Martian emerges from toxic waste drum in War Of The Worlds TV series (1988)

This television series is intended as a quasi-sequel to the 1953 movie and even attempts to tie in the 1938 broadcast, so you can certainly credit it with a great deal of ambition. That the first season is so good is a testament to the writers and cast, who by and large, rose above the rather.... read more.

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Opening credits.	Martian War Machines rise from warehouse.	Martian War Machines attack.
Martian emerges from toxic waste drum.	Jared Martin as Harrison Blackwood.	Richard Chavez as Lt Col Paul Ironhorse.
Lynda Mason Green as Suzanne McCullough.	Philip Akin as Norton Drake.	Martians disguised as bikers arrive in Grover's Mill.
The Martian Leader.	Grover's Mill signpost.	Grover's Mill prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the broadcast.
But not everyone is happy.	Some remember the real invasion.	Meanwhile the aliens plot.
While the team enjoy the fair.	Except for Ironhorse.	A multitude of Orson Welles.
The aliens start digging.	While the old timers get to tell their story at last.	Old Timer 1.
Old Timer 2.	Old Timer 3.	Old Timer 4.
The Martians betray themselves.	But have uncovered a buried War Machine.	The Heat Ray works.
But the War Machine won't fly.	Preparing to fight again.	A Martian in disguise captured.
But killed trying to escape.	Ironhorse draws in the aliens.	Who are now attacking.
The Heat Ray in action.	Heat Ray fires again.	But Heat Ray is deflected back at the Martians.
The Heat Ray hits the Martians.	And the Martians are wiped out.	Rewarded at last.
But one Martian has escaped.	Original series publicity poster.	New aliens from season 2.

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Film And TV

1953 The War Of The Worlds by George Pal. The action relocates to cold war America, with the Martian war machines re-invented as sinister flying machines.

1968 Robinson Crusoe On Mars. The Martian war machines from the George Pal movie are the foe for an astronaut stranded on Mars.

1975 War Of The Worlds TV Series by George Pal. Who knew that George Pal once planned a television series spin off from his 1953 movie?.

Radio

1938 The War Of The Worlds by Orson Welles. The infamous radio broadcast that panicked America on Halloween night.