As of July 2026, First Wave Season 1 aired in 1998 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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First Wave Season 1

1998 22 Episodes Action & Adventure · Sci-Fi & Fantasy ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch First Wave Season 1 on streaming — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 62 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Rob LaBelle sets the tone, and the world-building does the rest. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

First Wave Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. First Wave Season 1 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. Season 1 of First Wave includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1998 to June 1999. This season stars Rob LaBelle and Sebastian Spence. Rob LaBelle and Sebastian Spence lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1998. The rules of First Wave Season 1's world are consistent enough that the big swings never feel like cheating. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Sci-fi fans who want ideas alongside the spectacle will find First Wave Season 1 genuinely rewarding. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Rob LaBelle's performance is the anchor the more ambitious moments need. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

📡 Where to Watch First Wave Season 1

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🎬 First Wave Season 1 — Episode Guide

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

🎭 Cast of First Wave Season 1

Rob LaBelle

Sebastian Spence

Sebastian Spence

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