War Of The Worlds

Released by arrangement with Manheim Fox Entreprises,Inc. The original broadcast that panicked the nation. The actual broadcast by The Mercury Theatre On The Air as heard over the Columbia Broadcasting System, October, 30 1938. The most thrilling drama ever broadcast from the famed Howard Koch script! An authentic first edition...never before released! Complete, not a dramatic word cut! Script by Howard Koch from the famous H.G. Wells novel...featuring the most famous performance from The Mercury Theatre On The Air! *This album has been electronically re-channeled to simulate stereo. Sleeve: 4001 Labels: SY 5241 Labels: LW 401 Parts of these recordings may contain some scratches or surface noise. This is not a defect of the recording, but the condition in which this transcription survived. The original discs were stored, borrowed, shuttled around or discarded. Only because of a variety of misplacement's, fortunate accidents and persistent collectors do these discs survive, and those that have done so can differ greatly as to quality and condition. The runouts of variants 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 (side A) and 6 are stamped except any numbers after T1, T2, or T4 are etched. The runouts of variant 4, 5 and 7 (side B) are etched. Variant 8 runouts: side A stamped, side B etched. B-side runout of variant with the "bird wings" indicates mastering by [a70778].