It's akin to the great dramatic opening of "The Fugitive": "Dr. Richard Kimbell an innocent victim of blind justice (cue a shot of the Blind Justice statue"). In route to the death house when an accident of fate freed him. Freed him to search for his killer (picture of the One-Armed Man), freed him to toil at many jobs (pictures of David Jansen driving a tractor and doing other blue color stuff)...freed him to flee before the pursuit of the relentless Lieutenant obsessed with his capture (shots of the serious Lieutenant")
Those were the great old dies of high (melo)drama TV, whether cop shows, medical shows, action shows (Remember "Run for Your Life", "To Catch a Thief"?) I miss 'em, I miss the "A QM Production" intros, and I miss series where good music was a big part of the show! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:07:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY You gotta love the portentous opening narration: [opening narration] Narrator (William Woodson): 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... --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Well, this is odd. SyFy is running an all day marathon of the classic TV > series "The Invaders". This was the original "aliens walk among us plotting > to take over the world" show, the forerunner for aspects of everything from > "The X-Files" (on which the lead had a part, I believe), to "Third Wave". > This was a classic '60s scifi series, with the look and great guest stars > that distinguished shows of that era. So far I've seen Roddie McDowall and > Suzanne Pleshette. Check it out. >
