The Invaders (TV)
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| Name: | The Invaders |
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| Date(s): | 1967-1968 |
| Medium: | Television Series |
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The Invaders was a science fiction television programme screening on ABC for two seasons in 1967-1968. It was about the efforts of one man, David Vincent (Roy Thinnes), who witnesses a UFO landing and spends the next year trying to warn the world of a secret alien invasion. He is hampered not only by the aliens themselves, who are disguised as humans, but by the disbelief of officials and the general public.[1]
At the same time the television series was on air, a series of tie-in books was also released[2].
In 1995 an attempt to revive the series was made, with a miniseries being released. In it, the original main character David Vincent (still played by Roy Thinnes) is in jail, where he meets a formal Air Force officer (Scott Bukula), who is convinced of the truth of the aliens and takes up Vincent's mission. The series met mixed reviews and the possibility of a new series didn't eventuate[3].
Fandom
The fandom surrounding the television show appears to have developed much later in the 1980s and 1990s, decades after the show was originally on television. A number of multimedia zines and websites featured fanfic or fanart based on the series, often as crossovers. AO3 has a total of 24 fanworks archived, the majority of which were written by AlienEyes (aka LauraDove). Fanfiction.net has 20 fanworks under its The Invaders (1967) tag, with at least half written by Claira McGarrett (aka Lisa Sargent)[4].
The series also garnered international fan base, with fanfic (see below) and websites in French[5] and Portuguese[6] and comics published in Brazil as well as the US[7].
Shipping
Unusually, most of the fanworks for this fandom are gen. With its focus on a solo protagonist and the mission-of-the-week episodic format, the genre lends itself more to casefic, much like The X-Files, as well as "what if" stories. Some stories have appeared focussing on Grace, the main character's sister-in-law who appeared in one episode, "Wall of Crystal"[8]. There is one pairing tag on the fics archived on AO3 (Ellie Markham/David Vincent) and no slash pairings.
Fanfiction
- Times Change - crossover fanfiction by Jeanne Elizabeth McGrew (1992)
- The Judas Factor by John Lavernoich (2012) - a Terminator/The Invaders crossover
- Peace, Love and Aliens by Ralph Guidi Ferreira (2016)
- Twelve Times David Vincent Could Have Died by LauraDove (2021)
- Aliens are Real – By Elizabeth Garber by LauraDove (2021)
- Les Gens et les Êtres by LauraDove (2021) - a French-language translation of Laura's fic "People and Beings".
- Rencontre avec une grosse pointure by annaoz (2013) - a Doctor Who/The Invaders crossover (French-language)
Fanart
Vids
- The Invaders-I.D. by Crusoe89 (2022) Fanvid for 'The Invaders'; Music: 'I.D.' by Kasabian
Zines
Mailing Lists
Websites
- The Invaders (fansite) (2000-2016?)
- X-OVER: The Ultimate X-Files Crossover Archive
- Série télé les Envahisseurs (2011-ongoing - French-language)
Archives
External Links
References