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Released
1978 · FILM

A Fire in the Sky

The countdown to annihilation has begun... And nothing on earth can stop it!

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Runtime
150 min
DramaScience FictionTV Movie

Synopsis

Astronomers identify a comet that they believe is on a collision course with Phoenix, Arizona. They try to alert government officials, but due to the lack of 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona hesitates to issue a public warning that might cause panic. When a television news reporter uncovers the information and threatens to broadcast it live, the authorities still respond in a manner that proves insufficient, leaving some Phoenix residents exposed to the impending disaster.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by J Terry WilliamsShot by Matthew F LeonettiScored by Paul ChiharaDesigned by Dale Hennesy

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