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The Invaders

Season 2, Episode 15, Aired 1/27/61

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An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.

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Rod Serling

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Agnes Moorehead

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Douglas Heyes

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A woman living alone in an isolated farm house gets an unwelcome visit from alien invaders.

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By meathead704, Oct 31, 2011 Report Abuse

This particular episode of The Twilight Zone goes to show that it is possible to create an excellent episode with very little dilouge. Agnes Morehead deliveres a phenomenal performance depite not saying a single word. This episode has all the elements that made The Twilight Zone possibly the greatest televison series ever. A great script, excellent acting and nail biting suspense. You will be hanging on the edge of your seat until the end and you will never see the ending coming. "The Invaders" is hands down the best episode of The Twilight Zone. One word: Excellent.moreless

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Little alien beings attack a poor silent lady in her country house.

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By dpevjen, Mar 12, 2011 Report Abuse

Of all the Twilight Zone episodes I watched as a kid, this is the one episode I remember the most. The poor lady being attacked by the little miniature devils. It was great!! Then in the end to find out the little devils were from an American spaceship. I wish I could say there was one program on television recently (1970's to now) that used so much imagination but I can't think of single one. Maybe the television executives need to turn over the creative side to the youth again like it was in the 1950's so there would be a reason to turn television back on again.moreless

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By FrankDK1995, Jul 08, 2007 Report Abuse

very weird and cool and freaky all at the same time. i was even kinda scared at some parts! its very weird at the end because she looks at the ship and it says us air force! it was the us and she was just a giant from another planet! that was the weirdest part of all! it was kinda like one of those eye of the beholder episodes because of the ending. (eye of the beholder is one of my favorite episodes ever) i realy like this one because you thought it was just a normal woman being tortured by these little tiny aliens from another planet but they were americans!moreless

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By GeorgeJobson, Nov 06, 2006 Report Abuse

This episode of "the Twlight Zone" is about a old lonely woman who is fighting for her life against tiny alliens onboard a tiny spacecraft. they might be small but they might be theatening, especially to the old woman. Seeing this tiny old man coming out of the spaceship is indeed scary. No matter the size of the spanceman or the spaceship, it can be terrorfying. "the Twlight Zone," rarely tackles science fiction episodes. they might as well leave it to "the Outer Limits." But this episode they must have. The life of the old woman hingles of what the spacecraft will do next.moreless

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A Twilight Zone Gem.

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By Dean67, Oct 21, 2005 Report Abuse

This episode about what appears to be a lonely, poor woman who is invaded by "aliens" is one of Agnes Moorehead's finest moments on screen.

And she doesn't utter a word.

The sheer terror she endures in trying to overcome these "aliens" is ultimately so convincing that even Moorehead had said that it had been one of her toughest roles.

The ending, although not necessarily that shocking of a twist considering the genre of the program, is none-the-less surprising and a perfect end to an episode of few words.moreless

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- NASA was not established until 1958, which is why the United States Air Force's logo was on the spaceship. Edit
- Included on volume 1 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. Edit
- The miniature spaceship prop was the same one used in the classic 1956 film Forbidden Planet. Edit
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- The Spaceman: Central Control...come in Central Control. Do you read me? Gresham is dead! Repeat, Gresham is dead! The ship's destroyed. Incredible race of giants here. Race of giants. No, Central Control. No counterattack. Repeat, no counterattack. Too much for us. Too powerful. Stay away. Gresham and I...we're finished! Finished! Stay away. Stay away... Edit
- (Closing Narration) Narrator: These are the invaders, the tiny beings from the tiny place called Earth, who would take the giant step across the sky to the question marks that sparkle and beckon from the vastness of the universe only to be imagined. The invaders, who found out that a one-way ticket to the stars beyond has the ultimate price tag. And we have just seen it entered in a ledger that covers all the transactions of the universe, a bill stamped 'paid in full,' and to be found, on file, in the Twilight Zone. Edit
- (Opening Narration) Narrator: This is one of the out-of-the-way places, the unvisited places, bleak, wasted, dying. This is a farmhouse, handmade, crude, a house without electricity or gas, a house untouched by progress. This is the woman who lives in the house, a woman who's been alone for many years, a strong, simple woman whose only problem up until this moment has been that of acquiring enough food to eat, a woman about to face terror which is even now coming at her from the Twilight Zone. Edit
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