Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 4

January 4:

Film releases

• 1998 - Babylon 5: In the Beginning, a science fiction television movie set in the Babylon 5 fictional universe
• 2002 - Impostor, an American science fiction film

Television series

• 1982 - Castrovalva, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on BBC
• 1985 - Street Hawk, an American science fiction action television series, begins airing on ABC
• 2001 - RoboCop: Prime Directives, a cyberpunk/science fiction TV miniseries based on the 1987 film RoboCop, begins airing on Space

Deaths

• 1936 - James Churchward (b. 1851), a British-born occult writer, patented inventor, engineer, and expert fisherman
• 1990 - Robert Adams (b. 1933), an American science fiction and fantasy writer