6.8/1099 votes#1 - The Resurrection, Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/1988
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 Strangis
6.9/1026 votes#2 - The Resurrection, Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1988
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.
Director: Colin Chilvers
Writer: Greg Strangis
6.7/1071 votes#3 - The Walls of Jericho
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1988
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: N/A
Writer: Forrest Van Buren
7.0/1060 votes#4 - 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
7.3/1063 votes#5 - 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
7.2/1060 votes#6 - 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
7.1/1061 votes#7 - 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
6.4/1053 votes#8 - Goliath is My Name
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1988
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: George Bloomfield
Writer: Tom Lazarus
6.5/1062 votes#9 - To Heal the Leper
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1988
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
6.7/1061 votes#10 - The Good Samaritan
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/26/1988
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
6.6/1051 votes#11 - Epiphany
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/2/1989
The aliens take advantage of humanity's own violent nature in order to speed along its inevitable self-destruction.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Greg Strangis
6.4/1051 votes#12 - Among the Philistines
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1989
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
6.9/1050 votes#13 - Choirs of Angels
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1989
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
6.8/1052 votes#14 - Dust to Dust
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1989
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
6.0/1045 votes#15 - He Feedeth Among the Lilies
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1989
To better understand their problem, the aliens begin abducting humans to learn the secret of their immune systems.
Director: George Bloomfield
Writer: Tom Lazarus
7.0/1049 votes#16 - The Prodigal Son
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1989
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: N/A
6.4/1047 votes#17 - The Meek Shall Inherit
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/13/1989
The aliens plan to disorganize human society by paralyzing its means of communication.
Director: William Fruet
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.8/1052 votes#18 - Unto Us a Child is Born
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/20/1989
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 Bloomfield
Writer: David Braff
6.1/1047 votes#19 - The Last Supper
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1989
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
7.0/1048 votes#20 - Vengeance is Mine
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/1989
Ironhorse must deal with a mistake that no soldier wants to make: the killing of an innocent civilian.
Director: George Bloomfield
Writer: Arnold Margolin
6.7/1046 votes#21 - My Soul to Keep
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/24/1989
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: Jon Kubichan
6.8/1045 votes#22 - So Shall Ye Reap
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/1/1989
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
6.8/1044 votes#23 - The Raising of Lazarus
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/8/1989
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
7.4/1047 votes#24 - 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
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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...
Genres:DramaAction & Adventure
Network:Syndication
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Resurrection, Part 1" is the best rated episode of "War of the Worlds" season 1. It scored 6.8/10 based on 99 votes. Directed by Colin Chilvers and written by Greg Strangis, it aired on 10/7/1988. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Resurrection, Part 2".