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UFO Files/Beyond the War of the Worlds
| Beyond the War of the Worlds | |
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| Season 2 Episode 11 | |
| Airdate | November 21, 2005 |
| Written by | Susan Michaels, Rod Pyle |
| Directed by | Rod Pyle |
| Produced by | Rod Pyle |
| ← 2x10 Real UFOs |
2x12 → Texas' Roswell |
| UFO Files — Season Two | |
Beyond the War of the Worlds is the eleventh episode of the second season of UFO Files.
Narrator: Edward Herrmann (U.S. version), Mark Dexter (U.K. version)
Interviewees: Professor George Slusser (Curator, The Eaton Collection, UC Riverside), Stephen Fentress (Director, Strausenberg Planetarium), Simon P. Balm (Professor of Astronomy, Santa Monica College), Kevin J. Anderson (Author, The Martian War), Kevin Schindler (Lowell Observatory), Robert Skotak (Author), Derek Shannon (Astrobiologist), Dr. Mark Adler (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Michael Laponis (Professor of Communications, University of La Verne), Phil De Carlo (Listened to the 1938 Broadcast), George Keller, Ph.D. (Department Chair of Communications, University of La Verne), Norman Lloyd (Member of Orson Welles' "Mercury Theatre"), Jeff Wayne (Composer, Arranger & Producer)
Reenactors: Keith Bush (Orson Welles), Scott Forbes (), Ken Kramer (Percival Lowell), Jerry Marble (Radio Announcer), Jim Miller ()
Contents |
Overview
An exploration of the science fiction classic The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. The episode discusses the long history of the fascination mankind has had with the planet Mars that inspired H.G. Wells. After dissecting the book, the impact it had in popular culture is explored with a lengthy profile of the infamous 1938 radio dramatisation by Orson Welles. There are also other influences it had, including a musical version that spawned many adaptations of its own. Finally, a look is given at how science has further examined the red planet and how this has made clear the gulf between fiction and reality.
