War Of The Worlds: Season 1
Paramount Pictures (1988)
TV Series  /  Drama, Adventure, Horror, War, Science Fiction, Thriller, Action
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IMDB   6.7
1086 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
Jared Martin Dr. Harrison Blackwood
Lynda Mason Green Suzanne McCullough
Lynda Mason Green Dr. Suzanne McCullough
Richard Chaves Lt. Col. Paul Ironhorse
Philip Akin North Drake
Rachel Blanchard Debi McCullough
Philip Akin Norton Drake
Denis Forest Malzor
Adrian Paul John Kincaid
Catherine Disher Mana
Ilse von Glatz Advocate #2
Julian Richings Ardix
Michael Rudder Advocate #3
Richard Comar Advocate #1
David Calderisi Advocate #1
Director
George McCowan
Neill Fearnley
Producer Jonathan Hackett
Herbert Wright
Writer H.G. Wells
D.C. Fontana


They never left! In 1953, Earth experienced a War of the Worlds. Common bacteria stopped the aliens, but it didn't kill them. Instead, the aliens lapsed into a state of deep hibernation. Now the aliens have been resurrected, more terrifying than before. In 1953, aliens started taking over the world. Today, they're taking over our bodies! They're We're Alive! This time, the aliens are ready...
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/7/1988  1.  The Resurrection
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.
Director:  Colin Chilvers  Writer:  Greg Stangis 
Guest starring:  Gwynyth Walsh as Charlotte, Eugene Clark, Michael Rudder, Larry Reynolds as Kensington, John Vernon as Gen. Wilson, Frank Pellegrino as Mossouri, Martin Neufeld as Finney, Ric Sarabia as Teal, Desmond Ellis as Orel, Jack Mather as Doc, Harry Booker.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/10/1988  2.  The Walls of Jericho
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.
Director:  Colin Chilvers  Writer:  Forrest Van Buren 
Guest starring:  Rachel Blanchard, Richard Comar, Michael Rudder, Corinne Conley, Ilse von Glatz,  John Vernon, Mark Humphrey, Larry Reynolds
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/17/1988  3.  Thy Kingdom Come
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.
Director:  Winrich Kolbe  Writer:  Herbert Wright 
Guest starring:  Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder,  Ann Robinson, Walker Boone, Michael Fletcher, Joy Thompson, John Blackwood, Helen Carscallen
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/24/1988  4.  A Multitude of Idols
The aliens move toward an operation that will begin integrating themselves into human society, thus developing agents to be active anywhere in the world.
Director:  Neill Fearnley  Writer:  Tom Lazarus 
Guest starring:  Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, Michele Scarabelli, Neil Vipond, Von Flores, Judy Sinclair
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/31/1988  5.  Eye for an Eye
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.
Director:  Mark Sobel  Writer:  Tom Lazarus 
Guest starring:  Rachel Blanchard, Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, Jeff Corey,  John Ireland, Mary Beth Rubens, Jack Jessop
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/7/1988  6.  The Second Seal
The aliens begin infiltrating a military base in hopes of possessing a list containing the location of 10,000 of their stored-away comrades.
Director:  Mark Sobel  Writer:  Tom Lazarus 
Guest starring:  Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, Lynne Griffin, Greg Morris
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/14/1988  7.  Goliath is My Name
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.
Director:  William Fruet  Writer:  David Tynan 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Richard Comar, Michael Rudder, Jeremy Ratchford
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/21/1988  8.  To Heal the Leper
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
Director:  William Fruet  Writer:  David Tynan 
Guest starring:  Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz,  Ann Robinson, Paul Boretski, Kim Coates, Guylaine St-Onge
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/26/1988  9.  The Good Samaritan
The aliens have produced a deadly toxin, and a miraculous new development to feed the world becomes their means of mass poisoning.
Director:  Paul Tucker  Writer:  Sylvia Clayton 
Guest starring:  Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, Corinne Conley, Michael Kramer, Lori Hallie, Warren Davis, Alex Cord,  Rachel Blanchard
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/2/1989  10.  Epiphany
The aliens take advantage of humanity's own violent nature in order to speed along its inevitable self-destruction.
Director:  Neill Fearnley  Writer:  Sylvia Van Buren 
Guest starring:  Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, Michael Kramer, Corinne Conley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/9/1989  11.  Among the Philistines
A set-up for the aliens by the Blackwood Project is soon spun on its head as an alien manages to infiltrate the Cottage.
Director:  William Fruet  Writer:  Patrick Barry 
Guest starring:  David Calderisi, Corinne Conley, Ilse von Glatz, Cedric Smith,  Rachel Blanchard
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/16/1989  12.  Choirs of Angels
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.
Director:  Herbert Wright  Writer:  Durnford King 
Guest starring:  Michael Rudder, Ilse von Glatz, David Calderisi, John Novack, Alex Carter, Heidi Von Palleske
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/23/1989  13.  Dust to Dust
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
Director:  George Bloomfield  Writer:  Richard Krzemien 
Guest starring:  Michael Rudder, Ilse von Glatz, Michael Kramer, David Calderisi
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/30/1989  14.  He Feedeth among the Lilies
To better understand their problem, the aliens begin abducting humans to learn the secret of their immune systems
Director:  George Bloomfield  Writer:  Tom Lazarus 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, David Calderisi, Cynthia Belliveau, Maria del Mar
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/6/1989  15.  The Prodigal Son
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.
Director:  George McCowan  Writer:  Herbert Wright  / Patrick Barry 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Michael Rudder, David Calderisi, John Colicos, James Purcell, Jim Yip
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/13/1989  16.  The Meek Shall Inherit
The aliens plan to disorganize human society by paralyzing its means of communication.
Director:  William Fruet  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Michael Copeman, David Calderisi, Michael Kramer,  Ann Robinson, Diana Reis
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/20/1989  17.  Unto Us a Child is Born
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.
Director:  George McCowan  Writer:  David Braff 
Guest starring:  David Calderisi, Michael Kramer, Brent Carver, Amber Lea Weston, Geoffrey Bowes, Clark Johnson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/6/1989  18.  The Last Supper
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.
Director:  George McCowan  Writer:  Tom Lazarus 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Ric Sarabia, Michael Copeman, Efrain Figueroa, Suzanne Coy
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/16/1989  19.  Vengeance is Mine
Ironhorse must deal with a mistake that no soldier wants to make: the killing of an innocent civilian.
Director:  George Bloomfield  Writer:  Arnold Margolin 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Ric Sarabia, Michael Copeman, Bernard Behrens
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/24/1989  20.  My Soul to Keep
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.
Director:  William Fruet  Writer:  John Kubichan 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Ric Sarabia, Michael Copeman, Michael Parks, John Colicos
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/1/1989  21.  So Shall Ye Reap
The aliens infiltrate the illegal drug trade in order to circulate a narcotic that will turn humans into violent killers.
Director:  George Bloomfield  Writer:  Michael McCormack 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Ric Sarabia, Isabelle Mejias, Jill Jacobson, Dixie Seatle
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/8/1989  22.  The Raising of Lazarus
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.
Director:  Neill Fearnley  Writer:  Durnford King 
Guest starring:  icolas Coster, Thomas Hauff, Janet Bailey
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/15/1989  23.  The Angel of Death
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?
Director:  Herbert Wright  Writer:  Herbert Wright 
Guest starring:  Ilse von Glatz, Ric Sarabia, Elaine Giftos, John Evans
Edition Details
Series War of the Worlds
Distributor Paramount Pictures
Release Date 2/6/2018
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 11