The BEST episodes of War of the Worlds

Every episode of War of the Worlds ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of War of the Worlds!

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 alive! This time, the aliens are ready...

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Seft of Emun
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9.00
2 votes

#1 - 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?

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: J.K.E. Rose
Loving the Alien
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9.00
2 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Otta Hanus
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Breeding Ground
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9.00
2 votes

#3 - 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.

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Night Moves
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8.50
2 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Mark Sobel
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Doomsday
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8.00
1 votes

#5 - 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?

Directors: Timothy Bond
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Terminal Rock
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8.00
1 votes

#6 - 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.

Writer: John Groves
Watch Now:Amazon
The Angel of Death
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8.00
3 votes

#7 - 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?

Directors: Herbert Wright
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The Prodigal Son
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7.67
3 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: George McCowan
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Unto Us a Child is Born
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7.67
3 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: George McCowan
Writer: David Braff
The Meek Shall Inherit
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7.50
2 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: D.C. Fontana
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The Raising of Lazarus
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7.33
3 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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The Second Wave
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7.33
6 votes

#12 - 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

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So Shall Ye Reap
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7.33
3 votes

#13 - 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.

My Soul to Keep
star
7.33
3 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: William Fruet
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Vengeance is Mine
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7.33
3 votes

#15 - Vengeance is Mine

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/1989

Ironhorse must deal with a mistake that no soldier wants to make: the killing of an innocent civilian.

The Last Supper
star
7.33
3 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: George McCowan
Writer: Tom Lazarus
Watch Now:Amazon
The Walls of Jericho
star
7.20
60 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Colin Chilvers
Watch Now:Amazon
The Resurrection (1)
star
7.20
151 votes

#18 - The Resurrection (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.

Directors: Colin Chilvers
Writer: Greg Stangis
Watch Now:Amazon
A Multitude of Idols
star
7.18
22 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Tom Lazarus
Thy Kingdom Come
star
7.11
53 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Winrich Kolbe
The Resurrection (2)
star
7.09
33 votes

#21 - The Resurrection (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1988

Directors: Colin Chilvers
Writer: Greg Stangis
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The Good Samaritan
star
7.00
2 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Paul Tucker
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The Obelisk
star
7.00
1 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: William Fruet
The True Believer
star
7.00
1 votes

#24 - 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.

Writer: Jim Henshaw
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Max
star
7.00
1 votes

#25 - 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.

Directors: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Naomi Janzen
Watch Now:Amazon

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