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The book, The Panic Broadcast, was first published in 1970. [63] The best-selling album was a sound recording of the broadcast titled Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, "released by arrangement with Manheim Fox Enterprises, Inc." [64] [65] The source discs for the recording are unknown. [66]
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 film centers on the panic created when The Mercury Theater on the Air presented a radio adaptation of an 1897 H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. In spite of many pre-broadcast promotions describing the play, and several statements during the program itself, the 1938 broadcast, which featured simulated news reports ...
Local play remembers radio’s ‘War of the Worlds,’ a 1938 drama that incited alien panic. David Burke. ... The setting for the radio drama is the 10th anniversary of the original broadcast ...
The New Jersey "Martian invasion" broadcast is part of American folklore. But some, even then, saw it as a fearful prediction of America today. How radio's Martian hysteria, on Halloween eve 1938 ...
As the Mercury's second theatre season began in 1938, Welles and John Houseman were unable to write the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcasts on their own. For "Hell on Ice" (October 8, 1938), the 14th episode of the series, they hired Howard E. Koch , whose experience in having a play performed by the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago led him ...
The year 1938 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Larry Niven Orson Welles tells reporters that no one connected with the broadcast had any idea that it would cause panic (October 31, 1938).
The executive producer was David L. Wolper, who produced a number of mockumentary-style films since the 1960s. The movie was heavily influenced by Orson Welles' 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, but just like said broadcast, Without Warning caused a nationwide panic. [citation needed]