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
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave survives the infection, and the humans celebrate while listening to the radio, which undergoes some static interference, indicating a third invasion, and the characters spend a few moments in silence before the film ends. Blu-Ray.com gave the movie 1.5 stars of out 5, finding that while movie opens well, it quickly falls apart, becoming a jumbled mess of a movie. "War of the Worlds 2" is notably different in tone to its predecessor. While "War of the Worlds" kept relatively faithful to the novel with a focus on realism and humanity rather than the aliens themselves, "War of the Worlds