The Big Pull (1962) is a BBC science-fiction series concerning an alien invasion of Earth.
Earth came under attack by an invisible force, which took over humans in pairs; one disappears, one dies.
The hero, Sir Robert Nailer, realised this trend when he was following a van sporting the advertisement for a typewriter which read, "Twice the output in half the time".
Again, unusually for the genre, the series ends with widespread panic as it is realised that every effort has failed, the scientists are dead, that the whole population of the Earth will be gone within hours, and there is nothing that can be done.
The series ran over six episodes, during the time that the first ventures into space by Russian and American astronauts were taking place.