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Fantastic David! Just wonderful. Where was this? Could I post this, either as a link &/or the video of the performance, to the Marx Brothers Fan Club FB group?

The scenes where aliens vapourise is from the episode 'The Mutation', which featured Suzanne Pleshette playing a good alien & being killed from her own kind.

I remember watching this show whenI was a kid. Always fascinated by the vaporizing alien death scenes. Now I know how it was done. Thanks. :-)

Never seen the show, but it looks neat. I remember doing any kind of optical was a hassle when I started out in this industry...so I don't regret going into computer graphics research early on. The one thing I don't miss from back then; doing optical compositing.

Where's number 10 on your list???

That was so beautiful!

The affects of the aliens disintegrating was very impressive especially the last scene with the split screen for it works so well and I think the reason the chickens suddenly appear in the scene is that there must have been a UFO somewhere out there in space that had been examining the chickens on board the space ship and decided to beam the chickens back to where they came from just as the alien is killed 😃.

I always wondered why there were not more "immolations" in the shows, never thought about the cost of each one. LOVE this show, of course I have the total set on DVD.

That of the chickens was a time error, and could happened even nowadays

I really loved the soundtrack!!! Dominic Frontiere was one of the best in its class!!

This process seems to take weeks to complete

One of my fave shows: just got the entire series on DVD a couple of weeks ago, finally, and only thing I wish is they had with multiple audio, with its classic translation to Spanish made in Mexico at the time

Must be a huge embarrassment for the poor aliens, come half way across the galaxy with super duper ray guns and then get killed by a primitive caveman with a gun powder burning fire stick! Loved the series though!

Hadn't thought about this show in 40 years, nothing wrong with my little finger.

The Invaders had thee best disintegration in sci-fi! I just finished rewatching both seasons and the way the aliens and inanimate objects dissolve are my favourite and more logical than anything at the time and since then!

Chickens are the best

Yes, I also remember the series very vaguely, it ran in Germany in the 70s under the title "Invasion von der Wega"

I started shooting film back in the 50's. Today, when clarity and precision photography is required, I do it via digital technology. When I'm being "artistic" I often use film.

Did anyone bother to explain to the chickens what was expected of them during the filming?

My recollection is that it showed in Australia on Monday night, when my parents were out. I would be terrified!

I met Roy and Lynn Loring in Monterey circa 1970 when he was filming that awful mini series "The Psychiatrist". I was at the then Holiday Inn Motel [newly constructed], and I was essentially just a beach bum kid. Jerry Freeman introduced me to him and he spoke to me like I was actually somebody such was the charm and charisma of Roy. Quite a gentleman. We also share the same birthday. Hope you are still kicking on Roy. In my view, Hollywood never [outside of the Invaders] gave you a role that showed your great talent. Brotherly love from Australia...

Upon the first notes of the theme, it was fingers in ears and running terrified from the room. Scary, scary stuff.

Those darned photobombing 15 seconds of fame chickens !

Not only did they miss the movement in the last example, the rifleman's shadow doesn't move while he's shooting then it does after the immolation effect finishes.

Not only was Mr.Thinnes in this classic TV show which I love (great music too), but he was married to Lynn Loring, one of the most beautiful, most sexy women to ever appear on television, who later became a highly successful TV executive.

I loved THE INVADERS as a kid as well. Excellent TV sci-fi

I always wondered how they did it. Thanks

I loved this series. Can you stream the invaders somewhere?

"No one really knows what they did." Maybe it was space alien technology.

I've seen this series twice. Tons of special guest stars.

Great show! But I remembered another goof when I watched it years ago, which was also revealed in one of the dissolve scenes: What happens to the alien's ray gun when he drops it before disintegrating? Seems like the gun wouldn't burn up and would provide some nice evidence for Vincent to take to the authorities!

Star Trek hand phasers set from "stun" to "kill." Turned glowing red and "dis-integrated".

I loved this show too !!!😊😊

Great show, thanks for posting.

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This was one of my favorite 1960’s shows. Loved Roy Thinnes.

Great show as a kid. This was real TV

I watched this video bc I had a specific memory that Batman and the Invaders premiered on the same night and time slot. The memory was that I watched the Invaders bc I knew Batman was going to be stupid but the next day at school I discovered I was the only boy who had not watched Batman. So I did some research. Wikipedia has every season of TV in separate articles. My 60+ year old memory was wrong. On the evening of 12 January 1966 instead of the Batman premiere I watched the premiere of Lost In Space. The Invaders did not premiere until a year later on 10 Jan 1967. Wow. I have recalled that memory quite often as Batman overcame the incredibly stupid TV series to become a huge revenue generator.

I used to watch this show all the time as a kid. I never forgot the pinky sticking out as the way to spot the aliens.

One other mistake in that last scene shown besides the Chickens moving is that the Alien when he gets shot, throws his own weapon away which lands on the ground. Exactly the kind of evidence that David Vincent was trying to find.......they usually go out of the way to have the weapons or devices dissolve too with it in the hands of the alien. Some scenes even have Aliens trying to grab the evidence just before they die so that they leave nothing behind.

Thanks for posting this! I've seen both seasons of "The Invaders" and never realised how much work went into the disintegration scenes. Might have to indulge in the DVDs.

Bawk!

This looks like a somewhat better version of what happened when things got vaporized by the Martian ray gun in "War of the Worlds"

The chickens were not paid as a result of them ruining the shot. They sued unsuccessfully through their union, AFTRA (American Feathered Television and Radio Artists) and ended up working the craft services table - as entrees.

I loved this show when I was young. The immolation was a cool effect. Even by today’s standards, this is still a cool effect given the technology available at the time. Roy Thinnes was a cool actor. 86 years old! It’s a show that could be rebooted today with good scripts and a story arc.

Interesting...

I loved it. My brother built the model of the flying saucer.

adding this comment .... what was great part of the show was how close he got to exposing the invasion but was thwarted at the last minute when the evidence burnt up.

I was hooked on this show . Would be great to see it re-imagined using today's FX . The concept of Aliens and UAPs are current again in the media. The idea that if an alien is killed or unmasked they would vaporise without leaving any trace (equipment, spaceships and debris as well) fits with our many sightings and reported encounters but no hard evidence. I remember that the aliens could induce heart attacks on anyone who threatened to expose them by placing a disc on their necks... cool. Yes, please make a new series of the invaders. Especially since I now know what a deserted diner is., I didn't at the time the series first aired.

That clearly wasn't union-poultry.