V:THE MINI SERIES
NBC-Kenneth Johnson Prod. / 5x110m-e / 1984
Creator/Executive Producer/Director:Kenneth Johnson / Music: Joe Harnell / Producer:Chuck Bowman
SciFi drama serial. Reptilian aliens plan a takeover of Earth in the late 20th century, with the aliens initially seeming
friendly towards humans before showing their true colours. See also V:The
Series(below).
With:- JANE BADLER as Diana / FAYE GRANT as Julie Parrish / MARC SINGER as Mike
Donovan / MICHAEL DURRELL as Robert / BLAIR TEFKIN as Robin Maxwell
/ ROBERT ENGLUND as Willie / MICHAEL IRONSIDE as Ham Tyler / FRANK ASHMORE as
Martin
V:THE SERIES
Warner - Daniel H. Blatt - Robert Singer / 2x120m-e 17x60m-e / 1985
Creator: Kenneth Johnson / Executive Producer: Daniel H. Blatt, Robert Singer
SciFi drama series. A continuation of the V Mini Series. It is one year later and the alien lizards are again upto their evil
Earth takeover plans.
With:- JANE BADLER as Diana / FAYE GRANT as Julie Parrish / MARC SINGER as Mike
Donovan / MICHAEL DURRELL as Robert / BLAIR TEFKIN as Robin Maxwell
/ ROBERT ENGLUND as Willie / MICHAEL IRONSIDE as Ham Tyler / FRANK ASHMORE as
Martin / JANE CHADWICK as Lydia / JENNY BETH as Elizabeth(1) / JENNIFER COOKE as
Elizabeth(2) / MICHAEL IRONSIDE as Ham / LANE SMITH as Nathan Bates / JEFF YAGHER
as Kyle
VALENTINE'S DAY
TCF- Savannah-Yorktan / 34x30m-e / 1964 bw
Creator: Hal Kanter
Sitcom. Amorous episodes in the life of a bachelor about town.
With:- TONY FRANCIOSA / JACK SOO / JANET WALDO / PATSY KELLY
NBC-CBS-Tal Prod. - Lorimar TV - Miller Boyett Prod./ 110x30m-e / 1986-91
Executive Producer: Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett, Tony Cacciotti
Sitcom. Valerie Hogan brings up her three growing boys David, Willie and Mark. In 1987, following a behind the scenes
rift, Harper left the show, this prompted the arrival of Valerie's sister Sandy to care for the boys and the show
then underwent two title changes - Valerie's Family and The Hogan Family.
With:- VALERIE HARPER as Valerie Hogan(86-87) / SANDY DUNCAN as Sandy
Hogan(87-91) / JASON BATEMAN as David Hogan / DANNY PONCE as Willie Hogan / JEREMY LICHT
as Mark Hogan / JOSH TAYLOR as Michael Hogan / JOHN HILLERMAN as Lloyd
Hogan(90-91) / TOM HODGES as Rich(86-89)
VALERIE'S FAMILY:See Valerie (above)
VANISHED
Universal / 2x120m-e / 1970
Writer: Dean Riesner / Novel:Fletcher Knebel / Director:Buzz Kulick
Drama serial. When an advisor to the president goes missing he is revealed to be homosexual.One of the first
American 'mini-series'
With:- RICHARD WIDMARK / ROBERT YOUNG / SKYE AUBREY / JAMES FARENTINO / TOM BOSLEY
/ SHEREE NORTH / LARRY HAGMAN / E.G. MARSHALL / ELEANOR PARKER /WILLIAM SHATNER
VEGA$
ABC - Spelling-Cramer / 1x75m-e 67x60m-e / 1978-81
Creator: Michael Mann / Music:Dominic Frontiere / Producers: Alan Godfrey, E. Duke Vincent
/ Executive Producers: Aaron Spelling, Douglas S. Cramer
Crime drama series. Cases of Las vegas based private detective Dan Tanna.
With:- ROBERT URICH as Dan Tanna / PHYLLIS DAVIS as Beatrice Travis / JUDY LANDERS
as Angie Turner / BART BRAVERMAN as Bobby Borso 'Binzer' / WILL SAMPSON as Eli Two
Leaf / GREG MORRIS as Lt David Nelson / TONY CURTIS as Philip Roth
VENGEANCE UNLIMITED
ABC - Warner - McNamara / 15x60m-e / 1998
Creators: John McNamara, David Simkins / Theme Music: Mark Morgan / Executive Producer:
John McNamara
Action drama series. After becoming a victim of the American legal system, Mr Chapel sets up as a defender of the
virtuous.
With:- MICHAEL MASDEN / KATHLEEN YORK /
VERONICA'S CLOSET
Warner/Bright-Kauffman- David Crane - Zippel / x30m-e / 1998-99
Creators: Marta Kauffman, David Crane / Theme Music: Michael Skloff, Performed by Jeffrey Osborne
Sitcom. Stories of Veronica Chase, the owner of a chain of lingerie stores (like the real life Victoria's Secrets
range).
With:- KIRSTIE ALLEY Veronica Chase / DAN CORTESE / WALLACE LANGHAM / DARYL MITCHELL / KATHY NAJIMY
as Olive / ROBERT PROSKY as Pat
VER-R-R-RY INTERESTING
NBC - George Schlatter- Arte Johnson
- Ed Friendly / 1x60m-e / 1971 18 Mar
Writers: Ron Friedman, Coslough Johnson,
/ Producers:Saul Ilson, Ernest Chambers / Director: Bill Foster
Comedy. One off sketch special for Arte Johnson who had been
appearing in Rowan and Martin's Laugh In
. The title was one of Johnson's catchphrases
that he used on that show. Also appearing were Bing Crosby, Nancy Kulpe and Elke Sommer.
VICTORY AT SEA
NBC / 1x75m-e / 20x60m-e / 1952
bw
Documentary. Mammoth study of the major sea battles of world
war II.
V.I.P.
Columbia - Lawton / x60m-e / 1999-
Creator: J.F. Lawton / Music:Frankie Blue
/ Executive Producer: Pamela Anderson Lee
Action adventure series. Cases of a tough all action, tight(and small)costume
wearing female bodyguard and the agency she runs.
With:- PAMELA ANDERSON LEE / MOLLY CULVER
/ SHAUN BAKER / NATALIE RAITANO / LEAH LAIL
VIRGIN
CHRONICLES
MTV / x30m-e / 2002 (Premiered: April 20)
Music celebrities take a trip down memory lane where they revisit
their "firsts" - first kiss, first car, first crush, first
gig and their, umm, first time.
NBC-Universal- Revue / 208x90m-e
/ 1962-70
Creator: Charles Maquis Warren / Theme
Music:Percy Faith
Western drama series. A mysterious stranger known only as the Virginian
works on the Shiloh Ranch, Wyoming during the 1880's.
With:- JAMES DRURY as The
Virginian / CLU GALAGER as Emmett Ryker / DOUG McCLURE as Trampas / GARY CLARKE
as Steve / LEE J. COBB as Judge Henry Garth / L.Q. JONES as Belden / JOHN McINTIRE
as Clay Grainger / CHARLES BICKFORD as John Grainger
THE VISITOR
TCF-Centropolis / 8x60m-e
/ 1997
Creators: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerlich
/ Theme Music: David Arnold / Executive Producer: John Masius
SciFi Drama series. An alien on Earth tries to help people in need,
whilst being pursued by the government.
With:- JOHN CORBETT / GRAND L. BUSH
/ LEON RIPPY / JOHN STOREY / STEVE RAILSBACK
VISIT TO A SMALL PLANET
1x60m-e / 1955 /bw
Writer:Gore Vidal
SciFi drama. A young alien pays a visit to an Earth household.
VIVA VALDEZ
Columbia-Rothman-Wohl-Stan Jacobson
/ x30m-e / 1976
Creators: Jacobson, Rothman, Wohl
Sitcom. Stories of an Immigrant Chicano family based in
Los Angeles.
With:- CARMEN ZAPATA / RODOLFO HOYOES
/ JAMES VICTOR
VOYAGERS
Universal / 21x60m-e / 1982-83
Creator: James D. Parriott / Producer:
Jill Sherman
SciFi drama series. A pair of agents(one a young boy) travel back in
time in order to make sure history keeps on the right track.
With:- JON ERIC HEXUM as Phineas
Bogg / MEENO PELUCE as Jeffrey Jones
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
ABC-Irwin Allen Prod.- TCF / 110x60m-e(38
bw) / 1964-68
Creator/Executive Producer: Irwin Allen
/ Theme Music: Lionel Newman
Scifi drama series. The exploits of the crew of the 600 foot long atomic
powered supersub Seaview led by Admiral Harriman Nelson. Shot on a soundstage
using 4 foot and 8 foot models of the Seaview for underwater shots, ocean
views from inside the craft were back projection of footage shot in the
Bahamas and off the California coast.
With:- RICHARD BASEHART as Admiral Harriman
Nelson / DAVID HEDISON as Cmdr Lee Crane / ROBERT DOWDELL as Lt Cmdr Chip Morton
/ HENRY KULKY as Chief Petty Officer Jones / TERRY BECKER as Chief Sharkey / ALLAN HUNT
as Stu Riley / DEL MONROE as Kowalsky / PAUL TRINKA as Crewman Patterson / ARCH WHITING
as Crewman Sparks / RICHARD BULL as Doctor
V.R. 5
Rysher-Samosetha / 13x60m-e
/ 1995
Creators: Adam Cherry, Geoffrey Hemwall, Michael
Kattleman, Jeannine Renshaw, Thania St. John / Music: John C. Frizell
/ Producers: Naomi Janzen, Jack Clements
Scifi drama series. Computer genius Sydney Bloom is able to enter a
virtual reality world inside her computer where she finds herself caught up in
nefarious goings on.
With:- LORI SINGER as Sydney
Bloom / MICHAEL EASTON as Duncan / WILL PATTON as Dr Frank Morgan / ANTHONY HEAD
as Oliver Sampson / DAVID McCALLUM as Dr Joseph Bloom / LOUISE FLETCHER as Nora
Bloom
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