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The martians are coming – to Torquay

Summary by Times News Group
THE Torquay Theatre Troupe invites audiences to step back in time this June to one of the most infamous nights in broadcasting history. It’s Halloween night, 1938. In a New York radio studio, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air are about to unleash pandemonium on an unsuspecting nation. Their broadcast of The War of the Worlds, a dramatisation of H.G. Wells’ alien invasion novel, sent thousands of Americans into genuine panic, floodi…
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Times News Group broke the news on Thursday, May 28, 2026.
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