The Invaders

It is a sad thing when I can't find a cover on TV Guide for the Invaders but I did find one from New Zeland on this e-bay site. I did make up my own that you can see below. In 1967 America had orbited the Earth and walked on the Moon. With so much attention given to outer space science fiction was coming back to prime time TV. Quinn Martin answered on Januaary 10, 1967 with The Invaders. Roy Thinnes had been in episodes of the other Quinn Martin productions that were mentioned on this site. He played David Vincent a man who made a wrong turn one night and saw a flying saucer land. He found out that there were others that had already landed and the aliens were living among us disguised as humans. He tried to tell others but few believed him. The only way to tell who was an alien was that they had a crooked pinky finger. Sometimes they glowed if they needed regeneration and they had no pulse or heartbeat. When they were shot they would disintegrate. For a long time David Vincent fought alone. Eventually he convinced a handful of others and they helped him. His chief right hand man was Edgar Scoville, played by Kent Smith, the head of an electronics firm.
Perhaps it was true or prehaps it was just hype for the show but Roy Thinnes released to the press that he had actually seen a UFO. It didn't help. Low ratings canceled the show September 17, 1968.
However, the Invaders was one of those shows that refused to die. Episodes of the series were released on VHS tape. Fox TV did a mini-series starring Scott Backula in hopes that a new series would evolve. Roy Thinnes appeared in the first episode of the series as David Vincent. He had still been fighting the aliens all this time and was tired and passed the baton on to Mr. Bakula's character. The mini-series was pretty good but no new TV series came out of it.
Roy Thinnes has continued acting in movies and television since the Invaders. He has been in the 1990's revival of Dark Shadows, episodes of Touched By An Angel and other TV shows. He was in the movie A Beautiful Mind which won the Oscar for Best Picture.