A Fire in the Sky
(1978)
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A FIRE IN THE SKY
120 Minute Drama
Science Fiction

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1978

BROADCASTER
NBC

SEASONS / EPISODES
TV Movie

Twenty years before the movies went asteroid mad with Armageddon and Deep Impact, this 1978 NBC TV movie was following the same route with a story about a large rock heading towards Earth at great speed.

By a strange coincidence, Michael Biehn (Terminator) appeared in both this and the awful Asteroid mini-series in the late 1990s.
Novelisations
A Fire in the Sky

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A Fire in the Sky cover image
by Walter Kendrick
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Tempo
  • 1978
Back Cover Blurb
ASTRONOMER JENNIFER DREISER DISCOVERED IT...
WHO CAN STOP IT...?

A FIRE
IN THE
SKY

A TERRIFYING NOVEL OF COSMIC DESTRUCTION!

A fiery comet, hurtling through space, is on a collision course with Earth. Upon impact everything within a radius of one hundred miles of the exploding comet will disintegrate.

Jason Voight, an astronomer and Sharon Allan, a TV station owner, incensed by the politicians' demands to stifle this news, are determined to alert the uninformed population of Phoenix, Arizona to the impending, inevitable doom that awaits them!

Only eight days remain to evacuate the city...or die!
Notes
  • The book includes eight pages of colour photographs in the centre.