The Invaders (The Twilight Zone)
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“The Invaders” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
[edit] Details
- Episode number: 51
- Season: 2
- Original air date: January 27, 1961
- Writer: Richard Matheson
- Director: Douglas Heyes
- Producer: Buck Houghton
- Music: Original score by Jerry Goldsmith
[edit] Cast
- Woman: Agnes Moorehead
- Invader (voice): Douglas Heyes
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 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.
[edit] Reference
- Zicree, Marc Scott. The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
