The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)
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The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)
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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. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had
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1938 radio drama by Orson Welles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
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2002-11-02T15:04:41Z
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2024-08-29T18:58:02Z
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