Remember that V tv program in 80's

[chucker]

Im sat in my office discussing the program V. Did it exist cos im the only on ewhoo rembembers. About lizards that dressed as humans. Did i dream this?

[Mothy]

Nope I remember it well. It's still being repeated on Satellite I  think. They used to take humans away and use them for food. (that was the big secret of the whole series). I liked the "lizards" unzipping their heads so they could wolf down a "snack a rat"

[littleoldme]

Rest easy chucker, it did exist :-). About 1984, I think, so I would have been about 15, and I loved it.

Among other things, it featured a pre-Nightmare On Elm Street Robert Englund as a friendly alien called Willie!

[Zen]

More info here,

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4015/v.html

[butter1]

Oh me and my family used to love this programme...i bet if you watched it now it wouldn't be the same.  Great show.

[chucker]

oh thats great! thanks everyone. I not losing my mind after all!!!

[KebabMeister]

I think the first three episodes of the mini-series dated from 1983 and then the 'Final Battle' (last two episodes) dated from 1984.  However, ITV aired all five 1 hour episodes over one week which was their battle to win viewers from the BBC who were showing the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics!

I love the programme although I wasn't overkeen on the TV series that followed the mini-series.

[LeMarchand]

You can get the first two miniseries (as detailed by KebabMeister on DVD). I think the weekly show is due out (possibly R1 only) soon.

[andy hughes]

I remember it - it was famous for having Robert Englund as a dopey earthling-loving Eugene-type - before he went on to star as Freddie in the 'Elm Street' series.

It seemed quite exciting at the beginning, but then the focus went onto bitching, big hair, and shoulder-pads, and it morphed into a kind of Dynasty-in-Space ....

[Penny]

i remember V! my favourite one was the one where the baby was born with the lizard tongue.

i wasnt actually alive when it was on TV, but my parents had taped all of the episodes, so we used to watch them all the time in the early 90s

[Octavius]

I remember it quite well, but didn't it just drag on and on and on and on......?  I think after the initial 'urgh! they are lizards who eat humans' my attention span ran out.  But then I was only 12 (if the posters above are correct about the year!)

[boobesque]

ew, that programme used to put the fear in me and my best mate!

[KebabMeister]

V played a lot on fascism and nazism - even the Visitors 'logo' was kind of like a swastika/Hakenkreuz (hooked cross).

I mostly enjoyed the 'Final Battle' episodes with Ham Tyler (Michael Ironside) and his bearded buddy Chris Faber (kind of like mercenaries).  And of course all the girls fancied Mike Donovan whilst the guys fancied Julie Parish!  (I think that was their names anyway!!)

What was the name of the friendly 'Visitor' who was a high ranking fifth columnist?  He had a twin brother that showed up in the TV series.

[bernardo]

Yay!!!  V!!!  Yes!  Of course it existed!  It is a great cult series.  The uncultured nincompoops in your office who have never heard of it are a load of uncultured philistines, so you should squirt some custard into their mugs of tea when they're not looking, and then they might learn to appreciate proper TV culture properly.