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  • Actors: Marc Singer, Jane Badler, Faye Grant, Jennifer Cooke, Jeff Yagher
  • Directors: Earl Bellamy, Ray Austin
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 5
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 11 Aug 2008
  • Run Time: 897 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0018HC3X6
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,740 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DVD Description
In V: Series 1 aliens pretending to be friendly, come to Earth and are received openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and that they have come to rape the Earth of its natural resources, the war for Earth begins. An important key to the humans' success is distinguishing the their own from the aliens.

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Aliens with nice faces and reptilian habits descend over the earth bringing a new and menacing world order with them in this landmark television miniseries. Sixty-five million viewers reportedly viewed the original broadcast. Disguised to look just like humans, the aliens are actually lizard-like creatures out to strip the planet of its water supply and turn humans into food. Although most people are fooled by the visitors and allow the planet to be taken over by the fascist monsters, a group of resistance fighters try to defeat these creatures. Helping the underground movement is a journalist (Marc Singer) who figures out just what the aliens are up to.

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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing series - even for an avid V fan, 12 Aug 2008
By KN (Lancs. UK) - See all my reviews
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I was a big fan of 'V' back in the mid-80s and watched all the episodes fervently. This prompted me to go down memory lane with this 19 episode box-set, which continues the storyline after 'V - the miniseries' (where the alien Visitors arrive and begin taking over the planet) and 'V - The Final Battle' (where the humans defeat the Visitors using the 'red dust' toxin and capture the L.A. mothership).

Episode 1 of this box-set follows the escape of Diana, the scheming alien leader played by sultry Jane Badler, who recalls the alien fleet. She also discovers that the red dust toxin is unstable in hot places (like L.A.), which drives a second attempt at conquest and renewed hostilities with resistance movements across the globe.

I only gave this item 2 stars because it lacked the drama and tension that was so strong in the earlier miniseries and final battle. Many of the episodes had such weak plots that I actually got bored and began fast forwarding to the climax or the next episode. Even the cast looked bored - the episode with Ham Tyler leaving honestly felt like the actor (Michael Ironside) had enough of the role! There was also repeated usage of exactly the same footage (especially the alien shuttle chase scenes) throughout the series, which gave it a really cheap feel.

At the end (Episode 19), the alien leader arrives but we never see him. I remembered this from the '80s when the series was on TV but I assumed that the story would continue in another season. Season 2 was never made (unsurprisingly), which makes me wonder why Amazon called this box-set series 1. Most bizarre!

I usually refrain from giving negative reviews but, in this case, I advise all interested 'V' and/or SciFi fans to get 'V the miniseries' and 'V the Final Battle', and to avoid this 'complete series' - and yes the titles are very confusing!
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32 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars what happened!!, 5 Aug 2008
V-The series was the follow up to the successful v and v-the final battle mini series. These 2 mini series were very good,especially the kenneth johnson produced first part(WHO UNFORTUNATELY BAILED OUT AFTER WARNER BROS DECIDED TO CUT THE BUDGET OF THE FINAL BATTLE)..basically the story was an allogory to fascism and the nazi occupation of WW2 dressed up in a sci-fi tale..impressive in it's day..the story and special fx were top notch and led by a chrasmatic cast.

Warner bros decided to make a series out of V and it debuted in 1984 and ran for 19 episodes. Unfortunately the series is largely terrible..It actually starts out fairly well for the first 2-3 eps then disintergartes into high camp and 80's soap drama for the rest of the run. Diana and lydia battle it out with 80's big hair and shoulder pads and this plays out like it's an ep of dynasty or dallas..terrible stuff. Also when once the reptilian reveal was scary and shocking in the mini-series,you see virtually every other alien on the mothership without their human disguise getting sauna's and lounging about with cocktails in their hand..(i kid you not!) with awful rubber prosthetic heads that look like they were cast out from a 60's star trek ep! The return of frank ashmore as phillip (brother of martin who dies in the first ep) is a welcome return but by then it's all too late and even a revamp for the last few ep's with characters getting killed or leaving and a change of music in the title credits couldnt save the show either.

NBC cancelled the show after 19 episodes due to declining ratings. Ironically a 20th episode was scripted(but not shot) and can be found on various V websites. This would have been quite a big scale ep if it had been produced but alas we'll never know now.

ken johson has recently published his official follow up to the original mini series called v - the 2nd generation(which totally discards any of the series!!!) and this can be bought in paerback. Johnson is hoping to get this produced in either a theatrical movie or mini-series again. Lets hope so.

Get both the mini series but unless your a die die hard fan..give this a miss.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A true 80s curiosity, 26 Aug 2008
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Even as someone who adored the The Original Mini-Series and The Final Battle I have to admit this series is truly diabolical. It largely consists of some ridiculous plot twists to resurrect The Visitors and from there proceeds to desecrate the whole idea by using plots not dissimilar to any action series of the 80s like The A Team or Knight Rider. The entire political subtext of the show is abandoned (presumably to please advertisers) and from there it's a wearisome set of 45 minute adventures that become gradually more absurd; to suspend belief you need plausible drama and this become simply ridiculous with Visitors riding about on motorbikes, reused stock footage, hackneyed action pieces and so on ad nauseum. It is a fascinating look back at how action dramas used to be made and is an object lesson in how not to do them. For any V fan or fan of 80s TV shows it probably is worth getting; for the casual viewer it's simply 19 episodes of low quality sci-fi that even lacks a resolution of the story at the end.
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