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War of the Worlds

Lux Radio Theatre · February 8, 1955 · 59 min · 6,839 words

The transcript of “War of the Worlds”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast February 8, 1955. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Lux presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux, Tyletsaw, brings you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Dana Andrews and Pat Crowley in War of the Worlds. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings.

Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we are going to take a look into a possible frightening future, as though the present weren't bad enough, and see what might happen if our Earth were invaded by another planet.

It's George Powell's production for Paramount, War of the Worlds, and our stars are Dana Andrews and Pat Crowley. They will join me later for a preview of George Powell's latest production for Paramount, Conquest of Space.

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All over the world, in London, in Paris, in Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne, New York, and San Francisco, the terrible invasion began to collapse. The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere, to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came

swiftly. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and mankind saved by the littlest thing which God in his wisdom had put upon this earth. In a moment our stars will return.

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