Category: V

NBC airs the first night of Kenneth Johnson’s heavily-promoted sci-fi miniseries V, starring Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler. The big-budget special effects and sci-fi concepts allow Johnson to slip the audience a story about resisting fascism; the ratings are high enough for NBC to already be considering a follow-up.

NBC airs the second night of Kenneth Johnson’s heavily-promoted sci-fi miniseries V, starring Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler. The big-budget special effects and sci-fi concepts allow Johnson to slip the audience a story about resisting fascism; the ratings are high enough for NBC to have Johnson and Warner Bros. begin work on a sequel.

NBC premieres the first part of its continuation of Kenneth Johnson’s alien invasion epic, V: The Final Battle. Heavily retooled without Johnson’s involvement, V is now focused on action and special effects spectacle, with in-fighting among the glamorous leaders of the Visitors providing a prime-time soap vibe.

NBC premieres the second part of its continuation of Kenneth Johnson’s alien invasion epic, V: The Final Battle. The birth of Robin’s alien-hybrid children is one of the genre cliffhangers of the decade. This marks the science fiction soundtrack debut of Dennis McCarthy, who later goes on to score most of the Star Trek spinoffs of the next three decades; he is tapped at a very late stage (mere days prior to broadcast) to rescore the entire miniseries – so late, in fact, that it’s ultimately impossible for him to redo the music for the first night in the time allotted.

NBC premieres the third and final part of its continuation of Kenneth Johnson’s alien invasion epic, V: The Final Battle. Now bearing little resemblance to the story Johnson originally hoped to tell with the sequel, the three-night event scores enough in the all-important Nielsen TV ratings to convince NBC to order a weekly series to be produced in time for 1984’s fall TV season.