War of the Worlds (TV series)
Overview
 
War of the Worlds is a television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

 that ran for two seasons, from 1988 to 1990. The series is an extension of the original 1953 film The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
The War of the Worlds is a 1953 science fiction film starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson. It was the first on-screen loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic novel of the same name...

, using the same War Machine, often incorporating aspects from the film, radio adaptation
The War of the Worlds (radio)
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker...

, and original novel
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.The War of the Worlds may also refer to:- Radio broadcasts :* The War of the Worlds , the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles...

 into its mythology.

Though the original film's producer, George Pal
George Pál
George Pal , born György Pál Marczincsak, was a Hungarian-born American animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre...

, conceived of a TV series from the same film sometime in the seventies, it was not until the late eighties that a series was finally realized, this time by television producer Greg Strangis.
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Jared Martin as Dr. Harrison Blackwood

Lynda Mason Green as Dr. Suzanne McCullough

Philip Akin as Norton Drake (Season 1)

 
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