Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/August/August 8

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