The Best Episodes of V

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

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Paul Monash

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.

Director: Paul Krasny

Writer: Steven E. de Souza

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.

Director: Kevin Hooks

Writer: Carleton Eastlake

Kyle Bates becomes involved in the Resistance when they are attempting to secretly move Elizabeth to safety in New York. Mike Donovan awakens to seemingly the ideal life with news that Earth has triumphed against the alien invaders. Alas, it's a holographic ruse by the Visitors aimed at gathering information about the Starchild.

Director: Victor Lobl

Writer: Garner Simmons

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

Director: Bruce Seth Green

Writer: Brian Taggert

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

Director: Bruce Seth Green

Writer: David Abramowitz

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

Director: Kevin Hooks

Writer: Garner Simmons

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.

Director: Walter Grauman

Writer: Paul F. Edwards

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.

Director: Kevin Hooks

Writer: Chris Manheim

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

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Writer: Brian Taggert

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.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Writer: Mark Rosner

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.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Writer: David Braff

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.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Paul F. Edwards

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: John Florea

Writer: David Braff

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.

Director: Earl Bellamy

Writer: John Simmons

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

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: David Abramowitz

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

Director: John Florea

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: David Braff, Colley Cibber