75 Years Ago, Last Night…Theater Of The Mind At It’s Best!

On October 31, 2013 - TV History


75 Years Ago, Last Night…Theater Of The Mind At It’s Best!

Although the ‘Mercury Theater Of The Air’ radio presentation lasted only an hour, it’s impact has lasted 75 years. Here is the Orson Wells radio adaptation of H.G. Wells ‘War Of The Worlds’ program in full.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzC3Fg_rRJM

On Halloween eve in 1938, the power of radio was on full display when a dramatization of the science-fiction novel “The War of the Worlds” scared the dayligh…

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7 Comments

  1. John Roger Bolin November 2, 2013

    Orson Wells was truly a genius.

  2. Dennis Degan November 1, 2013

    This morning, I went by the building where CBS once had their radio studios in the 1930’s, 485 Madison Ave. “The War of the Worlds” originated from Studio 1 on the 20th floor of this building: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/10611383724/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisdegan/10611616343/

  3. Leon Zetekoff October 31, 2013

    I enjoyed the recent pbs show.

  4. Steven Bradford October 31, 2013

    Truly one of the best publicity rewrite stunts ever: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/history/2013/10/orson_welles_war_of_the_worlds_panic_myth_the_infamous_radio_broadcast_did.html

  5. Bill Jenkin October 31, 2013

    This should be re-staged on twitter. It would be ideal to be re-created as a succession of tweets.

  6. Charlie King October 31, 2013

    I truly enjoyed the PBS Documentary on this.

  7. Art Hackett October 31, 2013

    CBS studio one did a live production of the broadcast and the aftermath in the early 50s. Parts of it were used in the PBS doc. Is that entire broadcast on line somewhere?