A Fire in the Sky

TV Movie
1978
3h

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Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them.Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them.Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them.

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5.9/10

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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
The TV station in the movie, KTAR-TV, is the real life NBC affiliate for Phoenix, now known as KPNX.

Goofs
In the scenes from the control room for the rocket that will carry the nuclear warheads to the comet, a computer screen is shown with a graphic of what is presumably the rocket. Actually, the graphic on the screen is a distillation column connected to two kettle reboilers, commonly seen in control rooms for chemical processing plants.

Quotes
Jason Voight: You can't miss us, there's a big white arrow pointing right down on us!

Alternate versions
In the movie's premiere telecast, the sequence showing the impact and results lasted 4 minutes. In subsequent airings, the sequence was shortened to 2 minutes.

Connections
Featured in The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981)

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As a kid, I saw two movies in the late 70's about celestial bodies heading towards earth, A Fire In the Sky and Meteor. This movie was quite different from Meteor in premise alone. This was not about a collective effort to avert a disaster; it was about how to collectively get the hell out of town. Richard Crenna played Jason Voight, an astronomer who somehow knew that this desert metropolis was doomed the split second after the words were uttered from the Presidents mouth, as he explained to a group of scientist that the comet was probably heading for earth. Although this movie to me was extremely cheesy, over acted and sometime under acted, and you got to see down town Phoenix high-rises crumble one by one, I liked it. I would have to say that it is one of my GUILTY PLEASURES