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October 30, 1938 (1938-10-30), 8–9 pm ET. Opening theme. Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. " 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 ...
Those days are recreated by the El Dorado-based Act 1 Players in a radio drama opening this weekend. “War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast” is a radio play performed by a six-person cast ...
Danton's Death (1938) After "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast, photographers lay in wait for Welles at the all-night rehearsal for Danton's Death at the Mercury Theatre (October 31, 1938) A production of Georg Büchner 1835 play Danton's Death, about the French Revolution, was the next Mercury stage production.
An episode of the War of the Worlds TV series takes place in Grovers Mill on the 50th anniversary of the Welles radio drama, and expands on the town's ties to the infamous broadcast. Grovers Mill is also a 2006 film shot in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. 2018 saw the release of the black comedy audio series Grovers Mill , a true-crime ...
“The War of the Worlds” aired on Oct. 30, 1938. Narrated by Orson Welles, the broadcast caused mass hysteria across the U.S.
The show is inspired by an Orson Welles radio drama that gave Halloween eve audiences the impression that aliens were landing on earth and wreaking havoc.
The Night That Panicked America is an American made-for-television drama film that was originally broadcast on the ABC network on October 31, 1975. The telefilm dramatizes events surrounding Orson Welles' famous — and infamous – War of the Worlds radio broadcast (based on the 1898 novel of the same name by English author H. G. Wells) of October 30, 1938, which had led some Americans to ...
The Mercury Theatre on the Air is a radio series of live radio dramas created and hosted by Orson Welles. The weekly hour-long show presented classic literary works performed by Welles's celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. [a] The series began July 11, 1938, as a sustaining program ...