I only saw the first season of War of the Worlds back in the 1980s. The lead actor, Jared Martin, played Harrison Blackwood. Harrison Blackwood was too arrogant, very condescending to everyone, and he refused to carry weapons or shoot aliens. He also went off on personal missions regularly, and they usually turned into alien missions. The team would often be disorganized or unprepared because Blackwood refused to communicate with them.
Norton Drake (Philip Akin) played the handicapped computer specialist. NCIS New Orleans has the same character in Patton Plame (played by Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, who is paralyzed). Drake provided a more humble and positive attitude to balance against the over-bearing Harrison Blackwood.
Richard Chaves played Colonel Ironhorse. As a child, he had lived the Marine Corps life as the son of a U.S. Marine. Later he served in the Army, and one tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Chaves was not given enough to do in the show. He often had to work against his character and be the buddy to the others, because Jared Martin was always fighting with Chaves, and talking down to him. Chaves was pretty good in terms of action scenes, and he made the show more fun to watch. Chaves had been one of the Green Berets in The Predator, with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Suzanne McCullough (played by Lynda Mason Green) was the highlight of the series. She was a microbiologist, and she was very bright, and a positive character. She was also good in action scenes, and she was willing to take a shot at aliens. She added humor to the series, and was a good mix between Blackwood and Ironhorse.
The stories were pretty entertaining. It got old that the good guys often almost won, but the aliens got away, or they got the one crucial piece that they wanted. It seemed like the humans never got any complete victories.
In one episode (The Second Seal), the only thing that the humans had to do is destroy a list of alien dump sites, and the list gets passed around so much it reminded me of a Three Stooges comedy. The humans ended up losing the list.
Norton Drake (Philip Akin) played the handicapped computer specialist. NCIS New Orleans has the same character in Patton Plame (played by Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, who is paralyzed). Drake provided a more humble and positive attitude to balance against the over-bearing Harrison Blackwood.
Richard Chaves played Colonel Ironhorse. As a child, he had lived the Marine Corps life as the son of a U.S. Marine. Later he served in the Army, and one tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Chaves was not given enough to do in the show. He often had to work against his character and be the buddy to the others, because Jared Martin was always fighting with Chaves, and talking down to him. Chaves was pretty good in terms of action scenes, and he made the show more fun to watch. Chaves had been one of the Green Berets in The Predator, with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Suzanne McCullough (played by Lynda Mason Green) was the highlight of the series. She was a microbiologist, and she was very bright, and a positive character. She was also good in action scenes, and she was willing to take a shot at aliens. She added humor to the series, and was a good mix between Blackwood and Ironhorse.
The stories were pretty entertaining. It got old that the good guys often almost won, but the aliens got away, or they got the one crucial piece that they wanted. It seemed like the humans never got any complete victories.
In one episode (The Second Seal), the only thing that the humans had to do is destroy a list of alien dump sites, and the list gets passed around so much it reminded me of a Three Stooges comedy. The humans ended up losing the list.