The Complete Series

Liberation Day

First aired: 10/26/1984
Writer: Paul Monash
Director: Paul Kransy

It has been nearly one year since the Visitors were forced from the Earth because of the red dust. The visitor leader Diana who was captured to await trial for crimes against humanity escapes. Ham Tyler and Donavan chase after her. Diana reaches a communication/tracking center and radios the Visitor fleet in space to come pick here up. A visitor craft descends and Diana rejoins her fleet who is still within the bounds of the Earth's solar system. Visitor fifth columnist Martin from V: The Final Battle is killed by Diana and the starchild Elizabeth goes into a cocoon state of metamorphosis. Elias opens up a bar known as Club Creole. It later is to serve as a hideout for human resistance forces when the Visitors attack the Earth again.

Dreadnaught

First aired: 11/2/1984
Writer: Steven E. De Souza
Director: Paul Kransy

The starchild Elizabeth awakes from her cocoon and re-emters the world as a fully grown woman. She still has the mentality of a child though. Former human resistance leader Julie Parrish and Robert Maxwell holdup in a small ranch and attempt to help the starchild Elizabeth cope with her new physical form. Visitor shocktroopers arrive at the ranch and attempt to take the starchild and nearly succeed until the red dust slowly kills them off. Nathan Lane, the head of Scientific Frontiers the company responsible for mass producing the red dust toxin that killed off the visitors in the past strikes a deal with visitor leader Diana. Los Angeles is to be an open city where there will be no hostilities between visitors and humans, and no weapons. By so setting this up Nathan becomes a governor of sorts for the city. The visitors discover that the red dust toxin needs a period to regenerate as it is a bacteria, with such being the case areas of warmer climate pose less of a red dust threat than areas of cold weather. Diana is introduced to the new commander of the Visitor fleet Lydia, and takes an assessment of her fighting forces. Diana attempts to destroy Los Angeles to get out of her deal with Nathan Lane, but the resistance pilots a former captured Visitor Mothership into a giant particle beam weapon in space to save the city at the cost of Robert Maxwell's life.

Breakout

First aired: 5/24/1985
Writer: David Braff
Director: Ray Austin

Mike Donavan and Ham Tyler attempt to rescue Mike's son Sean but get captured and put in a visitor prison camp. At the camp creatures that live within the sand prevent prisoners from escaping. Nathan Bates' son Kyle is also at the prison camp. Diana wants the starchild and bargains with Nathan for Elizabeth in exchange for his son Nathan. Nathan begins to search for the starchild in Los Angeles but Kyle escapes before such a search to find her has really been completed. Mike, Ham, and Kyle escape the prison compound.

The Deception

First aired: 11/9/1984
Writer: Garner Simmons
Director: Victor Lobl

Kyle Bates becomes more and more a part of the resistance rather than a pawn of his father's schemes. Kyle finds the starchild Elizabeth and gives her a ride on a motorcycle. On the way Kyle finds and retrieves a pouch from a jet fighter that is shot down. The pouch has a resistance message inside requesting the starchild Elizabeth be transported to New York for safety. Mike Donavan is captured and the sensual visitor Lydia attempts to extract information through holographic technology; she pretends to be Julie. A mock picture of the starchild as a little girl gives away this scheme to Mike who then forces his way out and escapes.

The Sanction

First aired: 11/16/1984
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Bruce Seth Green

Mike Donavan finally finds his son Sean in a visitor youth education training center. Mike battles the visitor instructor Klaus who attacks with a laser whip.

Visitor's Choice

First aired: 11/23/1984
Writer: David Braff
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Visitor commander are planning a major meeting to discuss a new advance in human food processing technology. The resistance gets wind of this and plans a raid. Nathan Bates worries about the path his son is undertaking with the resistance and dispatches his assistance Mr. Chiang to question him and "talk some sense into him.

The Overlord

First aired: 11/30/1984
Writer: David Abramowitz
Director: Bruce Seth Green

The small town of Rawlinsville is being used as a source of cobalt, an energy source for visitor weapons. A gang of humans forces the townsfolk to mine the cobalt in exchange for financial gain from the visitors. The resistance plans an attack to free the town.

The Dissident

First aired: 12/7/1984
Writer: Paul F. Edwards
Director: Walter Grauman

Diana presents a scheme to Nathan Bates to enclose the city in a forcefield to increase their mutual control of Los Angeles. The resistance captures the force field's creator and attempts to take down the force field before it can become a problem.

Reflections in Terror

First aired: 12/14/1984
Writer: Chris Manheim
Director: Kevin Hooks

Diana steals a blood sample from the starchild Elizabeth. From this blood sample, Diana creates a clone of the starchild which escapes. The visitor's best tracker is dispatched to track down the clone. A showdown ends with the clone dying to protect the real starchild. Ham Tyler and Mike Donavan smuggle orphan children into Los Angeles where they meet up with Ham's old buddy Chris Farber from V: The Final Battle.

The Conversion

First aired: 1/4/1985
Writer: Brian Taggert
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

A new commander Charles, is dispatched to the Visitor fleet. There he plans to brainwash Ham Tyler into killing Mike Donavon While trying to carry out the killing, Ham shoots Nathan Bates of Scientific Frontiers instead.

The Hero

First aired: 1/11/1985
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
Director: Kevin Hooks

Diana dispatches one of her lieutenants, James in a mission to sabotage the credibility of the resistance. James terrorizes LA in human disguise with his unit of shocktroopers who are pretending to be Resistance members.. Diana then threatens to kills resistance sympathesizers if resistance leaders Ham, Julie, and Mike do not surrender. Diana places John a visitor spy into the human resistance amidst the confusion

The Betrayal

First aired: 1/18/1985
Writer: Mark Rosner
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Visitor spy John continues with his plan to impregnate Robin in hopes of producing another starchild for Diana. Willie of the Resistance gets shot while gathering information from a Visitor fifth columnist. While all of this is going on Kyle becomes suspicious of his dad actually being alive while seeing him speak on TV in a most healthy manner inspite of the devastating injuries he has suffered.

The Rescue

First aired: 2/1/1985
Writer: Garner Simmons
Director: Kevin Hooks

Los Angeles is no longer an open city after Nathan Bates is found out to be dead. The visitors take advantage of this and launch an all out attack. Julie protects a pregnant lady and Visitor Charles plans to marry Diana so that he may better control her.

The Champion

First aired: 2/8/1985
Writer: Paul F. Edwards
Director: Cliff Bole

While delivering weapons to resistance forces in Arizona Mike Donavan stumbles upon a small community under rule by Visitor collaborators. Mike empowers the community to resist. Visitor commander Lydia is about to be executed for treason for killing her superior Charles via poison. Before this can happen, a new commander Inspector General Phillip arrives. Phillip is played by Frank Ashmore who played visitor fifth columnist Martin before he was killed. Phillip is Martin's twin brother. Phillip decides that the fate of Lydia will be tried in combat with Diana. The two female warriors decorate themselves in battle paint and go at it with sharpened staffs. When new evidence is introduced which shows that Lydia's prints were not on the glass that poisoned Charles the fight to the death is ended. Phillip invokes the inter-guardian rule which is meant to assure that neither Lydia nor Diana will harm the other until Charlie's true killer can be uncovered. The inter-guardian rule makes Lydia a protector of Diana, and Diana a protector of Lydia. If anything happens to one of them then the other is held accountable.

The Wildcats

First aired: 2/15/1985
Writer: David Braff
Director: John Florea

Diana and Lydia place the blame for the death of Charles their superior on a low ranking pharmacist Marta because her prints were on the glass used to kill him. The resistance enlists the aid of a youthful band of teenagers known as the Wildcats to help them locate a vaccine for diphtheria, an epidemic that is spreading rapidly.

The Littlest Dragon

First aired: 2/22/1985
Writer: David Abramowitz
Director: Cliff Bole

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.

War of Illusions

First aired: 3/8/1985
Writer: John Simmons
Director: Earl Bellamy

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 Mothership. While the Resistance wants his secrets, the Visitors want him dead.

The Secret Underground

First aired: 3/15/1985
Writer: David Braff, Colley Cibber
Director: Cliff Bole

Donovan and Julie must sneak aboard the Mothership 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.

The Return

First aired: 3/22/1985
Writer: David Abramowitz, Donald R. Boyle
Director: John Florea

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.

The Attack

First aired: 0/0/0
Writer: David Braff, Paul F. Edwards
Director:

The Leader and Elizabeth depart in a shuttlecraft to begin their journey homeworld, unknowing that Kyle has secretly stowed away onboard. On the Mothership, the Resistance members prepare to return home on their own shuttle, as Inspector Philip sentences Diana and James to death by the Cyclo-Purgers for their treason. But, as the Leader's shuttle enters the Kerlian Quadrant, the Mothership is alerted that an explosive device had been activated on the shuttle, and the Mothership races to its rescue. In the confusion, Diana escapes from her guard and returns to take control of the situation in the command center. Lydia agrees to Diana's authority and skill, and goes along with her as Diana orders the Resistance to be imprisoned for their obvious terrorist act. While in their cell, Kyle suddenly materializes among the group. The Leader, who seems to be a noncorporeal entity, still has Elizabeth, but has sent Kyle back. The entire group escapes with the help of Thelma, but in the resulting flee, Julie is shot and vaporized! The rest of the group makes their way to the shuttlebay, where Diana's troops are preparing for a huge Earth attack to avenge the Leader's assassination. Using Philip as a shield, the Resistance takes a shuttle and flees the Mothership, with Diana's shuttle close behind. Diana shoots her target, and the Resistance shuttle goes down. Donovan, Elizabeth, Willie, and Kyle escape from the crash, and find Ham Tyler waiting for them in his car. Back on the Mothership, Diana reads the battle reports and discovers that victory is being won on all fronts -- the Armistice lulled Earth into a false sense of security! The Leader had planned it from the beginning. Although Diana and Lydia suspect Philip of collaboration, he remains on the Mothership. Back on Earth, the remaining Resistance is left with a puzzle to solve. They must locate the Anyx -- the secret of the Ancients -- which the Syllabus tells an allegory of its location. Elizabeth must find it before the Leader does, because it is the only thing that can defeat him. And so, the Leader orders Diana to recapture the Starchild at all costs and return her to him...

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