7.2/10336 votes#1 - Liberation Day
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1984
Alien commander Diana escapes the Resistance and reunites with her fleet. The Starchild Elizabeth undergoes a strange metamorphosis.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Paul Monash
7.0/10277 votes#2 - Dreadnought
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/1984
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.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Steven E. de Souza
6.9/10277 votes#3 - The Deception
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1984
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
6.9/10263 votes#4 - The Sanction
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/1984
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
6.7/10254 votes#5 - Visitor's Choice
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/23/1984
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.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: David Braff
6.9/10253 votes#6 - The Overlord
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/30/1984
Led by Donovan, Ham, and Elias, the Resistance runs into a doublecross when they seek to rid a mining community from alien-backed thugs.
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: David Abramowitz
6.8/10247 votes#7 - The Dissident
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/1984
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.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Paul F. Edwards
6.8/10246 votes#8 - Reflections in Terror
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/1984
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.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Chris Manheim
6.9/10255 votes#9 - The Conversion
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/4/1985
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
7.0/10251 votes#10 - The Hero
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/1985
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.
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
6.9/10248 votes#11 - The Betrayal
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/1985
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.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Mark Rosner
6.9/10249 votes#12 - The Rescue
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/1/1985
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
6.6/10245 votes#13 - The Champion
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/8/1985
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.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Paul F. Edwards
6.4/10245 votes#14 - The Wildcats
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/1985
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.
Director: John Florea
Writer: David Braff
6.3/10243 votes#15 - The Littlest Dragon
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1985
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
6.4/10231 votes#16 - War of Illusions
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/8/1985
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: John Simmons
6.1/10236 votes#17 - The Secret Underground
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/1985
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.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Braff, Colley Cibber
6.3/10243 votes#18 - The Return
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/1985
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
6.6/10246 votes#19 - Breakout
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/24/1985
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to...
Genre:Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Liberation Day" is the best rated episode of "V" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 336 votes. Directed by Paul Krasny and written by Paul Monash, it aired on 10/26/1984. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Dreadnought".