Jan 29, 2021

Held back from its initial holiday release in 1963, Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, made its debut on this day in 1964. Find out how Stanley Kubrick took the threat of nuclear annihilation and made it funny. But also serious. But also funny.

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Jan 28, 2021

An iconic sound, produced by an instrument with a sci-fi name, made its soundtrack debut in The Bionic Woman episode "The Martians are Coming" on this day in 1978. Find out what a "blaster beam" is and how it became an indelible part of sci-fi history.

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Jan 27, 2021

The demands of passionate Battlestar Galactica fans were answered when ABC launched a sequel to the epic space adventure. Would the Earth-bound Galactica 1980 fire on all thrusters when it launched on January 27? 

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Jan 26, 2021

In a dystopian future, an everyman is the contestant on a gameshow where the other players are trying to kill him. If that sounds like "The Running Man," it does, but the story origins are complicated. "Le Prix du Danger" predated that film by four years though, and was released on this day in 1983.

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Jan 25, 2021

The keys to the Star Wars kingdom were handed over to producer/director JJ Abrams on January 25, 2013. Like a womp rat in the cross hairs of a T-16, Abrams was the target of speculation and scrutiny by fans all over the world.

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