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Premiered

Wednesday, September 9, 1998

Ended: Wednesday, June 30, 1999

When does First Wave Season 1 come out?

First Wave Season 1 premiered Wednesday, September 9, 1998 on Syfy and ended Wednesday, June 30, 1999. The season has 22 episodes.

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First Wave Season 1 episode release dates
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1. Subject 117

After having disturbing visions and finding a man who was in one of his visions dead of suicide, Cade Foster's life is suddenly turned upside down; his house bugged, credit cards not working, job gone, and his wife terrified even to go home, things go from bad to worse.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

2. Crazy Eddie

On the run from the law, Cade seeks help from a paranoid conspiracy theorist named Crazy Eddie.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

3. Mata Hari

With Eddie's help, Cade poses as a math genius to investigate the mysterious death of a grad student in Boston.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

4. Hypnotic

A quatrain leads Cade to a rural area where a best-selling psychiatrist is helping people deal with alien encounters through hypnotic regression.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

5. Elixir

A beautiful young woman dancing in a bar suddenly dies of extreme old age.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

6. Speaking in Tongues

Cade poses as a drifter to investigate a religious cult and finds that the messianic leader is delivering a message to beware of an impending invasion.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

7. Lungfish

A young boy finds a bass that can breathe on land and Cade, posing as a tabloid reporter, travels to Indiana to see it.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

8. Book of Shadows

Cade and Eddie travel to Salem, Oregon, where a high school student accused of killing three high-ranking members of the community claims that she is a witch and the victims were not human but demons.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

9. Joshua

Cade is on the run in the Montana wilderness as the police and U.S. Marshalls surround him. Posing as a Marshall, Joshua joins the hunt.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

10. Marker 262

Cade and Eddie travel to Missouri to investigate the disappearance of a hot-rodder during a drag race.

Wednesday · 28 years ago

11. Motel California

Investigating a small California inn, Cade becomes one of the subjects of an alien experiment that makes the guests' dreams come alive so that they can no longer tell what is real and what is merely a beguiling illusion.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

12. Breeding Ground

Cade poses as a track coach to investigate reports of superhuman abilities in some of the students at a private school in New England.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

13. Blue Agave

Contacting his late wife's best friend for help, Cade discovers that she and other members of an exclusive club are the subjects of an alien experiment that uses a parasitic blue worm to read people's memories.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

14. Cul-De-Sac

Following up on a report by a teenage boy about a sexy alien woman who is impervious to bullets, Cade discovers that she is manipulating the men in the community to do her bidding by means of a pheromone ingredient in her perfume.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

15. The Box

Going back home to visit his wife's grave, Cade is captured by police officers and interrogated, but he manages to turn the tables on them and find out important information about the alien agenda.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

16. Undesirables

Joshua's latest assignment is to track down and assassinate the Gua agent assigned to keep tabs on a physics professor who may be on the verge of discovering wormhole technology. The agent has fallen in love with the professor and must be killed before she reveals secrets of Gua technology to him.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

17. Second Wave

A man hoping to get pictures of his wife cheating on him instead accidentally takes pictures of a UFO.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

18. Blind Witness

Cade fakes a diabetic seizure to get admitted to a hospital to look for an ally promised in one of the prophecies. In an unused wing of the hospital, he finds a blind woman who is undergoing an experimental treatment to regain her sight.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

19. Deluge

Cade investigates a small town plagued by rain for more than three years.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

20. Melody

After a rock concert erupts into violence, Cade and Eddie find a Nostradamus quatrain that seems to suggest that music might be making young people aggressive.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

21. The Aftertime

A teenager accidentally intercepts a Gua transmission on his ham radio and records it on a disc. Cade races against the Gua to retrieve it.

Saturday · 27 years ago

22. The Decision Finale

Clip show: The leaders of the Gua First Wave force meet to decide if it is time to begin the Second Wave.

Wednesday · 27 years ago

First Wave Season 1 guest stars

  • Sarah Strange

    Sarah Strange

    Henrietta / Hank

  • Camille Sullivan

    Camille Sullivan

    Diana Black

  • Katharine Isabelle

    Katharine Isabelle

    Elizabeth

  • C. Ernst Harth

    C. Ernst Harth

    Mel Ludwig

  • Andre Benjamin

    Andre Benjamin

    Soldier

  • Jennifer Jasey

    Jennifer Jasey

    Dr.Giddings

  • Ben Derrick

    Ben Derrick

    Cop

  • Terry Barclay

    Factory Manager

  • Myron Natwick

    Myron Natwick

    Emmett Mayhew

  • Eric Schneider

    Alexander Dray

  • Gordon Van Iepren

    Sam Hitchens

  • Laurie Paton

    Laurie Paton

    Mrs. Hitchens

  • Charles Payne

    Charles Payne

    Orderly

  • Craig Warkentin

    Waiter

  • Terry Arrowsmith

    Alien

  • Richard Sargent

    Alien

First Wave Season 1 FAQ

When does First Wave Season 1 come out?

First Wave Season 1 premiered Wednesday, September 9, 1998 on Syfy.

How many episodes are in First Wave Season 1?

First Wave Season 1 has 22 episodes.

Are new episodes of First Wave Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the First Wave Season 1 finale?

The First Wave Season 1 finale (Episode 22) aired Wednesday, June 30, 1999.

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