Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/March/March 8
Film releases
- 1978 - The Return of Captain Nemo, a science fiction TV movie directed by Alex March and Paul Stader and loosely based on characters and settings from Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- 1996 - Hellraiser: Bloodline, the fourth film in the Hellraiser series
- 2002 - The Time Machine, an American science fiction film loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1895 novel of the same name
Television series
- 1969 - The Space Pirates, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on the BBC
- 1999 - Strange World, an American medical science fiction television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology, begins airing on ABC
- 2008 - The Spectacular Spider-Man, an American animated series, begins airing on The CW
Births
- 1917 - Leslie Fiedler (d. 2003), a Jewish-American literary critic, editor, and anthologist
- 1980 - Wallace West (b. 1900), an American science fiction writer
Anniversaries and events
- 1978 – BBC Radio 4 transmitted the first episode of English author and dramatist Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other media formats.
- 1985 - Newtype, an anime and film industry magazine, is launched in Japan