Season 1

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

The 1983 miniseries is the event: motherships over cities, Visitors smiling on camera, then the reptile reveal that made living rooms scream. Kenneth Johnson's occupation allegory — Nazis in red dust, mice as hors d'oeuvres — still has pulp shock. Skip the later weekly series if you want the phenomenon; the original two-nighter is the text.

TV Flash files Season 1 of V (1983–1985) on NBC as the first listed season of 3 — 2 listed hours, 1983-05-01–1983-05-02 from “V - Part 1” (S01E01) to “V - Part 2” (S01E02). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 V - Part 1

   V - Part 1 is the event: motherships over cities, Visitors smiling, occupation allegory already in the red dust. Living rooms still talk about the reveal.

2. S01E02 V - Part 2

   V - Part 2 is the two-nighter's second night: Nazis in latex, mice as hors d'oeuvres, pulp shock as the text. This is the phenomenon.