The Invaders (TV)

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.The Invaders - Wikipedia 
Season One featured David Vincent's almost solo quest to expose the aliens, and Season 2 introduced a group of "true believers" who attempted to assist him in this quest.
At the same time the television series was on air, a series of tie-in books was also released.The Invaders - Books
There were plans in 1980 to revive the series: 
In 1995, another 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.The Invaders (miniseries) - Wikipedia
== Themes and Fan Interpretation==
Episodes followed the same TV formula as "The Fugitive", with a story of the week revolving around a chase ("Each episode is a study in status..."Grant Stacey, Crosscuts: Brief DVD Review: The Invaders Season One (1967), The North American Review, Vol. 298, No. 1 (Winter 2013), p. 46. (JSTOR) and featuring the protagonist versus an often unknown (alien) or openly sceptical/hostile human antagonist. However, some of its mystery and nuance might be found on another level of allegorical/metaphoric storytelling:
The series contained a heightened sense of mystery and ominous foreshadowing ("The series has a high-octane rush of paranoia") which led one French fan to later jocularly recall that it led him, as a child, to pretend to search for signs of "extra-terrestriality" in his best friend's parents.Georges-Claude Guilbert, RFEA: Les Envahisseurs, Revue française d'études américaines, No. 100, Florilège (MAI 2004), pp. 72-73 (p. 72). (JSTOR).
This air of mystery might be seen to anticipate the same in the British series UFO (1969-1970) which also featured a covert alien invasion of Earth.
== 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)The Invaders - Fan Fiction - Lisa Sargent.
The series also garnered international fan base, with fanfic (see below) and websites in FrenchSérie télé les Envahisseurs and PortugueseThe Invaders - Brazil and comics published in Brazil as well as the USThe Invaders - Comics.
=== 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"The Invaders - IMDB. 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 ===
* The Invaders - Fanart
=== Vids ===
* The Invaders-I.D. by Crusoe89 (2022) Fanvid for 'The Invaders'; Music: 'I.D.' by Kasabian
=== Zines ===
* The Council Log
=== Mailing Lists ===
* The Time Tunnel Fan Forum
=== Websites ===
* The Invaders (fansite) (2000-2016?)
* X-OVER: The Ultimate X-Files Crossover Archive 
* Série télé les Envahisseurs (2011-ongoing - French-language)
=== Archives ===
* Archive of Our Own - The Invaders
* Fanfiction.net - The Invaders
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia article on The Invaders
* IMDB article on The Invaders
* TV Tropes page on The Invaders
== References ==
Category:Fandoms by Source Text
Category:Live-action Television