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"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network.
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May 6, 2015 · Orson Welles (arms raised) rehearses his radio depiction of H.G. Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds. The broadcast, which aired on October 30, 1938, and claimed that aliens from...
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Dec 16, 2010 · Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast.The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology serie...
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Oct 30, 2023 · The War Of The Worlds. written by H.G. Wells (1898) Adapted by Howard E. Koch. directed and narrated by. Orson Welles. Performed and broadcast live. as a Halloween episode. at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over. the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.
Oct 29, 2009 · “The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's hyper-realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio, causing panic among some.
Oct 27, 2016 · Of the countless adaptations made of H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction classic The War of the Worlds over the past century, the one that remains most talked and written about to this day was Orson...
Oct 30, 2013 · Take a look back at the Orson Welles radio drama “The War of the Worlds,” the most famous broadcast in radio history.
