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EPISODE GUIDE
There are 19 episodes in the
series, which ran from October of 1984 until May of 1985. The two
mini-series part one aired May of 1983, with the second part of the mini
airing May of 1984.
As usual with the 70's and 80's Sci-Fi
series, the creative writing was not there. Another fate the series
suffered was the lack of budget.
1. Liberation Day
It has been nearly one year
since the Visitors were forced from the Earth because of the red dust. The
visitor leader Diana who was captured to await trial for crimes against
humanity escapes. Ham Tyler and Donavan chase after her. Diana reaches a
communication/tracking center and radios the Visitor fleet in space to
come pick here up. A visitor craft descends and Diana rejoins her fleet
who is still within the bounds of the Earth's solar system. Visitor fifth
columnist Martin from V: The Final Battle is killed by Diana and the
starchild Elizabeth goes into a cocoon state of metamorphosis. Elias opens
up a bar known as Club Creole. It later is to serve as a hideout for human
resistance forces when the Visitors attack the Earth again.
2. Dreadnaught
The starchild Elizabeth
awakes from her cocoon and re-emters the world as a fully grown woman. She
still has the mentality of a child though. Former human resistance leader
Julie Parrish and Robert Maxwell holdup in a small ranch and attempt to
help the starchild Elizabeth cope with her new physical form. Visitor
shocktroopers arrive at the ranch and attempt to take the starchild and
nearly succeed until the red dust slowly kills them off. Nathan Lane, the
head of Scientific Frontiers the company responsible for mass producing
the red dust toxin that killed off the visitors in the past strikes a deal
with visitor leader Diana. Los Angeles is to be an open city where there
will be no hostilities between visitors and humans, and no weapons. By so
setting this up Nathan becomes a governor of sorts for the city. The
visitors discover that the red dust toxin needs a period to regenerate as
it is a bacteria, with such being the case areas of warmer climate pose
less of a red dust threat than areas of cold weather. Diana is introduced
to the new commander of the Visitor fleet Lydia, and takes an assessment
of her fighting forces. Diana attempts to destroy Los Angeles to get out
of her deal with Nathan Lane, but the resistance pilots a former captured
Visitor mothership into a giant particle beam weapon in space to save the
city at the cost of Robert Maxwell's life.
3. Breakout
Mike Donavan and Ham Tyler
attempt to rescue Mike's son Sean but get captured and put in a visitor
prison camp. At the camp creatures that live within the sand prevent
prisoners from escaping. Nathan Bates' son Kyle is also at the prison
camp. Diana wants the starchild and bargains with Nathan for Elizabeth in
exchange for his son Nathan. Nathan begins to search for the starchild in
Los Angeles but Kyle escapes before such a search to find her has really
been completed. Mike, Ham, and Kyle escape the prison compound.
4. The Deception
Kyle Bates becomes more
and more a part of the resistance rather than a pawn of his father's
schemes. Kyle finds the starchild Elizabeth and gives her a ride on a
motorcycle. On the way Kyle finds and retrieves a pouch from a jet fighter
that is shot down. The pouch has a resistance message inside requesting
the starchild Elizabeth be transported to New York for safety. Mike
Donavan is captured and the sensual visitor Lydia attempts to extract
information through holographic technology; she pretends to be Julie. A
mock picture of the starchild as a little girl gives away this scheme to
Mike who then forces his way out and escapes.
5. The Sanction
Mike Donavan finally finds
his son Sean in a visitor youth education training center. Mike battles
the vistior instructer Klaus who attacks with a lazer whip.
6. Visitors Choice
Visitor commander are
planning a major meeting to discuss a new advance in human food processing
technology. The resistance gets wind of this and plans a raid. Nathan
Bates worries about the path his son is undertaking with the resistance
and dispatches his assistance Mr. Chiang to question him and "talk
some sense into him."
7. The Overlord
The small town of
Rawlinsville is being used as a source of cobalt, an energy source for
visitor weapons. A gang of humans forces the townsfolk to mine the cobalt
in exchange for financial gain from the visitors. The resistance plans an
attack to free the town.
8. The Dissident
Diana presents a scheme to
Nathan Bates to enclose the city in a forcefield to increase their mutual
control of Los Angeles. The resistance captures the force field's creator
and attempts to take down the force field before it can become a problem.
9. Reflections in Terror
Diana steals a blood sample
from the starchild Elizabeth. From this blood sample, Diana creates a
clone of the starchild which escapes. The visitor's best tracker is
dispatched to track down the clone. A showdown ends with the clone dying
to protect the real starchild. Ham Tyler and Mike Donavan smuggle orphan
children into Los Angeles where they meet up with Ham's old buddy Chris
Farber from V: The Final Battle.
10. The Conversion
A new commander Charles, is
dispatched to the Visitor fleet. There he plans to brainwash Ham Tyler
into killing Mike Donvan. While trying to carry out the killing, Ham
shoots Nathan Bates of Scientific Frontiers instead.
11. The Hero
Diana dispatches one of her
lieutenants, James in a mission to sabatoge the credibility of the
resistance. James terrorizes LA in human disguise with his unit of
shocktroopers who are pretending to be Resistance members.. Diana then
threatens to kills resistance sympathesizers if resistance leaders Ham,
Julie, and Mike do not surrender. Diana places John a visitor spy into the
human resistance amidst the confusion.
12. The Betrayal
Visitor spy John continues
with his plan to impreganate Robin in hopes of producing another starchild
for Diana. Willie of the Resistance gets shot while gathering information
from a Visitor fifth columnist. While all of this is going on Kyle becomes
suspicious of his dad actually being alive while seeing him speak on TV in
a most healthy manner inspite of the devestating injuries he has suffered.
13. The Rescue
Los Angeles is no longer an
open city after Nathan Bates is found out to be dead. The visitors take
advantage of this and launch an all out attack. Julie protects a pregnant
lady and Visitor Charles plans to marry Diana so that he may better
control her.
14. The Champion
While delivering weapons to
resistance forces in Arizona Mike Donavan stumbles upon a small community
under rule by Visitor collaborators. Mike empowers the community to
resist. Visitor commander Lydia is about to be executed for treason for
killing her superior Charles via poison. Before this can happen, a new
commander Inspector General Phillip arrives. Phillip is played by Frank
Ashmore who played visitor fifth columnist Martin before he was killed.
Phillip is Martin's twin brother. Phillip decides that the fate of Lydia
will be tried in combat with Diana. The two female warriors decorate
themselves in battle paint and go at it with sharpened staffs. When new
evidence is introduced which shows that Lydia's prints were not on the
glass that poisoned Charles the fight to the death is ended. Phillip
invokes the inter-guardian rule which is meant to assure that neither
Lydia nor Diana will harm the other until Charlie's true killer can be
uncovered. The inter-guardian rule makes Lydia a protector of Diana, and
Diana a protector of Lydia. If anything happens to one of them then the
other is held accountable.
15. The Wildcats
Diana and Lydia place the
blame for the death of Charles their superior on a low ranking pharmacist
Marta because her prints were on the glass used to kill him. The
resistance enlists the aid of a youthful band of teenagers known as the
Wildcats to help them locate a vaccine for diphtheria, an epidemic that is
spreading rapidly.
16. The Littlest Dragon
A fifth columnist and his
pregnant wife flee a mothership with crystals necessary to power the
defensive lasers of a mothership. Inspector General Phillip tracks them to
earth and surrounds them with a laser cannon and shocktroopers. Among the
troopers is a bloodthirsty visitor warrior known as Angela. Angela is
promised a battlefield command position by Diana if she can kill Phillip.
The family of visitor refugess finds there way to an abandoned warehouse
where Mike Donavan, Kyle, and Willie provide protection. Willie helps
deliver the visitor baby. Phillip battles Mike Donavan in hand to hand
combat for honor because he believes Mike killed his brother Martin when
in reality Diana did. After witnessing Mike's bravery, Phillip comes to
the conclusion that Mike is a man of honor. The bloodthirsty visitor
Angela attempts to kill Phillip but is shot from behind.
17. War of Illusions
The supreme visitor leader
sends a battlesphere to the Visitor fleet with his ultimate battle plan
for victory against the Earth. The plan is to be carried out in an
entirely automated computer driven fashion. The resistance breaks into
Scientific Frontiers and gains access to a powerful computer. With the aid
of a hacker the resistance hacks the Visitor's computer network and alters
the battlesphere plan so it will fail. The premise of this episode is
lunacy, as its hard enough for Apple operating system computers to
interface with Microsoft operating systems let alone with unknown variants
like an alien computer network would be. This episode is just like the
later Independence
Day movie where one lone Mac created virus takes down a vast computer
driven Alien mothership attack force. Its not logical nor feasible. This
is feel good TV at its worst.
18. The Secret Underground
Visitor commander Lt.
James' squad acquires a disk with the locations of resistance gathering
points. Mike and Julie sneak into the Visitor mothership in disguise to
try to retrieve it before the information can bring harm to the
resistance. Onboard the mothership Lydia's brother is scheduled to be
sacrificed as part of the Visitor Holy Feist of Romalon since he is the
youngest officer onboard. Lydia blackmales Diana into agreeing to allow
her brother's life to be spared and the resistance destroys a virus
designed to kill people during this episodes adventure onboard the
mothership.
19. The Return
The Visitor's leader
arrives on Earth from the Visitor home world. He orders an end to all
visitor hostilities on Earth and the leaders of the resistance and their
visitor enemies gather onboard the Diana's mothership. The leader leaves
in a shuttle with the starchild Elisabeth but Diana has planted a bomb on
the shuttle which rises slowly. The fate of the visitor leader and of V
itself was left to guesswork after V was cancelled with this very pivotal
point in the saga.
Episode synopsis provided by MovieProp.com.
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