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War of the Worlds

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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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Episodes

2 seasons · 44 episodes
Season 124 ep. · 1988–1989
  1. Episode 1: The Resurrection, Part 1

    Oct 7, 1988 · 46 min

    In 1953, a worldwide invasion from Mars 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.

  2. Episode 2: The Resurrection, Part 2

    Oct 7, 1988 · 46 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: The Walls of Jericho

    Oct 10, 1988 · 46 min

    After a period without any further evidence of the aliens' existence, the powers-that-be try to shut down the Blackwood Project. Meanwhile, the aliens try desperately to find a way to combat the threat brought on by the radiation that is killing them.

  4. Episode 4: Thy Kingdom Come

    Oct 17, 1988 · 46 min

    The aliens trek to Canada in order to free more of their sleeping brethren. The Blackwood Project's only hope in finding them lies in the scattered mind of War of the Worlds veteran Sylvian Van Buren.

  5. Episode 5: A Multitude of Idols

    Oct 24, 1988 · 46 min

    The aliens move toward an operation that will begin integrating themselves into human society, thus developing agents to be active anywhere in the world.

  6. Episode 6: Eye for an Eye

    Oct 31, 1988 · 46 min

    As Grover's Mill celebrates the 50th anniversary of the radio drama that made it famous, little do they know what really happened that night in 1938, or that the "Martians" have returned.

  7. Episode 7: The Second Seal

    Nov 7, 1988 · 46 min

    The aliens begin infiltrating a military base in hopes of possessing a list containing the location of 10,000 of their stored-away comrades.

  8. Episode 8: Goliath is My Name

    Nov 14, 1988 · 45 min

    A fantasy game and reality collide for students when the aliens invade a campus to steal a lethal biological substance. Things become even worse when an alien is exposed to the toxin and becomes a mentally unstable rogue.

  9. Episode 9: To Heal the Leper

    Nov 21, 1988 · 45 min

    The aliens are in jeopardy, as the Advocacy's collective counsel is crippled from the weakened state of one of the three. It seems that a dark cloud is lifting, but only Harrison believes they remain a threat.

  10. Episode 10: The Good Samaritan

    Dec 26, 1988 · 46 min

    The aliens have produced a deadly toxin, and a miraculous new development to feed the world becomes their means of mass poisoning.

  11. Episode 11: Epiphany

    Jan 2, 1989 · 46 min

    The aliens take advantage of humanity's own violent nature in order to speed along its inevitable self-destruction.

  12. Episode 12: Among the Philistines

    Jan 9, 1989 · 45 min

    A set-up for the aliens by the Blackwood Project is soon spun on its head as an alien manages to infiltrate the Cottage.

  13. Episode 13: Choirs of Angels

    Jan 16, 1989 · 46 min

    The aliens plant subliminal messages in a musician's recordings to brainwash a brilliant scientist into creating a cure for them against the bacteria on Earth.

  14. Episode 14: Dust to Dust

    Jan 23, 1989 · 46 min

    The theft of an Indian object provokes disgust from Ironhorse. But it also garners the aliens' interest, as it holds something that belongs to one of their ancient war machines.

  15. Episode 15: He Feedeth Among the Lilies

    Jan 30, 1989 · 45 min

    To better understand their problem, the aliens begin abducting humans to learn the secret of their immune systems.

  16. Episode 16: The Prodigal Son

    Feb 6, 1989 · 45 min

    In 1953, aliens invaded Earth, but were stopped when they fell to the planet's bacteria - except one. Now this rebellious rogue alien uses Blackwood's meeting with the United Nations to help his own plan for global domination.

  17. Episode 17: The Meek Shall Inherit

    Feb 13, 1989 · 45 min

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

  18. Episode 18: Unto Us a Child is Born

    Feb 20, 1989 · 45 min

    After a pregnant woman is possessed by an alien and gives birth, the child becomes the focus of a search as it may offer an immunity to Earth's bacteria.

  19. Episode 19: The Last Supper

    Mar 6, 1989 · 45 min

    A secret meeting between countries is conducted in order to evaluate the global alien threat. However, the Advocacy learn of this grouping, and seize it as an opportunity to swiftly crush resistance. for his own brand of justice.

  20. Episode 20: Vengeance is Mine

    Apr 17, 1989 · 45 min

    Ironhorse must deal with a mistake that no soldier wants to make: the killing of an innocent civilian.

  21. Episode 21: My Soul to Keep

    Apr 24, 1989 · 45 min

    The time to reproduce, and thus increase their army, has come for the aliens. But the offspring are endangered by radiation and the aliens take a risky move to ensure their future.

  22. Episode 22: So Shall Ye Reap

    May 1, 1989 · 45 min

    The aliens infiltrate the illegal drug trade in order to circulate a narcotic that will turn humans into violent killers.

  23. Episode 23: The Raising of Lazarus

    May 8, 1989 · 45 min

    A strange alien pod is found and taken to a nuclear research facility. The Blackwood Project is summoned to investigate, but their authority is soon overridden by a mysterious Project 9.

  24. Episode 24: The Angel of Death

    May 15, 1989 · 46 min

    After more than a year of being resisted by humans, the aliens are finally shaken by the arrival of a familiar enemy that has arrived on Earth. But is the enemy of our enemy our friend?

Season 220 ep. · 1989–1990
  1. Episode 1: The Second Wave

    Oct 2, 1989 · 46 min

    Almost Tomorrow The world is now a mess. As the environment with its predictable weather patterns and the economy in dire straights, anarchy is now loose and the world as we knew it is less optimistic. It's been months with no alien activity and the military backing for the Blackwood Project is weakened as the government seems to be in turmoil as well. As if things weren't bad enough, a new group of aliens, the Morthren, have arrived. They have used a process of transmutation to take on human form to protect themselves from Earth's bacteria so the need for hosting bodies and radiation is no more. Under the rule of Malzor, they are instructed by the Eternal Spirit of Morthrai to kill off the ""soldiers"" who came before and failed to appropriate the planet. Continuing in their mission, they try to snare a member of the Blackwood Team for cloning purposes which will obtain all memories of the original, but totally loyal to the Morthren cause. With this clone, it can more easily infiltrate

  2. Episode 2: No Direction Home

    Oct 9, 1989 · 46 min

    While the Blackwood team picks up the pieces and tries to find a new home, the Morthren, too, have to find a new location as they are aware that the humans have been there once and might return. When Harrison and Kincaid go back to the empty base, they find an engram for the aliens' cloning devices that can transport memories and images from the subject to its copy. Meanwhile, Mana and Ardix have cloned a reverend so that he can spread the word of the one true God - the Eternal.

  3. Episode 3: Doomsday

    Oct 16, 1989 · 46 min

    A heat wave, followed by a water shortage, drives everyone to the brink of desperation. When a local church font begins to produce an apparently unlimited supply of water, the team is suspicious. Is it a miracle, or something much darker?

  4. Episode 4: Terminal Rock

    Oct 23, 1989 · 46 min

    Rock and roll ruins young minds...especially when the aliens are involved. Loner Kincaid and newly-adolescent Debi experience growing pains while the team tries to deal with a new, dangerous kind of music.

  5. Episode 5: Breeding Ground

    Oct 30, 1989 · 46 min

    While at the hospital looking for some hard-to-find medicine, Harrison comes across gruesome evidence that the aliens are experimenting on humans. Meanwhile, Malzor and Mana try to find a way to increase their Morthren numbers here on Earth.

  6. Episode 6: Seft of Emun

    Nov 6, 1989 · 46 min

    When the Morthren run low on power, they are forced to bring Seft, the High Priestess of Emun, out of stasis. While Seft is searching for the materials she will need to create power crystals for her captors she meets Harrison. Will the link forged between them be enough to save Seft and her son, or is she doomed to forever serve the evil Morthren?

  7. Episode 7: Loving the Alien

    Nov 13, 1989 · 46 min

    Suzanne helps her friend Marcus search for his missing daughter, unaware that the girl has been captured by the aliens. Meanwhile, Debi runs away in search of someone who understands her. She finds that person in a pale, strange boy named Ceeto.

  8. Episode 8: Night Moves

    Nov 20, 1989 · 46 min

    The harsh life in the city, coupled with a food shortage, lead Suzanne to take Debi out to the country to live with Suzanne's estranged mother. The aliens are also having food shortages, however, and have their own plans for the family homestead.

  9. Episode 9: Synthetic Love

    Jan 15, 1990 · 46 min

    Kincaid runs into an old friend named Johnny, only to discover that his friend is dangerously addicted to drugs. Kincaid takes him to one of the well-known Laporte Rehabilitation Centers, which has just started using a new miracle drug called Krebulax. But something strange is going on at the clinic, and there's something even stranger about the man supplying the drug...a Mister Malcolm.

  10. Episode 10: The Defector

    Jan 22, 1990 · 46 min

    When an attempt to hack into the humans' computers goes awry, a Morthren technician (Kemo) is scarred both physically and mentally by the experience. Facing execution, he flees and takes over the identity of the human hacker he killed.

  11. Episode 11: Time to Reap

    Jan 29, 1990 · 46 min

    The Eternal instructs Malzor on how he can go back in time to 1953 in the aftermath of the failed invasion to ensure victory by inoculating his brethren from Earth's bacteria in order to change the course of history in the favour of the Morthren race. However, Blackwood and Kincaid have followed him through the same time tunnel to stop him from succeeding in giving the aliens a huge advantage in their conquest.

  12. Episode 12: The Pied Piper

    Feb 5, 1990 · 46 min

    The first-born Morthren on Earth is now grown to the age of a nine-year-old. The aliens use both his need for emotional comfort and their need for gentic information in one play as they leave him at the Crecne Experimental School where he will bring back files for the Morthren's use.

  13. Episode 13: The Deadliest Disease

    Feb 12, 1990 · 46 min

    Warring factions (including the Blackwood team and the Morthren) fight over a med cell that could save countless lives--including that of a dying Mana.

  14. Episode 14: Path of Lies

    Feb 19, 1990 · 46 min

    While Ardix bargins with a dying millionare's life for access to a communication's satellite, the aliens are trying to kill nosey reporter Marc Traynor. During an assassination attempt, the reporter snaps images of dead alien bodies. To make matters worse, Kincaid and Blackwood are seen killing them. If published, their identities will be revealed and easier for the aliens.

  15. Episode 15: Candle in the Night

    Apr 9, 1990 · 46 min

    While the aliens try to recover a malfunctioning surveillance device, the team plots a surprise birthday party for Debi.

  16. Episode 16: Video Messiah

    Apr 16, 1990 · 46 min

    The aliens use subliminal messages and a clone of a popular motivational speaker to control the minds of the rich and powerful. Kincaid and the rest of the team get involed when an old friend of Kincaid's is drawn into the lethal scheme.

  17. Episode 17: Totally Real

    Apr 23, 1990 · 46 min

    Debi is forced to fight an alien warrior in a duel to the death.

  18. Episode 18: Max

    Apr 30, 1990 · 46 min

    A year after his brother's death, Kincaid discovers that the aliens have brought Max back to life to kill him.

  19. Episode 19: The True Believer

    May 7, 1990 · 46 min

    In desperate straits, the aliens gain a piece of valuable information: the identities of Harrison, Suzanne, and Kincaid. Soon the team has been accused of bank robbery and murder, and Malzor has taken over the police investigation.

  20. Episode 20: The Obelisk

    May 14, 1990 · 46 min

    Continuing Morthren losses force a maddened Malzor to take a drastic step: the release of a spore which will cause the death of every native organism on Earth.