Directed by Sean Duvall

The Harlequin Broadcasting Company bring you an adaptation of H G Wells 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

When an alien capsule lands on Horsell Common, Woking, crowds of astonished onlookers gather. But wonder soon turns to terror when the Martians emerge, Armed with deadly heat rays, the aliens begin their conquest to earth. Confronted by powers beyond our control, a technology far in advance of our own, and a race of alie invaders which regard us no more than ants, humankind faces extinction.