The Invaders (The Twilight Zone)

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'The Twilight Zone'' original series Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)''' Fall 1960 – Summer 1961 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: King Nine Will Not Return The Man in the Bottle Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room A Thing About Machines The Howling Man The Eye of the Beholder Nick of Time The Lateness of the Hour The Trouble With Templeton A Most Unusual Camera Night of the Meek Dust Back There The Whole Truth The Invaders A Penny for Your Thoughts Twenty-Two The Odyssey of Flight 33 Mr. Dingle, the Strong Static The Prime Mover Long Distance Call A Hundred Yards Over the Rim The Rip Van Winkle Caper The Silence Shadow Play The Mind and the Matter Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? The Obsolete Man

Cast

• Woman: Agnes Moorehead
• Invader (voice): Douglas Heyes

Synopsis

An old woman is accosted by small intruders that come from a miniature flying saucer that has landed on her house. She battles them for many minutes, finally killing one and following the other back to his ship. There she hears one of the space suited intruders send off a desperate warning to other potential invaders that the people from the planet are giants and very difficult to defeat, after which she destroys the ship with an axe. The camera pans and we see the side of the ship display U.S. Air Force Space Probe No-1.

Trivia

• The original closing narration for this episode (as it appears in Richard Matheson's teleplay) reads: “This is one of the out-of-the-way places; until now, one of the unvisited places in our solar system—the planet Mars. Bleak. Wasted. Dying. But not quite dead yet.”
• This is the only episode with only one person and no spoken dialogue at all; this is primarily performed in pantomime, as demonstrated by Agnes Moorehead.
• The small ship is one of the miniatures of the saucer shaped United Planets Cruiser, used in the MGM film Forbidden Planet.

Reference

• Zicree, Marc Scott. The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

External link

• [TV.com episode page]

Twilight Zone links

• The Twilight Zone
• Episode List
• Season 2

 

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