Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/March/March 8
Film releases
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Hellraiser series
- 2002 - The Time Machine, an American science fiction film loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1895 novel of the same name
Television series
- science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on the BBC
- television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology, begins airing on ABC
- The CW
Births
- Jewish-American literary critic, editor, and anthologist
- science fiction writer
Anniversaries and events
- 1978 – BBC Radio 4 transmitted the first episode of English author and dramatist Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.