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January 16:

Film releases

• 1912 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a horror film based on both Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and on the play version by Thomas Russell Sullivan

Television series

• 1965 - The Romans, a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, begins airing on BBC
• 1965 - The Outer Limits, an American science fiction television series, finishes airing on ABC
• 1978 - Logan's Run, a television series spin-off from the film of the same name, finishes airing on CBS after only 11 episodes
• 1995 - Star Trek: Voyager, a science fiction television series, begins airing on UPN

Births

• 1926 - Takumi Shibano (d. 2010), Japanese science fiction translator and author