Question: When does war of the worlds take place?

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question: When is the novel The War of The Worlds set?
short_answers: mid-1890s

context: The most famous, or infamous, adaptation is the 1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and directed by Orson Welles. The first two-thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a news bulletin, often described as having led to outrage and panic by listeners who believed the events described in the program to be real. In some versions of the story, up to a million people ran outside in terror. However, later critics point out that the supposed panic was exaggerated by newspapers of the time, seeking to discredit radio as a source of information or exploit racial stereotypes. According to research by A. Brad Schwartz, fewer than 50 Americans seem to have fled outside in the wake of the broadcast and it is not clear how many of them heard the broadcast directly.
question: When did the hysteria over the original radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds take place?
short_answers: Sunday, October 30, 1938

October 30, 1938

8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938

1938
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question: When does the 2005 Spielberg movie The War of the Worlds take place?
short_answers: present day

contemporary

context: In the spring of 2017, the BBC announced that in 2018 it would be producing an Edwardian period, three-episode mini-series adaptation of the Wells novel. The show debuted in the UK on 17 November 2019.
question: When does the 2019 British TV series The War of the Worlds take place?
short_answers: Edwardian period
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context: In 1953 came the first theatrical film of "The War of the Worlds", produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry.
question: When does the 1953 film The War of the Worlds take place?
short_answers: 1953
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Long answers:
knowledge: content: The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK 
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content: The War of the Worlds has been both popular (having never been out of print) and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a number of television series, and sequels or parallel stories by other authors. It was most memorably dramatised in a 1938 radio programme directed by and starring Orson Welles that allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the Martian invasion was fictional.
wikipage: The War of the Worlds

content: War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action film[2] directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, based on the 1897 novel by H. G. Wells. 
wikipage: War of the Worlds (2005 film)

content:  It is a retelling of the 1898 novel, changing the setting from Victorian era-England to 1953 southern California
wikipage: The War of the Worlds (1953 film)
long_answer: The science fiction novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is set in the mid-1890s. The novel has been both popular and influential, spawning half a dozen feature films, radio dramas, a record album, various comic book adaptations, a number of television series and sequels. It was memorably dramatized on Sunday, October 30,1938, in a radio program directed by and starring Orson Welles that allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the Martian invasion was fictional. In 1953 the first theatrical film of The War of the Worlds was produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin and starred Gene Barry. This film changed the setting of the Wells novel to 1953 Southern California. In the 2005 movie adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel directed by Steven Spielberg, The War of the Worlds is set in the present day. In 2019, the BBC produced an adaptation of the Wells novel as an Edwardian period, three-episode mini-series.