"The War of the Worlds", the CBS Radio Network, 1938 Halloween episode, narrated and performed live by Orson Welles, incites a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place,
The scale of the panic is disputed by some, as the program had relatively few listeners. "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, was an adaptation, of H. G. Wells' 1898 novel of the same name, directed by Orson Welles, More