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My faves indeed, I had the VHS tapes of them when I had my VCR along time ago, I don't have either one now. 😀👍🏾 Everything went DVD and VCR's became extinct so...😒
I was born in 84, though I remember seeing part of either a reairing of the mini-series or one of its follow ups as a toddler. "But they aren't like us"
I loved the intro to V: The Final Battle. Those ominous drums and the V slowly coming into focus. Man!!!! I'm so glad I grew up in the 80s. This series had me in a trance laying on my stomach with my He-Man pajamas on. In front of a 1000 pound floor model TV. ( That we had to change the channel with pliers because the knob broke off.)…..Good times.
@@DocMicrowave Sure it was, no plot deja vu scènes. I watched 12 épisodes then got bored of the séries, always the same plots the same green skin and intrigues. With a low budget. I was 16 or 17 but i quickly stopped watching a whole épisode.. . The séries was good during 8 or 10 épisodes ,quite good then it faded. It should have been reduced without the stupid battles between Lydia and Diana. Not interesting..
@@severinefisteberg8893 Lol. You got further than I did. I lost interest after the first 4 or 5 episodes or so. I don't remember exactly how many because I mentally blocked it. I don't even remember any details of the epsiodes I saw. Only that it was bad. I threw the series into the same bin I threw Galatica 1980 and the second season of Buck Rogers.
The Mini Series and Final Battle were some of the best 80s sci-fi ever produced. I'd love to see Kenneth Johnson successful in reviving his vision for this awesome series and bringing it to conclusion his way.
The novel mentioned in this clip (V The Second Generation) tells you their name - they are called the Zedti, an insect 🦟🕷🐜 race that comes to earth 🌏 20 years after the resistance sent a transmission into space - as seen in the end scene of V (1983 miniseries) - the Zedti help the resistance, but the humans become suspicious of them as well. Unfortunately the novel ends on a cliffhanger itself.
Kira Hawkins, it’s what the 80’s were all about..... Loved every moment of sneaking in a horror film/show back then. I wouldn’t take it back for a minute.
LOL. that's okay first time i watched nightmare on elm street with my cousin i kept hiding my face away so i could not see things going on and i was just a lil kid. lol. but, i met the actor who played freddy kruger when i had just turned 21 years old and he was actually a really nice guy to talk with about his iconic role. he said first time i seen himself in a mirror one time with all the makeup on he damn near shit himself cause how he looked. lol. fun times. given how my health is now. i wish i could go back to those days and enjoy them all over again.
Loved thus show growing up and bought all of the movies and series on Disc. My son is 17 and has loved this show as well since he was 9. Proud to pass on such wonderful sci fi show on to the next generation!
How cool of you to share this, Melanie! The story is terrific- certainly a warning about fascism. I had a tiny part in the original, and remain proud. As in the Sinclair Lewis book, " It Can't Happen Here" , I honestly never thought such things COULD happen here. Welcome to 2022, huh? I am delighted that you and your son like this show, made close to 40 years ago!
I watched the series and you can easily tell the showrunners didn't know what to do, so they killed off characters without reason and moved on others, the lesser quality really started to show too!
We got a resolution in the miniseries, then they decided to try to milk more money out of it and, well, ... I only bothered watching a couple of the first episodes and lost interest.
I was a child in the 80’s when I first saw this. The special effects were obviously cheesy but the allegories that this mini series delivers are far more important. This was so far ahead of it’s time. The acting was surprisingly excellent and delivered high drama to the audience. I almost don’t want this done again. They tried it in the 2009 and failed miserably. I would be curious to see this get the big budget movie treatment. This would be a franchise that would last a decade. Sadly I just don’t think it will get done and the right way.
I remember back when V first aired in the 1980s, when I was a little boy. It was HUGE. Everyone in my family was watching it every week. And EVERYONE was talking about Diana. Oh my god, what a great mini series. Legendary. They screwed it up when it turned into a full fledged tv series. The reboot/remake that aired about a decade ago was pretty damn good as well. I'm sad they cancelled it when it was getting so damn good.
Yes I remember the days! The remake was really good. There are conspiracy theories as to why it ended abruptly. Some say it was hitting too close to the truth. Maybe not a conspiracy after all.
I still remember as a kid watching the awesome original V series, it was outstanding, and that particular tune from the mini-series is still stuck in my head to this day, one of my all-time favorites. Can't wait for Kenneth Johnson to make it into a movie trilogy :)
“V” was one of the best miniseries, EVER! Under Kenneth Johnson’s leadership, this series was absolutely a edge of your seat thrill ride! I had a friend who absolutely HATED anything science fiction, he got hooked on this miniseries, what does that tell you! This was well written, well acted and knew how to reach people of all backgrounds! You could relate to the freedom fighters and feel how loathsome the visitors really were! To put it in the words of Michael Donovan, this was a “bonanza” when it came to sci-fi at its best! The characters were people you loved and hated! Jane Badler, owned Diana! She was the best evil person in science fiction history and played it to the hilt! Faye Grant was one of the best of being a leader! Juliette Parrish was someone you could relate to as a regular, loving person thrust into being someone every one depended on and looked up to and cheered for! This miniseries had everything you could have imagined, from seat squirming cliffhangers to stand up and cheer moments! Kenneth Johnson should have been given free reign to work his magic, but studio politics screwed up the best sci-fi miniseries ever written!
When I first saw this show in 1983, I was a 10 year-old boy & watched "V" on television to just look at _"the HOT Bad Snake Lady"_ A.K.A. *Jane Badler* .
My favorite scene was the old man spray painting the poster, showing that resistance is more than petty vandalism. I still break out into tears at that scene!
I remember when this came out and as I recall it was a pretty big deal. I remember my dad and I sitting down and watching the premiere of the show, I'd love to see this come back.
@@ItsTimePictures I agree, as a matter of fact, it was the most highly rated mini series of it's time, and there were tons of mini series at that time.
V was a part of my childhood in the 80’s that I will never forget! Waiting to see that lizard baby was so exciting and frightening at the same time! Lol
still remember the first reveal of the aliens, especially the swallowing the rat scene from this series... and both the Alien Nation movie and series were excellent and Babylon 5 was and still is simply one of the best series EVER produced
Small mistake-- actually it WAS revealed in the miniseries that the Visitors were from Sirius... the alien "Visitor Youth" leader "Brian" (who would later impregnate and then be killed by Robin Maxwell) in a scene where she was infatuated with him and spending time with him, he pointed out "Sirius, in the constellation you call Canis Major", to which she replies, "It must be really strange, being so far from home..." To which he responds by holding her hand romantically and saying, "Yes, but new friends make it easier" or something to that effect... It was in the early part of the first miniseries... OL J R :)
The Visitors were actually from the 4th distant planet from Sirius. John tells the world when he is introducing the Visitors atop the World Trade Center.
@@cjmiller6741 Yep probably I forgot that. Thing is Sirius is a double star, a blue-white giant and a white dwarf IIRC. So good "local" star for their planet, as only 8.7 light years from Earth IIRC, BUT not particularly realistic... Massive stars like Sirius, which is IIRC a blue-white giant star, won't host inhabited planets with their own endemic life, because such massive stars only exist for a few million years from the time they form to the time they burn through all their fuel and explode or change... not enough time to form a planet and evolve life or whatever, let alone intelligent life (unless it came from elsewhere and settled on such a planet). Any planets around such a massive star would have to be at a great distance in order to form or be in the powerful star's habitable "Goldilocks zone" where water could form, and that puts it so far away that when the star turns into a white dwarf it would freeze solid. IF the planet were orbiting a white dwarf, it would have burned into a cinder during the star's earlier giant or supergiant phases or been absorbed into the star itself. So the prospect of inhabitable planets around giant or supergiant stars is pretty slim. Planets around white dwarfs depends on what kind of star was there before-- sunlike stars that became white dwarfs after a red giant phase would have had any previously habitable planets incinerated or absorbed into the star during the red giant phase. Planets around giant stars far enough away to be in the giant star's habitable zone, will freeze solid after the relatively short giant phase is over... and if it was a sunlike star, they will have been frozen for most of the lifetime of that star-- the giant phase is relatively short, too short to support habitable planets long-term.
THIS was my favourite TV show growing up. I still have the original series paperback which I have read 10 times. thank you so much for the little walk down memory lane
@@keyserjosaid321 lol Yes, I used to watch this with my dad on video when I was a kid. I think, and without boasting or anything, I must have watched literally thousands of movies (from the 1930s to present) in my time, and that's before we get onto sci-fi TV shows like this!
Thank you, White-Dragon. The way they were talking about rats, and saying it so much, I was starting to think that my recollection was flawed. It being a guinea pig horrified me as a kid since I had a couple. Not that I'd be much more comfortable with rats, but seeing a little guy identical to one of your pets getting eaten by a lizard-woman was just way too much for my 10 year old self.
@@Katherine_The_Okay Sure thing! I remember that she was stroking it and I believe she even looked into its face right before her mouth stretched right open and she quickly bunged it in, with her throat expanding as she swallowed it. Not nice, aye?
@@white-dragon4424 The stare was awful, yes. Even snakes don't play with their food as much as she did. And at that time, the scene had some shockingly good special effects (I rewatched V recently when I got it and Final Battle for like $7 at Walmart, and it doesn't quite hold up, but you can still see why the scene was nightmare fuel for so many people). The actress practically unhinges her jaw even before the special effects kick in. And the look on her face afterwards, like she had just enjoyed a delicious thanksgiving dinner and was feeling quite pleased about it. EURG...
“V” is terrific! An all- time classic mini series in 1984. Great fun. I remember all the media hype back in the day. Yes, based off the novel “It couldn’t happen here!” Excellent reading... highly recommend. For the era very good SFX. Jane Badler & Faye Grant were both very attractive ladies. Solid group of character actors were involved. The TV show however...was misguided, especially after Kenneth Johnson left the show. Hopefully he will be involved in any new “V” projects. JB thanks again. GREAT channel.
Yeah, that tv show was so fubar I even hated the music which was so watered down and a joke at that. 🤦🏾♀️😖👎🏽 The 2009 reboot didn't fare any better than the old goofy tv series, besides the creepiness was OP. 😨🤢So when it went off the air I didn't miss it. 😄👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 They went from a silly goofy Sci-Fi to Sci-Fi Horror. 🤨😖😒
I was out of the country in the early 1980's. A couple of days after I returned, I was walking through a BART station in San Francisco and saw a poster. It showed a smiling man in a red uniform, with a caption reading "The Visitors are our friends" (or something like that). Nothing else. I puzzled over it for a minute, then went on with my business. A couple of days later, I passed the same poster, only now there was a red, spray-painted V on it. I still hadn't heard of the mini-series, but I decided it must be a TV show or movie. Still, a very strange experience.
I was living in New York City at the time. We had the same poster campaign in the subway system. First, just posters saying "The alien visitors are our friends". Then, the same set of posters, but with the red "V" over them, as if spray painted on... Mysterious, intriguing... it certainly got us going and ensured we would all tune in for the miniseries premiere...
This series had a major impact on me. I got so see it when it came out, I was a kid. It was almost as big as Star wars. Thanks for doing a video on it.
I remember watching the show when it aired live on TV and I still think it's one of the best sci-fi alien invasion shows out there along with Alien Nation which I also thought was great. I really hope the new movies come into fruition and that they live up to the setting that was created in the first release.
This was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid. My sister and I would stay up to watch it religiously, my grandmother however hated it and would tell my sister and I that she was going to get her friends to petition to have the show cancelled. When the series finally got cancelled, I thought my grandmother was serious and I remember not talking to her for close to a year lol. Man, I miss this series
I still love the mini series and remember watching it as a kid with my family. I have the series and the mini series on DVD and watch them all every now & then.
I was born in 1981 and I still remember this show coming out very well! Even as a child I wasn't scared of the sight of the reptilians yet I was so intrigued by the show. I never even got the symbolism being the red uniforms to the Russian Cold War era at the time either. It was a great example of sci-fi TV with slight narrative added without getting so damn woke like trash TV has become. God, I miss great sci-fi like this today!!
I remember part 1 of the miniseries came out and I loved it. I thought part two would be out the next day, but no. Days turned to weeks... then months. It finally came out sometime the following year. I was able to record part two almost seamlessly picking up where the first left off with my VCR.
V was great. I totally remember everyone at school was taking about v the mini-series. The tv series ruined it. They should have just stuck to the mini series format and It probably would have lasted for years. Oh well.
I have always viewed the first couple of episode of the series as the unofficial 3rd mini series. The quality drops after that with the series becoming very episodic with a crisis of the week type writing instead of a continuing narrative.
Yeah, I remember the alien voices in the mini series but the visitors sounding normal in the tv series. I thought that was super sloppy even as a little kid but evidently it was just due to budget cuts....
I was in the 6th and 7th grade when the mini series were aired and I remember it was huge. We talked about it at school and a classmate even had the V paperback novel that he brought to school with him. We couldn't get enough of it, for awhile we forgot about Star Wars, that's how good V was.
A movie trilogy might work. If that doesn't come to fruition, a "three-season" arc on one of the streaming services like Amazon or Netflix could be an option.
I loved V as a kid and I still love it. If they show the mini-series on a network I watch it. Alien Nation was also good. What made these shows good was they were thought provoking, especially Alien Nation because they both explored how human and alien worlds would interact both as enemies and as neighbors.
Loved V and still do! It was a tv cultural phenomenon back in its day. Although I am very pleased to hear that it may come back (the 2009 version stunk), I get worried that today's 'woke Hollywood' will take over with their politics.
@Emmanuel Goldstein Well, the Republicans are reptilian and want to take over our country, and Trump says, vote for me, I'll make America great again, and then there's a rise in hate crimes, so yeah the Visitors are like Nazis/Republicans.
Correction: _John,_ played by Richard Herd (who passed away very recently) was in command of the mission, _"Diana"_ was 2nd in command, and the ambitious head scientist, who resented the _The Leader_ chose _John_ to command the mission over her, despite their affair.
When V The Mini Series & The Final Battle first came out, I was an adolescent and it got me into a lot trouble...but worth it. Both series started at 9 to 11pm. My parents were old-fashioned then and had me going to bed at 9 then at 10 pm at the time. But I would sneak into the family room and finish watching the movies. When a commercial came on, I would turn the TV off and hide under the table. They also thought it would give me bad dreams. When the series came out, my folks lightened up and let me stay up later though. Later in life, I bought the VHS tapes. Then tracked down the DVDs. Great movies and series, which I still watch every now and then. I was disappointed by the reboot in 2009.
Jane was a fox back in the day, I remember having a huge crush on her I was about 9 when the first tv series was on air. The reboot had slow pacing and bad writing.
Starring the gorgeous, late Jane Badler! She lived here in Melbourne for many years and worked off and on as an actress & part time jazz singer! (She had a great voice!) She was still beautiful, but aged ahead of her time due to alcoholism! She had a recurring role in Neighbours some years back, and she reprised her role as Diana, (Who incidentally was Anna's mother still planted on Earth, from the 1st 'invasion',(stealth) thus kind of linking the 2 series, even tho they were unconnected!))
@@j.j.5731 GLAD to hear it! I'd heard here she'd died about 3 or 4 years ago!!! As she lived here for many years! WEIRD! Happy to hear tho she is still with us!
I loved both the original mini-series AND the reboot. I remember how much I looked forward to going to school the day after an episode so that I could talk with my friends about it. I was ecstatic when I found out that they were bringing it back.
Stand outside as a teen back then: -The Leader swallowing a rat -Killing "Freddy" off unexpectedly -"That one episode" where The Leader's 'number 1' was hinted at some lesbianism stuff
I was a little kid when this was on the air, but I still remember seeing a scene where one of the aliens had part of their human skin torn off and it messed me up for a while.
Takes me back to my youth (yep I'm old) Matter o fact, it still shows on forces tv (uk) Diana was my childhood crush & mike "beastmaster" Donovan was the coolest white guy on tv.
Um...yes, it was revealed that the aliens come from Sirius. It was in the beginning of the first mini-series. The one character even joked about "serious" and "Sirius" at one point
Didn't know about 'V the series' just started watching it on the 'forces TV' here in England. It's a great shame the new V series wasn't given enough time to become better.
It was already going downhill with it's ridiculous writing - there wasn't much to salvage. I stopped watching after "they're approaching pluto, within radar range" OMG get a scientist to read your crap if you're writing science fiction. Like Christopher Nolan does.
What surprised me when going back and re-watching it is how well it has aged, I was afraid it would be terrible dated but aside from some iffy special effects it has stod the test of time very well. It is a surprisingly smart and detailed too, it even explains why the aliens look human and speak english. Something most sci-fi shows and films tend to ignore or gloss over. The less said about the re-boot series, the better however.
I was watching the first tv series episode as it screened in New Zealand in December 1989 and my ill dad died upstairs as the opening credits rolled and I was confined to the lounge as everyone panicked, and I had absolutely no memory of this until I watched this now and hell it's all flooding back.
I don't understand why they removed the aliens voices after the mini series. Still, great series. I didn't understand the ending though. It felt abrupt. "Yep, we murdered and ate half of you humans. But all is well now. Bye"
Kenneth Johnson OWNS the "V" motion picture rights not TV although is credited as creator. Desilu unfortunately pulled through even though Kenneth had written movie script and casting was underway. Production for a potential "V" and trilogy is now ended. Shame on Warner Bros
Can't he do a 10-part quality series on Hulu, Starz, Netflix, Amazon or HBO? TV today is NOTHING like it was back then ... you can now do great things .. uninterrupted, drifting over and under the 1hr target time limit [a full 1 hour] as you see fit ... superb actors, beautiful sets and action set-pieces that you can take your time over. Just imagine a new V ... given the Westworld treatment. It would be the next Game of Thrones!
As someone who married someone part of a banker connected family named Elizabeth(I'm sure they aren't all named this but it is a very common name as all are names are character names like how you label figures in a simulation"cough cough")I can tell you the lizard thing has to do with the reptilian complex something Fringe portrayed accurately as well as the 6 digits on the left hand & right which is a trait held by the elite of this archetype(yes of course my ex also has 6 fingers each side which is a reference to 11:11/catch 22/ordo ab chao meaning to rig order(order through/from chaos=the build it to break model the false flag model through entropy)with ClawS which is also the skull&bones symbol of Scorpio the poison astrological symbol which in old imagery they show it with its ClawS on Libra-Scale rigging it as the claws also appear as 11:11 or FEFE meaning additionally to put in irons=FE=to imprison.
I remember as a 12 year old thinking the visitors uniforms and weapons were so cool...I would definitely have been a collaborator just to get the clothes and laser blaster!
V The Mini Series and V The Final Battle is still brilliant to watch even now
My faves indeed, I had the VHS tapes of them when I had my VCR along time ago, I don't have either one now. 😀👍🏾 Everything went DVD and VCR's became extinct so...😒
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Slade Wilson Blu-Ray! & 4K!
@@cha5 Old school. Nice.
Shelley Wayne ...it was way better than the rebooted series that failed
When I was a kid, the V movies and show were a huge deal.
Sure was....we loved it
@@supercalifragilistaphobic2146 For sure.
I am from Uruguay. In the 80 I was devoted of this series.
I was born in 84, though I remember seeing part of either a reairing of the mini-series or one of its follow ups as a toddler. "But they aren't like us"
I remember that as an 80s kid! Me and my older brothers were stuck to the tv!
I loved the intro to V: The Final Battle. Those ominous drums and the V slowly coming into focus. Man!!!! I'm so glad I grew up in the 80s. This series had me in a trance laying on my stomach with my He-Man pajamas on. In front of a 1000 pound floor model TV. ( That we had to change the channel with pliers because the knob broke off.)…..Good times.
I loved reading this! Thanks!
One of the best parts of my childhood is watching V over and over. Recorded on our new VCR.
I love VCR.
The entire franchise is cheap to buy digitally. My preferred for streaming purchases is VUDU
Bring on the V movies - as long as Disney doesn't get hold of them.
if only they would re-work the "mousey! mousey!" eating scene, into some kind of big middle-finger to disney...? LOL!
Disney version: V the final sequel.....
Amen brother! Took the words right out of my mouth
Well they tried a reboot but...
Or Netflix.
ONE OF THE BEST SCI-FI SERIES EVER MADE....PERIOD.
Best Mini-Series. The Series was crap.
The one you see living in is in way better, wait till the finale hits in December.
@@ChrisMontgomery-xtrmagamr V
@@DocMicrowave Sure it was, no plot deja vu scènes. I watched 12 épisodes then got bored of the séries, always the same plots the same green skin and intrigues. With a low budget. I was 16 or 17 but i quickly stopped watching a whole épisode.. . The séries was good during 8 or 10 épisodes ,quite good then it faded. It should have been reduced without the stupid battles between Lydia and Diana. Not interesting..
@@severinefisteberg8893 Lol. You got further than I did.
I lost interest after the first 4 or 5 episodes or so. I don't remember exactly how many because I mentally blocked it. I don't even remember any details of the epsiodes I saw.
Only that it was bad.
I threw the series into the same bin I threw Galatica 1980 and the second season of Buck Rogers.
The Mini Series and Final Battle were some of the best 80s sci-fi ever produced. I'd love to see Kenneth Johnson successful in reviving his vision for this awesome series and bringing it to conclusion his way.
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It ended poorly with the little girl grabbing the two keys on the console.
"Now that's a waste of good luggage" - Michael Ironside
Disney are the visitors 💯
This was a great classic 80’s line!
Ironside is always gold
Comte. Would you fly with Maverick? "I don't know. Just don't know"
@@GeneralG1810 Loved him as the voice of Darkseid.
How close to reality V is is absolutely staggering
Twilight Zone To serve Man
Yes !! There really is reptilians . Shapeshifters .
I remember they hinted that the visitors were at war with another alien race in the galaxy, we never got to find out who they where.
The novel mentioned in this clip (V The Second Generation) tells you their name - they are called the Zedti, an insect 🦟🕷🐜 race that comes to earth 🌏 20 years after the resistance sent a transmission into space - as seen in the end scene of V (1983 miniseries) - the Zedti help the resistance, but the humans become suspicious of them as well. Unfortunately the novel ends on a cliffhanger itself.
In 1987 I stayed up late to watch this show. I had a nightmare about being abducted. Great stuff for a nine year old.
Kira Hawkins, it’s what the 80’s were all about.....
Loved every moment of sneaking in a horror film/show back then.
I wouldn’t take it back for a minute.
Kira Hawkins recorded it on vhs and watched it many times as a kid.
LOL. that's okay first time i watched nightmare on elm street with my cousin i kept hiding my face away so i could not see things going on and i was just a lil kid. lol.
but, i met the actor who played freddy kruger when i had just turned 21 years old and he was actually a really nice guy to talk with about his iconic role. he said first time i seen himself in a mirror one time with all the makeup on he damn near shit himself cause how he looked. lol.
fun times. given how my health is now. i wish i could go back to those days and enjoy them all over again.
One advantage of the Central Time Zone is that the shows are on an hour earlier.
1987? You must have seen a rebroadcast, because V originally aired in 1983 and 1984.
Loved thus show growing up and bought all of the movies and series on Disc. My son is 17 and has loved this show as well since he was 9. Proud to pass on such wonderful sci fi show on to the next generation!
How cool of you to share this, Melanie!
The story is terrific- certainly a warning about fascism.
I had a tiny part in the original, and remain proud.
As in the Sinclair Lewis book, " It Can't Happen Here" , I honestly never thought such things COULD happen here. Welcome to 2022, huh?
I am delighted that you and your son like this show, made close to 40 years ago!
I’m so disappointed that we never got a proper resolution.
I watched the series and you can easily tell the showrunners didn't know what to do, so they killed off characters without reason and moved on others, the lesser quality really started to show too!
Danny R the miniseries was top notch, but the TV series went downhill fast
PalmerWhit same with the remake series
Neil mark Taylor The way they went all out to get Diana there only to kill her off in the worst way possible.
We got a resolution in the miniseries, then they decided to try to milk more money out of it and, well, ... I only bothered watching a couple of the first episodes and lost interest.
I was a child in the 80’s when I first saw this. The special effects were obviously cheesy but the allegories that this mini series delivers are far more important. This was so far ahead of it’s time. The acting was surprisingly excellent and delivered high drama to the audience. I almost don’t want this done again. They tried it in the 2009 and failed miserably. I would be curious to see this get the big budget movie treatment. This would be a franchise that would last a decade. Sadly I just don’t think it will get done and the right way.
Bruh.....I loved this show when I was a kid. The reveal that they were lizards.....HOLY SHIT!!!!
I remember back when V first aired in the 1980s, when I was a little boy. It was HUGE. Everyone in my family was watching it every week. And EVERYONE was talking about Diana. Oh my god, what a great mini series. Legendary. They screwed it up when it turned into a full fledged tv series. The reboot/remake that aired about a decade ago was pretty damn good as well. I'm sad they cancelled it when it was getting so damn good.
Yes I remember the days! The remake was really good. There are conspiracy theories as to why it ended abruptly. Some say it was hitting too close to the truth. Maybe not a conspiracy after all.
I still remember as a kid watching the awesome original V series, it was outstanding, and that particular tune from the mini-series is still stuck in my head to this day, one of my all-time favorites. Can't wait for Kenneth Johnson to make it into a movie trilogy :)
“V” was one of the best miniseries, EVER! Under Kenneth Johnson’s leadership, this series was absolutely a edge of your seat thrill ride! I had a friend who absolutely HATED anything science fiction, he got hooked on this miniseries, what does that tell you! This was well written, well acted and knew how to reach people of all backgrounds! You could relate to the freedom fighters and feel how loathsome the visitors really were! To put it in the words of Michael Donovan, this was a “bonanza” when it came to sci-fi at its best! The characters were people you loved and hated! Jane Badler, owned Diana! She was the best evil person in science fiction history and played it to the hilt! Faye Grant was one of the best of being a leader! Juliette Parrish was someone you could relate to as a regular, loving person thrust into being someone every one depended on and looked up to and cheered for! This miniseries had everything you could have imagined, from seat squirming cliffhangers to stand up and cheer moments! Kenneth Johnson should have been given free reign to work his magic, but studio politics screwed up the best sci-fi miniseries ever written!
Couldn't agree more, loved it when it was aired and have watched it a fair few times over the years. One of my all time favourites.
@Eileen Farrar I never viewed it that way at all, I was 11 years old and other than star wars it was the best thing I'd watched and it was on TV!
V was my Friday night fix back in the UK about 1985, I have the whole series now and still watch it to this day.
When I first saw this show in 1983, I was a 10 year-old boy & watched "V" on television to just look at _"the HOT Bad Snake Lady"_ A.K.A. *Jane Badler* .
Yes!!!!!
Yeah she was
She was smoking hot
I can remember sitting at the TV watching this show. Thank you for the memories.
My favorite Sci-Fi mini series of all time. Kenneth Johnson is a genius creating this iconic show and still remains a classic even to this day!!!
V the mini series was incredible. So many landmark scenes.
My favorite scene was the old man spray painting the poster, showing that resistance is more than petty vandalism. I still break out into tears at that scene!
Especially the gay porn sauna scene. That was some groundbreaking shit.
@@tvmasterc It used to bother me that some people thought V stood for Visitors and yet you have that scene so clearly explaining.
@@Dem1861 Yeah, they miss the whole point of resistance.
I remember when this came out and as I recall it was a pretty big deal. I remember my dad and I sitting down and watching the premiere of the show, I'd love to see this come back.
The Late Gen Xer Everybody watched the first mini. I was 12 and EVERYBODY in my school and the neighborhood watched. It was huge.
@@ItsTimePictures I agree, as a matter of fact, it was the most highly rated mini series of it's time, and there were tons of mini series at that time.
V was a part of my childhood in the 80’s that I will never forget! Waiting to see that lizard baby was so exciting and frightening at the same time! Lol
I felt sorry for the lizard baby. Because the only person that mourned had compassion was Wille.
still remember the first reveal of the aliens, especially the swallowing the rat scene from this series... and both the Alien Nation movie and series were excellent and Babylon 5 was and still is simply one of the best series EVER produced
And the scene with the eyes that Mike videotapes when he snuck on the ship..
Great sci fi series all 3.
Yeah, B5 was amazing. I own it on DVD. It's way underrated.
The mini-series were a huge deal back in the early 80s. As a little kid I was so excited to watch them.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jane Badler. She is an amazing singer!!
Jane Badler, a true immortal of 1980's sci-fi and pretty much the only reason why I voraciously watch V. She is quite something.
Small mistake-- actually it WAS revealed in the miniseries that the Visitors were from Sirius... the alien "Visitor Youth" leader "Brian" (who would later impregnate and then be killed by Robin Maxwell) in a scene where she was infatuated with him and spending time with him, he pointed out "Sirius, in the constellation you call Canis Major", to which she replies, "It must be really strange, being so far from home..." To which he responds by holding her hand romantically and saying, "Yes, but new friends make it easier" or something to that effect... It was in the early part of the first miniseries... OL J R :)
The Visitors were actually from the 4th distant planet from Sirius. John tells the world when he is introducing the Visitors atop the World Trade Center.
@@cjmiller6741 Yep probably I forgot that. Thing is Sirius is a double star, a blue-white giant and a white dwarf IIRC. So good "local" star for their planet, as only 8.7 light years from Earth IIRC, BUT not particularly realistic...
Massive stars like Sirius, which is IIRC a blue-white giant star, won't host inhabited planets with their own endemic life, because such massive stars only exist for a few million years from the time they form to the time they burn through all their fuel and explode or change... not enough time to form a planet and evolve life or whatever, let alone intelligent life (unless it came from elsewhere and settled on such a planet). Any planets around such a massive star would have to be at a great distance in order to form or be in the powerful star's habitable "Goldilocks zone" where water could form, and that puts it so far away that when the star turns into a white dwarf it would freeze solid. IF the planet were orbiting a white dwarf, it would have burned into a cinder during the star's earlier giant or supergiant phases or been absorbed into the star itself. So the prospect of inhabitable planets around giant or supergiant stars is pretty slim. Planets around white dwarfs depends on what kind of star was there before-- sunlike stars that became white dwarfs after a red giant phase would have had any previously habitable planets incinerated or absorbed into the star during the red giant phase. Planets around giant stars far enough away to be in the giant star's habitable zone, will freeze solid after the relatively short giant phase is over... and if it was a sunlike star, they will have been frozen for most of the lifetime of that star-- the giant phase is relatively short, too short to support habitable planets long-term.
@@lukestrawwalker Who taught you these lies? Nasa?
@@SwazersC try reading... Or there's some good vids about star lifetime vs mass here on YT
I loved watching this on tv as a teen. I remember it always was a show everyone talked about the next day at school.
Man, the eighties was a great time for sci fi and fantasy.
I loved watching V when I was a kid. Great 80s series.
hope he gets it done...."v" was great.
Robin Richards - As do I!
THIS was my favourite TV show growing up. I still have the original series paperback which I have read 10 times. thank you so much for the little walk down memory lane
Yes, they did eat rats, but the animal Diana eats in the scene in question was a guinea pig.
That nearly made me puke..I was so stunned at that scene..still am!
@@keyserjosaid321 lol Yes, I used to watch this with my dad on video when I was a kid. I think, and without boasting or anything, I must have watched literally thousands of movies (from the 1930s to present) in my time, and that's before we get onto sci-fi TV shows like this!
Thank you, White-Dragon. The way they were talking about rats, and saying it so much, I was starting to think that my recollection was flawed. It being a guinea pig horrified me as a kid since I had a couple. Not that I'd be much more comfortable with rats, but seeing a little guy identical to one of your pets getting eaten by a lizard-woman was just way too much for my 10 year old self.
@@Katherine_The_Okay Sure thing! I remember that she was stroking it and I believe she even looked into its face right before her mouth stretched right open and she quickly bunged it in, with her throat expanding as she swallowed it. Not nice, aye?
@@white-dragon4424 The stare was awful, yes. Even snakes don't play with their food as much as she did. And at that time, the scene had some shockingly good special effects (I rewatched V recently when I got it and Final Battle for like $7 at Walmart, and it doesn't quite hold up, but you can still see why the scene was nightmare fuel for so many people). The actress practically unhinges her jaw even before the special effects kick in. And the look on her face afterwards, like she had just enjoyed a delicious thanksgiving dinner and was feeling quite pleased about it. EURG...
“V” is terrific! An all- time classic mini series in 1984. Great fun. I remember all the media hype back in the day. Yes, based off the novel “It couldn’t happen here!” Excellent reading... highly recommend. For the era very good SFX. Jane Badler & Faye Grant were both very attractive ladies. Solid group of character actors were involved. The TV show however...was misguided, especially after Kenneth Johnson left the show. Hopefully he will be involved in any new “V” projects. JB thanks again. GREAT channel.
Yeah, that tv show was so fubar I even hated the music which was so watered down and a joke at that. 🤦🏾♀️😖👎🏽 The 2009 reboot didn't fare any better than the old goofy tv series, besides the creepiness was OP. 😨🤢So when it went off the air I didn't miss it. 😄👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 They went from a silly goofy Sci-Fi to Sci-Fi Horror. 🤨😖😒
I was out of the country in the early 1980's. A couple of days after I returned, I was walking through a BART station in San Francisco and saw a poster. It showed a smiling man in a red uniform, with a caption reading "The Visitors are our friends" (or something like that). Nothing else. I puzzled over it for a minute, then went on with my business. A couple of days later, I passed the same poster, only now there was a red, spray-painted V on it. I still hadn't heard of the mini-series, but I decided it must be a TV show or movie. Still, a very strange experience.
So I guess viral marketing isn’t as new a thing as we like to think!
I think that is awesome, lol. Thanks for sharing.
I was living in New York City at the time. We had the same poster campaign in the subway system.
First, just posters saying "The alien visitors are our friends". Then, the same set of posters, but with the red "V" over them, as if spray painted on...
Mysterious, intriguing... it certainly got us going and ensured we would all tune in for the miniseries premiere...
I remember who scary this series was back in the 1980’s. I loved it ❤️. A very original idea back then.
This series had a major impact on me. I got so see it when it came out, I was a kid. It was almost as big as Star wars. Thanks for doing a video on it.
Decades before "I am Groot", V gave us "I am just."
Oh, you mean I am lost
I remember watching the show when it aired live on TV and I still think it's one of the best sci-fi alien invasion shows out there along with Alien Nation which I also thought was great. I really hope the new movies come into fruition and that they live up to the setting that was created in the first release.
This was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid. My sister and I would stay up to watch it religiously, my grandmother however hated it and would tell my sister and I that she was going to get her friends to petition to have the show cancelled. When the series finally got cancelled, I thought my grandmother was serious and I remember not talking to her for close to a year lol. Man, I miss this series
This was a great show I would watch it with my family every week. Great memories!
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode " To Serve Man".
It’s a cookbook!!!
How to cook for forty humans
It kinda DOES!!😁😁😁
Rod Serling was a creative genius. Many shows were inspired by the Twilight Zone.
Those 8 ft tall aliens came here 50 years too early. They should come here now in 2021 when everyone's so fat!
Kenneth Johnson was also the man behind "The Hulk" and "The Bionic Woman" tv shows in the 1970's
I still love the mini series and remember watching it as a kid with my family.
I have the series and the mini series on DVD and watch them all every now & then.
nice video - the other standout scene was the alien baby birth that gave me nightmares as a kid!
Yes!!! It still gives me the creeps!😬
I remember watching that as a child. Horrifying!
Fuck yes terrible
I know, right? That was a jump scare moment.
me too
I was born in 1981 and I still remember this show coming out very well! Even as a child I wasn't scared of the sight of the reptilians yet I was so intrigued by the show. I never even got the symbolism being the red uniforms to the Russian Cold War era at the time either. It was a great example of sci-fi TV with slight narrative added without getting so damn woke like trash TV has become. God, I miss great sci-fi like this today!!
Although the "ongoing series" can be a bit fun at times, for me the story ends more than satisfactorily at the end of V: The Final Battle!
If I remember right it was red dust that killed the aliens?
I remember part 1 of the miniseries came out and I loved it. I thought part two would be out the next day, but no. Days turned to weeks... then months. It finally came out sometime the following year. I was able to record part two almost seamlessly picking up where the first left off with my VCR.
V was great. I totally remember everyone at school was taking about v the mini-series. The tv series ruined it. They should have just stuck to the mini series format and It probably would have lasted for years. Oh well.
Ash I remember that too, and I agree, the mini series was much better.
I totally agree. A better mini series than a regular show.
I have always viewed the first couple of episode of the series as the unofficial 3rd mini series. The quality drops after that with the series becoming very episodic with a crisis of the week type writing instead of a continuing narrative.
Yeah, I remember the alien voices in the mini series but the visitors sounding normal in the tv series. I thought that was super sloppy even as a little kid but evidently it was just due to budget cuts....
I was in the 6th and 7th grade when the mini series were aired and I remember it was huge. We talked about it at school and a classmate even had the V paperback novel that he brought to school with him. We couldn't get enough of it, for awhile we forgot about Star Wars, that's how good V was.
The show used to scare me as a child. I used to watching on 'cable TV' back when Sky was still in its infancy.
V would be more highly regarded today had the series never been made. The two minis were excellent.
I loved the mini-series it was awesome.
I've this series on DVD seen every episode at least 4 times!
A movie trilogy might work. If that doesn't come to fruition, a "three-season" arc on one of the streaming services like Amazon or Netflix could be an option.
I loved as a kid once a year one of the local stations would re-air both mini-series
I loved V as a kid and I still love it. If they show the mini-series on a network I watch it. Alien Nation was also good. What made these shows good was they were thought provoking, especially Alien Nation because they both explored how human and alien worlds would interact both as enemies and as neighbors.
Oh hell yeah. I was obsessed with V!
Loved V and still do! It was a tv cultural phenomenon back in its day. Although I am very pleased to hear that it may come back (the 2009 version stunk), I get worried that today's 'woke Hollywood' will take over with their politics.
@Emmanuel Goldstein I'm forced to agree with you.
@Emmanuel Goldstein Well, the Republicans are reptilian and want to take over our country, and Trump says, vote for me, I'll make America great again, and then there's a rise in hate crimes, so yeah the Visitors are like Nazis/Republicans.
Lamarr Avery OrANgE mAn bAD
Correction: _John,_ played by Richard Herd (who passed away very recently) was in command of the mission, _"Diana"_ was 2nd in command, and the ambitious head scientist, who resented the _The Leader_ chose _John_ to command the mission over her, despite their affair.
When V The Mini Series & The Final Battle first came out, I was an adolescent and it got me into a lot trouble...but worth it. Both series started at 9 to 11pm. My parents were old-fashioned then and had me going to bed at 9 then at 10 pm at the time. But I would sneak into the family room and finish watching the movies. When a commercial came on, I would turn the TV off and hide under the table. They also thought it would give me bad dreams. When the series came out, my folks lightened up and let me stay up later though. Later in life, I bought the VHS tapes. Then tracked down the DVDs. Great movies and series, which I still watch every now and then. I was disappointed by the reboot in 2009.
I had a portable TV in my bedroom, so I snook up and watched it even though my mother said no.
Jonny Baak, Your videos are always concise and entertaining. They are heavy on information and light on fluff. Very well done! Thanks!
Came here to know if the queen was an alien or not but stayed for the memories..
Thank you for all this info.
You're great
Jane was a fox back in the day, I remember having a huge crush on her I was about 9 when the first tv series was on air. The reboot had slow pacing and bad writing.
Starring the gorgeous, late Jane Badler! She lived here in Melbourne for many years and worked off and on as an actress & part time jazz singer! (She had a great voice!) She was still beautiful, but aged ahead of her time due to alcoholism!
She had a recurring role in Neighbours some years back, and she reprised her role as Diana, (Who incidentally was Anna's mother still planted on Earth, from the 1st 'invasion',(stealth) thus kind of linking the 2 series, even tho they were unconnected!))
@@j.j.5731 GLAD to hear it! I'd heard here she'd died about 3 or 4 years ago!!! As she lived here for many years! WEIRD! Happy to hear tho she is still with us!
@@j.j.5731 Err I know that! DID you read my OP?
@@j.j.5731 Cool! NW then! I will check it out!
Her IMDB does not list her work on Neighbours!
I loved both the original mini-series AND the reboot. I remember how much I looked forward to going to school the day after an episode so that I could talk with my friends about it. I was ecstatic when I found out that they were bringing it back.
Love this station!!!!!!!!!
Jane Badler’s son died last week. Send prayers.
@wespozo that's kinda harsh regardless of what you believe or don't believe in, it's sad when somebody's kid dies.
RDV RDV - Oh, man, I didn't know that. Terrible news. Thanx for sharing!
Very sorry to hear of your loss.
😯🙁 my deepest condolences and sympathies for Jand and family
Never nice to hear that, dreams and prayers with them.
I remember this from the 80's loved it
V was the most awesome TV series I ever seen it was my favorite show when I was a kid so fuckin 80's ✌
V needs to be the, V, it was meant to be.
V was great cause the "Beast Master Marc Singer" was in it
LIQUID OCELOT ..he was good and ripped as hell in his beast master movies
The Beast master was my favorite movie when I was a kid.
It made Friday nights worth staying up for, but that scene with Kermit Jr - That was scary.
I really did love this as a kid
I knew, at the time, that “V” wouldn’t last more than the one season when the cast was cut in half
Stand outside as a teen back then:
-The Leader swallowing a rat
-Killing "Freddy" off unexpectedly
-"That one episode" where The Leader's 'number 1' was hinted at some lesbianism stuff
Willie doesn't die in either of the miniseries or the regular series. "Freddy" survives. It's Elias that gets killed off unceremoniously.
Brilliant TV show back when TV was worth watching.
The Teleindiscreta logo brings back so many memories. Man, I'm old...
you are blessed and lucky ☯️😉
I was a little kid when this was on the air, but I still remember seeing a scene where one of the aliens had part of their human skin torn off and it messed me up for a while.
Really looking forward to that Kenneth Johnson movie (if it happens)
One of the only series that I had to watch as it was broadcast, great stuff.
Takes me back to my youth (yep I'm old)
Matter o fact, it still shows on forces tv (uk)
Diana was my childhood crush & mike "beastmaster" Donovan was the coolest white guy on tv.
Um...yes, it was revealed that the aliens come from Sirius. It was in the beginning of the first mini-series. The one character even joked about "serious" and "Sirius" at one point
Yep, John stated that they came from the 4th planet of the star we call Sirius.
Did I not have a thing for Miss Badler oh my she was sizzling hot.
Oh yeah she was a total babe, so much hotter than the blonde chick.
Yes she's very attractive and I feel the same way
@@jasonsgandurra7054 Was.
The series that started me on sci fi and many fond memories growing up watching with the family, so long as Jonny keeps up the good work we don't care
Thank you... Both V mini series, Were great !!!! I'd love to see a movie made with the same love ....
Jane Badler, one of the sexiest Bad Girls ever!
Didn't know about 'V the series' just started watching it on the 'forces TV' here in England. It's a great shame the new V series wasn't given enough time to become better.
It was already going downhill with it's ridiculous writing - there wasn't much to salvage. I stopped watching after "they're approaching pluto, within radar range" OMG get a scientist to read your crap if you're writing science fiction. Like Christopher Nolan does.
What surprised me when going back and re-watching it is how well it has aged, I was afraid it would be terrible dated but aside from some iffy special effects it has stod the test of time very well. It is a surprisingly smart and detailed too, it even explains why the aliens look human and speak english. Something most sci-fi shows and films tend to ignore or gloss over. The less said about the re-boot series, the better however.
I was watching the first tv series episode as it screened in New Zealand in December 1989 and my ill dad died upstairs as the opening credits rolled and I was confined to the lounge as everyone panicked, and I had absolutely no memory of this until I watched this now and hell it's all flooding back.
I don't understand why they removed the aliens voices after the mini series. Still, great series.
I didn't understand the ending though. It felt abrupt. "Yep, we murdered and ate half of you humans. But all is well now. Bye"
Kenneth Johnson OWNS the "V" motion picture rights not TV although is credited as creator. Desilu unfortunately pulled through even though Kenneth had written movie script and casting was underway. Production for a potential "V" and trilogy is now ended. Shame on Warner Bros
Can't he do a 10-part quality series on Hulu, Starz, Netflix, Amazon or HBO?
TV today is NOTHING like it was back then ... you can now do great things .. uninterrupted, drifting over and under the 1hr target time limit [a full 1 hour] as you see fit ... superb actors, beautiful sets and action set-pieces that you can take your time over.
Just imagine a new V ... given the Westworld treatment.
It would be the next Game of Thrones!
@@jazzx251 ...but then ask yourself why isn't Westworld the next Game of Thrones?
@@jazzx251 It could be done and hugely successful.
I remember this show back from the early 80's, my mom loved watching it, and she wasn't even a sci-fi fan lol.
can't wait for the Kenneth Johnson movie Trilogy!
I miss watching this. Hope ken eventually gets to tell the story the way he intended, without "creative differences"
The film They Live was similar. Is someone trying to tell us something ?
As someone who married someone part of a banker connected family named Elizabeth(I'm sure they aren't all named this but it is a very common name as all are names are character names like how you label figures in a simulation"cough cough")I can tell you the lizard thing has to do with the reptilian complex something Fringe portrayed accurately as well as the 6 digits on the left hand & right which is a trait held by the elite of this archetype(yes of course my ex also has 6 fingers each side which is a reference to 11:11/catch 22/ordo ab chao meaning to rig order(order through/from chaos=the build it to break model the false flag model through entropy)with ClawS which is also the skull&bones symbol of Scorpio the poison astrological symbol which in old imagery they show it with its ClawS on Libra-Scale rigging it as the claws also appear as 11:11 or FEFE meaning additionally to put in irons=FE=to imprison.
@@johnmastroligulano7401 Meet your new friend, the period--".".
The Matrix also hints about percieved vs actual reality. Google kundalini meditation and let the rabbit chase begin
I remember as a 12 year old thinking the visitors uniforms and weapons were so cool...I would definitely have been a collaborator just to get the clothes and laser blaster!
Great nostalgia trip, loved the miniseries. Thanx!!!