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.
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.