Uploaded by Ze0do0Gas on Jan 25, 2010
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.
After an intermission for station identification, in which announcer Dan Seymour mentions the show's fictionality, the last third is a monologue and dialogue, with Welles returning as Professor Pierson, describing the aftermath of the attacks. The story ends, as does the novel, with the Martians falling victim to earthly germs and bacteria.
After the play, Welles informally breaks character to remind listeners that the broadcast was a Halloween concoction (the equivalent, as he puts it, "of dressing up in a sheet and saying, 'Boo!'").
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Fantastic!!!!
gmuny2010 1 year ago
@gmuny2010 Thanks, always good to know a fan!
Ze0do0Gas 1 year ago
Who did the comic artwork?
NOTYETUSEDNAME 1 year ago
@NOTYETUSEDNAME You can see at the end, I don't remember who it was but I think PowerOptix is right.
Ze0do0Gas 1 year ago