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The Invaders - The Saucer (1967)
A woman wears a St. Gaudens $20 gold coin to a close encounter
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This episode of the television program "The Invaders" television program features a woman
who wears a gold chain with a St. Gaudens $20 gold coin in a bezel holder throughout the episode.
"The Invaders" was a science-fiction series which ran on the ABC Television network from 1967 to 1968.
David Vincent is a military veteran and professional architect who one night witnesses the landing
of an alien spaceship or "flying saucer" and discovers that extraterrestrials disguised as humans
have been living on Earth for some time to prepare for an invasion and conquest.
David makes it his life's mission to disrupt the invaders' plans and expose their activities.
This episode is titled "Saucer" and was first broadcast on September 12, 1967.
A group of people in the Utah desert encounter a flying saucer and it's unpleasant passengers.
1. Program title
The program begins with John Carter, an artist living in the Utah desert, taking policemen to
a place where he claims to have seen and photographed a flying saucer landing.
The police find nothing and ask John not to call them again.
Then a prologue is shown which shows a spaceship passing the Moon headed towards Earth while
an announcer delivers the prologue.
2. Passing the Moon
Then...
3. Headed to Earth
Each episode began with a flying saucer headed to Earth while an announcer proclaimed:
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet.
Their destination: the Earth.
Their purpose: to make it their world.
David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road,
looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner,
and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey.
It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy.
Now David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form.
Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
David Vincent, driving late at night and lost, stops his car to rest.
4. David Vincent sees something
What is it?
5. Flying saucer landing
In previous episodes David has learned of their plan to take over the Earth, that they
use short-lived disguises as humans which require frequent visits to "regeneration chambers",
that when they die their human bodies turn red and incinerate leaving no trace, and that they are
unpleasant to be around.
This Episode:
David hears about the sighting, arrives in the area by car, and asks John to take him to the site.
John claims that the saucer arrives early in the morning and shows David photographs.
6. John shows David photographs
One photograph is shown again but larger.
7. A photograph
The photograph is somewhat blurred but that is to be expected.
Separately, Annie Rhodes and Robert Morrison are flying a small airplane.
Annie is beautiful and greedy and Robert has promised her lots of money.
Robert works as a computer engineer for a large company and claims to be carrying
software plans worth $250,000 to a foreign country.
Annie always wears a gold chain with a bezel holder and a St. Gaudens $20 gold coin.
8. Annie and Robert on small airplane
Annie plays with her medal.
9. Annie wearing her medal
A better look at Annie's medal.
10. Annie's medal views
Four views of the medal from scenes throughout the episode.
Annie and George argue alot about her need for money and one time she tells him:
Well, maybe if all your father had left you was a $20 gold piece and a bag full of good wishes,
It'd mean the same to you.
Meanwhile John and David wait for the appearance.
11. John and David watching
Their patience is rewarded.
12. Flying saucer landing
The saucer arrives and somehow disrupts Robert's airplane engine forcing the plane to land.
Then the saucer lets out some passengers.
13. Passengers leaving
Most of the aliens ride off in a truck but a couple remain, spot David and John, and a gunfight ensues.
14. David takes a shot
He is holding what looks like a police pistol (John has a shotgun).
15. An alien self-destructs
The aliens do not want to leave any bodies laying around for scientists to study.
The gunfight continues and an alien has brought a ray gun.
16. Alien fires his ray gun
The ray gun sets a tree on fire.
17. Tree on fire
The last alien remaining is killed leaving the saucer unguarded.
18. John and David in the saucer
David takes photographs and souvenirs to show investigators.
John leaves in his car to drive to the town and get the police.
19. David takes a piece
Annie and Robert arrive at the site and Robert enters the saucer.
Robert is impressed with the technology while waits outside where she is promptly grabbed
by another group of aliens.
John returns with a policeman in his car and one alien fires his ray gun at the car.
20. Alien fires ray gun
The car explodes and burns up.
21. Car burns up
A group of aliens are holding Annie.
22. Aliens holding Annie
The aliens trade Annie for the saucer and the photographs.
23. The saucer leaves
Annie is left with some injuries and Robert comforts her.
He also tells her that he never stole any company papers.
24. Robert and Annie together
Cast, Directors, Writers:
Roy Thinnes as David Vincent
Dabney Coleman as John Carter
Charles Drake as Robert Morrison
Anne Francis as Annie Rhodes
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writers: Dan Ullman, Larry Cohen
Dabney Coleman as John Carter
Charles Drake as Robert Morrison
Anne Francis as Annie Rhodes
Writers: Dan Ullman, Larry Cohen
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