This show is ripe for a parody. Did anyone trip on how the earth looks in
the beginning? Baja and Mexico looks about twice the size of the US. I have
watched two episodes so far. If you're an alien species with advanced
technology why would you need to get a guy drunk and make it look like he
was drunk driving to discredit him?
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Mark Ellis <jaxl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Just about every evening, my TV watching ritual starts with Cheyenne,
> segues into The Rifleman then Have Gun-Will Travel and finally Gunsmoke.
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> *MarkEllisInk.com
> Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis*
>
> --- On *Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>* wrote:
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> From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 6:15 PM
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>
> And back on those guest stars, what a group! So far I've seen the
> following:
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> Suzanne Pleshette... Michael Rennie ("The Day The Earth Stood Still", The
> Keeper from Lost in Space)...Roddy McDowall...James Whitmore (the actor who
> reminds me of Spencer Tracy)...the dude who played Spock's rival Stonn on
> the Star Trek OS ep "Amok Time"...a character actor I don't know, but who
> played a three-eyed alien at a diner in an ep of "The Twilight Zone"...
> Susan Oliver (Captain Pike's love interest from the first Star Trek pilot,
> "The Cage")...an older British actor whose name espaces me, but who I
> remember as one of the original council of leaders on the original
> Battlestar Galactica--
>
> great stuff. I miss the days when television was loaded with cop, cowboy,
> western, suspense, and scifi shows, and you saw the same actors showing up
> all over them in various roles. most of the folks I've seen appeared on at
> least Twilight Zone or Outer Limits back in the day, not to mention
> Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, Bonanza, Police Story, or The Six Million Dollar
> Man. I'm seeing a bit more of that guide of journeyman work for character
> actors on some of the TNT, USA, SyFy, and A&E shows like "Burn Notice",
> "Eureka", etc. Lots of actors from the cableverse are appearing on each
> others' shows.
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Johnson" <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 4:47:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
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> Actually, watching the show again, i find it to be fairly sophisticated
> and well done, as I said earlier. This was scifi done the way it was in the
> old days: where many of the showrunners/ writers/actors had decidedly non
> scifi backgrounds, and simply brought the standards of action and drama
> they'd learned from cop shows and Westerns to the scifi genre. It's why I
> love the early eps of the original Star Trek: they're very dramatic, full of
> good acting and deep themes.
> And like I said, I'm enjoying this forty-year old "Invaders" more than
> ninety percent of the SyFy Originals dreck we get each weekend!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Ellis" <jaxl...@yahoo. com>
> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:59:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
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> It's interesting that "UFOlogy" was in its infancy at that point, but
> the writers had obviously done their research, particularly with the Men In
> Black.
>
> *MarkEllisInk. com
> Site of best-selling author Mark (James Axler) Ellis*
>
> --- On *Mon, 1/18/10, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>* wrote:
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>
> From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 12:51 PM
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> Agreed, I watched it religiously when I was a kid. I dig the vibrant
> colors of the sets, and man, i've lost count of all the familiar guest
> stars! Still, it had a good core of plot and acting, so it's aged well.
> This goes back to my earlier questions: why doesn't SyFy show more stuff
> like this? I had no clue they even owned rights to this show. i'm always
> looking for Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the
> Sea, etc., and instead I get SyFy Originals crap and Ghost Hunters.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo. com>
> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:53:06 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "The Invaders" on SyFY
>
>
> I love, love, LOVED this show when it was on (but then I was a sucker for
> the whole Quinn Martin ouevre: "Twelve O'Clock High," "The Fugitive").
> Watching it now is kind of like watching old "Wild, Wild West" episodes
> (fake-looking sets, bad wigs, extremely fake-looking fight scenes and
> strident, god-awful music!). The aliens did die "cool," though.
>
> ~rave!
>
> --- In scifino...@yahoogro
> ups.com<http://us.mc375.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > Well, this is odd. SyFy is running an all day marathon of the classic TV
> series "The Invaders". This was the original "aliens walk among us plotting
> to take over the world" show, the forerunner for aspects of everything from
> "The X-Files" (on which the lead had a part, I believe), to "Third Wave".
> This was a classic '60s scifi series, with the look and great guest stars
> that distinguished shows of that era. So far I've seen Roddie McDowall and
> Suzanne Pleshette. Check it out.
> >
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