War of the Worlds TV series

[qdrone]

Anyone watch this show back in 1988? My Saturday night was spent watching this,I just loved the first season. I just bought the first season and can't wait to watch it again.

 

[reggaenaut]

Anyone watch this show back in 1988? My Saturday night was spent watching this,I just loved the first season. I just bought the first season and can't wait to watch it again.

Does it carry the epic struggle between the Germans and the Russians at Stalingrad? And if so in any depth?

 

[qdrone]

No

It was syfy based on Orsen Welles radio broadcast. It was filmed in Canada and it took off where War of the Worlds ended by surmising that the aliens didn't really die as they did in Welles radio broadcast but were actually in hibernation. 30 years later they awaken.

 

[Buzzbomb]

I recall is was on Sci Fi (might have still been know as Science Fiction Channel then). All I can recall is that the first season was a lot better than the second. Those 2 was all it lasted. Popular along with Friday The 13th series which was also produced in Canada.

 

[reggaenaut]

It was syfy based on Orsen Welles radio broadcast. It was filmed in Canada and it took off where War of the Worlds ended by surmising that the aliens didn't really die as they did in Welles radio broadcast but were actually in hibernation. 30 years later they awaken.

Oh, that war. My bad.

 

[JBL GUY]

I have not seen this show but it sounds interesting.

I am a big fan of H. G. Well and good old Orson Wells.

Some good SIFI has come out of Canada.

One of my favorites is Regenesis.

Thanks for the heads up on War of the Worlds. May have to look for it
on DVD.

 

[hjames]

Anyone watch this show back in 1988? My Saturday night was spent watching this,I just loved the first season. I just bought the first season and can't wait to watch it again.

I vaguely remember - wasn't Adrian Paul of (later of the Highlander TV show) in that ...
he was great in Highlander but haven't seen him in anything else interesting since. ...

 

[tangent_trac]

Anyone watch this show back in 1988? My Saturday night was spent watching this,I just loved the first season. I just bought the first season and can't wait to watch it again.

I also use to be hooked on this - great show however I think it will feel very dated these days and you might be disappointed...
This happened to me recently with two shows, the original series of BBC's The Triffids and the BBC series The Tripods (war of the worlds spin-off). Had very happy memories of both until I re-watched the shows

 

[analogguyinadig]

There was something just below the surface of the cinematography which I always found obliquely unsettling. Did anbody else have that impression?

 

[qdrone]

Yes he was

I vaguely remember - wasn't Adrian Paul of (later of the Highlander TV show) in that ...
he was great in Highlander but haven't seen him in anything else interesting since. ...

but I think that was in the last season. Not sure though,I will let you know after I veiw a few episodes.

 

[Buzzbomb]

There was something just below the surface of the cinematography which I always found obliquely unsettling. Did anbody else have that impression?

I think that was specifically Season 1. The feeling of doom is what I can think of. The show had a very desperate sort of feel which is why they tossed that format when the 2nd season came around. She Wolf of London was like that also. First season shot in England was pretty interesting. Format got tossed for the 2nd and final season.

 

[analogguyinadig]

I think that was specifically Season 1. The feeling of doom is what I can think of. The show had a very desperate sort of feel which is why they tossed that format when the 2nd season came around. She Wolf of London was like that also. First season shot in England was pretty interesting. Format got tossed for the 2nd and final season.

You're right, I had completely forgotten about She Wolf, same sort of atmosphere.

 

[screenersam]

I remember thinking it was pretty good. one epi had a street preacher that the aliens were manipulating; another had a tv reporter who closed the show wi a ufo report; 'until then, our doors are open...are yours?' for some reason I really remember that line.
season 2 had a shape shifter. ah, sci-fi cliche everyone has used.

saw a few epis of she-wolf; pretty darn good. I remember this woman mastermind (misstress-mind?) who had set up hq in an old church wi an army of zombies chanting 'hungry...hungry...' stylish and well done.

 

[qdrone]

Have watched 7 episodes

It was difinetly written for the person whom just wanted to settle down on saturday and not have it's brain taxed. The episode you are talking about is when they inhabit a radioactive deserted town and bring humans in and then use their bodies as hosts.
The doctor in this Harrison is into alternative medicine(Yoga,vegitarian,new age thinker). Yes it is a bit dated but I can think of worse ways to spend 10.00 dollars.
I tell you in the beginning there were just a few Aliens but as the season progressed it really does address how they became such a huge populace. Some of it is cheezy but it is a low budget production that at times does show.

 

[Ferdelance]

War of the Worlds series is dated, but back in the day, season 1 was pretty good.
Got this from imdb.

The first season of War of the Worlds was groundbreaking and refreshingly innovative. In many ways, it was the predecessor of shows like "The X-Files". The first season was very much like a game of chess between the Blackwood Project and the aliens- led the triumvirate Advocacy (featuring the underrated actress, Ilse Von Glatz- who was chilling as an Advocate). Towards the end of the season, there was a mythology carefully being built with the introductions of new characters such as the renegade alien/human hybrid- Quinn and the Qar'To Synth, Katara. Also, the show was blessed with creative writing, excellent direction- and casting Ann Robinson as Sylvia Van Buren was a nice coup for the producers.

Season 2 wasn't quite as good.

However, Paramount had plans to assassinate the show and installed Frank Mancuso Jr. as the new executive producer. He obliterated the first season storyline, continuity, most of the characters and killed the show in the process. But to many fans, the only real season of WOTW was 1988-1989.