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Ok... for my Mini-Series pick...

V! (the original miniseries)

Aliens arrived on Earth in a fleet of 50 huge, saucer-shaped motherships, which hovered over major key cities. They revealed themselves on the roof of the United Nations building in New York City, and were human in appearance, but required special glasses to protect their eyes; they also had a distinctive low resonance to their voices. Simply referred to as the Visitors, they reached out in friendship, ostensibly seeking the help of humans to obtain chemicals needed to aid their ailing world. In return, the Visitors promised to share their advanced technology with humanity. The governments of Earth accepted the arrangement, and the Visitors, led by their leader John and his deputy Diana, began to gain considerable influence with human authorities.

However, strange things were soon noted. Scientists found themselves facing increasing media hostility, and government restrictions on their activities and movements. Others, particularly those keen on examining the Visitors more closely, began to disappear or were discredited. Noted scientists confessed to subversive activities; some exhibited other unusual behavior, such as suddenly demonstrating an opposite hand preference to the one they were known to have.

Journalist and TV cameraman Michael Donovan (Singer) covertly boarded one of the Visitors' motherships and discovered that beneath their human like facade, the aliens were reptilian in nature, and carnivorous - preferring to eat live food, like rodents and birds. Donovan recorded some of what transpired on tape, but just as the exposé was about to air, the broadcast was interrupted by a Visitor announcement suddenly making Donovan a fugitive, pursued by both the police and the Visitors.

Scientists around the world continued to be persecuted - both to discredit them (as the part of the human population most likely to discover the Visitors' secrets) and to distract the rest of the population with a scapegoat upon whom they could focus their fears. Key human individuals were subjected to Diana's special mind control process called "conversion", which turned them into the Visitors' pawns, leaving only subtle behavioral clues to this manipulation; others were subjects of biological experiments. Some other humans, on the other hand (including Mike Donovan's mother, Eleanor Dupres), willingly collaborated with the Visitors, seduced by their power. Daniel Bernstein, a grandson of a Holocaust survivor, joined the Visitor Youth and began to reveal the locations of traitors to the alien cause. One teenager, Robin Maxwell, the daughter of a prominent scientist who went into hiding, was seduced by a male Visitor named Brian, who impregnates her as one of Diana's "medical experiments."

A resistance movement was formed, determined to expose and oppose the Visitors as much as possible. The Los Angeles cell leader was Dr. Juliet "Julie" Parrish. Donovan was later assimilated into the group and, sneaking again into a mothership, he learned from a Visitor named Martin that the story about the needed chemicals was merely a diversion. The true purpose of the Visitors' trip to Earth was to conquer and subdue the planet, steal all of the Earth's water and harvest the human race as food, leaving only a few as slaves and soldiers/cannon fodder for the Visitors' wars with other alien races. Donovan also discovered there were dissidents among the Visitors (later known as the Fifth Column) who opposed their leader's plans. Martin promised to aid the Resistance, and gave Donovan access to an alien ship, which he quickly learned how to pilot.

Soon, the members of the Resistance struck their first blows against the Visitors, while procuring laboratory equipment and modern military weapons from National Guard armories to carry on the fight. The symbol of the resistance was blood-red letter V's spray-painted over posters promoting Visitor friendship among humans.