and mid summer of 2019. Very popular in Spain, it inspired the name of a weekly street market in Albacete, still called Los Invasores as the market stalls invade the streets. Despite its alleged allegory of the Cold War, the series also made it across the Iron Curtain into Hungary, where it was dubbed and aired under the title "Attack from an Alien Planet" (Hungarian: Támadás egy idegen bolygóról) between July 4 and September 5, 1980. The whole series was never shown, with only the black and white versions of the following 9 episodes making it to the TV screens after prime time on Friday nights, in the sequence indicated (Season/Episode): 1/1, 1/11, 1/13, 2/12, 2/14, 1/4, 2/7, 2/6, 2/21. These 9 episodes were described in the media as the complete series, with no reference made to the existence of any other episodes. Newspaper reviews tended to be critical of the show being "more fiction than science". It was nevertheless well received by viewers, as attested by references to it in popular culture at the time. Romanian state TV also broadcast both seasons sometime around 1970. In other media Books Ten books based on the television series have been published. Army of the Undead by Rafe Bernard (US, Pyramid Books, 1967) – the same story as Halo Highway The Autumn Accelerator by Peter Leslie (UK, Corgi (a Transworld imprint), 1967) Enemies from Beyond by Keith Laumer (US, Pyramid Books, 1967) Halo Highway by Rafe Bernard (UK, Corgi, 1967) – the same story as Army of the Undead The Invaders by Keith Laumer (US, Pyramid Books, 1967) Meteor Men by Keith Laumer (writing as Anthony Le Baron) (UK, Corgi, 1967) Dam of Death by Jack Pearl (US, Whitman (a Western Publishing imprint), 1967) The Invaders: Alien Missile Threat by Paul S. Newman (US, a Big Little Book from Whitman, 1967) Night of the Trilobites by Peter Leslie (UK, Corgi, 1969) The Invaders by Jim Rosin (US, Autumn Road Company, 2010) Comics Gold Key Comics published four issues of an Invaders comic book based upon the series in 1967–1968, years before Marvel Comics published their own, unrelated Invaders superhero series. Whitman Publishing published a Big Little Book of the show titled Alien Missile Threat in 1967 as part of its 2000 Series (#2012). In popular culture The struggles of David Vincent are referenced in the Frank Black song "Bad, Wicked World" (on