Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 15

January 15:

Television series

• 1968 – The Man from U.N.C.L.E., an American spy-fi television series, finishes airing on NBC
• 1995 – Get Smart, a short-lived sequel to the original Get Smart television series, begins airing on FOX

Births

• 1935 – Robert Silverberg, an American science fiction and fantasy author

Deaths

• 1992 – Hari Rhodes (b. 1932), an African-American actor who had a pioneering role portraying a black member of an exploration team on an episode of The Outer Limits in 1964, predating Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
• 2005 – Walter Ernsting (b. 1920), a German science fiction and fantasy author