The Visitors are returning.
"The Vis-i-who?" some of you may be asking, but for the uninitiated,
"V" was a sci-fi miniseries that aired in 1983 and was viewed by an estimated 65 million people.
The four-hour spectacular postulated that alien space vessels come to earth and begin hovering over all of the planet's major cities. Its inhabitants identify themselves as the Visitors, who claim to be humanity's friend. According to their leaders, they've come to earth seeking our help: it seems they need a chemical that is natural here that will save their people. In exchange, we're promised cures to all of our ills.
It all sounds good, until the truth is discovered by a handful of people: the Visitors are a race of reptilian beings disguised as humans who have actually come to steal the water, harvest the humans as food and lay this planet to waste. A resistance movement rises to fight back and expose the Visitors for what they are, thus laying the groundwork for a six-hour miniseries follow-up ("V": The Final Battle, airing in May of 1984) and the subsequent "V": The Series, which ran for a single season beginning in the fall of that year.
That should have been it, but it wasn't. "
'V' never really died," offers actor Marc Singer, who played cameraman/resistance member Mike Donovan in the original. "I think the fan support over the years has been the lifeblood of the series, but it has been on life support. It's been comatose, and it's awaiting revival."
That time has come.
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