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    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 23 05:21:32 2022
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    One of the ways David Vincent could tell
    a humanoid was actuallly one of the aliens
    was that they had a telltale misconfigured finger

    A couple of months ago he was getting
    friendly with the obligatory hot gal, and
    it turned out she was... an alien.

    But her fingers were perfect.

    She said something to him like "sorry,
    Mr. Vincent, but sometimes we get it right."

    Anyone recall this scene and which
    episode it was in?

    Thanks muchly


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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to Rhino on Sun Jan 23 05:49:31 2022
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    On 2022-01-23 5:30 AM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2022-01-23 1:44 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    One of the ways David Vincent could tell
    a humanoid was actuallly one of the aliens
    was that they had a telltale misconfigured finger

    A couple of months ago he was getting
    friendly with the obligatory hot gal, and
    it turned out she was... an alien.

    But her fingers were perfect.

    She said something to him like "sorry,
    Mr. Vincent, but sometimes we get it right."

    Anyone recall this scene and which
    episode it was in?

    Thanks muchly

    “Some of us learn. We’re always learning.”

    I know exactly what you’re talking about.
    It’s the Pilot episode. BEACHHEAD. Obviously season one, some sources
    call
    it episode zero, some call it episode one.
    The alieness in question is the delectable Diane Baker.

    http://classictvhistory.com/images/Invaders%20Beachhead.jpg

    It’s hard to give you a timestamp because there are different length cuts >> of the pilot. But I knew right where it was so I found a copy on YouTube
    and dead reckoned to it.

    39 minutes and 30 seconds

    https://youtu.be/gqMdqzf6pTI

    That's a very odd length for a pilot in those days. After all, there
    weren't nearly as many commercials then. It might make sense if it was
    one of the tiny handful of 45 minute shows, like The New People, from
    roughly the same era but I don't remember The Invaders being 45 minutes....

    Strangely enough, when I actually clicked on the link, it said 48
    minutes and 55 seconds which is far more reasonable. Beats me why you
    said it was 39:30....

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  • From Rhino@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 23 05:30:09 2022
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    On 2022-01-23 1:44 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    One of the ways David Vincent could tell
    a humanoid was actuallly one of the aliens
    was that they had a telltale misconfigured finger

    A couple of months ago he was getting
    friendly with the obligatory hot gal, and
    it turned out she was... an alien.

    But her fingers were perfect.

    She said something to him like "sorry,
    Mr. Vincent, but sometimes we get it right."

    Anyone recall this scene and which
    episode it was in?

    Thanks muchly

    “Some of us learn. We’re always learning.”

    I know exactly what you’re talking about.
    It’s the Pilot episode. BEACHHEAD. Obviously season one, some sources call it episode zero, some call it episode one.
    The alieness in question is the delectable Diane Baker.

    http://classictvhistory.com/images/Invaders%20Beachhead.jpg

    It’s hard to give you a timestamp because there are different length cuts of the pilot. But I knew right where it was so I found a copy on YouTube
    and dead reckoned to it.

    39 minutes and 30 seconds

    https://youtu.be/gqMdqzf6pTI

    That's a very odd length for a pilot in those days. After all, there
    weren't nearly as many commercials then. It might make sense if it was
    one of the tiny handful of 45 minute shows, like The New People, from
    roughly the same era but I don't remember The Invaders being 45 minutes....

    _____________________________________________________
    Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
    dannyb@panix.com
    [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]






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