V (television series)
V was a 1983 US science fiction television mini series written and directed by Kenneth Johnson and first shown on NBC. It starred Jane Badler, Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Michael Ironside, Michael Durrell, Jenny Sullivan, Richard Herd, Peter Nelson, and Robert Englund.
Humanoid (even human-looking) aliens arrive on Earth. They act friendly and seek the help of humans to replenish their own world's (the sixth planet of Sirius) supplies. Photojournalist Michael Donovan (played by Singer) sneaks aboard one of the Visitors' motherships and discovers beneath their humanlike masks reptilian features. As the series progresses and individuals are enlightened to the Visitors' true nature, their agenda is revealed: they plan to steal all of the water from Earth's oceans and harvest the human race as a food source.
The story is an allegory about the rise of Nazism. There are very clear references to the Holocaust, the dangers of appeasement and the rise of organised resistance in occupied countries. The story was apparently inspired by the 1935 novel by Sinclair Lewis It Can't Happen Here.
The series ran for 200 minutes and was successful enough to spawn a sequel, V: The Final Battle and a television series in 1984-85. Johnson left V during the sequel but went on to work on other science fiction shows such as Alien Nation.
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