The WORST episodes of War of the Worlds

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

Last Updated: 11/16/2024Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
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Choirs of Angels
star
4.50
2 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Herbert Wright
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Epiphany
star
5.00
3 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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To Heal the Leper
star
5.00
2 votes

#3 - 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

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: David Tynan
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Dust to Dust
star
5.75
4 votes

#4 - 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

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The Good Samaritan
star
6.00
2 votes

#5 - 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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He Feedeth Among the Lilies
star
6.25
4 votes

#6 - 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

Writer: Tom Lazarus
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Among the Philistines
star
6.25
4 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: William Fruet
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Goliath is My Name
star
6.41
17 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.

Directors: William Fruet
Writer: David Tynan
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The Meek Shall Inherit
star
6.50
2 votes

#9 - 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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My Soul to Keep
star
6.67
3 votes

#10 - 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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The Last Supper
star
6.67
3 votes

#11 - 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
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No Direction Home
star
6.67
3 votes

#12 - No Direction Home

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1989

While the Blackwood team picks up the pieces and tries to find a new home, the Morthren, too, have to find a new location as they are aware that the humans have been there once and might return. When Harrison and Kincaid go back to the empty base, they find an engram for the aliens' cloning devices that can transport memories and images from the subject to its copy. Meanwhile, Mana and Ardix have cloned a reverend so that he can spread the word of the one true God - the Eternal.

Writer: Nolan Powers
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Eye for an Eye
star
6.85
20 votes

#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.

Directors: Mark Sobel
Writer: Tom Lazarus
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The Second Seal
star
6.88
17 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
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The Deadliest Disease
star
7.00
1 votes

#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.

Writer: Carl Binder
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The Obelisk
star
7.00
1 votes

#16 - 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
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The True Believer
star
7.00
1 votes

#17 - 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

#18 - 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
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Totally Real
star
7.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: William Fruet
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Video Messiah
star
7.00
1 votes

#20 - 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.

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Candle in the Night
star
7.00
1 votes

#21 - 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.

Writer: Carl Binder
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Path of Lies
star
7.00
1 votes

#22 - 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.

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The Pied Piper
star
7.00
1 votes

#23 - 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.

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Time to Reap
star
7.00
1 votes

#24 - 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.

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The Defector
star
7.00
1 votes

#25 - 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.

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