"Voices of Death" had a guy hearing things from his radio. "Frontiers of fear" had Jerry Stiller communicating with his typewriter. This show has Teri Keane (again, in another fine performance) receiving messages from space on her television set.

She and Joe Silver play a middle-aged married couple whose marriage is on shaky ground. No one's been cheating on the other, but their interests have drifted apart. He likes scifi tv shows, which she hates. She relentlessly follows her soap operas. While alone at their home waiting for "Five in the family" her television starts getting transmissions from an alien couple who warn of an "Independence day" style invasion from a giant mothership. (I somehow get the feeling this one was inspired more by "Close encounters of the third kind", its contemporary of a year or two earlier.) They say they are transmitting at their own peril, and say the only chance earth people have against the aliens is if they don't fight back.

Keane uneasily brushes off the first such encounter as a network glitch of some sort, but on further ones becomes unnerved to the point of near-hysteria. Silver and Earl Hammond (as the psychiatrist husband of Keane's character's best friend) do good work as well, as does Keane's best friend (the ending's clipped so I didn't get the actress' name), all three mundanely to cheerfully going on with their everyday lives oblivious to the (apparent) intruders headed their planet's way...

First time I ever heard E.G. Marshall do his outro on the third act without a music bed. A different type of ending for this one. 