Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 20
Television series
- 1959 - Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, an American horror, mystery, science fiction, and drama television series created by Merwin Gerard, begins airing on ABC
Deaths
- 1975 - Edna Mayne Hull (b. 1905), a science fiction writer (under the name E. Mayne Hull) and first wife of author A. E. van Vogt