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"V" (1984): Season 1: Episode 19 -- The Leader stuns the Visitors by ordering a truce and traveling to Earth to negotiate peace;Diana (JANE BADLER) plots to disrupt the peace.
"V" (1984): Season 1: Episode 18 -- Julie (FAYE GRANT) and Donovan (MARC SINGER) sneak aboard the Mother Ship to look for a hidden list naming all the Resistance leaders; Diana (JANE BADLER) schemes to have Lydia's brother (KEN OLANDT) slain during a ritual celebration; Julie discovers a former lover (JOHN CALVIN) seemingly helping the Visitors develop a virus deadly to humans.
"V" (1984): Season 1: Episode 17 -- When Philip (FRANK ASHMORE) and Diana (JANE BADLER) install a high tech computer capable of launching a final victory over Earth, the Resistance's only hope at retaliation is a teenaged computer whiz (JOSH RICHMAN), who refuses to aid the cause until Donovan (MARC SINGER) rescues the boy's father (CONRAD JANIS) from aboard the Visitors' mother ship.
"V" (1984): Season 1: Episode 16 -- Anxious to settle a personal vendetta, Philip (FRANK ASHMORE) trails a Fifth Columnist, hoping he will lead him to the Resistance and Donovan (MARC SINGER); Diana (JANE BADLER) plots to have Philip assassinated by Angela (LESLIE BEVIS), his bodyguard with a score of her own to settle.
"V" (1984): Season 1: Episode 15 -- Needing medicine to treat a deadly diphtheria epidemic, Julie (FAYE GRANT) and Kyle (JEFF YAGHER) recruit a youth gang, one of whom may be a Visitor spy, to help steal the serum; Diana (JANE BADLER) and Lydia (JUNE CHADWICK) conspire to frame a convenient scapegoat for Charles' murder.

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Release Date:
26 October 1984 (USA) more
Plot:
A year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth--only now some humans are knowingly working with them. full summary
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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Alien Invasion V Back On TV
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Continuing the great sci-fi tradition. more (28 total)

Cast

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Jane Badler ... Diana (19 episodes, 1984-1985)
June Chadwick ... Lydia (19 episodes, 1984-1985)
Jennifer Cooke ... Elizabeth Maxwell (19 episodes, 1984-1985)

Robert Englund ... Willie (19 episodes, 1984-1985)
Faye Grant ... Dr. Julie Parrish / ... (19 episodes, 1984-1985)

Marc Singer ... Mike Donovan / ... (19 episodes, 1984-1985)
Jeff Yagher ... Kyle Bates (19 episodes, 1984-1985)

Michael Ironside ... Ham Tyler (13 episodes, 1984-1985)

Lane Smith ... Nathan Bates (13 episodes, 1984-1985)
Blair Tefkin ... Robin Maxwell (13 episodes, 1984-1985)

Michael Wright ... Elias Taylor (13 episodes, 1984-1985)
Howard K. Smith ... Howard K. Smith (12 episodes, 1984-1985)

Aki Aleong ... Mr. Chiang (9 episodes, 1984-1985)
Judson Earney Scott ... Lt. James (8 episodes, 1985)
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V: The Series
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60 min (19 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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The character Diana was ranked #5 in TV Guide's 25 Greatest Sci-Fi Legends (1 August 2004 issue). more
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[Nathan Bates is apparently collaborating with the Visitors]
Mike Donovan: We know Bates is in bed with Diana.
Willie: Really? I did not know that.
Elias Taylor: It's a figure of speech, Willie.
Willie: With Diana... one never knows.
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Featured in The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003) (TV) more

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13 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Continuing the great sci-fi tradition., 20 January 2000
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Author: Devyalento Latchford Deschanel from London, England

V:The Series was not a disappointment, just don't compare it to the first two mini-series. V and V:The Final Battle were landmarks in television history, V:The Series was a great science fiction series. Yes, it could have been better, but it was still great all the same. Most of the cast from the originals turned up for the series and some great new ones as well, and V:The Series was sweet while it lasted.

It began really well, on Liberation Day, a year after the Visitors had been defeated. Yet Diana came back and we were in for it. New arrivals such as Nathan Bates and his so cool son Kyle, the evil Visitor Lydia and the beautiful 'Star Child' Elizabeth all contributed to V growing with time. Yet it all went a bit wrong a bit too soon.

Ham Tyler and Robin Maxwell (two classic V characters) disappeared mid-season, new opening titles graced our screens and V:The Series departed our screens on the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, with Elizabeth leaving with the Leader and Kyle stowing away, never knowing what was to become of them.

The actors in V, as always, was great. Jeff Yagher and Jennifer Cooke were the most attractive couple on TV as Kyle and Elizabeth, and June Chadwick was very bitchy as the glorious Lydia. The usual players (Jane Badler, Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Blair Tefkin, Michael Ironside, etc.) were fabulous as always, and the episodes were outrageously fun.

The only problem was that V:The Series was simply not as good as V and V:The Final Battle. A shame really, because on it's own, V:The Series was really good. It will just never be remembered as a great show.

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