October 31, 1938: A radio play sends the entire U.S. into a panic that will reverberate across the headlines for weeks and make its creator notorious in entertainment history. And, just down the road, Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater is performing “The War of the Worlds.”

"Please Stand By" is the untrue story of that night and the events that led up to it, when world-famous actor and bitter Welles rival Oswald Reeves and his National Broadcasting Network company made a shambles of their own historic “live as it happened” performance of the alien attack that DIDN’T come from Mars. Directed by Denise Keplinger.