V - Season 1 (19)

Oct 26, 1984

Alien commander Diana escapes the Resistance and reunites with her fleet. The Starchild Elizabeth undergoes a strange metamorphosis.

Episode 2 - Dreadnought

Nov 2, 1984

Diana talks peace while readying the fearsome Triax super-weapon that could reduce Los Angeles to rubble. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters activate a new weapon of their own - a captured Visitor mothership.

Episode 3 - The Deception

Nov 9, 1984

Mike and Ham try to rescue Sean, but are captured and taken to a Visitor work camp. Diana threatens Bates and offers his son Kyle (Jeff Yagher) for Elizabeth. Turns out Kyle is also at the work camp, which is surrounded by a sand moat where predatory crivits live. Robin (Blair Tefkin) is also at the camp. They escape using a shorted-out wire and pieces of a garden hose, but Robin is separated from them. Diana has come to see Kyle, and he diverts her from the escape by seducing her. Once she sees what’s going on, he is able to escape. Meanwhile, Elias lets Elizabeth play the piano at the Club Creole, but a Visitor recognizes the Mark of Zon on her hand and pursues her. She uses her powers to protect herself.

Episode 4 - The Sanction

Nov 16, 1984

Seeking to free his son Sean from the Visitors, Donovan grapples with an insidious, powerful alien named Klaus.

Episode 5 - Visitor's Choice

Nov 23, 1984

The Resistance, led by Donovan, Julie, and Ham, stage a daring sabotage at a convention of Visitor commanders in a seaside estate where Diana intends to show off the ultimate device in processing humans for food.

Episode 6 - The Overlord

Nov 30, 1984

Led by Donovan, Ham, and Elias, the Resistance runs into a doublecross when they seek to rid a mining community from alien-backed thugs.

Episode 7 - The Dissident

Dec 7, 1984

When Diana seals off the Open City with an impenetrable force field which destroys humans on contact, Donovan and Ham must kidnap the alien genius responsible for its development.

Episode 8 - Reflections in Terror

Dec 21, 1984

With a blood sample from the "star-child," Diana creates an uncontrollable and deadly clone which seeks out Elizabeth; Bates tests Julie's loyalty when he suspects she is sympathetic to the Resistance whose headquarters he is preparing to destroy.

Episode 9 - The Conversion

Jan 4, 1985

Ham and Kyle are captured by Visitors, and Charles, the Leader's special envoy, assumes command of the alien forces.

Episode 10 - The Hero

Jan 11, 1985

A small group of resistance sympathizers (Robin included) are arrested by Bates' police, and a prisoner will be handed over to the Visitors to be executed every day until Donovan, Ham, and Julie surrender.

Episode 11 - The Betrayal

Jan 18, 1985

While Bates remains in a coma Charles plots to overthrow him, elsewhere Willie is gravely wounded so the rebels kidnap a medical student of the Visitors.

Episode 12 - The Rescue

Feb 1, 1985

Feeling Diana's presence threatens his power, Charles forces her to marry him, after which Alien law requires she return home.

Episode 13 - The Champion

Feb 8, 1985

Sent to investigate Charles' death, newly arrived Inspector General Philip allows Lydia to choose a trial by combat in a laser duel to the death with Diana.

Episode 14 - The Wildcats

Feb 15, 1985

Needing medicine to treat a deadly diphtheria epidemic, Julie and Kyle recruit a youth gang, one of whom may be a Visitor spy, to help steal the serum.

Episode 15 - The Littlest Dragon

Feb 22, 1985

Anxious to settle a personal vendetta, Philip trails a Fifth Columnist, hoping he will lead him to the Resistance and Donovan.

Episode 16 - War of Illusions

Mar 8, 1985

When Philip and Diana install a high tech computer capable of launching a final victory over Earth, the Resistance's only hope at retaliation is a teenaged computer whiz.

Episode 17 - The Secret Underground

Mar 15, 1985

Julie and Donovan sneak aboard the Mother Ship to look for a hidden list naming all the Resistance leaders; Diana schemes to have Lydia's brother slain during a ritual celebration.

Episode 18 - The Return

Mar 22, 1985

The Leader stuns the Visitors by ordering a truce and traveling to Earth to negotiate peace; Diana plots to disrupt the peace.

Episode 19 - Breakout

May 24, 1985

Donovan and Ham are imprisoned in a Visitor work camp guarded by a hideous alien monster; Nathan Bates mounts a desperate search to find the "star-child" to exchange for his son Kyle who's in Diana's custody.