The BEST episodes of War of the Worlds

#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?

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#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.

#5 - 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?

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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?

#8 - 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.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - The Resurrection (2)

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

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - Totally Real

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

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

#21 - 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.

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.

#25 - 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.