That was the point Rave and I were making. "The Invaders" was shot with the same sensibility, music, structure, plotting, even showrunners and actors, that you'd get from those 60's and 70's cop shows. That gave it a realism you wouldn't necessarily get in a scifi show like that all the time, especially back then. If you look at the Irwin Allen fare from those days (TIme Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), and the Quinn Martin productions (Mannix, Cannon, The Fugitive, etc.), there are incredible similarities of feeling between the genre shows.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:17:03 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The Invaders marathon on Siffy today I kind of enjoyed watching the Invaders. It was interesting to see a scifi show done with the same style as the Streets of San Francisco. :) OOooo! I just had an interesting thought. What if they did a scifi show in the style of Law and Order? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Martin Baxter < [email protected] > wrote: I can't really take marathons of shows either, Tracey, not even Doctor Who. I did have to tune out of "The Invaders" a couple of times, for my own sanity. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:18:52 -0800 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] The Invaders marathon on Siffy today I enjoyed the last marathon I saw a few years ago, but I enjoyed it more for the nostalgia. I’m not sure if I would watch it all the time like same the twilight zone. Same thing with time tunnel. I watch it every once in a while , (they had it in Mexico, but I do not think I would go for it on a regular basis From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:11 PM To: SciFiNoir2 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] The Invaders marathon on Siffy today Tracey, I still do. The isolation and loneliness that Vincent had to be living with as he went, never fully knowing who he could trust. One ep this morn starred Suzanne Pleshette as a woman whom Vincent fell for (though he never betrayed the emotion, beyond his eyes), who was a quisling for the aliens. When he figured out that she'd betrayed him, he was gutshot. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:03:32 -0800 Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] The Invaders marathon on Siffy today I used to love that show. From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Martin Baxter Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:53 AM To: SciFiNoir2 Subject: [scifinoir2] The Invaders marathon on Siffy today Just fell across it. It's the original, with Roy Thinnes. IMO, worth a bit of time for the catch. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
