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The Invaders (The Twilight Zone) - Definition and Overview
The Twilight Zone original series
season two
Fall 1960 – Summer 1961
List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes:
  1. King Nine Will Not Return
  2. The Man in the Bottle
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
  4. A Thing About Machines
  5. The Howling Man
  6. The Eye of the Beholder
  7. Nick of Time
  8. The Lateness of the Hour
  9. The Trouble With Templeton
  10. A Most Unusual Camera
  11. Night of the Meek
  12. Dust
  13. Back There
  14. The Whole Truth
  15. The Invaders
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
  17. Twenty-Two
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
  20. Static
  21. The Prime Mover
  22. Long Distance Call
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
  25. The Silence
  26. Shadow Play
  27. The Mind and the Matter
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
  29. The Obsolete Man

The Invaders is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Contents
1 Details
2 Cast
3 Synopsis
4 Themes
5 Trivia
6 References

Details

Episode number: 51

Season: 2

Original airdate: January 27, 1961

Writer: Richard Matheson

Director: Douglas Heyes

Music: original score by Jerry Goldsmith

Cast

Woman: Agnes Moorehead

Invaders: Douglas Heyes

Synopsis

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An old woman is accosted by small intruders that come from a flying saucer which 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 him send off a desperate warning to other potential invaders, after which she destroys the ship with an axe. A close up on the side of the ship reveals a decal that reads "U.S. Air Force".

Themes

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

By fooling the audience into cheering for what later turns out to be a monstrous, giant alien Matheson may be trying to communicate that there is always two sides to each battle and that one should not simply root for their race, or country, or species in every conflict. A similar theme is addressed in People Are Alike All Over.

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."

References

  • Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

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