The episode was directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells ' novel The War of the Worlds and is infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening …

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 Mars...

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 …

Feb 10, 2023 · In perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history, on 30 October 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of H.G. …

Oct 29, 2009 · “ The War of the Worlds ”—Orson Welles' realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938.

Oct 22, 2025 · On October 30, 1938, a radio broadcast changed the way people viewed media forever. Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air presented an adaptation of H. G. Wells' science …

Each year around Halloween, Rippy plays a recording of The War of the Worlds for a class of freshmen students at Marymount. Many approach it skeptically at first, but when they settle in, Rippy says their …