Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, broadcast by CBS on 30 October 1938, staged partly as a series of breaking news bulletins reporting a Martian landing in New Jersey. Newspaper accounts of mass panic were greatly exaggerated, a point modern scholarship stresses, but the broadcast became the standing exhibit for the power of the medium and the question of listener trust.
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Directed and narrated by Welles for the Mercury Theatre on the Air; Howard Koch wrote the script.
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"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air which was broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938 over the CBS Radio Network.
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