Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast

The War of the Worlds Orson Welles War of the Worlds 1938.jpg Orson Welles tells reporters that no one connected with the broadcast had any idea that it would cause panic (October 31, 1938). Genre Radio drama, science fiction Running time 60 minutes Home station CBS Radio Hosted by The Mercury Theatre on the Air Starring Orson Welles Frank Readick Kenny Delmar Ray Collins Announcer Dan Seymour Written by H.G. Wells (novel) Howard Koch (adaptation) Directed by Orson Welles Produced by John Houseman Orson Welles Paul Stewart (associate producer)[1]:390 Executive producer Davidson Taylor (for CBS) Narrated by Orson Welles Recording studio Columbia Broadcasting Building, 485 Madison Avenue, New York Original release October 30, 1938, 8 – 9 pm ET Opening theme Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The War of the Worlds MENU0:00 The complete radio play Problems playing this file? See media help. "The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938 over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode became famous for causing panic among its listening audience, but the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners