The War of the Worlds (radio drama) The War of the Worlds (radio drama) "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
The War of the Worlds special was aired to parody "The War of the Worlds". The costumes that the main characters wore referenced a species from "Star Trek". A 2001 animated series of Justice League begins with a three-part saga called "Secret Origins" and features tripod machines invading and attacking the city. "The Great Martian War 1913–1917" is a 2013 made-for-television science fiction film docudrama that adapts "The War of the Worlds" and unfolds in the style of an episode of the History TV Channel. The film is an alternate history of World War I in which Europe and its allies, including America, fight the