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 their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But that's something the world's Resistance Fighters cannot allow.
The best episode of "V" season 1 is "Liberation Day", rated 7.2/10 from 335 user votes. It was directed by Paul Krasny and written by Paul Monash. "Liberation Day" aired on 10/26/1984 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Dreadnought".
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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