Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/September/September 8
Film releases
- 1980 - Battle Beyond the Stars, a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film
Television series
- 1965 - My Living Doll, an American comedy science fiction television series, finishes airing on CBS
- television series created by Gene Roddenberry, begins airing on NBC
- The Addams Family, an animated adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, begins airing on NBC
- 1973 - My Favorite Martians, an American animated science fiction television series, begins airing on CBS
- 1973 - television series, begins airing on NBC
- Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician, begins airing
Births
- 1938 - Poornachandra Tejaswi (d. 2007), a prominent Kannada writer and novelist