TODAY IN TIME
Sunday August 9th, 2026
Happy 73rd Birthday Roberta Tovey!
Roberta Tovey, English actress, was born on this day in 1953.
Traveled as Susan in the films Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks Ð Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Happy 69th Birthday Melanie Griffith!
Melanie Griffith, American actress, was born on this day in 1957.
Traveled in the film Dino Time (2012)
On this day in 2002,
season 1 of Odyssey 5
episode 8: L.D.U. 7
was first broadcast.
Chuck, Kurt and Sarah (Leslie Silva) infiltrate a private high tech prison called Lock Down Unit 7 to find the convict who claims that the people he killed were synthetic replicas of his parents.
On this day in 2020,
season 2 of The Umbrella Academy
episode 10: The End of Something
was first broadcast.
Reeling from the events at Dealey Plaza, the siblings head to the farm to help save Harlan - only to find themselves drawn into a deadly showdown.
On this day in 2011,
season 2 of Auction Kings
episode 2: Delorean Time Machine; Speakeasy Piano
was first broadcast.
Paul Brown and the Gallery 63 crew go back to the future with a DeLorean Time Machine.
On this day in 2015,
season 1 of Best Friends Whenever
episode 5: A Time To Rob and Slam
was first broadcast.
When Shelby (Lauren Taylor)'s new lab partner, The Rob, can't stop being mean and annoying, the girls travel back in time to try and find out why he's such a jerk.
On this day in 2008,
the series Primeval
first aired.
Strange anomalies in time start to appear all over England, so Professor Cutter and his team have to help track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past. Starring Andrew Lee Potts.
On this day in 1979,
season 2 of Sapphire and Steel
episode 4: The Railway Station: Part 4
was first broadcast.
Steel continues to taunt the ghost of the solider but pauses when he finds Sapphire and Tully unconscious. Written by series creator Peter (P. J.) Hammond.
Winrich Kolbe, German-born American television director and producer, was born on this day in 1940 (and sadly passed away in 2012.)
Directed the TV series episodes Voyagers! "Voyagers of the Titanic" (1983), Star Trek: The Next Generation "All Good Things" (1994), Star Trek: Voyager "Eye Of The Needle" (1995), and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman "Tempus, Anyone?" (1996)
On this day in 2014,
Outlander
premiered.
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, created and written by Diana Gabaldon.
Happy 79th Birthday John Varley!
John Varley, American science fiction writer, was born on this day in 1947.
Wrote the thrilling airline time traveling short story "Air Raid" (1977), expanded into the novel Millennium (1983), and realized on film in his screenplay for Millennium (1989). He also authored the 2005 novel, Mammoth.
Happy 33rd Birthday Patricio Gallardo!
Patricio Gallardo, Mexican actor, was born on this day in 1993.
Traveled in the TV series 11-11 En mi cuadra nada cuadra (2013)
On this day in 2008,
season 1 of Primeval
episode 1: #1.1
was first broadcast.
Evolutionary zoologist Professor Nick Cutter has still not come to terms with the disappearance of his wife when he goes to the Forest of Dean with his friends Stephen Hart, an expert tracker and Connor Temple (Andrew Lee Potts) , an archaeology student and avid conspiracy theorist, to investigate reports of an animal at large there.
On this day in 2003,
season 2 of Starhunter
episode 1: Rebirth
was first broadcast.
The Tulip emerges from hyperspace after 15 years with Percy aboard. Dante (Michael Pare) is lost somewhere in time, but his son Travis, now a grown man, has taken up the bounty hunting profession.
Happy 53rd Birthday Kevin McKidd!
Kevin McKidd, Scottish television and film actor, director and occasional singer, was born on this day in 1973.
Traveled as Dan Vasser in 13 episodes of the TV series Journeyman (2007) and as Batman in the video Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Happy 46th Birthday Charlie David!
Charlie David, Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer, was born on this day in 1980.
Traveled as Zachary Wells in Judas Kiss (2011)
On this day in 1985,
My Science Project
first opened in theaters.
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity, in the action adventure film, My Science Project (1985), written and directed by Jonathan R. Betuel.
George DiCenzo, American character actor and one-time associate producer, died on this day in 2010 (and was born in 1940).
Traveled as Sam Baines in the film Back To The Future (1985), the video short Greatest Adventure Stories From the Bible: Joshua and the Battle of Jericho, the TV series Space Sentinels episode "The Time Traveler" (1977) and the TV series She:Ra Princess of Power episodes "The Time Transformer" and "Brigis" (1987)
On this day in 2014,
season 1 of Outlander
episode 1: Sassenach
was first broadcast.
A married British combat nurse (Caitriona Balfe) time-travels from World War II to 1743 Scotland, is kidnapped by Highlanders and tends to an injured young warrior.
John Stephenson, American film director, producer, writer, and actor, was born on this day in 1923 (and sadly passed away in 2015.)
Traveled as Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four episode "The Fantastic Four Meet Doctor Doom" (1978)
Happy 88th Birthday Burton Gilliam!
Burton Gilliam, American actor, was born on this day in 1938.
Traveled in the TV movies The Girl The Gold Watch and Everything (1980), and The Girl The Gold Watch, and Dynamite (1981), the film Back To The Future III (1990), and the TV series Weird Science episode "The Legend of Brick Wallace" (1995)
Happy 70th Birthday Adam Nimoy!
Adam Nimoy, American television director, was born on this day in 1956.
Directed the Sliders episode, The Guardian (1996) and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Timescape (1993).
Happy 58th Birthday Gillian Anderson!
Gillian Anderson, American-English film, television and theatre actress and activist, was born on this day in 1968.
Traveled as Fox Mulder in the TV series The X-Files episodes "Synchrony" (1997), "Triangle" and "Dreamland II" (1998), "Monday" (1999), "Requiem" (2000), Redrum (2000) and "4-D" (2001), and in the film I'll Follow You Down (2014)



























