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===TV and radio=== The 1938 [[Orson Welles]] radio broadcast of ''[[The War of the Worlds (radio)|The War of the Worlds]]'', is set partly in nearby [[Grover's Mill, New Jersey|Grover's Mill]], and includes a fictional professor from Princeton University as a main character, but the action never moves directly into Princeton. The 1980 television miniseries ''[[Oppenheimer (TV miniseries)|Oppenheimer]]'' is partly set in Princeton. [[George Lucas]]'s ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles|Young Indiana Jones]]'' television series, a spin-off of the ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' film franchise, showcases Princeton in three episodes. Princeton is the hometown of the main character, [[archaeologist]] and adventurer [[Indiana Jones (character)|Indiana Jones]], whose father, [[Henry Jones, Sr.]] is a university professor. Princeton features prominently in the episodes "Spring Break Adventure" and "Winds of Change," though the Princeton scenes were actually filmed in [[Wilmington, North Carolina|Wilmington]] and [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]], [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0250198/ |title=The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure |work=IMDb |access-date=November 28, 2023 |date=1999 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TheRaider.net - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |url=http://www.theraider.net/films/young_indy/chapter_19.php |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=www.theraider.net}}</ref> The TV show ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' was set in Princeton, at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and establishing shots for the hospital display the [[Frist Campus Center]] of [[Princeton University]]. The actual University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro opened on May 22, 2012, exactly one day after the finale of ''House'' aired.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.princetonhcs.org/phcs-home/whats-happening/phcs-news--information/phcs-news.aspx/d=5793/title=university-medical-center-of-princeton-at-plainsboro-welcomes-first-patients-to-new-hospital|title=PHCS News|access-date=October 9, 2012|archive-date=July 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723112123/https://www.princetonhcs.org/phcs-home/whats-happening/phcs-news--information/phcs-news.aspx/d=5793/title=university-medical-center-of-princeton-at-plainsboro-welcomes-first-patients-to-new-hospital|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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