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The War of the Worlds (Radio)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The single most (in)famous broadcast in American radio history.When Orson Welles needed to come up with a Halloween Episode for the October 30, 1938 broadcast of his CBS radio program The Mercury Theatre on the Air, he decided to adapt H.G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to a contemporary American setting. Rather than presenting a straight radio play like all of the previous Mercury Theatre broadcasts, for this episode the program started out as what seemed like a regular night of dance music, until they started breaking in with news of strange explosions on the surface of Mars... followed by reports of a meteorite landing in rural New Jersey...As the on-air "reporters" breathlessly described large alien tripods emerging from the cylindrical "meteorites" and commencing to destroy the American countryside with heat-rays, many listeners believed that an actual Alien Invasion was taking place, and thus a nationwide panic ensued... or so the Urban Legends say, at least. Later research indicates there was little to no actual panic and the anxious reports that ran in the next day's newspapers were an attempt by said newspapers to sell more copies, while discrediting radio as a medium —see New Media Are Evil below. However, the story's more complex than that. What people believed, and continue to believe, about the broadcast is as important as the idea that people believed the broadcast itself. The legend of this program has become part of American folklore.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The broadcast has been re-created several times: | |
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