6.892 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestA resistance movement is formed in Los Angeles under the medical scientist Julie Parrish. Visitor dissidents opposing their leader's plans join their cause to fight the alien oppression by leader John and his right hand Diana.
Fifty spaceships, each three miles across, hover ominously above Earth's major cities. The Visitors that emerge are humanlike in appearance and extend the hand of friendship. Our planet's resources are just what these aliens need to survive. And for its future survival, unsuspecting humankind will need... a miracle!
Practical Effects
Glorious rubber lizard masks and fake skin peeling
Direction
Kenneth Johnson's surprisingly sharp fascist parallel
Acting
Jane Badler's deliciously evil Diana
Creator
Kenneth Johnson
Jane Badler
Diana
Michael Durrell
Robert Maxwell
Faye Grant
Julie Parrish
Peter Nelson
Brian
David Packer
Daniel Bernstein
Neva Patterson
Eleanor Dupres
Marc Singer
Mike Donovan
Blair Tefkin
Robin Maxwell
Michael Wright
Elias Taylor
Robert Englund
Willie
Bonnie Bartlett
Lynn Bernstein
Leonardo Cimino
Abraham Bernstein
Richard Herd
John
Evan C. Kim
Tony Wah Chong Leonetti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kenneth Johnson originally pitched it as a fascist allegory inspired by Sinclair Lewis's 'It Can't Happen Here'—NBC wanted Star Wars.
The 'red uniform' Visitors were directly modeled after Nazi aesthetics; Johnson later said Reagan's America made the metaphor uncomfortably timely.
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