Episode
V: War of Illusions
Overview
When Philip and Diana install a high tech computer capable of launching a final victory over Earth, the Resistance's only hope at retaliation is a teenaged computer whiz.
Details
- Series
- V
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1985-03-08
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
War of Illusions is Episode 16 in Season 1 of V. It aired on 1985-03-08. The runtime is 48 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 15: The Littlest Dragon
Anxious to settle a personal vendetta, Philip trails a Fifth Columnist, hoping he will lead him to the Resistance and Donovan.
Episode 17: The Secret Underground
Julie and Donovan sneak aboard the Mother Ship to look for a hidden list naming all the Resistance leaders; Diana schemes to have Lydia's brother slain during a ritual celebration.
More episodes from this season
Episode 14: The Wildcats
Needing medicine to treat a deadly diphtheria epidemic, Julie and Kyle recruit a youth gang, one of whom may be a Visitor spy, to help steal the serum.
Episode 18: The Return
The Leader stuns the Visitors by ordering a truce and traveling to Earth to negotiate peace; Diana plots to disrupt the peace.
Episode 13: The Champion
Sent to investigate Charles' death, newly arrived Inspector General Philip allows Lydia to choose a trial by combat in a laser duel to the death with Diana.
Episode 19: Breakout
Donovan and Ham are imprisoned in a Visitor work camp guarded by a hideous alien monster; Nathan Bates mounts a desperate search to find the "star-child" to exchange for his son Kyle who's in Diana's custody.
Episode 12: The Rescue
Feeling Diana's presence threatens his power, Charles forces her to marry him, after which Alien law requires she return home.
Episode 11: The Betrayal
While Bates remains in a coma Charles plots to overthrow him, elsewhere Willie is gravely wounded so the rebels kidnap a medical student of the Visitors.
Episode 10: The Hero
A small group of resistance sympathizers (Robin included) are arrested by Bates' police, and a prisoner will be handed over to the Visitors to be executed every day until Donovan, Ham, and Julie surrender.
Episode 9: The Conversion
Ham and Kyle are captured by Visitors, and Charles, the Leader's special envoy, assumes command of the alien forces.
Episode 8: Reflections in Terror
With a blood sample from the "star-child," Diana creates an uncontrollable and deadly clone which seeks out Elizabeth; Bates tests Julie's loyalty when he suspects she is sympathetic to the Resistance whose headquarters he is preparing to destroy.
Episode 7: The Dissident
When Diana seals off the Open City with an impenetrable force field which destroys humans on contact, Donovan and Ham must kidnap the alien genius responsible for its development.