\"Studio One in Hollywood\" The Night America Trembled

On October 30| 1938| Orson Welles' Mercury Players performed a radio play version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Some people in the unsuspecting public took thebroadcast as a real report about a Martian invasion. In this television play of twenty years later| several fictional storylines present the story of the 1938broadcast and the panic it caused. Edward R. Murrow| as himself| provides short narrative bridges between scenes. The fun includes watching the young extras for asurprising number of faces that will later range from the familiar to the famous.