Dr. Vance
Background
Dr. J.R. Vance works at NASA in Houston, Texas.
During the events of The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) played by Steve Brodie
Rider walks into Dr. Vance's office and tells him odd stuff is happening in northern Wisconsin. Dr. Vance recalls that there was a foul up on a B-52 in the same area. Rider then tells Dr. Vance to go to Wisconsin. Rider calls Dr. Vance in the morning and tells him some seaman saw a plane crash, but he doesn't know if it was the B-52. He arrives to meet Dr. Jenny Langer and after assuming he is there to see either her father, brother or husband, she tells him, he is here to see her. She tells him about the readings she had collected and they go to her lab. They look at some readings and they are still not normal. She tells Dr. Vance that due to the radiation levels, anyone living near the meteor crash site would be in great danger and Dr. Vance suggests they try and find the crash site. He asks her if she thinks the Sheriff will help them search for the site using a Geiger Counter. Dr. Langer introduces Dr. Vance to the Sheriff. Perkins walks into Dutch's cafe and greets Dr. Langer and the Sheriff and is introduced to Dr. Vance. He then tells them about what happened to him and Terry the other night. A helicopter pilot tells Dr. Vance that he has identified a highly radioactive area near the Kester place and Dr. Langer asks him if he could take a photo. Dr. Vance and Dr. Langer look at the photo and decide it matches a space warp, or miniature black hole. They go searching for the location of the high radiation. They are still searching for the radiation, when the Giant Spider comes across them and they run away. They go to the Sheriff's office and the Sheriff tells them he just found the remains of Joe Cooper and they tell him there is a fifty foot spider on the loose. The Sheriff shows them some rocks he found near Mr. Cooper and they ask him if they can run some tests on them. They try to figure out how to close the black hole and Dr. Vance comes up with the idea of pumping it full of extra mass. He calls Rider and tells him to send him a machine that can send a charge of neutrons. The device is delivered from NASA and flown inside a helicopter. Dr. Vance tells Dr. Langer that once the device hits the meteorite hole, the spiders will be destroyed, and while walking around they find the skeletal remains of Ev. They call the Sheriff and tell him to bring the spider towards the black hole. The Deputy arrives and tells Dr. Vance and Dr. Langer that the Giant Spider is heading their way. The Deputy tries to keep the Giant Spider away from the black hole until the neutrino gadget is ready, but is killed. The Giant Spider walks towards the black hole and Dr. Vance fires a flare gun and the black hole collapses and the Giant Spider starts to melt. A group of people run towards the melting Giant Spider and Dr. Vance and Dr. Lander hug.