Biiig yawn for this one.

As other reviews say, good ideas here (using the War of the Worlds broadcast to pretend there's already an alien force invading Earth, the Doctor and Charley pretending to be PIs, NYC gangsters in general), but the execution was lackluster. I started writing an outline of the plot here and just deleted it because so many threads just go nowhere and it's confusing, and the end is unsatisfying. Charley is kidnapped and questioned with a truth serum, and just doesn't get to do much else. The Doctor unwittingly helps a Russian spy, and then comes up with the second fake broadcast*, which doesn't quite work. The random Russian scientist guy who we thought died in part 2 saves the day with a... homemade atomic bomb? Alright.

I did like the performances for Welles and Devine. That's pretty much all I can say.

*read with Pippin's intonation of "second breakfast"