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War of the Worlds

Fri, Oct 7, 1988
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  • Action & Adventure
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Synopsis

Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of Earth may very well rest in the hands of a small yet courageous band: astrophysicist Harrison Blackwood, paraplegic computer wizard Norton Drake, microbiologist Suzanne McCullough and military man Paul Ironhorse.

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Cast

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  • Jared Martin
    Jared Martin
    as Harrison Blackwood
  • Adrian Paul
    Adrian Paul
    as John Kincaid
  • Lynda Mason Green
    Lynda Mason Green
    as Suzanne McCullough
  • Catherine Disher
    Catherine Disher
    as Mana
  • Denis Forest
    Denis Forest
    as Malzor
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Episodes

2 seasons · 44 episodes

Ended · 44 aired
Season 1
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Resurrection (1)
    Aired · Sat, Oct 8, 1988 · 45m

    In 1953, a worldwide alien invasion would have eliminated humanity had the extraterrestrial invaders not been vulnerable to the indigenous bacteria on the planet. Now an accident at a dumpsite revives the comatose aliens who then shortly attempt to resume the war they started 35 years ago.

  • E2
    The Resurrection (2)
    Aired · Sat, Oct 8, 1988 · 45m

    35 years ago Earth experienced a war of the worlds, humanity's savior being common diseases to which it had long since gained immunity. However, a Pandora's Box is opened when the invaders are accidently revived via radiation exposure, canceling the presence of their microscopic attackers.Their plot to reignite warfare is recognized only by Dr. Harrison Blackwood, who must convince others of the renewed global threat.

  • E3
    The Walls of Jericho
    Aired · Tue, Oct 11, 1988 · 45m

    It's been six weeks without any further activity from the aliens since the destruction of their warships. The powers-that-be believe that the Blackwood Project has done its job and prepare to shut it down. In reality, the aliens are very much alive, but have put all efforts in combating the radiation that protects them from the bacteria from killing them as well.

  • E4
    Thy Kingdom Come
    Aired · Tue, Oct 18, 1988 · 60m

    Harrison and the team talk to a psychic woman who studied the aliens after the first invasion. Meanwhile, a group of aliens take over a family and travel cross country in order to awaken more aliens from hibernation.

  • E5
    A Multitude of Idols
    Aired · Mon, Oct 24, 1988 · 60m

    The aliens continue to expand their operations. Sparked by random footage shot by a reporter Harrison's the team descend on the previously abandoned town of Beeton, where they find a bustling community that in theory should not exist.

  • E6
    Eye for an Eye
    Aired · Mon, Oct 31, 1988 · 60m

    The team is sent to Grover's Mill when it is discovered the 1938 radio broadcast of invasion was real. They meet with a group of local men who successfully fought the Martians 50 years ago and believe the Martians have returned to try and retrieve weapons abandoned in 1938.

  • E7
    The Second Seal
    Aired · Mon, Nov 7, 1988 · 60m

    The Martians attempt to take over a military base that has been used as a secure storage area for much of the information regarding the 1953 invasion. In particular they are seeking the location of Martians who are still in hibernation waiting to rejoin the invasion.

  • E8
    Goliath Is My Name
    Aired · Mon, Nov 14, 1988 · 60m

    Suzanne learns that a friend of hers has disappeared from his college campus. Meanwhile the aliens are on campus in search of a bio-weapon.

  • E9
    To Heal the Leper
    Aired · Mon, Nov 21, 1988 · 60m

    The Martians encounter another human disease, chicken pox which is crippling their invasion plans. They decide by harvesting human brains so they can produce a cure that will put the invasion back on track. Harrison's team race against time to stop them completing their project.

  • E10
    The Good Samaritan
    Aired · Mon, Dec 26, 1988 · 60m

    Suzanne does some unauthorized research on a new kind of grain that will grow in any climate. The billionaire who invented wants to sell it to the world. Thinking poorer countries will be given money by richer countries. But the aliens have their own plans for the grain, after placing a new deadly poison in the grain, they take over the body of the billionaire who suddenly offers it free to the world.

  • E11
    Epiphany
    Aired · Mon, Jan 2, 1989 · 60m

    Wanting to set off a "tribal war" within the human race, the aliens attempt to detonate a nuclear bomb at a U.S.-Soviet disarmament summit.

  • E12
    Among the Philistines
    Aired · Mon, Jan 9, 1989 · 60m

    The Blackwood team consults with noted linguist Adrian Bouchard (Cedric Smith) to decipher the aliens' transmissions.

  • E13
    Choirs of Angels
    Aired · Mon, Jan 16, 1989 · 60m

    A noted scientist and old friend of Suzanne's, Dr. Erik Von Deer, is being brain-washed (through signals subliminally implanted in the music of his favorite artist) into secretly working on a serum that will give the aliens immunity to Earth's bacteria. Suzanne arrives for a weekend visit while Von Deer is on the verge of the serum's completion.

  • E14
    Dust to Dust
    Aired · Mon, Jan 23, 1989 · 60m

    Many centuries ago, one alien ship crashed on earth. The surviving aliens were defeated by a local Indian tribe. The modern day aliens attempt to acquire the ship to assist in their subjugation of the planet.

  • E15
    He Feedeth Among the Lilies
    Aired · Mon, Jan 30, 1989 · 60m

    The Blackwood Project investigates individuals who claim to have had "close encounters". The team stumbles onto an alien plot involving implanting something into victims' bodies for the study of the human immune system, setting them free and collecting them later to learn the results. Harrison ends up dating one of the victims, Karen McKinney.

  • E16
    The Prodigal Son
    Aired · Mon, Feb 6, 1989 · 60m

    Harrison is kidnapped by a unique modern artist named "Quinn", who's actually one of the aliens being hunted by his kind. He's mysteriously immune to Earth's bacteria, so the other aliens want to learn his secret through dissection. Quinn wants to set up a dialogue with Earth's leaders to arrange a "peaceful" takeover of the planet as opposed to an all-out slaughter of humanity.

  • E17
    The Meek Shall Inherit
    Aired · Mon, Feb 13, 1989 · 60m

    The aliens plan to disorganize human society by paralyzing its means of communication.

  • E18
    Unto Us a Child is Born
    Aired · Mon, Feb 20, 1989 · 60m

    To escape capture, an alien merges with a pregnant woman. This causes unexpected consequences for the aliens, and for Blackwood's team - and violence for the hospital staff when the woman/alien goes into labor.

  • E19
    The Last Supper
    Aired · Mon, Mar 6, 1989 · 60m

    The team act as watchdogs protecting a secret and unprecedented meeting of international alien experts, where they suspect one of them may be an alien.

  • E20
    Vengeance Is Mine
    Aired · Sun, Apr 16, 1989 · 60m

    The aliens organize a series of armored car heists in order to finance the purchase of rubies for their new laser weapons. Meanwhile, Ironhorse is kidnapped by the vengeful husband of a woman Ironhorse had accidentally shot dead while battling an alien raid at a research installation.

  • E21
    My Soul to Keep
    Aired · Mon, Apr 24, 1989 · 60m

    The aliens are forced to move their unborn infants to a refrigeration facility to save them. Meanwhile Suzanne's ex-husband, an investigative journalist appears, seeking to uncover the truth about the Blackwood project.

  • E22
    So Shall Ye Reap
    Aired · Mon, May 1, 1989 · 60m

    The team set up in Chicago to investigate a spate of kidnappings but encounter resistance from the local police. Nevertheless they discover a secret cell of alien scientists, who are trying to create a designer drug which turns addicts into frenzied killers.

  • E23
    The Raising of Lazarus
    Aired · Mon, May 8, 1989 · 60m

    Near an isolated nuclear research facility an alien scout ship is discovered. As the team arrives and set up their operations, command of the find is handed over to Colonel Alexander and his mysterious Project 9.

  • E24
    The Angel of Death
    Aired · Mon, May 15, 1989 · 60m

    A competing alien race sends an assassin to eliminate the invading force and to protect humanity.

Season 2
20 episodes · 20 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Second Wave
    Aired · Mon, Oct 2, 1989 · 46m

    A new, more advanced generation of aliens known as the Morthren arrive on Earth. Dr Blackwood is saved from a kidnapping by a renegade soldier called John Kincaid. After executing the original alien invaders for failing to conquer humanity, the Morthren aim to destroy Blackwood's team with a clone of Colonel Ironhorse.

  • E2
    No Direction Home
    Aired · Mon, Oct 9, 1989 · 46m

    The remaining members of the team set up a new home and try to deal with their grief. The Morthren also have to find a fresh refuge and as part of this they kidnap and duplicate a priest who runs a homeless shelter.

  • E3
    Doomsday
    Aired · Mon, Oct 16, 1989 · 46m

    When a severe heat wave strikes, the aliens cut off the city's water supply and exploit a local reverend to drive humans into worshiping the Morthren Eternal.

  • E4
    Terminal Rock
    Aired · Mon, Oct 23, 1989 · 46m

    The aliens take over the members of a punk rock band and add a secret electronic signal to their music which will drive young people into a violent frenzy. Meanwhile Kincaid begins a romance with his late brother's girlfriend.

  • E5
    Breeding Ground
    Aired · Mon, Oct 30, 1989 · 46m

    Mana forces a dying surgeon to conduct experiments on patients in his hospital, attempting to implant alien embryos into human hosts.

  • E6
    Seft of Emun
    Aired · Mon, Nov 6, 1989 · 46m
  • E7
    Loving the Alien
    Aired · Mon, Nov 13, 1989 · 46m

    A young Morthren rebels against his people so runs away to live amongst humans and ends up becoming friends with Debi.

  • E8
    Night Moves
    Aired · Mon, Nov 20, 1989 · 46m

    Suzanne takes Debi to live on her family's farm but is unaware that the Morthren are already there trying to sort out their food shortages.

  • E9
    Synthetic Love
    Aired · Mon, Jan 15, 1990 · 46m

    The aliens develop a new drug made from human brain tissue, planning to use it to control human society.

  • E10
    The Defector
    Aired · Mon, Jan 22, 1990 · 46m

    When an alien weapon intended to kill humans via computer systems backfires, its creator, Kemo, is maimed in the process and then sentenced to death for his incompetence. Having developed human emotions as a result of his accident, Kemo teams with Kincaid to destroy the weapon.

  • E11
    Time to Reap
    Aired · Mon, Jan 29, 1990 · 46m

    The Morthren have developed a time machine. Malzor travels back to 1953 to inject his invading predecessors with an immunity drug to Earth's bacteria so they'll complete their original mission of obliterating mankind and colonizing the planet. Blackwood and Kinkaid arrive at the alien's research facility and follow Malzor into the past to try and stop him.

  • E12
    The Pied Piper
    Aired · Mon, Feb 5, 1990 · 46m

    The alien embryo created on the "Breeding Ground" episode has now grown and is now a pre-adolescent in human terms (named "Adam"), residing in a special school occupied by human children with exceptional IQ's, secretly run by the Morthren. The aliens have nefarious plans for the children.

  • E13
    The Deadliest Disease
    Aired · Mon, Feb 12, 1990 · 46m

    A revolutionary "med cell" is created that could save countless lives. But fearing that the Morthrens could turn it into something deadly, the Blackwood team tries to get their hands on it first. Meanwhile, Malzor desperately tries to acquire it to heal a dying Mana, his second-in-command.

  • E14
    Path of Lies
    Aired · Mon, Feb 19, 1990 · 46m

    The Morthren manipulate a Corporate magnate (by seemingly restoring his health) into selling them a top city newspaper he controls, to give the aliens a tool for propaganda.

  • E15
    Candle in the Night
    Aired · Mon, Apr 9, 1990 · 46m

    In the midst of the post apocalyptic future, the team decide to throw a birthday party for Debi. Meanwhile, the Morthren attempt to locate their malfunctioning "seeing-eye" device (a self-controlled drone), which has run amok through the city.

  • E16
    Video Messiah
    Aired · Mon, Apr 16, 1990 · 46m

    The aliens plan to clone a popular motivational speaker in order to control the minds of the rich and powerful. Suzanne and Harrison plan to capture an alien drone.

  • E17
    Totally Real
    Aired · Mon, Apr 23, 1990 · 46m

    Debi is caught up in a fight simulation developed by the aliens to study human creativity.

  • E18
    Max
    Aired · Mon, Apr 30, 1990 · 46m

    Kinkaid's brother Max had disappeared during their last mission prior to Kinkaid running into the Blackwood team. Now, the team stumbles across an imprisoned Max while infiltrating an alien stronghold and rescue him. Unknown to the team, Max has been transformed into a Robocop-like entity programmed to execute Kinkaid.

  • E19
    The True Believer
    Aired · Mon, May 7, 1990 · 46m
  • E20
    The Obelisk
    Aired · Mon, May 14, 1990 · 46m

    As the aliens are losing the fight and dying off they decide to use spores to kill off all native life on Earth.