The BEST episodes of War of the Worlds

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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?

#5 - The Resurrection (2)

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

#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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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?

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#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.

#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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - Totally Real

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/23/1990

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

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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?

#24 - 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

#25 - 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.