The Golden Age of Radio presents a Halloween special when it meets at 1 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Fountain Hills Community Center.

“War of the Worlds” was the Halloween episode for the radio drama series “The Mercury Theatre on the Air.”

When CBS aired this adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel on October 30, 1938, the broadcast caused widespread fear and panic throughout the country, according to a press release.

The resulting tumult and notoriety made Orson Welles an international celebrity and prompted the Campbell Soup company to sponsor the program as “The Campbell Playhouse.”

Golden Age of Radio will replay this most famous broadcast in radio history in its entirety as a special Halloween treat.

Many classic radio programs are archived in the Golden Age of Radio’s Bruce Florence Library, an extensive collection of timeless radio broadcasts on records, cassette tapes and CDs.

Membership in the Community Center is required to attend meetings of the Golden Age of Radio. For more information, contact Bill Whittaker at 480-837-7961 or the Community Center at 480-816-5200.

From the twilight of the Jazz Age to the dawn of the Space Age, The Golden Age of Radio celebrates the reign of our first electronic medium, the then-modern miracle that brought news, entertainment and information into homes throughout a significant period of history.