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I'm old enough to remember the original series. It was an absolute must watch back in the day.

I once met Robert Englund at some kind of Comic Con and everyone had the usual Nightmare on Elm Street memorabilia for him to sign ... I was the only one with a V poster and he was so happy to see (and sign) it, that he took 5 minutes talking to me (and loud enough for everyone else in the line) about every one of the main actors and actresses, what they were doing "now" (that was more than 10 years ago) and so on. He was kind of thankful that someone brought something from V ... it was quite an experience. :-)

I was absolutely floored by this TV show as a kid. It had everything!! Space ships, lasers, aliens and above all it wasn’t corny and the acting was superb

When I was a grad student, I was working on a game based on "V". I was in direct communication with Kenneth and he told me the HUGE backstory to "V". Basically, the visitors were at war with an insect race, and the lizards were losing horribly. Not only were their soldiers dying, but resources such as their water and food was depleting. Hence, they came to earth -- for food, water, and human soldiers. You can actually see a hint of this war towards the end of the original "V" in which the human resistance attempts to contact the insect race to inform them the lizards are on earth. In "V The Final Battle", this plot line was abandoned because it was considered too expensive to bring in another major alien race and begin a war on earth. In the original concept by Kenneth, there was no such thing as "the red dust". That was invented by the production company because it was cheaper to film than an all out war with insects on planet earth. One final note: Remember how in the original "V" series they were giving humans military training and uniforms? Yup, that was to prepare them for war against the insects. It wasn't just their "pet" project. Not all humans were destined as food. Kenneth never did say if the insects would have been human allies. For all we know, it could have been a 3-way war between humans, lizards, and insects -- which I guess kinda freaked out the production company who then opted for "the red dust".

'They live' and 'V' are my two favourite documentaries

Robert Englund's character Willie was such a lovely character. Showed how versatile Robert's acting could be. Not just scary nightmare knife man😊

I was 10 when the original miniseries aired, and was instantly obsessed. My friends and I played V, I wrote what is now called fan fiction about V all throughout my teens, and will still watch the entire saga every few years. In the 80s V was a phenomenon!

ONE of the highest rated mini-series of ALL time. I was 15 when this aired on NBC in the spring of 1983. back at a time/early 80's. when the WHOLE family would watch T.v together. NOT because we wanted to, many families just could only afford ONE T.v set. LOL LOL

You haven't lived life unless you saw this when it came out. It was like a movement. So awesome

Mock it if you will, but that alien baby reveal was truly frightening back in the day lol I was obsessed with the show: from the chilling opening theme to Diana's super villainy. Really formed a big part of growing up in the 80's ✌️🥲

I LOVED watching this show with my Dad in the 80s. Someone below mentioned that it was like a movement when it aired. People talked about V as if it was really happening. Miss those feelings.

I got to meet Marc Singer, Jane Badler and Robert Englund at a convention in ATL a few years ago. They were all awesome, friendly and engaging!

The memories! V was frightening, amazing, unnerving, and groundbreaking. I will NEVER forget watching it back in 1983 as a 12 year old, fascinated along with my brother. We we GLUED to the TV and it was all the rage to talk about with friends at school the next day. Those damn lizards gave me nightmares!

Wouldn't be surprised if this is going to be how 2021 turns out.

The original series was fantastic. The theme music with the red V zooming out got it started right. My mom made me a visitor uniform with art supplies for Halloween one year, my all time favorite costume.

I like some of the scenes with Chamino. He is disgusted with his grandson serving with the visitors and that he wants the girl, so he throws the drink into his face. Also the one where he shows the kids how to use the spray paint on the posters to be in the V shape. "Remember V for victory. Tell your friends." You forgot to mention Martin, Barbara, and the fifth cullomn. The Visitors that are helping the Resitance. That also brought a cool dynamic to the show.

That scene where the woman gives birth to a lizard baby freaked me out as a kid.

I remember the human "hitler youth" guy that met his end at the hands of Steven. Steven tells him something like "you will be the last place you can be useful...on a serving platter..." and a couple aliens drag him off with the guy begging Steven. Really chilling.

Well done, this was hysterical took me back to being 11. Michael Ironside played the same exact character in every movie he was in. Seeing Freddie without makeup blew our minds 😂

I remember this when I was a kid... one of the scenes that stuck with me the most, involved a human betraying his own kind in order to free his wife, whom the V's had "arrested". After doing what they wanted, he was shocked when he was arrested himself. "Wait, wait... you said you would let my wife go, that we would be together by dinner time" "You misunderstood me, what I said was, the two of you would be together.... for dinner" 😋

I was 12 years old when this came out. This show was HUGE at the time. I can still remember some scenes like it was yesterday. Anybody remember the limited tv series Ewoks The Battle for Endor?

The series scared the living daylights out of me as a kid. The creators of the series didn't hold back on the body horror at all.

Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video. I had the original V & new V on dvd & I loved them so much

I actually got goosebumps remembering this show. Great job!

The female brunette villain was the standout of the show. She was perfectly casted and stole every scene she was in.

I was 7 or maybe 8 when this was aired in the UK and couldn't believe it when my Mum let me stay up and watch it. Always remember the hamster scene and lizard reveal! So good

discovered your content this afternoon and have been binge watching since. excellent

Very nice review, I grew up watching all episodes of "v" on TV. Very nice memories. Thank you!

I was born 1983 I’ve been screwed from the start. This plot sounds exactly what is going on today in 2021.

V was an amazing series. Both Kenneth Johnson and Brandon Tartikoff were right to think kids of that generation couldn't believe "why we fight" because at that time it just wasn't something that seemed like it could happen. The idea of having them be aliens really worked. I just wish it was on streaming services so the current generation could learn these lessons.

I saw this as an 8 year old. I recall being so devastated when the alien twin child had an allergic reaction to her sister & died. My sister has always been my best friend and the thought of being the cause of her death was devastating. Edit to add: I was also uneasy that the adults in the show did not seem to feel significant sorrow at the child's death.

You can’t replace these original classic tv shows! I was 9 years old when this popped up on tv! Classic stuff👍🏻

I have the entire series on DVD. Love this show. It's just nuts. lol.

I was 12 when this came out. It was absolutely massive and dominated everything. The entire household would gather to watch it.

I watched the original show and it blew my mind. I recently showed it to my kids and they loved it too.

I loved this show, I had all the paper book back books too when they came out. I was saddened to see this fine show to end so abruptly but here is to hoping that V could make a comeback.

Jesus, Jane Badler was hot.

The rat eating scene stayed in my head for almost 40years...

Excellent presentation and well written!!!

This show was awesome!! I watched all the shows & the series……i was sad to see when it was cancelled. I was a big Marc singer fan! Thank you for the commentary and the wonderful memories…..i thought i was the only one!

V was the best, I remember being 9 and losing my mind if I thought there was a chance I could miss an episode

When I first saw this show, I was going through puberty, and I wasn’t old enough to figure out why it occupied my thoughts so much. It both haunted and inspired me, and was the game I wanted to play with my friends, all the time. It was the writing. So glad you did this one. The stir of echoes was all I needed to bring it all back for me. Such great writing and such great (for its day) action and special effects. How could a pre-teen NOT love this? And, oh Diana . . . Her wedding with Charles, at the time of the Royal Wedding, kept them in the headlines. But, I lost a lohhhht of sleep over Diana 😉✌️👍. Thank you

Man I remember waiting for each episode to see what happened next as a 22 year old. My other favorite mini-series was North & South.

I was a baby when it came out but fascinated by it, when the remake came out i was psyched and then crushed when it cancelled. So many good shows all over the years just cancelled.

I think it is important to remember that any totalitarian government is always going to promise more than it is going to deliver, regardless of whether we "call" it fascist or not. Orwell pointed out how recklessly the term was thrown around in his time. For me the key word is totalitarian where whatever government had complete control over it's people. Jefferson said it best: "The government that governs best, governs least." Keep that in mind and you'll figure it out.

I remember the movie and the show. The 80s were phenomenal

One of the few series that had a perfect ending imo. The lizards got their due and the world celebrated.

One of my all time favorites. The re-make was just so-so.

Abrahams wife was taken to the “showers with no water” that line got me, but he scene where his daughter in law was reading the letter he left behind when the visitors took him had me bawling! That was good acting!

I remember watching V when I was a kid and excitedly talking about episodes with my friends at school.

Omg I loved this she never missed a episode one favorite show thank you so much for this 💯♥️👏

Man I loved V. As an 8 year old, I was Uber impressed. Still am. Thanks for bringing it back!

I didn't exist in the 80s or 90s. I'm still quite young. I legit just watched V because I wanted to watch something with Robert Englund in it that wasn't hardcore horror. And I got hooked right in. It's one of my favourite shows now! I even have Funko Pops and one of the comics. I am constantly trying to convince people my age to watch it too because it's so much fun, so dark, and...so relevant.

Michael Ironside basically played the same character in "Total Recall" and it was still awesome.

Watched it when I was kid. Never thought that it would turn out to be a true story.

I was a kid when this came out and loved the mini series so much. Don't forget about Alien Nation too...

Found the DVDs to the original mini-series at a garage sale. I got so exited and ripped them to my plex server immediately. Love this series. Bonus fact observation. I think that ID4 took direct inspiration from the opening ship reveal sequence from V. Watch them back to back and it is striking.

Loved this show as a kid lol man I wish the 80's never passed ,such a fun time!

Nice video, loved this show as a kid. Slight correction here - Lydia was played by June Chadwick, Lane Smith played Nathan Bates. Love this series of videos, please keep them coming!

I have loved V since it first came out. Ham Tyler was and still is my favorite character on the show. It also introduced me to Michael Ironside, who remains my favorite actor to this day.

It has always reminded me of “They Live”. If you haven’t seen that movie I would suggest checking it out.

V series, scared the shit out of me

Loved this show! I remember it premiered in the spring of 1983 when I was 14 years old. I can't tell you how huge this miniseries was when it came out. Everyone talked about it at school. It was back in days when the whole family would watch TV together. This brings back a lot of good memories and it's mind-boggling it's been 40 years since it's release.

The sound of the guns was the best part for me. Good sci-fi has iconic sounds. The THWWWWOOOOOM of the lasers was unlike percussive laser zaps of the past.

What also was fairly unique about the series is that it was serialized. It didn't hit the reset button at the end of every single episode. They were doing actual longform storytelling which is commonplace today but unheard of then.

When this came out I was 7 or 8 and I can remember being terrified and excited all the way through the miniseries! I made sure to plan my life around that show. Remember we didn't have dvrs or pay per view back then lol.

I watched this as a kid with my mom in the 80s. It was a big hit!

"They're after the _water!"_ I remember this show well, it was great.

MAN, this is still one of my Favorite Shows Of All TIME!!😃😀😎😎

I remember that picture. The skull buried in the foreground with the ship hovering in the background! An excellent piece of foreshadowing! It, to me, was the most memorable single instant from that entire series! Also, I think this was the beginning of the tradition of giving Michael Ironside at least a cameo in your sci-fi.

Thanks for sharing your video about v

I watched V in the early '90s. I remember having the flu but my Mum was such a fangirl of the show, she got me up at midnight to watch the rebroadcast in our area. LOL good memories

I find that V feels like "they live".

Great video.. makes me want to revisit this series, watched it when it was originally on tv and very fond memories of it.. And Ham Tyler was the quintessential tv Badass.

I did not receive the network this was on as a kid. I remeber kids at school talking about it. Sounded awesome.

Suddenly being offered a mRNA vaccine for all our woes for the promise of a better life makes this show even better than ever.

This was a huge hit back then, Americans were glued to the TV watching this mini series and we loved it. 8)

When I was child in the 90s my mom bought this on tape man it was good 👍.

This was a great mini series and the effects both visually and on the audio side were cool.

This hit show was on before satellite TV so everyone watched it prime time

I was a fan of V back then and I still love it now!

I remember having to be really really good to stay up to watch V. absolutely LOVED it.

I rewatched this recently and it still stands up. Definitely worth a look.

I was 11 whenever this show aired and I remember everyone talking about it. The conversation started on my school bus then went all day. My friends were spray painting a big red V on everything. The birth of the goulie lizard baby really stood out in my mind, I remember it looking so much more real and freaky, but I was ELEVEN YEARS OLD. Crazy how your mind remembers things from when we were kids. I did thinm

40 years later and I can still remember that line. "Don't you see? They have to stay, or we won't have learned a thing!!" Very powerful words!!! I actually really liked both miniseries, including the "Red Dust" ending and celebrations, and the delivery system via hot air balloons. Remember those? But I never could get into the TV series at all so I missed most of that. And what I saw of the 2009 reboot, I did not like at all. The characters of the Miniseries are what drew me to that program. All the later stuff had completely different characters.

I freaking LOVED watching this as a kid and SQUEALED when my mom got me the mini series and tv show on DVD a few years ago 😁

I have this entire series on dvd and I love it so much!!!

This series needs a PROPER reboot. The original was amazing, great music, great cast, good story, loved the ships, the weapon sounds - everything. It was an ambitious TV show that worked.

This is great 🤣 loved it!! And your intro of Michael Ironside had me laughing hard🤣🤣 Mike was the man! 😎👍

One of my all-time favorite Sci-Fi shows..! I was 14-15 when this came out in 83', went US Fest that yr too!

Robert Englund I remember him in V. V kind of reminds you of a extended version of The Twilight Zone episode ,To Serve Man.

Thank you for covering V. I always loved this mini series. The original was well thought out showing how things really could happen here.

Oh man, loved this movie when I was a kid. Same thing happened today and will still be happening until the end.

I remember watching this min series when I was in primary school, it still gives me the shivers.

This was my s* BACK IN THE DAY I MISS THE 1980s

I loved this show in the 80's when it was first shown on UK TV, it introduced me to Michael Ironside and his cool anti-hero character Ham Tyler.

80's and 90's had some of the most imaginative television and movies. I miss those days.

This was the first miniseries, I've ever got into, decades before Netflix existed.

This series made me laugh. Made me cry. Made me think. Made me cheer. Was a big influence towards my decision to enlist in the USMC. They don’t make shows like this anymore. Was it perfect? No. But better than most stuff that’s on TV even now.