Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/January/January 4

January 4:

Film releases
 * 1998 - Babylon 5: In the Beginning, a science fiction television movie set in the Babylon 5 fictional universe
 * 2002 - Impostor, an American science fiction film

Television series
 * 1982 - Castrovalva, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on BBC
 * 1985 - Street Hawk, an American science fiction action television series, begins airing on ABC
 * 2001 - RoboCop: Prime Directives, a cyberpunk/science fiction TV miniseries based on the 1987 film RoboCop, begins airing on Space

Deaths
 * 1936 - James Churchward (b. 1851), a British-born occult writer, patented inventor, engineer, and expert fisherman
 * 1990 - Robert Adams (b. 1933), an American science fiction and fantasy writer