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Encyclopedia > War of the Worlds (television)

The War of the Worlds television series ran for two seasons, from October of 1988 to May of 1990. It was an extension of the 1953 War of the Worlds movie. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The War of the Worlds DVD The War of the Worlds (1953) was produced by George Pál (the second of three H.G. Wells science fiction stories to be filmed by Pál) and directed by Byron Haskin from a script by Barré Lyndon, and starred Gene Barry, Les...


The first season of the series officially comes to DVD on November 1, 2005, (the same date in which the 1953 film is re-released), ending complaints from fans for a long-standing belief that Paramount had disowned the series since the show ended its original run. November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1987 to 1995. ...

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Premise

According to the series, rather than being outright killed by germs at the end of the original War of the Worlds, the aliens had all slipped into a state of suspended animation. Their bodies were stored away in toxic waste drums and shipped away to various disposal sites (at least two known to exist in the U.S.), and a widespread government cover-up combined with a condition dubbed "selective-amnesia" convinced most people that the invasion had never happened. Germ is an informal term for a disease-causing organism, particularly bacteria (as in germ warfare). ... Suspended animation is the slowing without termination of life processes by external means. ... ... When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up the evidence of wrongdoing is often regarded as even more scandalous than the original deeds. ...


Since the concept of vastly intelligent life on Mars had lost its plausibility by the time of the series, the aliens were revealed to actually be from Mor-Tax - a garden planet 40 light years away in the Taurus constellation orbiting a dying sun. Scientists have long speculated about the possibility of life on Mars, due to that planets proximity and similarity to Earth. ... Mor-Tax is the name of the planet in which the aliens from the first season of War of the Worlds TV series originate. ... A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ... Taurus (♉) is one of the constellations of the zodiac, and its name is Latin for Bull. ...


Thirty-five years later, in 1988 (modern day when the series began), the appropriately named terrorist group The People's Liberation Party accidentally irradiate the drums containing an alien while raiding dumpsite Fort Jericho. The radiation destroys the bacteria that were keeping the aliens unconscious. Once free, the aliens take possession of the bodies of the six that overran the site. From there they use a strew of human bodies and crudely adapted earth technology to find means of appropriating the planet both in wiping out the plague that is humanity and developing a permanent means to inoculate themselves against the planet's indigenous bacterium. Their attempt to successfully make Earth into their new homeworld is imperative for in roughly five years, 3 million colonists from Mor-Tax are expected to arrive. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...


An eclectic group was formed by the government to deal with the new alien threat, and the series followed their missions and adventures (and, often, failures) in fighting the aliens. The Blackwood Team, named after its leading member, consisted of:

  • Dr. Harrison Blackwood (played by Jared Martin) - Astrophysicist whose parents were killed in the war, and then adopted by Dr. Clayton Forrester who was a major witness to the aliens' initial invasion.
  • Dr. Suzanne McCullough (played by Lynda Mason Green) - Microbiologist and single mother.
  • Lt. Col. Paul Ironhorse (played by Richard Chaves) - Native American military man.
  • Norton Drake (played by Philip Akin) - A wheelchair-bound computer genius.

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First season synopsis

Opening narration:

"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!"
- spoken by Harrison Blackwood

Along with the other sci-fi/horror series that ran in syndication in the late 1980s (such as Friday the 13th: The Series and Freddy's Nightmares, many of which were produced by Hometown Studios), War of the Worlds constantly pushed the "acceptable content" envelope, regularly featuring violence on par with the R-rated horror movies of the time. Gore was commonplace in the first season (dead aliens and their tossed away hosts' bodies melted in a grotesque puddle), and the super-strong Mor-Taxans had no compunctions about mutilating any poor schlep who got in their way. One of their trademark methods of murder would be gouged out eyes courtesy of the third arm that would often burst out from their chest. Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any media intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Friday the 13th: The Series was a television series that ran for three seasons, from September 1987 to May of 1990. ... Freddys Nightmares was a late-night television anthology series from 1988. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


During the first season, the aliens were lead by a triad known as the Advocacy. They were a part of their society's ruling class, overseeing the invasion force on earth while their leaders, the invisible and never heard Council, remained back on Mor-Tax. Outfitted throughout most of the season in contamination suits that pumped coolant to counteract the killing heat of the radiation they needed, they stayed in their base of operation: a cavern in the Nevada desert, which was perfect due to the ambient radiation from the atomic bomb tests. They rarely went into battle because without them, the lower classes would have no guidance and be useless. State nickname: Silver State, Battle Born State (official) Other U.S. States Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Governor Kenny Guinn (R) Official languages None Area 286,367 km² (7th)  - Land 284,396 km²  - Water 1,971 km² (0. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ...


Their goal is to pick up where they left off in 1953, by wiping out humanity. For the aliens' hatred of human beings goes beyond simple prejudice. Having come from a planet that can be compared to the Garden of Eden based on description, the aliens see that humans do nothing but snuff it out. Without them, they can help bring out the vegetation, and better replicate the conditions of their world. To accomplish this, they seek out weapons (some of which is their own left behind), help amass their army, engage in filtration, and all sorts of acts of warfare. But to make things more problematic, they also must find immunity against the germs that befell them in '53. This article is about the Biblical location. ...


If the war between humanity and the aliens wasn't enough, the season also dropped other anomalies into the mix:

  • Quinn - an alien trapped in a human host since the invasion of '53, mysteriously immune to bacteria, and ready to play both of the major warring factions against each other for his own favour.
  • The Qar'To - an unknown alien race represented by a synth sent to Earth, having deadly reasons for wanting the aliens dead and humanity preserved.
  • Project 9 - a government organization much like the Blackwood Project, but have a shadowy hand in alien research.

Also inserted for the Blackwood Team's side was Sylvia Van Buren, a colleague of Dr. Forrester in the years following the war who had developed a strange ability to sense the aliens and even often make predictions with a fairly accurate rate. And while the aliens had science on their sides, the supernatural elements wielded by Joseph Lonetree (whose presence was seemingly foreshadowed in the first episode) seems to be something that the aliens could not defeat. The team even made friends with the remaining Grover's Mill militia of 1938 who had their own run in with the aliens.


A recurring element with the aliens was the number 3. An extention from the film, when it came to the aliens, just about everything had some root in the number three - from their caste system (Ruling Class, Soldiers, and Scientists) to their body (three arms) to their planet (their planet is the third from the sun), weaponry (in "The Resurrection", they make bolas with three weighted ends), and even their mating ritual was every nine years. The appearance of the number in some form (sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle) is sprinkled throughout the season in reference to the aliens. 1+1 ... Bolas (from Spanish bola, ball, also known as boleadoras) is a throwing weapon made of heavy balls in the ends of interconnected cords. ...


The episodes all had (often ironic) Biblical titles, such "The Walls of Jericho", "To Heal the Leper", and "Among the Philistines". The holy Jewish scripture: The Torah. ...


"To Life Immortal" ("do na decatae" as it would be said phonically), a phrase by which the aliens seemed to sum up their belief system, became a hallmark of the series as it was exchanged between aliens or cried before one would take its own life in honour, and became a well-deserved catch phrase for fans. A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...


Second season synopsis

Opening voice-over:

"There's rioting breaking out through the city. Fire is continuing to burn everywhere. Troops are shooting people. My God, I... I don't know why! There's a woman dying in front of me, and no one's helping her! There are conflicting reports about who or what started the chaos. Will someone tell me what's happening? This is madness! What is this world coming to?"
- character and voice actor unknown

Although the ratings for the first season were among the highest Paramount had of its syndicated series that year, they still saw fit to replace the creative force of Season 1 with Frank Mancuso Jr. (who was also busy producing Friday the 13th: The Series, which, interestingly enough, was actually rated just behind the first season of this show), who admitted that he never really watched many of the episodes of the first season. This combined with different writers made for a season that was terribly inconsistent with the first. Just about every detail of the first season was either changed completely or just deleted altogether (such as the Biblical reference and black humour). Even the show's name underwent change as it was now fully titled "War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion". Frank Mancuso Junior is the son of former Paramount Pictures president Frank Mancuso Sr. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. ...


Countless changes were made in the second season. First, the modern day setting was now shifted to a not-too-distant future of "Almost Tomorrow" where the world had since spiraled into a dismal state with its economy, environment, and government all beaten down. Of the few characters that returned for the second season, most were killed off in the season premiere. The two saddest demises were that of fan favourites Norton and Ironhorse. Also sent to their death were the aliens of the first season. The Advocacy and their lot (all incorrectly referred to as soldiers) were sent to execution by a new race of aliens, the Morthren. Despite the fact that their planet is clearly stated to be Morthrai, they are still inexplicably tied to the first season aliens of the planet Mor-Tax. Planet name change was but one aspect altered with the aliens. In fact, nearly every aspect of the season one aliens was either written out of the show or ignored altogether. The show became extremely inconsistent in determining whether or not the Morthren was indeed a new race of aliens, a sub-culture of the season one aliens, or something else altogether.


Whereas bacteria and radiation were constant problems for the Mor-Tax, the Morthren had suddenly found a cure-all means for this by transmutating into human bodies, a process that was only noted in the first episode, but never explained in any detail. With this, they forwent the ability to possess human bodies, retaining only one human body. Their equivalent of body-swapping was a cloning machine that would make exact copies of someone, only differing that the duplicates would be loyal to the Morthren cause and physically tied to its original. Ironically, as sores were the telltale signs of alien possession in the first season, a lack of scars or any physical flaw was a telltale sign of a clone as the Morthren were fixated with perfection. While the Eternal is their god, the Morthren are led by Malzor (played by Denis Forest, who had a large part in the Season 1 episode "Vengeance is Mine"). Just under him was the scientist Mana (Catherine Disher, whose husband also played a major role in a Season 1 episode) with Ardix (Julian Richings who appeared briefly in "He Feedeth Among the Lillies") as her assistant. Catherine Disher is a Canadian actress who has starred in television shows such as War of the Worlds. ... Biography Julian Richings was born in Oxford, England, and trained in drama at the University of Exeter. ...


Meanwhile, with General Wilson missing, the Cottage destroyed, and two team members lost in battle, the remnants of the team, with mercenary John Kincaid (Adrian Paul), seek shelter. They take up base in an underground hideout in the sewers. And the aliens weren't the only characters to change. Harrison seemed to have lost touch with his kooky nature (yoga positions, tuning forks, etc.), and for a man who turned down every offer of a gun from Ironhorse, he carried one with no second thought. Meanwhile, Suzanne, a microbiologist, suddenly seemed incapable of even baking a simple cake with her daughter Debi (Rachel Blanchard) slowly starting to become the star of the series. The show's theme of warfare between two races, and all the issues that went with it, had been taken over by a theme of a bleak life on a desolate world. Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod of the Highlander television series. ... Hatha Yoga posture performed at a Hindu temple. ... A tuning fork is a simple metal two-pronged fork with the tines formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic material (usually steel). ... Rachel Elise Blanchard (born 19 March 1976 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian actress. ...


While the radical changes were often claimed to be for the better of the show, many fans were turned off for many reasons. Ultimately, the ratings were so poor that the series had to wrap things up just two episodes shy of a full season.


Series end

The finale is set in the last episode of the second season. The young alien boy named Ceeto runs away, taking an important Obelisk with him. With the Blackwood group with him, they watch as it reveals the truth: after the scientific team sent on their research mission (negating the fact that early episodes made evident that the events of '53 was an invasion effort) are killed, Malzor, whose mate was on the exedition, kills their leader, and makes every effort to wage a war against humanity as an act of revenge. (This gives way to the fact that this is the first and only invasion made by the Morthren, so one can't help but note the confliction of this with the subtitle for the season.) In doing so, he has caused the planet to be set for self-destruction. This is then shown to Mana who shows it to the Morthren just as Malzor is ready to launch an all-out massacre. After a cornered Malzor kills Ceeto, Debi shoots Mazlor dead. With this, the Morthren call off the war, and our heroes walk out into a suddenly sunny world.


Loose ends

The first season's finale, "The Angel of Death", introduces a synth from the planet Qar'To (which is in the same system as Mor-Tax) named Q'Tara who arrives on Earth and begins killing aliens right and left in effort of finding the Advocacy, without whom the aliens would be lost and helpless. The Blackwood Team is happy to have such a powerful ally (who can shoot "atomic bullets" and can easily detect aliens) on their side who seems to be fighting the same enemy. In fact, after the aliens launch a surprise attack on them all, Q'Tara even goes the extra mile to heal the fatally wounded team members. Although she has been doing good so far, she needs to bring in reinforcements. Just as she's prepared to leave, she makes a last report in a strange native language (subtitled), which states that her mission is incomplete and that humanity as a future food source is still in danger.


This set-up in this cliffhanger combined with the existence of the rogue alien Quinn vying for his own global dominance and millions of more aliens with their leaders making the exodus to Earth in such a short strand of years made the future of the show promise nothing but interest with so many friends and foes battling for the planet. Sadly, all this potential died in the aptly titled Season 1 finale, as they were never picked up and carried into the second season.


Another element that was being built was the issue of why no one remembers the invasion of '53 (something that is the centre of the show's criticism). Many hints of the true explanation were dropped in many episodes, but this was something that Season 2 never even acknowledged, much less answered. Some believe as the synth constantly said "Remember nothing" and appeared to be able to change people's memories that they were involved in wiping humanity's collective memory.


Another issue for season two is the part of the Eternal. There is some debate about whether it was a genuine god, or if it was going to be revelaed to be a false idol controlled by a villain (perhaps Malzor). Its almost near absence in the final episode furthers questions since the Eternal does not appear during or after the revelation of Malzor's deception, leaving no clue on whether the Morthren still revere their god since it would be perceived to either be in on Malzor's plot or totally oblivious and therefore powerless. Another issue is that it was originally going to be called the Immortal, as a tie to the phrase "To Life Immortal", before it was inexplicably changed. Idolatry is a term used by many religions to describe the worship of a false deity, which is an affront to their understanding of divinity. ...


Episode list

First season

1. The Resurrection
2. The Walls of Jericho
3. Thy Kingdom Come
4. A Multitude of Idols
5. Eye for an Eye
6. The Second Seal
7. Goliath is My Name
8. To Heal the Leper
9. The Good Samaritan
10. Epiphany
11. Among the Philistines
12. Choirs of Angels
13. Dust to Dust
14. He Feedeth Among the Lilies
15. The Prodigal Son
16. The Meek Shall Inherit
17. Unto Us a Child is Born
18. The Last Supper
19. Vengeance is Mine
20. My Soul to Keep
21. So Shall Ye Reap
22. The Raising of Lazarus
23. The Angel of Death
Resurrection of the Flesh (1499-1502) Fresco by Luca Signorelli Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto Resurrection is most commonly associated with the consisting of the reuniting of the spirit and the body of an individual, or the raising of a person from death back to life. ... Jericho (Arabic أريحا; ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ; Standard Hebrew Yəriḥo; Tiberian Hebrew Yərîḫô, Yərîḥô) is a town in the West Bank, near the west bank of the Jordan River. ... The Lords Prayer (sometimes known by its first two Latin words as the Pater Noster, in Greek as the , or the English equivalent Our Father) is probably the best-known prayer in Christianity. ... The phrase an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth expresses a form of retributive justice also known as lex talionis (Latin, law of retaliation). It may have originated in ancient near-Eastern and Middle Eastern law, such as Babylonian law. ... The young Hebrew David hoists the head of the Philistine Goliath. ... The Good Samaritan The Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable, that appears only in the Gospel of Luke (10:25-41). ... Epiphany (Greek: επιφάνεια, the appearance; miraculous phenomenon) is a Christian feast intended to celebrate the shining forth or revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus. ... The historic Philistines (see other uses below) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival of the Israelites, their territory being named Philistia in later contexts. ... The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni The Prodigal Son is one of the best known parables of Jesus. ... The Last Supper, represented by polychrome sculptures in the Pilgrimage Church of Madonna dell Sasso (Locarno) In the Christian faith, the Last Supper was the last meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his death. ... Revenge is retaliation against a person or group in response to wrongdoing. ... SMELLY, SMELLY HAS ADVENTURES, SMELLY HAS FUN ADVENTURES, SMELLY HAS ADVENTURES WITH HIS FRIENDS *dum dum*, SMELLY HAS ADVENTURES WITH HIS FRIENDS *friends friends*, SMELLY HAS ADVENTURES WITH HIS FRIENDS *dum dum DUM* This is Smelly. ... From The Dance of Death (Totentanz) by Hans Holbein the Younger Death, personified is a personification of death as an anthropomorphic figure or a fictional character, who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. ...

  • "The Resurrection" episode originally aired in most countries as a whole two-hour feature. In subsequent airings, it was broken up to air as a two-part story.
  • Many episodes were noticeably aired out of order. The best examples are "Among the Philistines" and "The Prodigal Son", the latter of which was clearly meant to air first since it is evident that the team's information about the aliens' origin comes from the mouth of Quinn. In "Dust to Dust" Michael Kramer seemingly plays his Commander character that was killed off a few episodes earlier.

Second season

24. The Second Wave
25. No Direction Home
26. Doomsday
27. Terminal Rock
28. Breeding Ground
29. Seft of Emun
30. Loving the Alien
31. Night Moves
32. Synthetic Love
33. The Defector
34. Time to Reap
35. The Pied Piper
36. The Deadliest Disease
37. Path of Lies
38. Candle in the Night
39. Video Messiah
40. Totally Real
41. Max
42. The True Believer
43. The Obelisk
A defector is generally a person who gives up allegiance to a certain country in exchange for allegiance to another. ... The Pied Piper is a 1942 film in which an Englishman, on vacation in France, is caught up in the German invasion of that country, and finds himself helping a large group of children to safety. ... The Luxor obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris An obelisk is a tall, thin, four-sided, tapering monument which ends in a pyramidal top. ...


Notable guest stars

The first season made itself quite distinquished in that it managed to aquire recognizable actors in the series. Aside from getting Ann Robinson to reprise her role as Sylvia Van Buren from the film, the series also obtained John Colicos from Battlestar Galactica fame as rogue alien Quinn who, while only appearing twice, was no doubt intended to play an integral part of the series as it went on (the character's power-hungry nature and middleman status between two worlds is noticeably reminiscent of Colicos' role as Baltar). The list of notable guests begins in the show's very start with John Vernon appearing in the first two episodes as General Wilson. Other actors throughout the series: Patrick Macnee, Greg Morris, Jeff Corey, John Ireland, Michael Parks, and James Hong. Ann Robinson (b. ... John Colicos (December 10, 1928 - March 6, 2000) was a Canadian born actor. ... Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction movie and television series, produced in 1978 by Glen Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict. ... Baltar is a fictional character in the Battlestar Galactica universe who becomes a traitor to the human race. ... John Vernon (February 24, 1932–February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. ... Patrick Macnee (born February 6, 1922) is a British actor. ... John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 - March 21, 1992) was an actor. ... Michael Parks (born April 24, 1940 in Corona, California) is an American actor. ... James Hong is an actor who was born in Minneapolis. ...


The series was also the early working ground for future stars. Aside from exclusive Season 2 star Adrian Paul, the second season also featured the first onscreen appearance of (a then very young) Mia Kirshner. The second season also gave more screentime to Rachel Blanchard, who only had minor play in the first season. Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod of the Highlander television series. ... Mia Kirshner (born January 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress who works in movies and television series. ... Rachel Elise Blanchard (born 19 March 1976 in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian actress. ...


Trivia

  • Over the course of the series, the Advocacy appeared in all but one episode of the first season, and only one of the second season. In these episodes, many different actors portrayed them. The parts originally started with Richard Comar, Ilse von Glatz, and Michael Rudder who played half of the six-piece terrorist group that frees the aliens and then were themselves host to the Advocates. Halfway into the first season, Comar left, shortly followed by Rudder; Glatz also left, but only long enough to miss two episodes, making her the long-running actor in the collective role. Many other actors came in, most notable were the very three actors who played the other half of the terrorist group from the pilot. In their final appearance in the Season 2 premiere, they were played by uncredited and unidentified actors. In addition to these and the two sets of actors playing temporary hosts to the Advocacy, the triumvirate part was played by a whopping eighteen actors.
  • The teleplays for three episodes were credited with notable pen names: Forrest Van Buren, Sylvia Clayton, and Sylvia Van Buren. The true author(s) of these scripts are unknown.
  • Originally the character of Little Bobby from "Thy Kingdom Come" was to be the start of a running gag where in which we would see him in various places with his "family." He was also to be the centre of an advertising campaign entitled "Save Little Bobby" to help the show. Unfortunately, Paramount rejected both ideas and the Little Bobby character never appeared again with even the ending being altered as it originally set up his appearance for future episodes. However, the writers made up his future as far as a rough draft of "Eye for an Eye".
  • In the closing credits for every episode in the first season is a reference to The Far Side cartoons by Gary Larson, courtesy of Chronicle Features. The reasoning behind this credit remains a mystery to fans as there is no clear evidence that the cartoons were used in any way in the series.

A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ... The running gag is a popular hallmark of comedy television shows and movies. ... Advertising campaign is series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme which make up an integrated marketing communication (IMC). ... Closing credits, in a television program or motion picture, come at the end of a show and list all the cast and crew involved in the production. ... The Far Side is a popular one-panel comic created by Gary Larson. ... Gary Larson Gary Larson (born in Tacoma, Washington on August 14, 1950) is the creator of The Far Side, a comic panel which appeared in many newspapers for fourteen years until Larsons retirement January 1, 1995. ...

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