1988

S1.E1 ∙ The Resurrection: Part 1

Thu, Oct 06, 1988

A terrorist attack at a nuclear waste site awakens aliens who were in hibernation since their 1953 invasion. A group of scientists work with the military to stop the aliens.

6.8 /10

S1.E2 ∙ The Resurrection: Part 2

Thu, Oct 06, 1988

A terrorist attack at a nuclear waste site awakens aliens who were in hibernation since their 1953 invasion. A group of scientists work with the military to stop the aliens.

6.9 /10

S1.E3 ∙ The Walls of Jericho

Sun, Oct 09, 1988

The aliens suffer from radiation poisoning and develop suits to protect themselves. Meanwhile, the government attempts to shut down Harrison and his team believing that the alien menace is no more.

6.7 /10

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.

7 /10

S1.E5 ∙ A Multitude of Idols

Sun, Oct 23, 1988

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.

7.2 /10

S1.E6 ∙ Eye for an Eye

Sun, Oct 30, 1988

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.

7.2 /10

S1.E7 ∙ The Second Seal

Sun, Nov 06, 1988

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.

7.1 /10

S1.E8 ∙ Goliath Is My Name

Sun, Nov 13, 1988

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.

6.3 /10

S1.E9 ∙ To Heal the Leper

Sun, Nov 20, 1988

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.

6.5 /10

S1.E10 ∙ The Good Samaritan

Sun, Dec 25, 1988

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.

6.7 /10

S1.E11 ∙ Epiphany

Sun, Jan 01, 1989

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.

6.5 /10

S1.E12 ∙ Among the Philistines

Sun, Jan 08, 1989

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

6.4 /10

S1.E13 ∙ Choirs of Angels

Sun, Jan 15, 1989

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.

6.9 /10

S1.E14 ∙ Dust to Dust

Sun, Jan 22, 1989

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.

6.7 /10

S1.E15 ∙ He Feedeth Among the Lilies

Sun, Jan 29, 1989

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.

6.1 /10

S1.E16 ∙ The Prodigal Son

Sun, Feb 05, 1989

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.

7 /10

S1.E17 ∙ The Meek Shall Inherit

Sun, Feb 12, 1989

The aliens plan to disorganise human society by paralysing its means of communication.

6.5 /10

S1.E18 ∙ Unto Us a Child Is Born

Sun, Feb 19, 1989

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.

6.7 /10

S1.E19 ∙ The Last Supper

Sun, Mar 05, 1989

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.

6.1 /10

S1.E20 ∙ Vengeance Is Mine

Sun, Apr 16, 1989

The aliens organise a series of armoured 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 who had accidentally been shot dead (by Ironhorse himself) during a raid on a research installation that had been invaded by aliens.

6.9 /10

S1.E21 ∙ My Soul to Keep

Sun, Apr 23, 1989

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.

6.7 /10

S1.E22 ∙ So Shall Ye Reap

Sun, Apr 30, 1989

The team set up in Chicago to investigate a spate of kidnappings but encounter resistance from the local police. Nevertheless they discover a research colony of alien scientists occupying an abandoned prison, trying to create a designer drug which turns addicts into frenzied killers.

6.8 /10

S1.E23 ∙ The Raising of Lazarus

Sun, May 07, 1989

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.

6.8 /10