Reply #23: The Invaders

[phaseolus]

I was in first grade when it had its run & it seriously creeped me out... or maybe Rod Serling's Night Gallery, which IMO was often just as brilliant as the original Twilight Zone but never seemed to have the same following. I haven't seen any episodes since the original run but I still remember many of them vividly - like John Astin as a dirty hippie dying & ending up in hell. Or the elderly woman with an amazing green thumb who plants her severed fingers before being murdered by an evil boarder...

Or most of all -- a British sitcom from the early 80s which is defying all of my attempts to research it -- it's about a retired right-wing Army Major who starts his own militia with the aim of overthrowing the British government. A brilliant satire of right-wingers in general. Best writing EVER of ANY television show I've ever seen...and I can't remember the title. Damn aging brain cells...