V The Series Episode Guide

Season 1

1. Liberation Day (Original airdate October 26, 1984)
After the showdown at the end of V : The Final Battle, Martin turns the ship around and the group heads back to earth. They discover however that Diana has escaped the mother ship, and Donovan launches a sky fighter to go after her. After a brief flight, Donovan damages Diana's fighter and he captures her once again.
During the following year, Science Frontiers is awarded the contract to find the secrets of the Mother ship technology, Julie Parish is placed in charge of the project by her boss, Nathan Bates. Elias Taylor has started his own "theme" restaurant; the Club Creole, Donovan returns to news reporting, and Martin is his assistant. Robin and Elizabeth live with Robin's father, Robert; and Diana is on her way to be tried for crimes against humanity.

 
2. Dreadnaught (Original airdate November 2, 1984)
Robert and Julie witness the metamorphosis of Elizabeth in the cave. She falls out of the 'cocoon' and they wrap her in a coat and take her home. Diana arrives at one of the mother ships and is informed that the home world is barren now, and they desperately need Earth to survive. She orders an attack on Earth, believing the red dust is gone.


3. Breakout (Original airdate May 24, 1985) (This episode only shown in reruns but was supposed to be shown before Deception)
While in search of Sean Donavan, Mike and Ham are captured when they help a kid escape a Visitor patrol. They end up in the same camp as Robin. Diana learns that Kyle is also in the camp and puts pressure on Nathan to put heat on the Resistance. Donovan plans an escape, and Ham, Robin, Mike, the kid, and others get away.

4. The Deception (Original airdate November 9, 1984)
While attempting to make her way back home, Robin meets a young motorcyclist, Kyle Bates, and witnesses the delivery of an important pouch from a downed fighter pilot. Kyle takes her to safety, and then takes the pouch to Resistance headquarters. Apparently, the World Liberation Front wants to move Elizabeth to the safety of New York before the Visitors get to her. Once Kyle meets Elizabeth, he becomes involved in the Resistance.

*Note: The alternate episode to Breakout, this reintroduces Kyle Bates to the viewers. It all gets very confusing when you realize that when the series is shown now (and indeed on video) both episodes are shown in this order, so we meet Kyle in the prison camp, then we get this rather insipid reintroduction to him. Lots of head-scratching if you weren't aware of the reasons behind it. Meanwhile, the episode suffers mainly from a very silly main plot, though the notion that Donovan realized it was a deception through Diana's ignorance of Elizabeth's metamorphosis is a very clever touch. Sean Donovan has aged considerably in just a year, it would seem.

5. The Sanction (Original airdate November 16, 1984)
Klaus is a master assassin who has been retained by Diana to terminate anyone committing crimes against the Legation. He is also a guru, or Zen master, in charge of training the Visitor Youth Corps to kill. His favorite among the group of young trainees is Sean Donovan.

 
6. Visitor's Choice (Original airdate November 23, 1984)
The Resistance intercepts a communication revealing that all Visitor Commanders of Processing Units will be meeting at a Playa Del Mar beachside resort to discuss a new human processor -- the Encapsulator. Donovan and Julie dispatch Kyle and Tyler to acquire explosives while they contact the local Resistance in Playa Del Mar. Following a minor, but almost deadly, misunderstanding Julie, Donovan, and the locals organize an attack on the Visitor estate.

 
7. The Overlord (Original airdate November 30, 1984)
The people of the small town of Rawlinsville, inside the Red Dust contaminated zone, are being used as slave labor to mine cobalt for a collaborator named Garrison. Since the Visitors need a large supple of cobalt for their final assault on Earth, Garrison has struck a deal with Diana -- one bar of gold for each ton of cobalt.

 
8. The Dissident (Original airdate December 7, 1984)
Moments before Tyler and Kyle rendezvous with a munitions truck, Diana activates a new force field that obliterate the vehicle. He plan is to encircle Los Angeles so that the Visitors control everything going in and out. While Julie attempts to break the security of the transmitting station at Science Frontiers, Donovan and Tyler go aboard the Mother ship and kidnap the Visitor scientist responsible for the force field's creation.

9. Reflections in Terror (Original airdate December 14, 1984)
Using Christmas holly, Diana obtains a blood sample of Elizabeth and attempts to clone a duplicate. However, the clone escapes and begins terrorizing the city with her unbridled powers.


 
10. The Conversion (Original airdate January 4, 1985)
During a raid on a munitions convoy, Tyler and Kyle are captured by Diana's troops as part of an elaborate scheme engineered by Charles, the Leader's special envoy. Charles is here to see that the war is won, and demotes Diana back to science officer and makes Lydia his special assistant.

11. The Hero (Original airdate January 11, 1985)
A Visitor group posing as Resistance fighters strikes Science Frontiers and word of the attack puts the real Resistance leaders on the spot. Donovan and the others decide to fight back and send Robin to a free newspaper sympathetic to the Resistance to print the truth. While there, she and the staff are taken captive by the assassins, who kill one hostage a day until the Resistance surrenders to the Visitors.


12. The Betrayal (Original airdate January 18, 1985)
Willie is injured while attempting to contact the Fifth Column and nearly dies. He is saved by the aid of a Fifth-Columnist Visitor doctor who reveals that Diana is using the hospital to stockpile weapons for the final assault on Los Angeles. Donovan and Tyler decide to target the hospital, but their plan is overheard by Diana's spy, Lt. Langley.


13. The Rescue (Original airdate February 1, 1985)
The Visitors strike and bring Los Angeles to the ground! James and his assault team locate the Resistance headquarters and destroy it only moments after Donovan and company pull out. During the attack on Los Angeles, Julie helps deliver a baby and becomes trapped by the Visitors. Fortunately, Donovan, Kyle, and the others locate her and arrange a rescue.


14. The Champion (Original airdate February 8, 1985)
Lydia is charged with the murder of Charles, found guilty, and sentenced to death. However, while Lydia is being prepared for disintegration, the Inspector General Philip arrives and halts the execution. He is a twin brother of Martin (having been created by the same zygote mother), and he wishes to further examine the case.

15. The Wildcats (Original airdate February 15, 1985)
An epidemic is sweeping through the valley, and even though Julie and members of the Resistance are working tirelessly to halt its spread, they realize that the only drug that will stop the sickness is under the protection of the Visitors. The reluctantly enlist the aid of a teen group known as the Wildcats and attempt to steal the drug.

16. The Littlest Dragon (Original airdate February 22, 1085)
A family of Visitor defectors escapes from the ship to give birth, taking the power source for the ship's laser to guarantee their safety. Philip swears vengeance and follows them to Earth, unaware that Diana has arranged his death.

 
17. War of Illusions (Original airdate March 8, 1985)
When a computer hacker taps into the Visitor communications network, he becomes the object of an intense hunt. The boy won't help the Resistance unless they free his father from the Mother ship. While the Resistance wants his secrets, the Visitors want him dead.

18. The Secret Underground (Original airdate March 15, 1985)
Donovan and Julie must sneak aboard the mother ship to retrieve a list of the Resistance members. Once aboard, Julie meets a former lover, who may be a Visitor collaborator, and Diana plans to kill Lydia's brother.

 
19. The Return (Original airdate March 22, 1985)
The leader declares a ceasefire and travels to Earth to halt the war. He takes Elizabeth on his ship, but Diana has hidden a bomb on board in a plot to become the new leader.

 

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