The War of the Worlds (miniseries) Street, Ainsdale Woods, Delamere Forest and Great Budworth village in Cheshire. The War of the Worlds (miniseries) The War of the Worlds is a three part drama produced by Mammoth Screen for the BBC, coproduced with Creasun Media, in association with Red Square. This new adaptation of H.G. Wells' seminal tale — the first alien invasion story in literature — follows George (Rafe Spall) and his partner Amy (Eleanor Tomlinson) as they attempt to defy society and start a life together, and face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.
The War of the Worlds was first published in serial form in "Pearson's Magazine" in April – December 1897. Wells was paid £200 and Pearsons demanded to know the ending of the piece before committing to publish. The complete volume was published by William Heinemann in 1898 and has been in print ever since. Two unauthorised serialisations of the novel were published in the United States prior to the publication of the novel. The first was published in the "New York Evening Journal" between December 1897 and January 1898. The story was published as "Fighters from Mars or the War of the Worlds". It changed