V: The Original Miniseries, or V, as it was originally known, was a two-part miniseries premiering on NBC on May 1, 1983. It was first series in the V saga, featuring the aliens known as the Visitors , arriving with advanced technology in fifty Motherships, with a proposition of trading their technology for Earth's resources, and the struggle of a Resistance to discover the sinister objectives of the Visitors and their true identities.