When used properly, science fiction is the perfect prism through which to see ourselves, where we've been and where we're going. Certainly, both Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Gene Roddenberry's ...

Steven (Andrew Prine), Diana (Jane Badler), Mike Donovan (Marc Singer) and Juliet Parrish (Faye Grant) in a promotional image, with a Visitor spaceship behind, for 1983's V miniseries. Image via NBC ...

In 1983, one ambitious sci-fi miniseries dared to take a high-stakes interstellar conflict and set all the action on Earth. The result was the hit phenomenon, V, which was followed in May 1984 with V: ...

Back in 1983, NBC aired the two-part science-fiction miniseries "V," written and directed by Kenneth Johnson. In 1984, NBC followed with another hit miniseries, "V: The Final Battle." Despite that ...