On this day in radio history - The War of the Worlds (1938):

The War of the Worlds

directed by Orson Welles,

originally broadcast on CBS Radio, on October 30, 1938.
A one-hour dramatization, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
Written by Howard Koch.
Produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
Broadcast from 8 – 9 p.m. (ET)
Announced by Dan Seymour.
Hosted by the radio series: The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Narrated by Orson Welles.
Cast: Orson Welles, Frank Readick, Kenny Delmar, Ray Collins.

Born on this day – H. G. Wells:

H. G. Wells

Writer

September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946

Credits:

Books, short stories and screenplays:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Dream of Armageddon (1901); A Modern Utopia (1905); A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (1925); A Short History of the World (1922); A Story Of The Days To Come (1897); A Vision of Judgment (2022); A Volume of Journalism (1999); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); Aepyornis Island (2022); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors (1946); All Aboard for Ararat (1940); Amazing Stories, February 1929 (2014); An Englishman Looks at the World (1914); Ann Veronica (1909); Anticipations (1901); Apropos of Dolores (1938); Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930); Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940); Bealby: A Holiday (1915); Boon (1915); Boon, the Mind of the Race (1915); Brynhild (1937); Bulpington of Blup (1930); Certain Personal Matters (1897); Christina Alberta's Father (1925); Classic Martian Stories (2014); Classic Tales of Horror (2020); Collected Short Stories (2008); Contact: Stories of the New World (2013); Crux Ansata (1943); Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975); Elements of Reconstruction (1916); Experiment in Autobiography (1934); Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 (1984); First and Last Things (1908); Floor Games (1911); Frank Swinnerton (1975); God the Invisible King (1917); Great Classic Science Fiction (2010); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.G. Wells in Love (1934); In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories (1999); In the Days of the Comet (1906); In The Fourth Year (1918); Interviews and Recollections (1981); Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education (1918); Kipps (1905); Little Wars (1913); Little Wars and Floor Games (2006); Lost Mars (2018); Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899); Mankind in the Making (1903); Marriage (1912); Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady (1927); Men Like Gods (1923); Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945); Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928); Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916); Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898); Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1903); Mysterious Sea Stories (1987); New Worlds for Old (1908); Over the Rainbow (1983); Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1979); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences (1895); Star Begotten (1937); Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008); Tales of Space and Time (1899); Tales of the Occult (1989); Tales of the Weird and Supernatural (2011); Tales of Wonder (1910); The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories (2015); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002); The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells (2015); The Brothers (1938); The Camford Visitation (1937); The Campfire Collection (2003); The Chronic Argonauts (1888); The Complete Short Stories (1927); The Conquest of Time (1942); The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning (2002); The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 (1997); The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 (1997); The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 (1997); The Correspondence of H.G. Wells (1996); The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories (1909); The Croquet Player (1936); The Crystal Egg (1897); The Crystal Egg and Other Tales (1897); The Desert Daisy (1957); The Discovery of the Future (1902); The Door in the Wall (1906); The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories (2017); The Dream (1924); The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories (1977); The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man (1939); The First Men in the Moon (1901); The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894); The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904); The Future in America (1906); The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil (2008); The History of Mr Polly (1910); The Holy Terror (1939); The Invisible Man (1897); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896); The King Who Was a King (1929); The Magic Shop (1903); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898); The Man With a Nose (1984); The Martian Invasion of Earth (1898); The Moth and Other Stories (1962); The New Accelerator (2017); The New Machiavelli (1911); The New World Order (1939); The Obliterated Man (2022); The Outline of History (1919); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Passionate Friends (1913); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Plattner Story (1896); The Plattner Story and Others (1897); The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories (1941); The Red Room and Other Stories (2000); The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes (1895); The Research Magnificent (1915); The Salvaging of Civiization (1921); The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A (1973); The Science of Life (1929); The Sea Lady (1902); The Sea-Raiders (1897); The Secret Places of the Heart (1922); The Shape of Things to Come (1933); The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970); The Sleeper Awakes (1911); The Soul of a Bishop (1917); The Star (1897); The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1896); The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902); The Time Machine (1895); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); The Treasure in the Forest (1894); The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894); The Undying Fire (1919); The Valley of Spiders (1903); The War in the Air (1908); The War of the Worlds (1898); The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives (2005); The Wealth of Mr. Waddy (1969); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Wheels of Chance (1896); The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914); The Wonderful Visit (1895); The World of William Clissold (1926); The World Set Free (1914); Thirty Strange Stories (1897); This Misery of Boots (1907); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Tono-Bungay (1909); Twelve Stories and a Dream (1906); Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear (2016); Under the Knife (2022); War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War (1917); War Stories (1987); Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace (1922); What is Coming? (1916); When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes (1899); World Brain (1938); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); You Can't Be Too Careful (1941).

Album:

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978).

Movies and television:

A Brief History of Time Travel (2018); A Trip to the Moon (1902); Actor's Studio (1948); Alien Conquest (2021); Ancient Aliens (2022); Ann Veronica (1964); Armchair Theatre (1957); BBC Play of the Month (1966); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1952); BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935); Blue Bottles (1928); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Chapter 9 (2019); Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (2024); Christmas Tales (1990–1991); Cineficción Radio (2019); Das Land der Blinden oder Von einem der auszog (1976); Day-Dreams (1928); Dead of Night (1945); Deadly Tales (1998); Deadly Tales / Segment: Crystal Glazing (1998); Dr. Jekyll Meets the Invisible Man (1977); Dr. Moreau (2022); Empire of the Ants (1977); Endgame (2007); First Men in the Moon (1964); First Men on the Moon (2019); First Person (1960); Gemini Man (1976); Google and the World Brain (2013); Görünmeyen adam Istanbul'da (1955); H.G. Wells Comedies (1928); H.G. Wells: The Father of Science Fiction (2005); H.G. Wells's the Country of the Blind (2014); Half a Sixpence (1967); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); History's Mysteries (1999); How to Become a Tyrant (2021); How to Lose Weight (1986); Il giustiziere invisibile (1916); In Search of... (1982); Invisible Agent (1942); Island of Lost Souls (1932); Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds: Minigame Adventure / Video Game (2011); Jeff Wayne's the War of the Worlds (1998); Kipps (1921 / 1960); La cometa Naranja (1974); La femme invisible (2011); La merveilleuse visite (1974); La Venere d'Ille (1981); Let's Make a Musical (1977); Love and Mr Lewisham (1959 / 1972); Marriage (1927); Matinee Theatre (1957); Miss Winchelsea's Heart (2023); Mr. Paracelsus, Who Are You? (1966); Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (2023); Mutant League Football (1993); NASA's Unexplained Files (2019); Night of the Invisible Man (2009); Nová metoda malíre Smithe (1973); O Contador de Histórias (1955); Out of Place Podcast (2020); Overlap (2006); Parlez-moi de Vous (2023); Post Tenebras Lux (2017); Prophets of Science Fiction (2006); Riding with Death (1976); Siesta Z (2017); Spine Chillers (1980); Suspense (1963); Tales of Tomorrow (1951); Television Theater (1957); Terror Is a Man (1959); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Battle of Grovers Mill (2024); The Beautiful Suit by H.G. Wells (2022); The Button (1982); The Complete Citizen Kane (1991); The Door (2011); The Door in the Wall (1956 / 1990); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Empire Strikes Door (2019); The Erotic Time Machine (2002); The Final Redpill (2022); The First Men in the Moon (1919 / 1997 / 2010); The Food of the Gods (1976); The Golden Twenties (1950); The Greatest Canadian (2004); The History of Mr Polly (2007 / 1949 / 1959 / 1980); The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001); The Invisible Man (1933 / 1975 / 1984 / 1985 / 1998 / 2000 / 2015 / 2020); The Invisible Man / TV Series (1958–1959); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944); The Invisible Thief (1909); The Island of Doctor Agor (1971); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 / 1996); The Island of the Lost (1921); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Magic Shop (1980 / 1982); The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells (2022); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936); The Man Who Knew How to Work Miracles (1969); The New Adventures of the Time Machine (2000); The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016); The Passionate Friends (1922); The Passionate Friends (1949); The Red Room / Podcast Series (2024); The Red Room: A H.G. Wells Adaptation (2023); The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941); The Shape of Things to Come (1979); The Stolen Body by H.G. Wells (2022); The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (2023); The Time Machine (1949 / 1960 / 1978 / 1997 / 2002); The Tonic (1928); The Truth About Pyecraft (1959); The Twentieth Century (1961); The Twilight People (1972); The Unforeseen (1959); The UnXplained (2021); The War of the Worlds (1953 / 1967 / 2005 / 2014 / 2019); The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021); The War of the Worlds: Great Books (1994); The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981); The Wheels of Chance (1922); Theatre Fantastique (2017); They Forgot to Read the Directions (1924); Things to Come (1936); Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks (2011); Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Village of the Giants (1965); War of the Servers (2007); War of the Worlds (2005 / 2013 / 2019 / 2020); War of the Worlds (Is What It Is Theatre) (2001); War of the Worlds / TV Series (1988–1990); War of the Worlds / Video Game (1981); War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008); War of the Worlds the True Story (2012); War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012); We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) (2022); What Lies Beneath (2008); Wishbone (1995); World War Weird (2018); Your Favorite Story (1954).