V and The Day After 1983

It ran for two seasons. 1983-1984ish. I was graduating that year and didn't like the premise of it.

I loved V also.  I bought the paperback with babysitting money in 1985 and still own the tattered copy.  I bought the series on DVD and watch it every so often.  V was a 4 hour miniseries (may 1983), then an additional 6 hour mini series (the final battle - may 1984).  The TV show afterwards aired for one season (84-85 season).

I still, to this day, have managed to avoid seeing The Day After.  I was in 6th grade when it aired and the next day we discussed it in every single class, so 6 times.  Nuclear war was my greatest childhood fear and it is terrible when you have no control over it.

In May of 1983, I was working full time with three young boys and a baby girl due in July. To be honest, I don't remember much about those years. Pop culture just went on without me.

My parents wouldn't let me watch The Day After either.

Being the sci fi nerd I that I am I have the complete series on dvd it is one of My go to shows when feeling down. .

Absolutly hated the remake tbh I hate remakes of shows & films as I think it is just lazy .

I loved both versions of V, alien invasions are one of my favourite things. I haven't seen the day after but I like the sound of it. 

Yes I remember both. I also remember Testament with Jane Alexander. This one hit home hard for me. My son loved He Man and in the movie a little boy buried all his He Man toys because there wasn't enough food. There was was also a British one called Threads. All scared me so much.

I loved V. Loved it. Loved.it.

In fact, just last night I made a reference about some cramps I'm having to a baby alien trying to claw its way out.

I re-watched it a few years ago. It is terrible. Cheezy to the max. I still loved it!!!

We loved and watched V in our house. Every once in a while I see something pop up about it. There's one particular scene that sticks in my head of the alien/lizard face being revealed, and I remember that scared me, but the rest of it didn't bother me. 

Jen

I think I watched V and I think we watched The Day After in school. I remember the premise but don’t really remember much about it.

Reading more about V maybe I started watching and then stopped. I don’t do scary shows.

I wish my parents would have not let me watch this. I was a teenager and I remember laying awake at night and hearing jets fly over and praying that they weren't nuclear missle launches. Think big hair in the early 1980s ... To this day, if I smell aqua-net hairspray it makes my stomach turn and I think about this movie.

We lived not too far from the setting of the film. I think this may be one reason it affected me so much. There were also many stories on the news about the many missle silo locations around were we live and that was why we were such a high military target. UGH.

I remember seeing promos for V. I think my Dad may have watched it but I don't remember much of it except it was sci-fi ish?

  We were apparently separated at birth, because this is me, down to re-watching it a couple years ago and loving it still.

  There wasn’t much I wasn’t allowed to watch if it was on public tv, the only time my Dad said absolutely no was The Day After. He explained it to me, which made me want to watch it even more. One tv in the living room made that impossible