Hallowe’en 1938. A yr after a secret meteorite lit up the skies of New York state, Martian invaders laid waste to the nation. At least, relating to soon-to-be infamous Orson Welles they do. But what if a number of the panicked listeners to the famous War from the Worlds transmit weren’t simply imagining things? Attempting to deliver Charley to her rendezvous in Singapore 1930, the Doctor overshoots just a little, arriving in Manhattan simply in time to find a dead private detective. Indulging his gumshoe fantasies, the physician is quickly embroiled in the search for a missing Russian scientist whilst Charley discovers herself susceptible to a very dubious Fifth Columnist. With some sincerely out of this world ‘products’ at stake, the TARDIS team are forced into an alliance using a sultry dame called Glory Bee, Orson Welles himself and a mobster with half a nose known as ‘The Phantom’. And gradually, something is drawing plans against them. Not very good types…