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TV Series

Series Name:    V [1983] (V: The Original Miniseries) Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 1983 Country:   USA Language: English Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure Rating: 8.0  Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  9 Have Seen » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	Marc Singer as Mike Donovan
	Faye Grant as Juliet Parrish
	Jane Badler as Diana
	Richard Herd as John
	Michael Durrell as Robert Maxwell
	Blair Tefkin as Robin Maxwell
	Michael Wright as Elias Taylor
	Leonardo Cimino as Abraham Bernstein
	Frank Ashmore as Martin
	Robert Englund as Willie
	Evan C. Kim as Tony Wah Chong Leonetti
	Bonnie Bartlett as Lynn Bernstein

Notes

Two-part miniseries. Very successful on its original broadcast, it spawned a sequel - V: The Final Battle (1984) - which led to a weekly TV series over 1984-85. A remake series (featuring some original-series actors in new roles) followed in 2009.

Rebranded V: The Original Miniseries for later home video release.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

V: Miniserien - Warner Home Video - Sweden (2001)

Comments and Reviews

Magic Marmalade 29th Sep 2024		Rated 8/10 I remember this being a real event back in the day, but have not seen it since. So I was pleased to find the DVD sets of both this and The Final Battle in the Charity shop the other day... ...And I've got to say it's even better than I remember it! Imagine Independence Day, but with fully rounded, non cartoonish characters, and depth of story-telling, and rather than a straight up, meat and potatoes alien invasion scenario, like War Of The Worlds, the superficially benign "visitors" have a subtle, fascistic scheme for world domination, with the story focussing on all the interpersonal relationships among the humans experiencing this, and how those character dynamics change when challenged, and what you find you have here is an excellently thought out, brilliantly written analogy for a modern fascist oppression, who's methods are more insidious than a flat out invasion, and who's true motives are far more sinister. Granted, it's very, very eighties in terms of production quality, and the effects have mostly aged pretty badly, but the story is good enough to get over that, and the telling of that story is brilliantly handled. More subtle and nuanced by orders of magnitude than said: Independence Day, as you have human collaborators, as well as Alien, human sympathisers all considered well in the writing. It's just a shame they didn't have the guts back then to go huge with this, and make a three hour, big budget movie of it (which is what this feels like... minus the budget, of course!), if they had, this would have been a landlmark in sci-fi cinema to this day, every bit the equal of the modern iteration of Dune. As it is though, it's still a cracker... and I can't wait to get going on the Final Battle set. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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