The Invaders (TV Series) The Betrayed (1967) User Reviews

David's not particularly adept at choosing girlfriends.

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 11 August 2021]

When the story begins, David is in Texas at some oil fields. He has traced the aliens to a strange hideout...a tanker car that is actually a transmitter. After breaking in, he manages to steal some computer storage tape...but he needs to find someone who can read it and understand it. But his task is made tougher by his new girlfriend...a lady who loves David...but not enough to be honest with him. What is that about?? Well, see the show.

It is funny that these really advanced aliens use a tape backup storage system for their computers, but back in 1967 many other types of storage media weren't even developed yet. Overall an other interesting episode...one that show David is best just staying single!

Average episode

[andrew-huggett · 5/10 · 25 November 2012]

Not an episode that particularly appealed to me (despite being written by Theodore Sturgeon); it was OK I suppose but I was a little disappointed with it. It does what it says on the tin – it is primarily concerned with betrayal caused by the aliens threatening the family of David Vincent's girl friend therefore she is forced to collude with them in telling them where a computer tape is hidden and what Vincent has found out about it - resulting in a young man's death and later her own. It has a good cast and is well acted. The alien communications centre hidden inside a rusty hulk of a railroad container reminds me of an episode of 'The X-Files'

See Laura Devon!

[lor_ · 3 September 2023]

The great science fiction novelist Theodore Sturgeon wrote the story for this segment of "The Invaders", one of his bread jobs that even included writing a novelization of a minor movie Western.

It's not as engrossing as the usual Paranoia-themed episodes, but more of a human interest story as Roy tries in vain to report on an actual UFO he's photographed landing and decipher a computer tape he's stolen from an alien installation.

Casting of the utterly beautiful blonde Laura Devon as his romantic interest is a wonderful chance to see this underrated actress in action -she epitomizes the look Hitchcock was popularizing in the '50s and '60s. I fell for her when she was a regular on the groundbreaking "The Richard Boone Show" anthology series, TV's finest repertory company show starring in constantly new roles the likes of Robert Blake, Jeanette Nolan and Bethel Leslie.

On this episode she's delightful as an offbeat femme fatale. The segment has rousing action to begin, and then provides tantalizing hints about the aliens as Roy continues on his difficult mission to expose them. And his discussion of how the aliens would first disrupt Earth's oil supply before invading is still topical, considering how earnest (except among diehard right-wingers) our energies are to move away from dependency on fossil fuels.