V

Series • 1983 - 1983

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Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and extend the hand of friendship. Our planet's resources are just what these aliens need to survive. And for its future survival, unsuspecting humankind will need... a miracle!

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IGN

Forty years ago, a fleet of 50 massive saucer-shaped ships arrived on Earth from deep in outer space, carrying within them legions of red-clad alien Visitors.

ign.com/articles/40-years-after-v-debuted-the-miniseries-still-has-lots-to-say

Common Sense Media

The aliens' plot bears an eerie similarity to the Nazi war machine in the World War II era, though the scapegoats here are scientists who might uncover the Visitors' secret.

commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/v-1983

Horror Cult Films

V deserves more attention and praise as a striking piece of television, and one that was pretty ambitious in its day.

horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2019/09/v-1983-1984-mini-series-review/

The A.V. Club

“Birth Pangs” is the episode of V that confirms my suspicions that the show never had a serious chance of being...

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IMDb

First saw 20 years ago and its fascination to me then has not dimmed. Skillfully told tale of alien contact - 'we come in peace' but this soon changed as a deep and premeditated plot by the aliens to enslave/rape the Earth emerged.

imdb.com/title/tt0085106/

IMDb

i loved this series growing up as a kid, it was one of my fav's along with the movies,, this movie seems to have it all it sets the stage for the series...

imdb.com/title/tt0085106/reviews

Rotten Tomatoes

V is reliable entertainment, a Gothic melodrama that for television is a fresh blend of proven ingredients and spectacular scenes cleverly contrived and in one or two cases so horribly-well-told that your scalp will tingle and your blood turn to ice.

rottentomatoes.com/tv/v_the_original_miniseries/s01

Rotten Tomatoes

V is reliable entertainment, a Gothic melodrama that for television is a fresh blend of proven ingredients and spectacular scenes cleverly contrived.

rottentomatoes.com/tv/v_the_original_miniseries/s01/reviews

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