Video: 'WKRP in Cincinnati S01E07 Turkeys Away'
(Monday, October 30, 1978, 8:00-8:30 p.m. EST) — Mr. Carlson puts on a Thanksgiving promotion involving turkeys tossed from a helicopter at a shopping mall on tonight’s episode of the CBS situation comedy television series WKRP in Cincinnati. Continue reading ‘Turkeys Away’ episode airs on ‘WKRP in Cincinnati ‘ 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 30 1978)
Video: 'War Of The Worlds - Original 1938 Radio Broadcasts (2011 Remastered Version)'
(Halloween Eve, Sunday, October 30, 1938, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST) — A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of listeners throughout the nation tonight when a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s 1898 novel “The War of the Worlds” led people to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading widespread death and destruction in New Jersey and New York. Continue reading ‘War of the Worlds’ radio broadcast causes panic 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 30 1938)
