Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars vs The Night That Panicked America

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.8/10 for The Night That Panicked America). Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars is the shorter watch at 1h 2m compared with 1h 32m. The Night That Panicked America is the older of the two (1975 against 2009). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars posterDoctor Who: The Waters of Mars2009 VS The Night That Panicked America posterThe Night That Panicked America1975
Doctor Who: The Waters of MarsThe Night That Panicked America
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 6.8/10
Year20091975
Length1h 2m1h 32m
GenresAdventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, TV MovieDrama, TV Movie
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorGraeme HarperJoseph Sargent
Main castLindsay Duncan, David Tennant, Gemma Chan, Michael Goldsmith, Sharon Duncan-BrewsterRon Rifkin, Tom Bosley, John Ritter, Eileen Brennan, Cliff DeYoung

Synopsis

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.

The Night That Panicked America

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

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