It was Halloween night 1938 when Orson Welles infamous radio play The War of the Worlds was broadcast to millions of Americans. Some listeners didn’t realize it was fictional, and thought that aliens were actually invading Earth, despite several notices that the broadcast was not real. The radio drama was based on the 1898 novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. The program was skinned as a breaking news broadcast, a very convincing one. The production was the 17th episode