UNDATED (AP) -- Martians will land again Friday night. Seventy-one years ago Orson Welles pulled a fast one on his radio audience. It was his idea of a pre-Halloween joke. He and his Mercury Theater on the Air altered H.G. Wells' classic "The War of the Worlds" to make it sound like an urgent news broadcast, reporting that Martians were landing on Earth.
Now, to mark the anniversary, a recording of the broadcast will be streamed Friday night on the Internet at
waroftheworldstribute.com. It starts at the same moment across the country: 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Central, 6 p.m. Mountain and 5 p.m. Pacific.
The "War of the Worlds" broadcast is being sponsored by the producers of an upcoming Zac Efron movie called "Me and Orson Welles."
