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Larry Cohen, the creator of The Invaders, has died aged 77.

Cohen was also responsible for It’s Alive and Q the Winged Serpent among other genre films, and penned the original sequel to Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (Return to Salem’s Lot).

“The major thing [The Invaders[] had going for it is the fact that we are all a little bit paranoid and that it’s easy to identify with somebody who is a single man fighting the world,” the show’s producer Alan A. Armer said in 2000 for ClassicTVhistory.com. “I mean, that’s what all real heroes are, if you look at the great myths and legends and the great stories that have been told.”

In 1988, he was honoured with the George Pal Memorial Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. His last work as director was on an episode of Masters of Horror.