Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 8
Film releases
- 2007 - Battle for Terra, a computer animated science fiction film
Television series
- 1964 The Reign of Terror, a serial in the Doctor Who series, begins airing on the BBC
- 1986 - Knight Rider, an American television series, finishes airing on NBC
Deaths
- 1984 - Walter Tevis (b. 1928), an American science fiction writer