The Invisible Man (1958 TV series) The Invisible Man (1958 TV series) The Invisible Man (later known as H.G. Wells' Invisible Man) is a British black-and-white science fiction/adventure/espionage television series that aired on ITV from September 1958 to July 1959. It was aired on CBS in the United States, running two seasons and totalling 26 half-hour episodes. The series was nominally based on the novel by H. G. Wells, one of four such television series. In this version, the deviation from the novel went as far as changing the main character's name from Dr. Griffin to Dr. Peter Brady who remained a sane man, not a
Invisible Man to project? Finally, why is it that so many of those who would tell us the meaning of Negro life never bother to learn how varied it really is?" Ellison's Invisible Man dovetails two movements, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. John Oliver Killens once denounced Invisible Man by saying: “The Negro people need Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man like we need a hole in the head or a stab in the back. ... It is a vicious distortion of Negro life." Ellison's influences include, among others, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot; Ellison spent some time tracking down