For the two mini-series that start off
the saga, I have chosen to break the two-hour episodes down into 45-50 minute segments
and give each an episode title; I do this for the esthetic of keeping episodes
to approximately the same length as the weekly ongoing series and to make the studies a bit easier to write
(and read) as segments. In most cases, I came up with the titles either by
borrowing a chapter title from the DVD menu or from a line of dialog in the
segment. The ongoing series already has episode titles, of course, and I will
use those here. |
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"Arrival" | "Visitors, Victims, and Victory" | "Betrayal and Reward" | "Plan for Resistance" | "Unity" | ||||||||||||
V the mini-series part 1, hour 1 |
V the mini-series part 1, hour 2 |
V the mini-series part 2, hour 1 |
V the mini-series part 2, hour 2 |
V: The Final Battle part 1, hour 1 |
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Gigantic saucer-shaped
spaceships arrive over every major city on Earth, bringing alien
visitors claiming peace and friendship and in need of help for
their planet. |
The Visitors allege a conspiracy
by the world’s scientists; Donovan makes some startling
discoveries aboard the |
Loyalties are tested as a
resistance to the Visitors takes form. |
The |
After a demoralizing defeat, the resistance begins to wonder how
they can score a significant victory that will help turn the
tide against the Visitors; Robin frets about her inhuman
pregnancy. |
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"Unmasked" | "The Masterpiece" | "Matters of Trust" | "Test Subjects" | "The Final Battle" | ||||||||||||
V: The Final Battle part 1, hour 2 |
V: The Final Battle part 2, hour 1 |
V: The Final Battle part 2, hour 2 |
V: The Final Battle part 3, hour 1 |
V: The Final Battle part 3, hour 2 |
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The resistance makes a bold move
against the Visitors; Willie is captured and studied by the
resistance. |
Diana subjects Julie to the
conversion process. |
Suspicions mar Julie’s return;
the Visitors enact their plan to drain all water from |
One of Robin’s children lies at
death’s door, while the other lashes out; Pamela tightens the
noose on Diana; Donavan worries about his son’s disconnection
from him. |
Sean betrays the resistance while
they prepare to unleash the red dust against the Visitors;
Martin warns Donovan about the Visitors’ own ultimate weapon. |
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East Coast Crisis | The Pursuit of Diana |
The |
The Alien Swordmaster | "The Swordmaster" | ||||||||||||
Novel | Novel | Novel | Novel |
Prologue of Symphony of Terror |
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During the events of V and V: The Final Battle, the New York resistance group known as White Christmas deals with the Visitor invasion both on their own and in conjunction with the L.A. resistance. |
Victory celebrations are put on hold as the L.A. resistance has its hands full with recapturing the escaped Diana. |
On V-day in Chicago, a cadre of Visitor soldiers gets its hands on a stash of red dust antitoxin and plans are put in place to maintain control of the city. |
Thanks to the ingenious pressure skins of Commander Fieh Chan, the Visitors maintain a foothold in the Far East and a plan is hatched to convert the greatest martial arts masters in the world to serve the aliens' ends. |
Professor Schwabauer and Setsuko rescue a survivor at Osaka castle. |
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The |
"Liberation Day" | "Dreadnought" | "Breakout" | "The Deception" | ||||||||||||
Novel | Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 | ||||||||||||
A secret Visitor research station in the Florida Everglades conducts genetic experiments to create Visitor/human hybrids. |
One year after Earth was
liberated from the Visitors, Diana is brought to trial for
crimes against humanity; |
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Donovan and Tyler head into
Visitor controlled territory to find Donovan’s son; Diana
enlists Nathan Bates’ help in finding |
Diana uses Donovan’s son against
him while trying to coerce |
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"Deadly Harvest" | "The Sanction" | "Visitors' Choice" | Prisoners and Pawns | Death Tide | ||||||||||||
V Storybook | Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Novel | Novel | ||||||||||||
The Visitors begin growing hybrid Earth/alien plants for their toxic properties. |
Donovan rescues his son from the
Visitor Youth Corps…but the boy doesn’t seem to want rescuing. |
In an attempt to curb Resistance
strikes within the open city, Nathan Bates imposes a dusk to
dawn curfew on all citizens and a death penalty for possession
of firearms; the Visitors introduce a new food processor. |
The L.A. resistance must return three valuable resistance members to their own regions of the world under the noses of the Visitors while simultaneously picking up a needed weapons shipment and preventing a dastardly new invasion scheme of Lydia's. |
Science Frontiers develops a new strain of the red dust; Donovan's ex-wife comes back into his life. | ||||||||||||
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"City on the Edge" |
“The Town With No Shame” |
"Encounter" | "Alien Conflict" | "The Day That the Rains Didn't Come" | ||||||||||||
V #1 (DC Comics) | V #2 (DC Comics) | V #3 (DC Comics) | V #4-6 segment (DC Comics) | V Annual 1986 | ||||||||||||
A shootout
in the Club Creole sends the Resistance members fleeing in
different directions. |
Mike, Julie
and Hart attempt to unravel the mysterious secret of
the small town of |
The Visitors
arrive early for their date in Sparkling Springs. |
Tyler and
Chris seek revenge on Nathan Bates; Kyle is captured and taken
to a prison camp where Visitor scientists perform grotesque
experiments on human beings. |
The Visitors use their superior scientific knowledge to plot a devastating flood against human resistance. | ||||||||||||
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"The Dissident" | "Nightmare" | "The Overlord" | "A Time to Fight" | The Texas Run | ||||||||||||
Episode 7 | V Annual 1986 | Episode 8 | V Annual 1986 | Novel | ||||||||||||
In collaboration with Bates, the
Visitors erect a force field around the perimeter of |
Donovan seems to have lost his mind. |
In order to mine much-needed
cobalt for her troops’ weapons, Diana enlists the aid of a tough
motorcycle gang to enslave a small town in a red dust
contaminated area. |
Elizabeth is kidnapped by some two-bit crooks who hope to trade her to Diana. |
An L.A. resistance member risks his life to help run much-needed medical supplies through the state of Texas. |
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"The Three Brave Men" | The New England Resistance | "Divided We Fall" | Symphony of Terror | "The Law in Prospect" | ||||||||||||
V Annual 1986 | Novel | V Annual 1986 | Novel | V Annual 1986 | ||||||||||||
The resistance gains some unexpected help in an attack against a Visitor bigwig. | Willie arrives in New England to assist a scientist with developing a new toxin against the Visitors, but the aliens are ahead of him. | The Visitors bring a new, destructive weapon into the hills outside Los Angeles. | Matt Jones and his new family flee California to escape the Visitor tyranny and become caught up in stopping a Visitor plot to invade the free states. | The resistance plots to destroy a Visitor food processing facility in a small town. | ||||||||||||
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"Reflections in Terror" | "Switch on to Fear" | "For Old Times’ Sake" | "End Game" | "Night of the Monster" | ||||||||||||
Episode 9 | V Annual 1986 | V #17 (DC Comics) | V #18 (DC Comics) | V Storybook | ||||||||||||
Diana creates a clone of the
Starchild; the Resistance smuggles children from occupied
territory into the open city; Bates prepares to wipe out the
Resistance members at the Club Creole and sets a trap for Julie. |
The Visitors insert subliminal transmissions into television broadcasts. |
The
Resistance comes into possession of a Visitor code tape,
smuggled from a mothership; the Visitors stumble onto a
counteragent for the red dust. |
Elias
confronts Leslie; the Resistance must destroy the Visitors’ red
dust counteragent. |
The resistance attempts to sabotage Diana's latest filthy plan. | ||||||||||||
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The Oregon Invasion | "The Conversion " | "The Hero" | "Children of the War" | The Crivit Experiment | ||||||||||||
Novel | Episode 10 | Episode 11 | V Storybook | Novel | ||||||||||||
A Visitor who was left behind on Earth after the fleet pull-out on V-day has a destiny far beyond any he ever imagined. |
Diana is caught by surprise when
she finds the Leader has sent a war hero as a replacement for
her as commander of the invasion. |
While Nathan Bates lies in a
coma, Chaing deals with the Visitors to maintain order in the
city and end the resistance. |
Elizabeth agonizes over Kyle's capture by the Visitors. | The Visitors engage in an experiment to seed the east coast of the United States with crivits. | ||||||||||||
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"Shatterday" | "Together We Stand" | "Morning Glory" | "The Betrayal" | "The Rescue" | ||||||||||||
V #4-6 segment (DC Comics) | V Storybook | V Storybook | Episode 12 | Episode 13 | ||||||||||||
Dr. Meagan’s
quest for peace turns into a plot to destroy the |
The resistance struggles to destroy a Visitor skyfighter which is transporting an extremely rare ingredient in the production of an experimental nerve gas being developed by Diana. | The Visitors plan to kill thousands of disloyal humans held prisoner in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. |
The Resistance kidnaps a Visitor
doctor when Willie is seriously injured on a mission; Kyle
suspects the televised appearances of his father are faked. |
With the death of Nathan Bates,
the Visitors brutally take over |
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"Printer’s Devil" | "The Champion " | "Tennyson" | Path to Conquest | "The Wildcats " | ||||||||||||
V #8 (DC Comics) | Episode 14 | V #7 (DC Comics) | Novel | Episode 15 | ||||||||||||
Tyler,
Chris and Robin take a detour on the way to |
Donovan helps a town set up its
own Resistance; Diana places |
Plagued by
nightmares of the conversion process, Julie takes some time off
from the resistance to return to her abandoned |
Diana enacts a two-pronged plot to alter world weather patterns to bring an early, crushing winter and to then contaminate world petroleum supplies and make the needed heating oil unusable. |
The Resistance battles a
diphtheria epidemic; Diana and |
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"The Littlest Dragon" | To Conquer the Throne | "War of Illusions" | "Hero" | Below the Threshold | ||||||||||||
Episode 16 | Novel | Episode 17 | V Annual 1986 | Novel | ||||||||||||
The Resistance helps a pregnant
Fifth Columnist; Phillip confronts Donovan. |
Medea is placed in command of stopping the English resistance. |
The Leader sends the Battlesphere device to
coordinate a massive blitzkrieg attack on the American Southwest. |
Diana exposes the resistance leaders to a new virus. |
Psychologist Dr. Jack Page treats patients struggling with their fear of the reptilian Visitor invasion. But, suddenly, those same patients are becoming accepting of the Visitors...and Dr. Page wants to know why. |
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"The Secret Underground" | "The Poison in the Apple" | "The Deadly Rites of Spring" | "Meanwhile, Out in Space…" | "Siege" | ||||||||||||
Episode 18 | V #9 (DC Comics) | V #10 (DC Comics) | V #11 (DC Comics) | V #12 (DC Comics) | ||||||||||||
Diana wraps a fiendish plot for revenge
around the Visitor celebration of Ramalan; Donovan and Julie
must recover a list of Resistance leaders hidden by a Fifth
Columnist aboard the |
With the
coming of summer, the Visitors have a window to exploit the heat
weakness in the red dust and prepare an attack against |
The Fifth
Column enlists the Resistance in a plan to stop the Visitors
imminent invasion of |
A collaborator betrays the Resistance base; the Leader sends his son to Earth to learn on the battlefront. |
Willie is
captured and tortured for information; Donovan and Julie run for
their lives with Prince Bron in tow. |
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"The Prince and the Power" | "Conquest At Any Cost" | "Blood on the Wind" | "Peace on Earth?" | "The Return" | ||||||||||||
V #13 (DC Comics) | V #14 (DC Comics) | V #15 (DC Comics) | V#16 (DC Comics) | Episode 19 | ||||||||||||
The Resistance strikes a deal for the return of
Prince Bron. |
Donovan, Julie and Bron pull into a town where all
the adults have been abducted; Kyle moves the Resistance HQ to |
In |
Donovan, Julie and Bron are sentenced to death by the
children of Mayville; the Leader arrives at Earth. |
As the Starchild |
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The Second Generation | ||||||||||||||||
Novel | ||||||||||||||||
About 25 years after the Visitors' arrival, the dying Earth and its population make a last bid for freedom from tyranny when the alien Leader is received for the beginning of the end of Earth. | ||||||||||||||||
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