V. From the 80's Mini-Series to 2009 Reboot. V will Rock You. 

V is one of my most memorable TV experience. When the miniseries aired, it felt like it was an event.

Watching V as a 7 year old was something special I can tell you.

V was scary but good. It was definitely a deep part of 80s culture

Dear God I loved this series back in the 80's. Had so much pleasure meeting up with Jane Badler and Marc Singer a few years back. Absolutely wonderful people :)

Jane Badler as Diana gave one of the best villain performances I've seen. And she was smokin' hot.

Man, I remember watching each episode with incredible intensity as a kid. I remember this was massive back then, families got together to watch. It was great. Kinda like Game of thrones big.

The 80s mini-series still holds up as far as being a good story.

V Was absolutely epic. The vehicles were awesome and the cast were great actors. Diana was an amazing villain. I love watching my DVD collection of this historical masterpiece.

Damn the 80’s had the best shows. A-Team, Knight rider , Airwolf , etc . Great time to be a kid !!

The scene where the Resistance rips the fake face off of the alien leader rings so true with people-you can place the truth right in front of them and they refuse to acknowledge it because it would destroy the reality that they've constructed for themselves. My sister and I tuned in every night when this premiered, the 80's were great to be a kid. Rebadow and Omar White from 'Oz' were in this!

one of the best alien invasion shows I've ever seen!

*The (ORIGINAL) V was so bad ass. I remember watching this series with my Mom, while lying on the floor, and doing my homework. And I would stop working during the show, and doing homework only during commercials. I had such great memories of this show. I actually knew the little girl who played Elizabeth (V-Final Battle).*

The birth scene of the alien looks a bit silly now, but scared the crap out of me when I first watched it as a child....

Was only 6 when the original miniseries dropped but I will never forget the moment that Diana walked down the platform in that jumpsuit and it made me feel things... crazy.

V was massive in the UK as ITV (the commercial broadcaster) showed the two original mini series (1983, 2 part & 1984, 3 part) over the course of 5 nights during the 1984 Winter Olympics being shown on the BBC. Given there were only 4 TV channels, no streaming, no Internet, very basic gaming, and 99% in the UK couldn't care less about the Winter Olympics, it was a must-see smash hit. EVERYONE saw it.

I LOVED the original V when I was a kid, funny thing is that I didnt much remember it til watching this video and wow all the memories came back from it, SO cool haha

I remember having a crush on Diana back in the 80s.😃 theres something deliciously evil about her that you just can't resist.🤩

Seeing Jane Badler, Marc Singer & Robert Englund at a V PANEL at DragonCon2019 was so Incredibly AWESOME !! Marc Singer could NOT sit still, so he paced the stage with his microphone, answering fan questions. They had Cosplayers as Visitor Guards, etc, it was Incredible, I look forward to ever being able to go to another such panel.

I was glued to the TV set for the first two miniseries as was my entire family. The story told here is if anything even more relevant today than it was in the 80s...

Peak 80s, the best decade ever!

I recently read Kenneth Johnson's official follow up to the original miniseries, The Second Generation. On a whim, I emailed him afterwards, thanking him for a story that I started when I was eight - that's thirty seven years ago. Amazingly, he replied the following day. I didn't stop grinning for ages. Lovely guy. I hope he manages to get his V film project off the ground.

I love the original V. The sound effects really got me. I love the swishing sound of the pistols and also the sound that they made when they talk and when their spacecrafts hovered or flew around.

The actor Marc Singer (Mike Donovan, in "V") was a fellow Kung Fu student with me in seattle. We have stayed friends ever since. He is really nice, honest. Has come to Seattle often to participate in local Kung Fu events (For Sifu John Leong)

That serie was epic. Great memories

Blew my mind in 83 when this came along, "mousey mousey"

I've had the DVD box sets for years. I've lost count how many times I've watched the first 2 mini-series. I'll never get tired of it!

10:05 When my friends and I watched this as teenagers, we loved that the baby was named Elizabeth so we could re-name her A Lizard Birth. ;)

The reason the "Willie" character had such a difficult time with English was through the visitor bureaucracy he was transferred from a ship destined for the Middle East. So he had Arabic and English languages mixing around in his head. In the scene where Willie was lost at the refinery he says he was "just". A sound-alike mixup. Having known a person who spoke Arabic the sounds and reflections are quite staggering.

Love this when it first came out. It was in a time that if you wanted to watch a TV show you had to plan a head and be on time or you come miss something or the whole show and be at a lost. My Dad made sure we never missed any of the first miniseries. He was like our DVR

Bloody hell this programme predicted our hell hole of a world we live in now ... All politicians are the lizards !

12:49 - Daniel’s villain comeuppance to being hauled and eaten was stone cold and perfect…also pure nightmare fuel as a kid.

LOVED this series as a kid.

Only Michael Ironside and his perennial ginger sidekick was bad ass enough to pull off a character called Ham. I would also let Jane Badler eat as many of my guinea pigs as necessary.

Faye Grant and Jane Badler made 12-year-old me feel funny in places. (In interviews, Badler is actually super nice and funny.)

Who wouldn't want our water? It's amazing😅 I love every version of V❤

The V movies and series from the 80s were awesome. So well done.

The original V was amazing.

Amazing how generations never look back,so sad. I mean, it's obvious. Today's haughty fast overfed Covid times would call for a little peep at masterpieces like these. Am smiling.

I watched it in about 1984 when I was 8 and it's so memorable for me I had to go to bed and get up at 10:40 pm to watch on Mondays.

The first series was so awesome. I remember turning the knobs on the tv and adjusting the antenna to get it in clearly.😂. The mini series was good too!

The greatest mini series from the 80's. Should have been a movie, I can only imagine if they were given a movie budget instead of TV money.

It's a shame that Kenneth Johnson never got to make his sequel to V, because the original miniseries left a huge plot hole dangling that was never resolved by V: The Final Battle, namely, Martin informing Mike Donovan that the Visitors had a "great enemy" that had defeated them once before. After Donavan informs Julie about this enemy, the original series ends with Julie and Elias breaking into SETI(Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and pointing an antenna dish into space towards the coordinates that Martin gave Donovan in an attempt to contact these other aliens in the hopes that they could be allies against the Visitors. The sequel would have revealed that this other alien race was an insectoid race called "Zedti" who initially agree to ally themselves with the humans against the Visitors upon their arrival on Earth, but soon prove to have their own sinister agenda for Earth, which ironically forces the human resistance to align with the remaining Visitors who have survived the Zedti onslaught for their mutual survival. Diana was also going to have begun to develop human emotion and empathy after having lived in a human form for so long, and her storyline would see her attempting to reconcile these emotions with her reptilian self. It sounds like a fascinating storyline, one that unfortunately we'll never get to see. NBC executives wanted a sequel that would go in a different direction, hence the more action/adventure-oriented, The Final Battle.

I am a huge fanboy of this hit mini series from the 80s .a great story with a great cast of characters ,from news camera men Mike Donovan to dirty Diana to John leader of the fifth column to July and Clint and Elias thus series was drama filled and frightening. I can't tell you how many times I was on the edge of my seat hoping that the resistance and especially Donovan escaped the visitors.

I watched it in the 80s and it blew my mind. It still holds up now as well.

I used to play V wearing my Lazer Tag Star cap and vest. I got in trouble once for making a red flag with the alien visitors logo. I didn't know, I was just a kid.

I was 9 when this came out I remember it shocked and entertained me at the same time, my young vocabulary didnt have words for the feelings that I was overwhelmed with, even now at 47 I am reminded of how ambitious a production this was for the time...and yes Diana was everything you describe....

I come from the UK and as a kid this was such a scary series, but also exciting watching it with my family. 80s were amazing.

I LOVE the mini series, the series I lost interested as a youngster ;). But I still have love for it. It's unforgettable!

I think it's cool that you can see the actors getting progressively better at acting as the mini series plays out.

My parents were hippies. Didn't watch much TV unless PBS growing up. This was the first not news or PBS TV show I saw. I was 6 and it scared the shit out of me.

I remember you could always tell the kids at school who got to watch V, they were always spreading glue on themselves so they could "peel away" their human skin on the playground at recess.

Beastmaster and Freddie Kruger! Quite the dynamic duo!

The scenes where the dude is eating an onion and one of the dude eating a rat. Etched in my brain!

Outstanding as always Stan . . . outstanding! 👌 You brought back lots of great memories. 👍 I loved - V - at the time. Again you hit the nail on the head. After the two mini series, the series was all over the place.

Diana and Lydia were the real reason to watch this

I enjoyed the original of the series in the 1980's. It scared the crap out of me and my family and we were glued to the screen. I had no knowledge of the 2009 reboot. I was busier then in college and learning, no time for sci-fi. Saddening, yet true.

It's funny how at the time you don't always recognize how bad something is while you're having fun watching it. I was in high school at the time all of V came out and I and my buddies loved it, especially "Dirty" Diana for obvious hormonal reasons. Now, when I say bad, I'm only talking about the TV series, not the mini-series and Final Battle. My history teacher loved the show as well and allowed me and my friends to make a V flag, the Visitor's loose version of, let's be honest, a swastika, and put it up along all of the other flags of the world that adorned the classroom's walls. It was the 80s, and we could still have fun back then.

I loved the series as an 80s kid and really enjoyed the 2009 reboot, even though as a VFX artist myself the virtual sets were painfully obvious.

I first saw this as a 5 year old when it re-aired in 1987 and when they revealed that the Visitors were harvesting humans for food it gave me nightmares for months . I was terrified of aliens and UFOs all through my childhood because of V

9 years old 1983 .loved this show .nothing stoped the fam to watch it..man i miss the 80,s

80s series was great and she (Diana) was wonderful :)

Watching this as a 11 year old in the 1980's. I felt sad for the baby alien reptile which was born and died. Character 'Willy' was so sweet. Amazing that he went on to become, one of the most popular names in horror ever.

V was first sci-fi series that I saw after soviet union collapse and sat tv was made available. blew my noggin, very fond memories.

Joe Harnell's score for "V: The Miniseries", Barry De Vorzon's theme for "V: The Final Battle", Dennis McCarthy's scores for "V: The Final Battle" and "V: The Series" are all unbelievably AWESOME.

The lizard commander was a fox, but I really enjoyed the side players alot.

I loved V when I was growing up

I think another thing people often forget, which is quite beautiful, is that all of these characters KNEW each other before the visitors arrived. They lived in the same small neighborhood and were all related in some way to each other before things went bad.

I still rewatch the mini series every few years or so. The third episode which climaxes with the hospital unmasking of John is absolutely sublime. And Gods... I loved Julie !

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a print of the original V series this clear and crisp before. All I remember is the blurry 80s TV broadcast and the even blurrier VHS tapes we recorded it onto..!

Shuttle craft came right out of Space 1999. God loved that series, dr Helena looked smashing,she was in her '40's but who cares I was 14 lol.

Thanks for the nostalgia V was a significant part of my childhood

I remember the scene where Julie was being converted by Diana. It made me want to come and rescue her.

I absolutely loved the original mini series when I was a kid, the vibe was on point, which is exactly what the remake got wrong!

Omg ! Loved this show. we would all crowd around in front of the little tv on top of the big tv and watch this show every week faithfully. GOOD TIMES!👍🏾

I was a little kid when this came out. I absolute loved it. Enjoyed this flashback. Those costumes and that hair! No..

I've met Robert Englund , ( Willy ) , a few times , extremely nice man! And I happily met the one, the only , Queen Lizard herself , Diana! I was star struck meeting both of them. But I really loved the Diana character, lol. I had to tell her about me watching the show with my parents when i was 12 years old, and the night it showed the skin on her face peeled off I went crazy! Lol. And that everyone in school was talking about it ! V

Remember watching this in UK in 84 during lost Angeles Olympics. At about midnight.

"V" was awesome when you're an eight year-old boy in the early 80s. i loved it. even the novelisations that expanded and extended the series were half-decent. then the reboot came along and SHAT all it. you also left-out the obvious note about how, for the early 80s, "V" had a diverse cast with women shown leading before it became a woke, post-millennium trope.

Loved your tour of V and was even impressed that you mention the Diana bobblehead!

V was an excellent miniseries that excited kids everywhere.

"You say Dynasty, I say Rhinoplasty, let's call the whole thing off..." I really appreciate this overview. I'm going to check out the original and the reboot.

V is a great show and I still enjoy both the classic show (mostly the earlier material) and the 2009 reboot. The commentary here was very enjoyable and I laughed out loud a few times whic was unexpected (Alfa Romeo, colonoscopy). Very much enjoyed this style of video retrospective. You've earned a new subscriber. 😁

I was about 13 years old when in this aired on Dutch TV, At school the next day we discussed the epidsode with my class mates.

I was obsessed with V when I was in high school in the 80s.

The first V two-part mini series was brilliant. Then the follow up 3 part Final Battle continued it and it was brilliant. The 1984 19 episode Mini TV series became a bit of a farce and ratings dropped right off. As for the 2009 reboot, they removed all the 80's fast paced gritty action and replaced it with a slow burn drama.

About a dozen or so "V" novels came out as well, some dealing with the main cast and some telling stories about completely different resistance efforts. All were set in the TV series time period, except for the best of the lot: "V: East Coast Crisis" which tells the story of events of the original invasion set in New York City. It was written by A.C. Crispin, who penned the novelization of the original miniseries and The Final Battle. Interestingly, she was given a contract to write the two miniseries as two books. After the publisher decided to put both novelizations in a single book, Crispin was still contracted to do that second V book, so they decided to tell a story parallel to the original but taking place in New York. Also, Kenneth Johnson came out with a sequel of his own in novel form, called "V: the Second Generation". In this, he ignores all TV material after the original miniseries and starts the story 20 years later with the occupation continuing. It continues the storyline of contacting the Visitor's enemy, who arrives and might not be trustworthy. Definitely worth reading.

This was one of the most underrated science fiction series of all times. But it was great 👍

Thank you for this.. I want to see the whole serie again.

I remember watching V as a kid and being terrified and having nightmares lol, especially its music at the start of the show. I just recently watched the 80's mini-series about a week ago. It will always be one of my favs. Diana (Jane Badler) was a real badass. Love her character!

I remember it well. 5 specials, shown Monday to Friday so we saw the whole thing in 1 week, decades before binge-watching box sets was a thing. Great series.

As a kid, I remember "V", the mini series being epic. The television series and subsequent reboot....not-so-much. Thx for this upload.

This remains one of my favourite tv series from my childhood, and I still love it to this day. I remember the regular series was shown in summer in Australia, and I would make sure I was available each week to watch it, since linear tv was still a thing!

Diana was one of the best villains in all movies and shows ever!

it's more fitting today than it was back in the 80's.

Thanks for bringing back a childhood memory.

those mid 80's fashion styles are outrageous.

Loved V as a kid & loved the Reboot, was gutted when it got cancelled!!

I remember watching this when it first came on television. The first time we saw them eat a rat/hamster.... I still have nightmares lol. Loved that show when I was a kid! ps - LOVED all the metaphors, analogies & puns while you were talking us through it Steam Fine! haha. Loved it! #subachieved

This is an utterly satisfying overview of the tv series V. Keep ‘em coming.

Watched it as a kid loving scifi. Very memorable, still remember the soundtrack, the cast etc.