Tom What are the odds of a comet traveling millions of miles through space making a direct hit on Phoenix Arizona? Merlin Olson saves the day by hiding out in a sleeping bag! I first watched this movie when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I learned to never leave home without a sleeping bag.Campy and a bit sleepy. Classic 70's doomsday appeal.Overall good acting and a healthy number of Hollywood stars.Special effects were decent for a made for TV movie and to some extent holds up today.I highly recommend this movie, good 70's film.

mwstone-702-794940 I saw this on TV decades ago, and finally got a (home made?) DVD after a lot of searching.This movie seems to be in the "love it or hate it" category, and I am one of the lovers. It's probably my favourite among the "giant meteor impact" stories that were so popular a few years back. For me it avoids some of the worst faults of the genre. In particular, super-science doesn't come to the rescue at the eleventh hour. The powers that be try to nuke the comet, but they fail, as in real life they almost certainly would. There is the inevitable "failing marriage with adultery" angle, but at least it is made relevant to the plot. The woman frantically searching for her kids and husband does not find them. They have to meet up at the refugee camp after it's all over and they have come through it without her rescue. For my money, this is how it would really be - for those lucky enough to survive at all.There is, of course, always room for the odd gripe. Given the split-second timing required, would those nuclear warheads really be fired manually? All in all, though, I like it, and am saddened that it seems to have been passed over for a proper DVD. I wonder if that is precisely on account of the things that appeal to me. Perhaps the failure of "Yankee know-how" to save the city is uncomfortable to some. Still, it has my vote and I hope the omission will soon be rectified.

Vendor84 Most people probably won't believe this, but I was actually in this movie. I was an extra, from the 997th Aviation Company, AZ National Guard. I was the driver of a jeep for Col. Standers. I almost didn't get in the movie. I blew two takes, before the director accepted it..... :) I'm looking for a copy of the movie to share with family and friends that have never seen it. Columbia Pictures sent me a check for $25 and change after taxes. They called me for a speaking part that paid $600, but I wasn't able to make the commitment; a couple guys I knew did... and one was shot by a looter in the movie. There was another movie titled Fire In The Sky, about alien abduction in Arizona that my friends think of when I tell them about my part in the other one. I would like to do another flick someday with a small speaking part, but that probably won't happen............ :(

brodzik Hilarious attempt at a small-screen version of a big-screen disaster film, complete with ersatz astronomy, the impassioned pleas of the ignored and scoffed-at scientist, and mandatory death and scale-model destruction scenes. The hysterical nurse who rushes from the subterranean shelter only to be ripped from life by the wake of the comet impact scene is a definite must.Look for the definitive sequence of astronomical photographic plates that feature a parade 'o planets with the coment growing ominously bigger and closer in each shot.Crenna's ending smokin'-peyote-with-the-Pima-Indians as we watch the comet streak toward its mark is also "to die for."Scale modelers, arise against abuse by bad made-for-TV movies! Let's give it three meteors out of ten.