Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 12

January 12:

Film releases
 * 1996 - The Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, an American science fiction/horror film sequel to The Lawnmower Man

Television series
 * 1966 - Batman, an American comedic superhero series, begins airing on ABC
 * 1982 - Castrovalva, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, finishes airing on BBC

Deaths
 * 2000 - Marc Davis (b. 1913), a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios, one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films