According Michael Biel, a historian on early radio recording, CBS didn't have facilities for recording broadcasts at the time of the "War of the Worlds" program. It is the copy made for the Mercury Theater's business files. The set is done on Presto branded lacquers with a painted green "Q" label, only used around the time of the original broadcast. I researched how "War of the Worlds" was originally recorded to authentic the set. I purchased it from the estate of the science fiction collector. He gave the set as a gift to Jimmy Star, a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and "Film Daily", at some point and a collector of science fiction memorabilia in Los Angeles got it from the reporter's estate. This lacquer set was originally owned by Mercury Theater's business manager, actor Paul Stewart, who appeared in "Citizen Kane" and many other films. This is the only existing original transcription set of the program that is fully complete from start to finish. For many years, the circulating copies of this broadcast, including commercial releases, were taken from a now-lost set of 16" discs that were missing some brief segments of material due to damage to the disc set. Although the "panic" created by the broadcast was over-hyped by newspapers, it did lead to regulations and policies preventing this type of "fake" newscast in the future and resulted in a contract with RKO for Welles.
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Part of a one hour sustaining series of dramas staged by Orson Welles's Mercury Theater for the CBS network, this program reimagined HG Wells's "War of the Worlds" as a contemporary news broadcast. Randy Riddle note: "The War of the Worlds" may be the most well-known broadcast from the Old Time Radio era.
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