• 1988
  • TV-PG
  • 45m
War of the Worlds

Summary Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. View more details

  • 1988
  • TV-PG
  • 45m

War of the Worlds

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jared Martin Philip Akin Richard Chaves Lynda Mason Green

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6.5

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Adventure Horror

Release date : Oct 6, 1988

Countries of origin : United States Canada

Language : English

Filming locations : Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : Paramount Television Hometown Films Ten Four

Summary Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. View more details

Details

Genres : Action Thriller Adventure Horror

Release date : Oct 6, 1988

Countries of origin : United States Canada

Language : English

Filming locations : Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Production companies : Paramount Television Hometown Films Ten Four

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 06, 1988
The Resurrection: Part 1
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.
Episode 2 • Oct 06, 1988
The Resurrection: Part 2
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.
Episode 3 • Oct 09, 1988
The Walls of Jericho
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.
Episode 4 • Oct 16, 1988
Thy Kingdom Come
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.
Episode 5 • Oct 23, 1988
A Multitude of Idols
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.
Episode 6 • Oct 30, 1988
Eye for an Eye
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.
Episode 7 • Nov 06, 1988
The Second Seal
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.
Episode 8 • Nov 13, 1988
Goliath Is My Name
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.
Episode 9 • Nov 20, 1988
To Heal the Leper
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.
Episode 10 • Dec 25, 1988
The Good Samaritan
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.
Episode 11 • Jan 01, 1989
Epiphany
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.
Episode 12 • Jan 08, 1989
Among the Philistines
The Blackwood team consults with noted linguist Adrian Bouchard (Cedric Smith) to decipher the aliens' transmissions.
Episode 13 • Jan 15, 1989
Choirs of Angels
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.
Episode 14 • Jan 22, 1989
Dust to Dust
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.
Episode 15 • Jan 29, 1989
He Feedeth Among the Lilies
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.
Episode 16 • Feb 05, 1989
The Prodigal Son
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.
Episode 17 • Feb 12, 1989
The Meek Shall Inherit
The aliens plan to disorganise human society by paralysing its means of communication.
Episode 18 • Feb 19, 1989
Unto Us a Child Is Born
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.
Episode 19 • Mar 05, 1989
The Last Supper
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.
Episode 20 • Apr 16, 1989
Vengeance Is Mine
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.
Episode 21 • Apr 23, 1989
My Soul to Keep
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.
Episode 22 • Apr 30, 1989
So Shall Ye Reap
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.
Episode 23 • May 07, 1989
The Raising of Lazarus
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.
Episode 24 • May 14, 1989
The Angel of Death
A competing alien race sends an assassin to eliminate the invading force and to protect humanity.

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