The original V television series

I just watched the first episode of the 1983 V miniseries. I like the current series and I remember the miniseries and the previous TV show being fun. The V in this series stood for "Visitors" (the invading space aliens preferred name) and "victory" (in the hope of the human resistance), and shouldn't be with the V (vampire blodd) in True Blood.

I hadn't remembered the dialogue as being so cheesy. The special effects were good and mostly hold up well 27 years later. But the melodramatic silliness of a lot of the dialogue and the early-eighties hair styles are almost as much fun to see now as anything else in the series.

Jane Badler, the head alien villain Diana in the original, will be joining the new ABC series this fall. (Mikey O'Connell, Original 'V' star Jane Badler joins Season 2 of ABC reboot Inside the Box 08/06/2010) Hearing that is what made me curious to see the original again.

The original 1983 miniseries was closed with second 1984 miniseries, V: The Final Battle. Then the Visitors returned to Earth nastier than ever for a 1984-85 weekly series, also called V, like the current ABC series. One of the stars of the original is Robert Englund, who went on to fame as Freddy Kruger of the Nightmare on Elm Street slasher movies.

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