The Galaxy Invader story
An alien is pursued by some locals of a rural community after its spaceship crash-lands in the area.
14 total · 4 major · 10 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | A green alien crash-landed in the vicinity of a rural community and was pursued by some of the locals there. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | The high school teacher Dr. William Tracy had an interest in UFOs and helped his former student David get to the bottom of David's UFO sighting, which was dismissed in the press as a meteor - in fact it was a crashed alien spacecraft. |
| greed for riches | major | A band of locals led by the rogue Frank Custer plotted to get filthy rich by capturing the alien and selling it to the highest bidder. |
| yokel stereotype | major | The Montague's exemplified a stereotypical unsophisticated rural family: simple folk, spoke in a rural dialect, had a slovenly drunk for a father, and so on. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | The Montague family was totally dysfunctional in large part because the father Joe was an angry, domineering drunk of a man. Note that various family members commented about his heavy drinking. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Carol and Michael. |
| brother and sister | minor | J.J. and Carol Montague. |
| disapproving parent | minor | Joe so disapproved of his 25 year old daughter Carol dating Michael that he chased her around with a gun over it. |
| father and daughter | minor | Carol loathed her drunken, domineering father Joe. |
| father and son | minor | Joe Montague and his adult, live at home son J.J. Montague. |