This show looks at mankind's fascination of the possible life on Mars and fear of alien invasion -- starting with the 1896 book The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, to the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles that panicked millions, to what spawned a little-known invasion panic in upstate New York in 1968.
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