trivia help

“We've stumped ourselves! The folks in the office often play the "do you remember" around the coffee urn. For the life of us, we can't recall the TV program where the aliens were pursuing this guy, the only person to know the aliens had landed. Aliens were distinguishable in that they only had 4 fingers, the fifth being a prothesis. He'd run all over the place trying to get away. He'd try to convince a small town sheriff about the invasion, the sheriff would offer to call the Air Force but when he picked up the phone, his pinkie was "extended." Ahhhhhhh, he's on the run again.
Anyone recall the series? It was on 1 or 2 seasons, late sixties or early 70s.”

“By me...”

“OK, was it this? The Invaders”

“I was thinking “War of the Worlds the Series” but that was mid-80’s.”

“We have a winner! Bit, please report to the "you know you are old" thread to collect you r prize.

synopsis...
The Invaders


1 9 6 7 - 1 9 6 8 (USA)
43 x 60 minute episodes

Produced by Quinn
Martin, (the man who
brought us that other
cult, running man
classic, The Fugitive),
The Invaders is the
tale of David Vincent, a
man alone, battling
aliens with human faces.

In the pilot episode, Vincent accidentally stumbles
across a "regeneration center" where the human
forms used by the aliens are recharged every ten
hours. From then on the series revolves around
his one man crusade against the invaders and him
trying to convince others of their existence. His
quest proves difficult because it is not easy to spot
whether someone is human or alien.

Tell-tale signs are stiff little fingers due to a defect
in the bone structure, a lack of a heartbeat or no
bones showing up on an x-ray. One of the biggest
signs that someone was an alien was if you hit
them hard enough or killed them, they had a habit
of evaporating leaving nothing but a few ashes.

So why didn't Vincent
just carry around a big
stick and whack
everyone he met? If
they evaporated they
were aliens, if they just
fell down they were
okay.

Throughout the series,
the audience was
treated to many a
fiendish alien plot to
control the Earth.
These ranged from
bribery and corruption, through to mind control due
to sleep deprivation and even carnivorous
butterflies (I kid you not!). The show ran for a mere
two seasons before its untimely cancellation.”