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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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Eighties TV Camp Classic 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 (11 episodes, 1984-1985)
Judson Earney Scott ... Lt. James (8 episodes, 1985)

Aki Aleong ... Mr. Chiang (8 episodes, 1984-1985)
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Also Known As:
V: The Series
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60 min (19 episodes)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The name of the aliens' species is never revealed. more
Quotes:
Mike Donovan: I thought you can drive.
Ham Tyler: I thought you can shoot.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Muchachada nui: (#3.3)" (2009) more

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20 out of 30 people found the following comment useful.
Eighties TV Camp Classic, 28 August 2004
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Author: Steve (stevelimbach@cs.com) from Huntington Station, NY

Premiering in the Fall of 1984 (NBC, Oct.26, Fri 8-9p), just a few months after the mini-series sequel, 'V - The Final Battle', 'V' was now in the form of a weekly hour long sci-fi/action/adventure series.

In mid-season, (Feb. 1985), NBC re-vamped the sci-fi/soap opera, and moved it to a later time slot, yet it did little to save this embarrassment; any resemblance to Kenneth Johnson's original 1983 classic had been vaporized.

The most expensive and violent show on television at the time, 'V - The Series' was a critical and ratings disaster that will leave the viewer bewildered and in disbelief, yet strangely mesmerized.

Unintentionally hilarious and incredibly 80's, all nineteen episodes have a unique inane charm and many memorable moments. Every episode will entrance the viewer, largely based on sloppiness and the over-abundance of flaws.

True camp that's super-melodramatic and very funny, be on the lookout for 'Oswald', the (alien, or 'gaylien') gay-stock character, debuting in episode fifteen.

Quite possibly the worst sci-fi series, if not series, ever produced, one cannot help but to enjoy this train wreck.

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