Anyone else caught it last night? If you want a copy of WotW, or any other old time radio show, send me a PM with your email address, and I'll try to hook you up

Here is Wikipedia's comment on the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds".

"The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.

The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a "sustaining show" (it ran without commercial breaks), adding to the program's realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated.

In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage and panic by certain listeners who believed the events described in the program were real. The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast. The episode secured Welles's fame."


I would think that most of us have it on various media that we can listen to it on, but if not here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

The folks, who tuned in late fell for it.

Here's a shot of Orson. Heck, he kind of looks like DANTE:



p.s. Does anybody have Ramón Raquello and his orchestra's music? Was Ramom Raquello and his orchestra real, or something that Orson Welles just made up?

p.p.s. Anyone with half a brain should have known that because of the distance between Mars and Earth, that the the Martian spaceships could never have gotten here in the time frame the radio broadcast suggested.

Here's a shot of Orson. Heck, he kind of looks like DANTE:

Do you still have that video of the deaf guy who looked REALLY like me? That was freaky as all hell. I asked my mom if I had a brother I didn't know about.