They came to Earth, disguised as friends. But instead, they took our water and our people for food. But there is a Resistance... to save our people and our planet. These are the stories of this Resistance...
Season 1 - Episode list
1. Liberation Day
Airdate: 1984-10-26 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10
Alien commander Diana escapes the Resistance and reunites with her fleet. The Starchild Elizabeth undergoes a strange metamorphosis.
2. Dreadnaught
Airdate: 1984-11-02 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.7/10
Diana talks peace while readying the fearsome Triax super-weapon that could reduce Los Angeles to rubble. Meanwhile, Resistance fighters activate a new weapon of their own - a captured Visitor mothership.
3. Breakout
Airdate: 1985-05-24 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.2/10
Mike and Ham try to rescue Sean, but are captured and taken to a Visitor work camp. Diana threatens Bates and offers his son Kyle (Jeff Yagher) for Elizabeth. Turns out Kyle is also at the work camp, which is surrounded by a sand moat where predatory crivits live. Robin (Blair Tefkin) is also at the camp. They escape using a shorted-out wire and pieces of a garden hose, but Robin is separated from them. Diana has come to see Kyle, and he diverts her from the escape by seducing her. Once she sees what’s going on, he is able to escape. Meanwhile, Elias lets Elizabeth play the piano at the Club Creole, but a Visitor recognizes the Mark of Zon on her hand and pursues her. She uses her powers to protect herself.
4. The Deception
Airdate: 1984-11-09 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.2/10
Kyle Bates becomes involved in the Resistance when they are attempting to secretly move Elizabeth to safety in New York. Mike Donovan awakens to seemingly the ideal life with news that Earth has triumphed against the alien invaders. Alas, it's a holographic ruse by the Visitors aimed at gathering information about the Starchild.
5. The Sanction
Airdate: 1984-11-16 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.2/10
Donovan secretly enters the Visitor Youth Corps in an attempt to rescue his son Sean, who has become their top pupil. Standing in the way of his rescue is a fearsome alien...the and boy's conflicted allegiance. Meanwhile, the Starchild reunites with her mother.
6. Visitor's Choice
Airdate: 1984-11-23 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.5/10
The Resistance plots to attack a meeting of Visitor leaders whose conference is about the processing of Earth's inhabitants for food.
7. The Overlord
Airdate: 1984-11-30 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
A citizen rallies the Resistance to aid a group of people forced to mine cobalt while harboring a secret agenda. Julie faces allegations of treason.
8. The Dissident
Airdate: 1984-12-07 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.2/10
A Visitor scientist develops an force field that is deployed around Los Angeles. The Resistance attempts to destroy it.
9. Reflections in Terror
Airdate: 1984-12-14 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.2/10
Diana attempts to clone the elusive Starchild - but the new creation escapes and goes on a quest to find her true life force (Elizabeth). The Visitors best tracker is in pursuit.
10. The Conversion
Airdate: 1985-01-04 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.5/10
Diana captures Ham Tyler, but a new superior arrives and his first order of business: a mind-control gambit aimed at turning Ham into a secret assassin.
11. The Hero
Airdate: 1985-01-11 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.3/10
The Visitors take the publishers of a Resistance sympathetic newspaper hostage. They threaten to kill one each day until Donovan and the others surrender. Robin falls for a heroic stranger who isn't all that he seems.
12. The Betrayal
Airdate: 1985-01-18 |
TheTVDB Rating: 8.0/10
The Resistance kidnaps a Visitor doctor to tend to friendly alien Willie - but can the doctor be trusted? Robin discovers her new lover is an alien sent to impregnate her and create a second Starchild.
13. The Rescue
Airdate: 1985-02-01 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
The alien commander decides that marrying Diana is the best way to solidify his power...but it's a love match that has him fatally outmatched.
14. The Champion
Airdate: 1985-02-08 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
Lydia is tried for murdering Charles while the Resistance must root out collaborators in a small Arizona Town.
15. The Wildcats
Airdate: 1985-02-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 6.0/10
The Resistance must steal a drug from the Visitors in order to combat a dangerous plague.
16. The Littlest Dragon
Airdate: 1985-02-22 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Philip heads to Earth in pursuit of a Fifth Columnist and his pregnant wife, who have stolen the Mothership's laser power source. Philip also determines to kill Mike Donovan, whom he believes is responsible for the torture and death of his brother Martin.
17. War of Illusions
Airdate: 1985-03-08 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
When a computer hacker taps into the Visitor communications network, he becomes the object of an intense hunt. The boy won't help the Resistance unless they free his father from the Mothership. While the Resistance wants his secrets, the Visitors want him dead.
18. The Secret Underground
Airdate: 1985-03-15 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
Donovan and Julie must sneak aboard the mothership to retrieve a list of the Resistance members. Once aboard, Julie meets a former lover, who may be a Visitor collaborator, and Diana is using a ritual feast to exact revenge.
19. The Return
Airdate: 1985-03-22 |
TheTVDB Rating: 7.0/10
The leader declares a ceasefire and travels to Earth to halt the war. He takes Elizabeth on his ship, but Diana has hidden a bomb on board in a plot to become the new leader.