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"The War of the Worlds" was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween episode of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre_on_the_Air directed and narrated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles as an adaptation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells's novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds (1898) that was performed and...
show moreThe crisis escalates dramatically when an on-scene reporter at Grovers Mill describes creatures emerging from what is evidently an alien spacecraft. The aliens employ a heat ray against police and onlookers, and the radio correspondent describes the attack in increasing panic until his audio feed abruptly goes dead. This is followed by a rapid series of news updates detailing the beginning of a devastating alien invasion and the US military's futile efforts to stop it. The first portion of the episode climaxes with a live report from a rooftop in Manhattan, from where a correspondent describes citizens fleeing from poison smoke released by towering Martian "war machines" until he coughs and falls silent. Only then does the program take its first break, about thirty minutes after Welles's introduction.
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"The War of the Worlds" was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween episode of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre_on_the_Air directed and narrated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles as an adaptation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells's novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds (1898) that was performed and...
show moreThe crisis escalates dramatically when an on-scene reporter at Grovers Mill describes creatures emerging from what is evidently an alien spacecraft. The aliens employ a heat ray against police and onlookers, and the radio correspondent describes the attack in increasing panic until his audio feed abruptly goes dead. This is followed by a rapid series of news updates detailing the beginning of a devastating alien invasion and the US military's futile efforts to stop it. The first portion of the episode climaxes with a live report from a rooftop in Manhattan, from where a correspondent describes citizens fleeing from poison smoke released by towering Martian "war machines" until he coughs and falls silent. Only then does the program take its first break, about thirty minutes after Welles's introduction.
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