The BEST episodes of War of the Worlds season 1

#1 - 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?

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - The Resurrection (2)

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

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.

#14 - 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.

#15 - 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.

#16 - 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.

#17 - 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.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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

#22 - 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

#23 - 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.

#24 - 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.