V: The Complete Collection (Original Series) [DVD] [1984] [2008]

I remember the TV series so well and brings back memories of this fantastic series and the great theme to it. A bit like a cross between They Live and War of the Worlds.

Good box set

Please BE WARNED, this is NOT the complete V as stated in some of the reviews.It is the 19 part tv series which followed on from V and Final BattleI loved the original mini series of V when it was first on tv and despite the lower budget and slightly naff story lines of the tv series that followed I still waited up late at night to watch that too.The transfer onto dvd isn't great but what do you expect from a mid 80's tv show which was shot on video tape and which has not been remastered or cleaned up. For the first 30 seconds I was thinking "this looks poor" but then the story kicked off and I didn't mind any more. It in no way spoilt my re-enjoying of the show after so many years.If you loved it first time around you'll love it now.

Have seen a lot of the episodes & missed a lot more, so it was great to be able to watch the whole series

Now have the full set, took a while to get all the set but more than worth it so very happy indeed.

I haven't seen all of it yet, but I can assure you I shall be doing. It consists of 19 episodes of the second series of "V" but having read the reviews, I knew what to expect anyway!I was lucky enough to have a mate who showed me the first Series of "V" and although I hadn't seen it before, I was hooked. Dad never watched anything American in the Seventies when I was still living with my parents, so that was the reason why.My mate also warned me to get the first series, I needed to get "the Mini Series" and the "Final Battle" on DVD, which I have now got. I do feet the wording on the box "The Complete Series" is misleading. Perhaps it would be more true to say "The Second Series-Complete".Having said that, Jane Badler is the star of the V Series. Subtitles are extremely useful! It consists of 5 DVD's.

Weak ending to series, too late to go back and fix it now though. Other than that a great old series with the most gorgeous villainess ever, the luscious but evil Diana (Jane Badler). Love this series from which several elements were 'borrowed' for other films/series. Gigantic flying saucer shaped alien spacecraft hovering over the world's cities, now where else have I seen that?

I don't know what some of the other reviewers received, but they didn't get what was delivered to my house this morning...This is NOT the complete V story.The box contains the final 19-episode series ONLY.It DOES NOT contain the mini-series or the Final Battle.Please, people, make sure you're reviewing the correct product!!!==========================================*Edited to add*I've now bought the COMPLETE "Complete" Collection from another source, and have altered my star rating from two down to one.I never watched the series when it was originally broadcast but my partner, an American, remembered it fondly from her childhood so I bought it for her for Christmas.It's said that there are some things you have to do once in your life, but watching this series once through was one time too many. The acting is atrocious, the special effects are diabolical, the scripting is ludicrous and the plotlines are utterly infantile. Coming in the wake of two Star Wars films and a LONG time after Star Trek, the producers and directors should be ashamed and embarrassed that they unleashed this drivel on the public. Even Battlestar Galactica, which it also postdates, looks sophisticated by comparison and that takes some doing. Towards the end, I'm sure the toughest job the writers had was dreaming up inventive new ways in which the aliens could demonstrate their bumbling incompetence.Some programmes are classics because they're SO bad. "V" doesn't even make that mark: it's awful, sad, and it's shattered part of my partner's rosy childhood memories. I'm just glad that I bought a secondhand copy so nobody earned any royalties from my purchase.If I could rate it zero stars I would.