Cast Your Vote For the Finest Adaptation of Wells' "War of the Worlds"

Radio, 1938: Two-act adaptation by Howard Koch, performed on CBS by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air company

Film, 1953: Technicolor adaptation, scripted by Barre Lyndon and directed for George Pal by Byron Haskin, starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson

Music, 1978: Progressive "rock opera" composed and orchestrated by Jeff Wayne, starring Richard Burton

Television, 1988-1990: Paramount television series, duration 44 episodes, directed by George Bromfeld and others

Film, 2005: Directed by Steven Spielberg for Paramount and Dreamworks, starring Tom Cruise

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