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March 18:

Film releases
 * 1920 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a horror silent film based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and starring actor John Barrymore

Television series
 * 1981 - The Greatest American Hero, an American science fiction TV series, begins airing on ABC

Births
 * 1884 - Bernard Cronin (d. 1968), a British author and journalist

Deaths
 * 1978 - Leigh Brackett (b. 1915), an American science fiction author and screenwriter