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While we don’t condone remaking the 80’s classic “V” without legendary actor Marc Singer, we must say we are enjoying the newest version so far.  The alien invasion has started on ABC and for those of you unfamiliar with the series we have found a neat little guide, the “A to Z of V,” to get you started.

What if aliens arrived tomorrow? Would you be surprised? Angry? Confused? What if they all looked like twentysomething actors with great skin? Would you be more or less angry? We haven’t decided whether we love the Visitors or hate them yet, but we’d be pretty sure they didn’t have our best interests at heart even if we hadn’t watched the 1983-84 TV series the new V is based on. We put together this guide to the new series to help you make sense of what you’ve seen so far, what came before and what may be yet to come.

You just think you know how to tie your shoes. If you one of the many people that have their shoelaces come undone during the day it is because you do not tie your shoes correctly. Here’s how you should be doing it:

• How to eat a chicken wing. WTF, why didn’t anyone teach me this years ago?
• How they pluck a chicken? Enjoy!
• How to make a Fried Bologna Sandwich
• How to change a flat tire
• How to pick a lock with a paperclip
• How to kiss women, by Captain Kirk

Is it cold outside?

• “Shit My Dad Says” Twitter feed picked up by CBS to be made into a sitcom
• The White House Reacts to ABC’s ‘V’ Series
• Gisele Topless in Fishnet Stockings and High Heels [NSFW]
• The 15 Best Prison Movies
• Marvel Comics: The Swimsuit Editions
• 24: The Lost Episodes – Jack Bauer Disputes a Credit Card Charge
• Deer loses head-butt contest with lawn ornament
• 30 years of sexy ladies: The women of 1982 (Pt. 2)

• 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee (PIC)
• Raising Arizona + 2012  = Awesome
• Rugby Cheerleaders: The Hottest Women You Never Knew Existed
• The Google logo designer is having marital problems
• How to trick your boss into upgrading your workspace
• Father-son Bonding
• Al Gore Will Be On The ‘30 Rock’ Christmas Episode
• World’s largest bikini parade (with video)

One of the best things about TV growing up in the 80’s was the lost art of the Mini-series. These short run series were too long to be a movie and not quite long enough to be a regular series.

They ranged anywhere from a Columbo mystery to a Meredith Baxter-Birney show, but we believe they hit the pinnacle of success with the epic Marc Singer led sci-fi mini-series, “V.”

Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy Jeans?

This epic battle of Nazi-inspired aliens baddies vs a rag-tag team of rebels was capped by great moments like eating live hamsters, faces pealing off to reveal alien skin, and green alien-human hybrid babies.

Essentially, it was simply the most beautiful thing we had ever seen. Here are the opening credits in all their keyboard glory! And Yes, that is Freddy Krueger in the cast.

The equally diverse cast of V (2009)

That’s why we were skeptical when we heard that the ABC Network was revamping “V.”  Usually things like this turn out bad but with the recent success of Sci-Fi’s SyFy’s “Battlestar Galactica” we held out hope for a nice re-imagining.

In all honesty, we expect a lot from this version of “V” since they can now afford special effects.  That’s pretty much the requirement of us right now. They do of course loose points for not bringing back Marc Singer but we’ll live.

ABC will air four episodes of “V” in November 2009, and the series will resume in March 2010 after the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The only real downside is a lack of a strong cast for “V.” That and not having Marc Singer back. OK. We said we were fine with it before but now we’re getting sad….

ABC, obviously influenced by the great “Lost” series, chose Elizabeth Mitchell from that show and Scott Wolf, the other dude from “Party of Five,” the show that gave us “Lost” ring leader Matthew Fox. Joel Gretsch also stars and should be familiar with the writers and producers of “V” since they are the same people from his other TV show, “4400″

Looking back now on “Lost” when it began they didn’t have much of a cast, either. It as just ‘that’ dude from “Party of Five” and a hobbit.

My, how things change.

Thanks for bearing with us on this long 80’s reflection. Your reward is the first 8 minutes of ABC’s “V.” Hope you enjoy.