Harold King

Who is Harold King?

Harold Raymond King, Jr., also known as Hal King, was an American author and journalist known for his 1975 novel Paradigm Red, which became the 1977 NBC television movie Red Alert.

The film version of the novel, made at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, stars William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau, and Ralph Waite, then at the peak of his success on CBS's The Waltons. In the story line, a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives false information of a radiation leak. The crew is trapped inside the compound.