The Invaders (The Twilight Zone)
| "The Invaders" | |
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 15 |
| Directed by | Douglas Heyes |
| Written by | Richard Matheson |
| Featured music | Original score by Jerry Goldsmith |
| Production code | 173-3646 |
| Original air date | January 27, 1961 |
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"The Invaders" is episode 15 in season two, and 51st overall, of the 1959 American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode, which originally aired January 27, 1961[1] starred Agnes Moorehead, and was written by Richard Matheson, directed by Douglas Heyes,[2] and scored by Jerry Goldsmith.
Plot
An old woman (Agnes Moorehead) lives alone in a rustic cabin. She is dressed shabbily, and there are no modern conveniences in evidence. After hearing a strange noise above her kitchen roof, she is accosted by small intruders that come from a miniature flying saucer that has landed on her rooftop. Two tiny robotic figures, only about six inches high, emerge from the craft.
She battles them for some time, finally killing one and following the other back to the ship, which she proceeds to attack with a hatchet. From within the craft, she hears a voice speaking in English with an apparent American accent (voiced by Director Douglas Heyes). (Prior to this scene, the episode has no dialogue.[3]) The intruder is frantically warning other potential visitors that the planet is inhabited by giants and impossible to defeat. The woman finishes destroying the ship and then collapses, exhausted.
The camera pans to the markings on the side of the ship, which read U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1 – revealing that the "invaders" were human astronauts from Earth, and the "woman" in the small farmhouse belongs to a race of giant humanoids native to another planet.
See also
- "Third from the Sun", a Twilight Zone episode in which two families flee their planet on the verge of a nuclear war
- List of The Twilight Zone episodes
References
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External links
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