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September 8:

Film releases
 * 1980 - Battle Beyond the Stars, a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film

Television series
 * 1965 - My Living Doll, an American comedy science fiction television series, finishes airing on CBS
 * 1966 - Star Trek, a science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, begins airing on NBC
 * 1973 - The Addams Family, an animated adaptation of the Charles Addams cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, begins airing on NBC
 * 1973 - My Favorite Martians, an American animated science fiction television series, begins airing on CBS
 * 1973  - Star Trek: The Animated Series, an  animated science fiction television series, begins airing on NBC
 * 1986 - Defenders of the Earth, an animated television series featuring characters from Flash Gordon, Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician, begins airing

Births
 * 1938 - Poornachandra Tejaswi (d. 2007), a prominent Kannada writer and novelist