Invaders From Mars (audio Drama) - Trivia

Trivia

• Mark Benton played conspiracy theorist Clive in "Rose".
• The Invaders from Mars was the original title for the 1970 Third Doctor story, The Ambassadors of Death.
• In episode one, Houseman reads from the War of the Worlds radio play. Welles responds with: "Who wrote this crap? I certainly didn't write this crap." Houseman responds "You will, Orson, you will." This is a reference to a famous witticism by James McNeill Whistler, who said "You will, Oscar; you will" to Oscar Wilde when Wilde said "I wish I'd said that". This incident was dramatised in the "Oscar Wilde Sketch" in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
• The radio ventriloquist mentioned several times during the play is Edgar Bergen, who was performing that night on the competing NBC Red Network along with his dummy, Charlie McCarthy.
• Don Chaney's name is a reference to horror actor Lon Chaney, his nickname is "Phantom" which is a reference to one of Lon Chaney's most famous film roles, The Phantom of the Opera; Bix Biro's name is a reference to the Bic and Biro. Cosmo Devine may be reference to determining what is in space.
• Jessica Stevenson and Simon Pegg are the creators and stars of the television comedy Spaced. Stevenson also played Joan Redfern in two episodes of the 2007 series of Doctor Who (entitled "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood") as well as Verity Newman in "The End of Time", while Pegg appeared in "The Long Game" as well as being the narrator in the first series of Doctor Who Confidential.
• This is the first audio story to credit India Fisher as Charley on the front cover.
• Hadley Cantril's book on The War of the Worlds hoax was entitled Invasion From Mars, which is similar to the title of this story.