

What's with the saucer? It doesn't look like the one in the series? An original concept or something?

You could call it "artistic license", I suppose. None of the episodes featured wholesale destruction either, but I guess they just wanted to display what David Vincent was warning us about.
I've got my season 1 set pre-ordered, but it's gonna be a long time until May 6th! :thumbsup:

God that's lame.

Don't hold your breath waiting for season 2 to be released. It's Paramount, and they STILL haven't released War of the Worlds The Series The Complete Second Season!

If memory serves me correctly, Season One of The Invaders was the better of the two anyway, because David Vincent acted as a lone wolf, but in Season Two he had a group of "believers" as his team.

UPDATE: They got rid of the "Flying Sombrero" from the box art.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Invaders-Season-1-Box-Art/9214
That's MUCH better!

I got the test discs for these--"Beachhead" is 48 minutes and looks the worst of any of the episodes; the others are good transfers but there are at least some instances where it goes from something sharp and hi-def looking to a rotten 16mm look--just snippets. And no extras on this set at least...

yeah , i thought it looked like his sombrero was flyin' off his head as he was running .
not sure i like the new one any better though . why not just use the original ship design ??
hb

UPDATE: They got rid of the "Flying Sombrero" from the box art.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Invaders-Season-1-Box-Art/9214
That's MUCH better!


Definitely! Now he's being chased by the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark!

I think the first DVD cover art was meant as a "homage" to Plan 9 From Outer Space:

http://naggen.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/plan9.jpg

http://www.tvshowsondvd.net/graphics/news3/TheInvaders_S1.jpg



Just a coincidence? You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!

What's with the saucer? It doesn't look like the one in the series? An original concept or something?

I don't remember the name of it, but it is based off of the Venusian saucer in that 50s hoax photo. The one that was made from a chicken incubator. :lol:

David.

The DVD set has been out for a couple of weeks now and I've just gotten about half way through it; this was a surprisingly better show than I remembered it being! While definatly formulaic television, the scripts are very well written, acted and directed, and especially with the alien "immolation" scenes, the special effects are still quite effective.
This is a series well worth getting, and IMHO, I would love to see an Invaders Saucer get the "Moebius" treatment and be made available as a kit in about a 12"-15" diameter size, perfect for either an interior or a very nice lighting set-up.

We're just up to episode 3. Suzanne Pleshette. Yum. :)

Oh yeah? I'm on Disc 2 already! :p :)

I've never seen these shows at all and I'm pleasantly surprised at them - much better than I expected. My wife is willing to watch them too. And they are inspiring me to start one of the Invaders saucer re-issues I picked up a while back. Very cool little kit!

Huzz

I don't remember the name of it, but it is based off of the Venusian saucer in that 50s hoax photo. The one that was made from a chicken incubator. :lol:

David.

George Adamski.

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/index.html/coverfshl.jpg


It sure does look like it!

Invasion of the Space Chickens!

Huzz

George Adamski.

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cokerwr/www/index.html/coverfshl.jpg


It sure does look like it!

Ah, yes. The flying chicken incubator. :lol:

David.

:confused: Uhhh, guys; I just read that the co-author of that admittedly quack UFO book, Desmond Leslie, just died today.
Coincidences sure are weird, aren't they? :eek:

Actually, he died in February, 2001.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010310/ai_n14377784

Interesting guy.

Oops! The link I opened to find out about him was his obit, but the upper right hand corner of the screen carried yesterday's date. :o

Cool!
Now to add this to all the DVD sets I already have of TV shows.:woohoo:
Thanks for the head's up, I didn't even know about this.

George :cool:

I picked up season one yesterday and watched the first disc, I had forgotten that they used music from "The Outer Limits", the score is credited to Dominic Frontiere and the first few episodes are directed by Joseph Sargent. Quite an "Outer Limits" tie-in.

I'm at the same point. Forgive me if I've said this already, but I'm finding these shows to be a lot better than I expected them to be.

Huzz

This show is Fantastic!!!

I am currently re watching the first season again. I am very eager for the second season.

Love the location shooting, Music ETC..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

BP

I agree, it is better than I remembered too and the guest cast is outstanding.

I'm about halfway Season 1 now and it still has the same impact on me as it did in the 60's. I didn't remember many details, but I always remembered it was a very serious and well-done group of shows which really grabbed my attention each week. I'm glad it holds up so well.

I usually stay away from old TV series because life is short, and because they never seem to hold up as well as I remember. The Invaders is the exception.

In an age when we're constantly reminded that our next door neighbor may be a terrorist, the paranoid notion of there being enemies in our midst is as dramatically effective today as it was during the Cold War.

Also, as Phil mentioned, the supporting cast (i.e. guest stars) is terrific.

BTW, my comment about terrorists is not intended to be a political lightning rod, so please don't turn it into one. :)

One added bonus in the set is the commentary by the creator of The Invaders.

He also created the series Coronet Blue. Anyone who remembers that short run series knows the answers to the mystery of the main character's origin, who he was and what had happened to him to give him amnesia, and what the heck was Coronet Blue, were never given.

He explains the mystery, putting to rest a nagging question in a lot of people's minds, including my own.

This is also explained in his biography.

I picked up season one yesterday and watched the first disc, I had forgotten that they used music from "The Outer Limits", the score is credited to Dominic Frontiere and the first few episodes are directed by Joseph Sargent. Quite an "Outer Limits" tie-in.The opening title theme for The Invaders was originally written by Dominic Frontiere for Joseph Stefano's unsold pilot, The Unknown. With some re-editing, the pilot became the Outer Limits episode "The Forms of Things Unknown." The titles for The Unknown also used the "tearing paper" graphic device that was later used for The Invaders (minus the grating sound effect!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgAfHFhRzjU

It's funny how those old TV themes would get bounced around the block.

I've got a crummy VHS copy of The Questor Tapes (an unsold Roddenberry pilot from `73) which features a Gil Melle track that later became the theme to Kolchak: The Night Stalker (the series, not to be confused with the MOW).

Music from The Outer Limits showed up fairly frequently in the later seasons of The Fugitive. And writer-director Leslie Stevens’ supernatural melodrama Incubus -- yes, THAT Incubus, starring the Shat-Man and with all the dialogue in Esperanto -- was scored entirely with Outer Limits music cues.