The Invaders
Doomsday Minus One
TV Flash files “Doomsday Minus One” as a desk essential hour — The Invaders (1967–1968) on ABC, season 1, episode 8, aired 1967-02-28, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 8 of 43 in the The Invaders guide, hour 8 of 17 in season 1. It aired 1967-02-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Nightmare” (S01E07). Next is “Quantity: Unknown” (S01E09).
Essential hour: “Doomsday Minus One”. Doomsday Minus One — early countdown title as UFO dread, disappearing corpses already the weekly tell.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Vincent is summoned to an army base where he uncovers a conspiracy concerning an Invader plot to hijack a nuclear weapon test and kill millions of innocents.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Doomsday Minus One sit in the The Invaders guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 8 of 43 — hour 8 of 17 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did The Invaders S01E08 air?
Doomsday Minus One aired 1967-02-28 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Vincent alone against the occupation — Thinnes, business-suit aliens, hunt structure — is the paranoid contract. Start at the beginning of the short run if you want the isolation intact.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Invaders is Quinn Martin's alien-occupation nightmare in a business suit: Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent, the only man who knows they are here, chasing disappearing corpses and crooked little fingers. It borrows The Fugitive's hunt structure and loads it with UFO dread. Two seasons of paranoid sci-fi that treat suburbia as camouflage — appointment fear, not camp saucers.
Two seasons. **Forty-three episodes.** That is the whole window, and it was enough to mint a cult classic of 1960s alien-invasion television. The Invaders is Quinn Martin's occupation nightmare in a business suit: Roy Thinnes as architect David Vincent, the only man who knows they are here, chasing disappearing corpses and crooked little fingers. Larry Cohen's ABC series (1967–1968) borrows The Fugitive's hunt structure and loads it with UFO dread. Kent Smith's Edgar Scoville joins the later fight. Rex will toast…
Filed against
- Roy Thinnes as David Vincent
Roy Thinnes's David Vincent chased The Invaders as Quinn Martin's alien-occupation nightmare in a business suit — the only man who knows they are here, disappearing corpses, crooked little fingers. Fugitive hunt structure loaded with UFO…
- Kent Smith as Edgar Scoville
Kent Smith's Edgar Scoville joined The Invaders' business-suit nightmare — Quinn Martin's alien-occupation hunt, Roy Thinnes as the architect who knows they are here, disappearing corpses and crooked little fingers. UFO dread on a…