2-hour version of pilot + 'Dreadnought' (summer '85 reruns)?

The final episode of the original run aired on March 22, 1985 according to Bob Greenberger' editorial in the letters section of issue #8 of the "V" monthy comic from DC. Greenberger also mentions that "V" went into reruns in May of 1985 (in his editorial from issue #11, dated Dec. 1985). Therefore, the two-hour combined pilot would have aired sometime in May, when NBC officially brought "V" back in the form of summer reruns. They combined the first two episodes into one pilot movie, to re-introduce the series to viewers, before the rest of the reruns aired.

It definitely happened, as not only do I have personal memory of it, but the moderator for a "V" Fan Yahoo Group mentioned it in a mass emial he sent out to all members of the group, without any prompting from me, totally independent of my memories. I never told him about my personal memory of seeing this back in 1985. He just happened to have remembered seeing it also.

Let me ask you this, Kimberly-Shaw, do you have a solid memory of seeing the first two episodes separately, NOT when they originally aired, but as summer re-runs? If not, you may have missed the pilot-movie when it aired before the rest of the re-runs. If you do recall seeing the first two episodes separately when the re-runs began to air, then for whatever reason we have conflcting memories.

I remember quite vividly that the combined pilot movie had new opening credits...apparantly they (NBC execs) had taken the opening credits graphic design from 'V - The Final Battle' (black background with giant V getting progressiviely smaller) but repaced the background music with that found on the mid-season replacement credits. I remember being amazed as a youngster that the opening for the show was no longer showing any live-action footage, but instead was virtuially identical to the second mini-series, showing only the "V" logo with cast & crew credits.

Since the commecials advertising the re-runs had proclaimed that "V is back!", I had falsely presumed that we were getting all new episodes or a new two-hour movie. The alternate opening credits only fed into my misconceptions at the time. Untill the first scenes played out, showing Mike, Julie and crew back on the mothership, recapping the final moments from the second mini-series.

But the "Liberation Day" portion of this airing did not end the episode, instead, it went straight into "Dreadnought". The two epsiodes had been re-edited into a two-hour version by NBC execs. I have no idea what possessed them to do that. I only know that it happened. I have no idea why it is not mentioned on the IMDb or why so few others seem to remember this. But it happened. As I said, other "V" fans have also recalled having seen it.