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The Best Episodes of War of the Worlds

Every episode of War of the Worlds ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of War of the Worlds!

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...
Genres:DramaAction & Adventure
Network:Syndication
Episodes
44
Avg. Rating
7.1
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Best Episodes Summary

"The True Believer" is the best rated episode of "War of the Worlds". It scored 7.9/10 based on 53 votes. Directed by Armand Mastroianni and written by Jim Henshaw, it aired on 5/7/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Defector".

  • The True Believer
    7.9/10(53)
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    #1 - The True Believer

    Season 2 Episode 19

    Aired 5/7/1990

    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.

    Director: Armand Mastroianni

    Writer: Jim Henshaw

  • The Defector
    7.8/10(57)
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    #2 - The Defector

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 1/22/1990

    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.

    Director: Armand Mastroianni

    Writer: Judith Berg, Sandra Berg

  • Time to Reap
    7.8/10(54)
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    #3 - Time to Reap

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 1/29/1990

    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.

    Director: Joseph L. Scanlan

    Writer: Jim Trombetta

  • Path of Lies
    7.7/10(53)
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    #4 - Path of Lies

    Season 2 Episode 14

    Aired 2/19/1990

    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.

    Director: Allan Eastman

    Writer: Rick Schwartz

  • Totally Real
    7.7/10(55)
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    #5 - Totally Real

    Season 2 Episode 17

    Aired 4/23/1990

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

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Jim Trombetta

  • Max
    7.7/10(54)
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    #6 - Max

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 4/30/1990

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

    Director: Jorge Montesi

    Writer: Naomi Janzen

  • The Obelisk
    7.7/10(53)
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    #7 - The Obelisk

    Season 2 Episode 20

    Aired 5/14/1990

    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.

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Nancy Ann Miller, Rick Schwartz

  • The Second Wave
    7.6/10(70)
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    #8 - The Second Wave

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 10/2/1989

    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

    Director: Francis Delia

    Writer: Jonathan Glassner, Michael Michaelian

  • Breeding Ground
    7.6/10(62)
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    #9 - Breeding Ground

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 10/30/1989

    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.

    Director: Armand Mastroianni

    Writer: Alan Moskowitz

  • Doomsday
    7.5/10(62)
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    #10 - Doomsday

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 10/16/1989

    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?

    Director: Timothy Bond

    Writer: Tony Di Franco

  • Seft of Emun
    7.5/10(58)
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    #11 - Seft of Emun

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 11/6/1989

    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?

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: J.K.E. Rose

  • Night Moves
    7.5/10(57)
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    #12 - Night Moves

    Season 2 Episode 8

    Aired 11/20/1989

    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.

    Director: Mark Sobel

    Writer: Lorne Rossman

  • Synthetic Love
    7.5/10(53)
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    #13 - Synthetic Love

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 1/15/1990

    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.

    Director: Francis Delia

    Writer: Nancy Ann Miller

  • The Pied Piper
    7.5/10(52)
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    #14 - The Pied Piper

    Season 2 Episode 12

    Aired 2/5/1990

    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.

    Director: Allan Eastman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deadliest Disease
    7.5/10(53)
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    #15 - The Deadliest Disease

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 2/12/1990

    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.

    Director: William Fruet

    Writer: Carl Binder

  • Video Messiah
    7.5/10(51)
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    #16 - Video Messiah

    Season 2 Episode 16

    Aired 4/16/1990

    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.

    Director: Gabriel Pelletier

    Writer: Norman Snider

  • The Angel of Death
    7.4/10(48)
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    #17 - The Angel of Death

    Season 1 Episode 24

    Aired 5/15/1989

    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

  • Loving the Alien
    7.4/10(60)
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    #18 - Loving the Alien

    Season 2 Episode 7

    Aired 11/13/1989

    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.

    Director: Otta Hanus

    Writer: Janet MacLean

  • Candle in the Night
    7.4/10(56)
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    #19 - Candle in the Night

    Season 2 Episode 15

    Aired 4/9/1990

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

    Director: Armand Mastroianni

    Writer: Carl Binder

  • No Direction Home
    7.3/10(63)
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    #20 - No Direction Home

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 10/9/1989

    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.

    Director: Mark Sobel

    Writer: N/A

  • Terminal Rock
    7.3/10(60)
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    #21 - Terminal Rock

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/23/1989

    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.

    Director: Gabriel Pelletier

    Writer: John Groves

  • A Multitude of Idols
    7.2/10(64)
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    #22 - A Multitude of Idols

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 10/24/1988

    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

  • Eye for an Eye
    7.2/10(61)
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    #23 - Eye for an Eye

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 10/31/1988

    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

  • The Second Seal
    7.1/10(62)
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    #24 - The Second Seal

    Season 1 Episode 7

    Aired 11/7/1988

    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: Neill Fearnley

    Writer: Patrick Barry

  • Thy Kingdom Come
    7.0/10(62)
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    #25 - Thy Kingdom Come

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 10/17/1988

    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