Happy Halloween everyone!!
This has always been one of my favorites to kick back and listen to. It never gets old.
It's the original broadcast from 1938 featuring Orson Welles. Run time about an hour.
Kick back and let the kiddos listen in, it makes for great family time!
They don't do radio like this anymore.
~Jeff/TOR
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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 actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.
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This has always been one of my favorites to kick back and listen to. It never gets old.
It's the original broadcast from 1938 featuring Orson Welles. Run time about an hour.
Kick back and let the kiddos listen in, it makes for great family time!
They don't do radio like this anymore.
~Jeff/TOR
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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 actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.
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The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a "sustaining show" (it ran without commercial breaks), adding to the program's realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated.
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The modern remake doesn't hold a candle to this one! Agree?
Sorry Tom Cruise.
I've allowed downloads on this podcast, share it with family and friends for years to come!
The modern remake doesn't hold a candle to this one! Agree?
Sorry Tom Cruise.
I've allowed downloads on this podcast, share it with family and friends for years to come!
Posted by Jeff - 10.27.2011
Thanks for posting this Jeff! I thoroughly enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteYou bet Judith... isn't that cool? They don't make radio like that any more.
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