Today on Discovery
Enterprise
we continue to commemorate the 75th
Anniversary of Orson Welles. War of the Worlds radio broadcast with the SciFi
Channel’s Seeing Ear Theatre
production of Orson the Alien! The Untold
Story Behind The War of the Worlds starring Star Trek’s Walter Koenig
(Chekov). This radio play was originally webcasted live from
New
York
's
Museum
of
TV
& Radio on
October 30th, 1998. The script was written by Terry Bisson, Brian Smith and
George Zarr.
Orson the Alien pays homage to the wicked imagination of Welles and company with an
alternate history of the series of events that transpired that magical night so
long ago. Seeing Ear Theatre asks, what if intelligences greater than our own
were indeed listening that night, from beyond our solar system? And, what if
they too believed the broadcasts to be authentic, what if they were good and
honest aliens, what if they felt obliged to travel to Earth to help save us
from the dreaded Martians? What then, Orson?
Now, without further adieu we present for your hearing
pleasure Orson the Alien! The Untold Story Behind The War of the Worlds.
