George Pal’s Unmade 1975 War of the Worlds TV Concept: Six Starships, the Pegasus, Alpha Centauri, and a Hidden Endor-Beings Conspiracy

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George Pal’s 1975 plan for a War of the Worlds TV reboot imagined a peaceful Earth suddenly attacked by aliens, with six starships led by Colonel James Anderson aboard the Pegasus traveling to Alpha Centauri to uncover a larger conspiracy linked to beings from Endor; no pilot was produced and a proof‑of‑concept film reused footage from the 1953 movie, Pal died in 1980 and the project was dropped because networks feared sci‑fi costs and serialized primetime storytelling wasn’t common, a 1988 series later loosely followed but didn’t adopt Pal’s ideas, today the premise is seen as having strong potential and could be revived by streaming thanks to its public‑domain status, even as a separate 2019–2022 take exists, and a forty‑five minute proof‑of‑concept is on YouTube with the first fifteen minutes aligned to the plan and the rest offering production notes and outtakes, leaving the fate of the concept uncertain but inviting reconsideration.