The Original V Mini Series

desolate sun

I am watching this at the moment and love it. Looking forward to watching the old series aswell.

Do you remember when this came out - it was massive. It was like the Lost or 24 of its day!
Anyway any other V fans out there?



PS I know there is a new series of it and I have no interest in it. I can never understand why they want to remake classic old series like this anyway.

dnme

I was always "very" interested in Jane Badler. The stuff of my teenage fantasies and no doubt.

Thibor

Jane Badler.. Hubba hubba

I have the original series on dvd and only watched them again recently, it's cheesy and all but I love it.

Checked out the new one, knowing it'd never make the grade.. It didn't.
Reminded me more of Earth Final Conflict (equally as bad), than of V The original

mollymascara

Used to stay up late with the rest of the family and watch it when it came out. Loved it. When I got older I came across the entire series on VHS and bought it, still have every tape/episode

omahaid

dnme wrote: »

I was always "very" interested in Jane Badler.

I wasn't the only one then

bonerm

We watched it religuously in our house during the summer hols of 1984 (30/7/84 to 3/8/84 iirc). It was screend as 5 parts by UTV during the Olympic games to draw viewers away from BBCs coverage of that sporting event.

This "5-parter" was actually two seperate shows, the first a 2-parter originally aired May1983 in the USA and the second a 3-parter called "The Final Battle" which aired May1984 in the US. This explains why many people in Ireland consider V to be one single five part show when in reality it is not. RTE repeated the 5x eps the following summer.

UTV then presented "the series" during the period Jan-July 1986. Most eps aired at around 11pm-1130pm. It was tough-going just to stay awake that late for a kid my age but I did it every monday night so that I wouldn't miss a thing.

I'd always assumed they played episodes of "the series" that late because the content of each ep was so scary. However I learned upon investigation years later that the series had been screened the previous year (1985) for other ITV regions and it tanked so badly (in no small part because it was a rubbish show) that when UTV came to show it they dumped it into the graveyard shift.

Good times

ScouseMouse

desolate sun wrote: »

I am watching this at the moment and love it. Looking forward to watching the old series aswell.

Do you remember when this came out - it was massive. It was like the Lost or 24 of its day!
Anyway any other V fans out there?



PS I know there is a new series of it and I have no interest in it. I can never understand why they want to remake classic old series like this anyway.

That brings back memories. Donavan and co saving the world. I will never forget getting scared stiff when Donavan looked through the airvent on the mothership and saw the visitor eating the gerbil.


I noticed a billboard in Liverpool last week, advertising the new V show on the Sci-fi channel. Thinks its to start on the 14th.

May take a look.

dnme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObQfWMgmIM

Special effects are a little lame looking back now, I actually found this a bit hot at the tiem, (yes I'm sick and need help). Something about the way she awallows:rolleyes:

The Don

I saw the original when RTE repeated it in the late 90's. It was on late then too. I'm watching the remake now but so far its not great.

Michael Ironside was excellent in the original.

bullets

The Original V series I think was suposed to be Based in
WWII Nazi relm type theme, but because that was done to death at the time it was changed to be Sci Fi

I Love V, Had some of the paper back novels from A.C. Crispinover and others over the years as a teenager and had the V annual.

The New series I Like but nothing can replace the original.
Some V news is the Jane Badler AKA Diana is all set to
star in neighbours TV soap in 2010.

bonerm

bullets wrote: »

The Original V series I think was suposed to be Based in
WWII Nazi relm type theme, but because that was done to death at the time it was changed to be Sci Fi

Here's the original inspiration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can%27t_Happen_Here

Son Of A Vidic

dnme wrote: »

I was always "very" interested in Jane Badler. The stuff of my teenage fantasies and no doubt.

You were not alone, I too suffered this ailment at the time. Looked at a couple of epsiodes of the modern version, but then lost the will to live.

JohnMearsheimer

I was only a few months old when the original V aired but I did catch it when I was 15 or 16 when it was repeated late at night on Network 2. Even though it was really really cheesy I enjoyed it. I'm watching the new V at the moment. I know the new one is a re-imagining and not a remake so I'm not going to compare them directly but I enjoyed the original V far more than I'm enjoying the new V.

The effects haven't aged very well though and they used a lot of stock footage so today I can't watch it without a big grin on my face but overall its a fun watch.

mike65

Bump! The 1983 V is on the Horror Channel (Freesat/FTA/Sky) every afternoon at 3 pm Tuesday 12 March-Friday 15th, so rather than two parts they are doing in four one hour chunks. V - the Final battle (1984) follows, starting the following Monday