“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938. Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’s 19th-century science fiction novelTheWar of...
The show had a fairly short run. It lasted from 1938 to 1941. But it made its mark. During these few years, The Mercury Theatre aired The War of the Worlds, an episode narrated by Welles himself that led many Americans to believe their coun...
The War of the Worlds关于《世界大战》(War of the Worlds) “19世纪末叶,谁也不会相信,地球正受到智慧生命的密切注视,他们比人类发达,但却和人类一样是肉身凡胎”——《世界大战》就这样开场来,这部科幻经典第一个提出了外星生物存在的可能。 这是一个讲述火星人进攻地球的故事。当十个巨大的不明物体降落在...
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"Madison on the Air" War of the Worlds "1938: Orson Welles/Mercury Theater" (Podcast Episode 2022) - Plot summary, synopsis, and more...
The complete script of 'The War of the Worlds' by H. G. Wells, as performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air, and broadcast on CBS on November 30, 1938.
The October 30, 1938 broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre On The Air caused panic around the country, as more than a million people believed they were hearing real news bulletins describing a Martian invasion, rather than just a cleverly-disguised ra...
On the night of October 30, 1938, a live broadcast of an Orson Welles radio drama “The War of the Worlds,” rattled Americans who thought Martians were attacking the planet.
On Halloween morning, 1938, Orson Welles awoke to find himself the most talked about man in America. The night before, Welles and hisMercury Theatre on the Airhad performed a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’sThe War of the Worlds, converting the 40-year-old novel into fake news bulleti...
War of the Worlds is a socko science-fiction feature, as fearsome as a film as was the Orson Welles 1938 radio interpretation of the H.G. Wells novel. Gene Barry, as a scientist, is the principal in this story of an invasion of the earth by weird, spider-like characters from Mars, ...