Classic Radio for October 30, 2023 - The War of the Worlds, Wells meets Welles, and Lum is cured

“Martian Cylinders are falling all over the country”

We look at the happenings of October 30

Then The Mercury Theater of the Air presentation of the War of the Worlds by HG Wells starring Orson Welles, originally broadcast October 30, 1938, 85 years ago. The most famous radio show of all time. Mars invades New Jersey.

Then from almost 2 years later to the day, October 28, 1940, both H G Wells and Orson Welles were in San Antonio Texas and met on radio station KTSA and discussed, among other things, the adaptation.

Finally an episode of Lum and Abner, originally broadcast October 30, 1941, 82 years ago. Prince Ali Kush "cures" Lum of his broken leg, but...

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