Oh wow! I had completely forgotten about this show. I mean "completely".

Thank you for jarring my failing memory cells.

WSMNN, It's too bad it only lasted a short while (2 seasons, if that).
I think it was ahead of it's time, and the scripts were intelligently written IMHO. Probably not as action rooted as some other shows on TV at the time, and therefore didn't capture the attention of the masses.

I have never heard of it? Not suprising since i live in a country with no imagination! (Australia) and i say that because sci fi never survives for very long on prime time tv in this country. People are too busy watching police, hospital and lawyer shows to have any time for shows with imagination.

Oh that nonsense happens in America as well??

hmmm well then we should send all the 'mundanes' who like watching shows like 'days of our lives' over to one side of the country and all the other people who like watching interesting shows like Terminator 2 and startrek over to the other side so that there are no more mixed messages in the ratings!

Thanks for the tip,,, so if ever i move to America, i will remember to land in California!

If your ever planning to move to Australia, i recommend Brisbane Queensland. New South Wales where i live (Sydney) is a stingy, petty little safety obsessed state.

Brisbane (CA) has been pretty much been merged into the mega city at this point. All the little towns between San Francisco and San Jose all still technically exist, but they are really part of "The Bay Area" or "The Peninsula" if you want to specify what part of the bay area. I currently live in Mountain View (one of those towns, but still fairly well known) and I used to live in Burlingame (another one of those towns, but no one has ever heard of it) only a couple of miles south of Brisbane. Burlingame still has a lot of that 50's charm, but it's slowly going and being replaced with too many yuppy shops in it's downtown.

Now, having accidentally proved my membership in the old folks club by rambling about the good old days....I, sadly, don't remember this show!

Ha. You probably know exactly where I used to live. I was a block and a half off Burlingame ave. on Lorton. Although I'm only a bay area resident for the last twelve years or so, not a lifer like you or my wife. I have to say that putting in the Apple store down there really changed the feel of the Burlingame ave stretch. The building is fine, individually, but it's just too modern for the neighborhood. After it came in, a bunch of prada look alike stores seemed to open...The boom of the late nineties was the writing on the wall. It raised the rents too much for many of the local shops. Next time you are in Burlingame, Zeynos serves a killer dinner with great service. It's as good as any place in SF proper...And it's only a couple of years old, so you might not know it.

Well... they have finally landed!

The North American release is here and my season 1, 5 disc DVD set arrived last week.

Paramount has added some extra features not seen in the European release, namely the extended 60 min. version of the pilot "Beachhead" and episode intros by Roy Thinnes.

The interview with Mr. Thinnes sheds some light on the making of the tv series as well, even if they let him ramble on a bit at times, it's still worth listening to him reminisce about his experiences with veteran actors, writers and producers, etc.

I've watched about three episodes so far and I must say the image quality and sound are quite good, considering at the time of the original broadcast I had only viewed it on a 20" black & white set back in the day, and this is the first time I've seen it in colour.
In fact it's funny listening to the narrator announce each episode... "The Invaders... in color", but don't forget, this was 1967.
The DVD set is very spartan/bare bones with no scene selection for each episode, but hey... the price was right.

More of a series dealing heavily with paranoia (the Red Scare at the time) with a sci-fi sub plot, The Invaders didn't rely on very many special effects, just intelligent writing and good acting which IMO, makes it still watchable some 40 years later.