War Of The Worlds

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by author H. G. Wells. The novel is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

It was also broadcast as a radio program in 1938 on CBS Radio. The part of the narrator was performed by Orson Welles, who also directed the show.

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The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by author H. G. Wells. The novel is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

It was also broadcast as a radio program in 1938 on CBS Radio. The part of the narrator was performed by Orson Welles, who also directed the show.

The War of the Worlds is an episode of the radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the scale of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.

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