Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/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