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The War of the Worlds - 1938 Radio Broadcast

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« on: October 30, 2007, 10:42:32 am »

Since at least the 1970s, the Los Angeles CBS affiliate radio station, KNX (1070 AM), re-broadcasts the radio program every year on Halloween and in 2006 the Florida, NY based independent radio station WTBQ (1110 AM) planned a broadcast on Halloween using a slightly modified script with local actors.

On September 9, 1957, CBS' prestigious live television program, Studio One, opened its tenth season with Nelson Bond's The Night America Trembled, the first dramatization of the public panic to the radio adaptation of Wells' novel. The hour-long production was narrated by Edward R. Murrow and featured such future stars as Ed Asner, James Coburn, Warren Oates, and Warren Beatty.

A 1975 television film for ABC, Howard Koch and Nicholas Meyer's The Night That Panicked America, also dramatizes the public's panicked reaction to the broadcast but comes across as a fairly standard disaster movie (albeit one in which the disaster is assumed rather than actual). The production included Vic Morrow, Meredith Baxter, Michael Constantine, John Ritter, Will Geer, and Tom Bosley.

The script was also updated and broadcast by PBS on the 50th anniversary of the original radio play in 1988. It starred Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Douglas Edwards, Scott Simon and Terry Gross and was nominated for a Grammy Award[1]

In 1994 the L.A. Theater Works' The Play's the Thing and KPCC rebroadcast the original radio play before a live audience, featuring actors from the various Star Trek television shows, including Leonard Nimoy, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, and Armin Shimerman. John de Lancie served as the director.

Recordings of the broadcast are still available (see old-time radio).

On October 31, 2002, radio show host Glenn Beck did a live version as well in honor of the drama on Halloween.

XM Satellite Radio has broadcast an updated version in recent years titled "Not From Space", in which Microsoft's Bill Gates is one of the Martians. The original 1938 broadcast is also aired each Halloween on XM's Radio Classics channel.

In 2004, a local teenager of Kelowna, B.C. was able to convince Oldies AM 1150 to broadcast the original show during Halloween as a special program for radio listeners.

Every year around Halloween since 2005, students from WXOU radio (at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI) perform the radio drama live. It was begun by WXOU host Richard Luzenski on his film music program 'Cinema Serenade'.

Beginning in 2006, Three Eagles Communications station, Star 106, KLSS (106.1 FM), will broadcast the radio program on Halloween in Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota beginning at 6 p.m. central time.

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