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V (1983 miniseries)

Index V (1983 miniseries)

V (or V: The Original Miniseries) is a two-part American science-fiction television miniseries, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson. [1]

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  1. 91 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Andrew Prine, Ann C. Crispin, Anti-fascism, Avian influenza, Blair Tefkin, Blu-ray, Bonnie Bartlett, Brainwashing, Brandon Tartikoff, Camila Ashland, Cannon fodder, Carnivore, Charles B. Hensley, Chuck Bowman, Condé Nast, David Packer (actor), Diane Cary, Dominique Dunne, DVD, Entertainment Weekly, Evan C. Kim, Extraterrestrial life, Faye Grant, Frank Ashmore, George Morfogen, Guinea pig, Handedness, Hansford Rowe, Harvest, Headquarters of the United Nations, Hitler Youth, Investigative journalism, It Can't Happen Here, Jane Badler, Jason Bernard, Jenny Sullivan, Jews, Joe Harnell, Kenneth Johnson (filmmaker), Kensington Publishing, Leonardo Cimino, List of reptilian humanoids, Luger pistol, Marc Singer, Michael Durrell, Michael Wright (actor), Middle Tennessee State University, Mother ship, National Guard (United States), ... Expand index (41 more) »

  2. Films directed by Kenneth Johnson (producer)
  3. V (franchise)

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Andrew Prine

Andrew Lewis Prine (February 14, 1936 – October 31, 2022) was an American film, stage, and television actor.

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Ann C. Crispin

Ann Carol Crispin (April 5, 1950 – September 6, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels.

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Anti-fascism

Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.

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Avian influenza

Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans.

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Blair Tefkin

Blair Tefkin is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Bonnie Bartlett

Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (born June 20, 1929) is a retired American actress.

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Brainwashing

Brainwashing, also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and forced re-education, is the controversial theory that purports that the human mind can be altered or controlled against a person's will by manipulative psychological techniques.

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Brandon Tartikoff

Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was head of the entertainment division of NBC from 1981 to 1991.

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Camila Ashland

Camila Ashland (March 24, 1911 – September 12, 2008) was an American actress, best known for her role in V and V The Final Battle.

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Cannon fodder

Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.

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Carnivore

A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.

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Charles B. Hensley

Charles B. Hensley is an American businessman.

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Chuck Bowman

Charles W. Bowman (born June 2, 1937) is an American actor, director, producer and writer of film and television.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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David Packer (actor)

David Packer (born August 25, 1962) is an American actor.

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Diane Cary

Diane Cary is an American actress who has guest-starred in many TV shows.

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Dominique Dunne

Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Evan C. Kim

Evan C. Kim (born February 17, 1953) is an American actor.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.

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Faye Grant

Faye Grant is an American actress.

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Frank Ashmore

Frank Ashmore is an American actor.

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George Morfogen

George Morfogen (March 30, 1933 – March 8, 2019) was an American stage, film and TV actor.

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Guinea pig

The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the genus Cavia in the family Caviidae.

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Handedness

In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous.

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Hansford Rowe

Hansford Herndon Rowe Jr. (May 12, 1924 – September 5, 2017) was an American film, stage and television actor.

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Harvest

Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops.

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Headquarters of the United Nations

The headquarters of the United Nations (UN) is on of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, often abbreviated as HJ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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It Can't Happen Here

It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis.

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Jane Badler

Jane Badler is an American-Australian actress and singer.

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Jason Bernard

Jason Bernard (born Ronald Carl Johnson, May 17, 1938 – October 16, 1996) was an American actor.

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Jenny Sullivan

Jenny Sullivan is an American film and television actress.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joe Harnell

Joseph Harnell (born Joseph Hittelman; August 2, 1924 – July 14, 2005) was an American composer, musician, and music arranger.

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Kenneth Johnson (filmmaker)

Kenneth Culver Johnson (born October 26, 1942) is an American screenwriter, producer and director.

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Kensington Publishing

Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New Yorkbased publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William.

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Leonardo Cimino

Leonardo Cimino (November 4, 1917 – March 3, 2012) was an American film, television and stage actor who in 1937 appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock.

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List of reptilian humanoids

Reptilian humanoids appear in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

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Luger pistol

The Pistole Parabellum or Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), commonly known as just the Luger or Luger P08, is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol.

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Marc Singer

Marc Singer (born January 29, 1948) is a Canadian/American actor best known for his roles in the Beastmaster film series, as Mike Donovan in the original 1980s TV series V, and as Matt Cantrell in Dallas.

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Michael Durrell

Michael Durrell (born Sylvester Salvatore Ciraulo; in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor.

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Michael Wright (actor)

Michael Wright is an American film and television actor, who is best known for his role as Eddie King Jr.

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Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU or MT) is a public University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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Mother ship

A mother ship, mothership or mother-ship is a large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles.

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National Guard (United States)

The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the U.S. military's reserve components of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force when activated for federal missions.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neva Patterson

Neva Louise Patterson (February 10, 1920 – December 14, 2010) was an American actress.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Novelization

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play, comic book, or video game.

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Open matte

Open matte is a filming technique that involves matting out the top and bottom of the film frame in the movie projector (known as a soft matte) for the widescreen theatrical release and then scanning the film without a matte (at Academy ratio) for a full screen home video release.

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Penelope Windust

Penelope Marjorie Windust (July 13, 1945 – February 2, 2022) was an American television, film, and stage actress.

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Peter Nelson (actor)

Peter Nelson (born September 10, 1959) (sometimes credited as Calvin Persson) is an American actor, producer, and writer.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

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Quisling

Quisling is a term used in Scandinavian languages and in English to mean a citizen or politician of an occupied country who collaborates with an enemy occupying force – or more generally as a synonym for traitor or collaborator.

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Rafael Campos

Rafael Campos (13 May 1936 – 9 July 1985) was an actor from the Dominican Republic whose credits include Blackboard Jungle (1955), Dino (1957), The Light in the Forest (1958), Slumber Party '57 (1976), The Astro-Zombies (1968), Centennial (1978) and ''V'' (1983). He was briefly married to blues singer and pianist Dinah Washington.

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Resistance movement

A resistance movement are Political Movements that tries to resist or overthrow a government or an occupying power, causing disruption and unrest in civil order and stability.

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Resonance

In physics, resonance refers to a wide class of phenomena that arise as a result of matching temporal or spatial periods of oscillatory objects.

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Richard Herd

Richard Thomas Herd Jr. (September 26, 1932 – May 26, 2020) was an American actor appearing in numerous supporting, recurring, and guest roles in television series and occasional film roles from the 1970s to the 2010s.

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Richard Lawson (actor)

Rickey Lee Lawson (born March 7, 1947Collier, Aldore., Ebony, volume 47, number 9, July 1992, p. 32.) is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television.

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Robert Englund

Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor and director.

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Scapegoat

In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other is sacrificed.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science fiction on television

Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

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Scott Peters (writer)

Scott Peters is a Canadian television producer, television director and screenwriter, most probably known for his involvement in writing, co-creating and producing for the science fiction television series The 4400.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Sirius

Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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Stack Pierce

Robert Stack Pierce (June 15, 1933 – March 1, 2016) was a Hollywood actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Swastika

The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.

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Taken (miniseries)

Taken, also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, is an American science fiction television miniseries that first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel from December 2 to 13, 2002.

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The 4400

The 4400 (pronounced "the forty-four hundred") is a science fiction television series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with BSkyB, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network in the United States and Sky One in the United Kingdom.

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Tor Books

Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City.

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V (1984 TV series)

V (also known as V: The Series) is an American science fiction television series that aired in the United States on NBC from October 26, 1984, to March 22, 1985. V (1983 miniseries) and v (1984 TV series) are 1980s American science fiction television series, NBC original programming, television about alien invasions, television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios, television shows set in Los Angeles and v (franchise).

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V (2009 TV series)

V is an American science fiction drama television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009, to March 15, 2011. V (1983 miniseries) and v (2009 TV series) are television about alien invasions, television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios and v (franchise).

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V (franchise)

V is an American science fiction franchise created by American writer, producer and director Kenneth Johnson about a genocidal invading alien race known as the "Visitors"—reptilian humanoids disguised as human beings—trying to take over Earth, and the human reaction to this, including the Resistance group attempting to stop them, while others collaborate with the aliens for power and personal wealth. V (1983 miniseries) and v (franchise) are television about alien invasions and television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios.

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V The Final Battle

V: The Final Battle (abbreviated as V:TFB) is a 1984 American TV miniseries. V (1983 miniseries) and v The Final Battle are 1980s American science fiction television series, 1980s American television miniseries, NBC original programming, television about alien invasions, television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios, television shows set in Los Angeles and v (franchise).

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V The Second Generation

V: The Second Generation is a novel written by American telewriter/producer Kenneth Johnson. V (1983 miniseries) and v The Second Generation are v (franchise).

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Viveka Davis

Viveka Davis (born August 19, 1969) is a retired American actress who has starred in television series and films.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Television Studios

Warner Bros.

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Wartime collaboration

Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime.

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William Russ

William Russ (born October 20, 1950) is an American actor and television director.

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See also

Films directed by Kenneth Johnson (producer)

V (franchise)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries)

Also known as Juliet Parrish, Mike Donovan (character), Robin Maxwell (character), V (The Original Miniseries).

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