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Matthew Porter and Ian Porter
In each episode of the Inter-Millennium Media Project, Matthew Porter (@byMatthewPorter) and his son Ian Porter (@ItemCrafting) explore a TV show, movie or other artifact from Matthew's youth. What stands the test of time? What doesn’t? And what's still worth binging in the new millennium? Son learns what made Dad ... whatever he is today. And Dad learns what Son thinks of all this. What's the fun in having a kid if you can't warp his mind? New shows come out every other Monday. Questions? Comments? Topic suggestions? You can get in touch with us on Twittter (https://twitter.com/immpcast), Discord (https://discord.gg/6fdJuQc), or on our Contact page (https://www.immproject.com/contact). Do you like the show? Please consider supporting on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/IMMProject). (Music by Jason Aro / Pond5)
Our 2023 Summer Road Trip season wraps up with a beloved car movie out on Swinging England of 1969: THE ITALIAN JOB!
The IMMP Summer Road Trip continues with a 1977 classic about an intrepid truck driver (Jerry Reed), with his buddy (Burt Reynolds) and his buddy's sudden new girlfriend (Sally Field) hauling bootleg beer one step ahead of the law (Jackie Gleason). It's SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT!
Summer is time for road trips. And for the IMMP that starts with the odd, stylish 1976 action comedy THE GUMBALL RALLY.
This week Ian takes over to show Matthew the 2003 direct-to-DVD movie BIONICLE: THE MASK OF LIGHT, which turns into a discussion of all things related to Lego's BIONICLE, a saga that extended beyond the toy line it was created to support.
The IMMP's final Harryhausen Month comes to a close with the final film of Ray Harryhausen's career: the 1981 epic of Greek mythology CHASH OF THE TITANS.
A bonus show from the Patreon feed: Of course Ian and Matthew had to see the 2023 DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie. But what about the first one, from 2000? They watched both!
It's June, and at the IMMP that means Ray Harryhausen Month! This year, as we near the end of Harryhausen's filmography, we enter the realm of swords, sandals and Olympian gods with the 1963 epic JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.
More than two decades before Peter Jackson made the world believe that New Zealand is Middle Earth, animator Ralph Bakshi gave us an ambitious and deeply weird adaptation of Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Or the first half, at least.
Tricksey hobbitses! In this episode Ian and Matthew discuss Matthew's junior high Tolkien obsession, and specifically the 1977 Rankin Bass animated version of THE HOBBIT.
For Halloween 2022, our Frankenstein theme wraps up with one of the stranger, and most beloved, takes on classic monster tropes: the 1960s TV sitcom THE MUNSTERS.
After the 1931 Universal Adaptation of FRANKENSTEIN -- 43 years after -- Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder revisited the material with ... a parody? A sequel? Both? Something more? Ian and Matthew try to figure it out as they talk about YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
As Halloween approaches once again, we return to the Universal Pictures monster movie canon to talk about the 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN.
The Millennial Strikes Back! Ian takes over the podcast to share the most influential show from his youth: HOMESTARRUNNER.COM
For our special 100th episode, Ian and Matthew discuss the first anime Matthew ever saw: GIGANTOR! Recorded live at Nan Desu Kan 2022 in Aurora, Colorado.
For late August 2022, Matthew chose to show Ian the 70s sci-fi feature LOGAN'S RUN. For reasons that will become clear.
The poster does its best to give the game away: "UNWITTINGLY, HE TRAINED A DOLPHIN TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." It doesn't bother to mention that he also taught the dolphin to talk. Ian and Matthew discuss the 1973 marine biology techno thriller (!?) THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN.
It's the height of the summer, and for many that means memories of summer camp. Or summer camp movies like MEATBALLS from Bill Murray, Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis.
From the depths of space comes a message of peace...or else. Matthew and Ian discuss the 1951 movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.
The IMMP sets sail with Captain Sinbad! Three different Sinbads,as a matter of fact: THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1958) THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973) and SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977)
Giant bees! Giant Chickens! GIANT ENEMY CRAB! Ray Harryhausen takes on Jules Verne in the 1961 adventure MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.
Our H.G. Wells month wraps up with the 1964 movie FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. Space cops. Victorian slapstick. Thrilling conflict with a non-human menace. How many movies did they fit into this movie?
H.G. Wells month continues (continued? will continue?) with George Pal's 1960 version of The Time Machine.
A bonus show from our special Patreon feed: Something New to Watch! Ian and Matthew went out to see the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nicholas Cage and Pedro Pascal. That was…an experience. And Matthew feels targeted.
In 1898 H.G. Wells imagined a war between the people of Earth advanced invaders from Mars. Since then storytellers have re-envisioned this conflict for their own times. One of these was George Pal, whose 1953 movie became a generation's iconic depiction of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. How does that mid-century version hold up seventy years later?
Brave knights, weapons ready, armor made fast, ride into battle astride their mighty...motorcycles. Can a code of chivalry survive on a carny circuit? Ian and Matthew explore this and more as they discuss George A. Romero's KNIGHTRIDERS.
Knights in shining armor. A mythic sword conferring the power to unite a kingdom. A manic mage. Ian and Matthew talk about John Boorman’s Arthurian epic EXCALIBUR.
Following up on our Streets of San Francisco show, Ian takes over to talk about the spiritual descendant of Quinn Martin and the best American animated series you may have never seen: Disney's middle-school police procedural FILLMORE!
Tonight’s episode: our first QUINN MARTIN PRODUCTION! A young Michael Douglas and a seasoned Karl Malden solve crime on THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
1984's ROMANCING THE STONE was a hit that surprised even its own studio. So what could they do but make a sequel to release the very next year? Ian and Matthew find out whether 1985's THE JEWEL OF THE NILE lives up to the original.
Valentine's Day is almost here! And what's more romantic than murder, theft, kidnapping, crocodiles, and movie stars in the jungle? Ian and Matthew find out as they discuss the 1984 feature ROMANCING THE STONE.
In 1981 John Carpenter and Kurt Russell showed us how bad things could be in 1997: the USA, Russia, and China at war, while the United States Police Force maintains Manhattan Island as one big prison. How does this all play in 2022? Ian and Matthew discuss ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK!
Ian and Matthew were not able to record a show this week, so we dug into the Patreon archives to assemble a special episode. Sonic the Hedgehog from the 2020 movie, or Harvey the giant invisible rabbit from the classic Jimmy Stewart movie: Choose your sassy animal companion!
Just in time for New Year's, the IMMP Holiday in Space ends with a saga starring Keir Dullea as an adventurous young man navigating physical and existential perils aboard a dangerous spacecraft with a faulty computer. So sure, it's kind of like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. But it's not. It's the 1973 Canadian TV series THE STARLOST.
The IMMP Holiday In Space continues! Maybe 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY didn’t need a sequel. But it got one. So Ian and Matthew are back to discuss the 1984 film 2010: THE YEAR ME MAKE CONTACT.
In the year 1968, Stanley Kubrick offered a vision of what life would be like in the year 2001. And that vision was "very bright, very glossy, very high tech, very trippy." This week the IMMP addresses 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
From our Patreon bonus feed: We followed our recent reading of the novel DUNE with a special Something New To Watch show about the Denis Villeneuve movie. Hope you enjoy!
Mystery and romance with some "will they or won't they?" tension. There was a lot of that in 80s TV. Where did it start? Some would say right here, with Pierce Bronson and Stephanie Zimbalist starring in REMINGTON STEELE.
There are so many James Boned movies to choose from, so we decided to start with the first one Matthew saw in a theater: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME starring Roger Moore as James Bond 007.
Continuing the Spooky Castle theme begun with DRACULA, the podcast looks at a unique, surreal French film that is simultaneousy weird, creepy and romantic. It's Jean Cocteau's 1946 film LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Beauty and the Beast).
He had style, he had game, and he was starting a new life in England. Well, except for the "life" part. IMMP's Halloween 2021 kicks off with the first of the legendary Universal monster movies: DRACULA starring Bela Lugosi.
Ten thousand years in the future, as a galactic empire is wracked by conflict over control of the most precious resource in the universe, grownups and teenagers still fail to understand one another. Yes, there's more to it. Find out just how much as Ian and Matthew discuss Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpiece, DUNE.
This 1977 movie gave us mysterious visitations, government cover-ups, a sense of wonder, and the template for 1980s Spielberg. Ian and Matthew talk about CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND.
Science fairs are fun. Wouldn't they be more fun with working nuclear weapons? John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon and John Mahoney find out in 1986's THE MANHATTAN PROJECT.
Following up on Wargames, Ian and Matthew talk about a 1970 movie in which a scientist creates a supercomputer to protect mankind from nuclear war -- and succeeds! Sounds happy, doesn't it? It's not. It's COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT.
DON'T TAKE THE MEN OUT OF THE PODCAST LOOP. Instead listen to Ian and Matthew talk about 1983's WARGAMES starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin.
POKÉMON 3: THE MOVIE. Or POKÉMON THE MOVIE 3. Or SPELL OF THE UNOWN: ENTEI. Or... listen, this movie has a lot of titles. But we’re here to find out what it meant to Ian, and why. And does it still hold up?
Harryhausen Month continues with a look at two of his more concrete sci fi movies: EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS and 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH.
June is Ray Harryhausen Month! Ian and Matthew celebrate Ray Harryhausen's 101st birthday with a look at two of his earliest movies: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS and IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA.
H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror gets a 70s-hippie-sex-magic take in this Roger Corman-produced version of THE DUNWICH HORROR.
Matthew has shown Ian Bill Murray in Stripes. And Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. And now, Bill Murray in ... an adaptation of a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It's finally time for Ian to learn his Dad's complicated relationship with The Razor's Edge.
Matthew was enthralled by the film when it premiered in 1984, but Ian has never known a world without GHOSTBUSTERS and the sprawling franchise it launched. How will this affect the spirit in which they view the original movie?
Some say love is destined to transcend the bounds of time. How about a movie? What will Ian think of Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer in the 1980 time travel romance SOMEWHERE IN TIME?
Andy Griffith has played a lot of roles, but to Matthew he'll always be Harry Broderick, the junk man with dreams of the moon in 1979's SALVAGE 1.
Last episode, Matthew introduced Ian to the album STOP MAKING SENSE by Talking Heads. Now it's time to complete the picture with full the concert film.
A groundbreaking album from the groundbreaking movie by a groundbreaking band. With so much broken ground, will Matthew have a place to stand as he introduces this to Ian?
Long before Wandavision gave us its take on a magical being trying to make a home in the American suburbs, viewers were entertained by Wanda and Vision's forebears, Darrin and Samantha Stevens of Bewitched. In this episode of the IMMP Matthew introduces Ian to the show, and Ian powers through his allergy to sitcoms long enough to dive way too deeply into its magic system, where he finds dark nuggets of existential dread.
This TV movie from 1978 introduces Dr. Stephen Strange, a psychiatrist (?!) who learns he has a destiny in a magical war for the fate of humanity. Marvel did some peculiar things back in the 70s.
In the 1970s, the early days of the big-budget movie blockbuster, a lot of hopes and dollars went into this movie version of SUPERMAN directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve.
Why do people keep wanting to freeze Sherlock Holmes? Or more to the point, why do people want to thaw him out in the future — his future, or ours? Ian and Matthew explore this in their discussion of 1987’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and the cartoon Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.
Our Holmes for the Holidays series concludes with what for some is the canonical screen adaptation of the character: the 1984 - 1994 Grenada TV series starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.
The IMMP Holmes for the Holidays series continues with the most famous 20th century adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's characters: the 1939 film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
It's the most wonderful time of the year. A time of magic, wonder, and the foiling of crime through incisive deduction. IMMP presents HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS! For our first episode we start at the beginning: the story that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel A STUDY IN SCARLET. Audio excerpts are from the AmazonClassics Kindle edition, and are used for purposes of critique and analysis.
Twenty-eight years after Disney released TRON, we finally got a sequel: TRON: LEGACY. Which gave Ian a TRON movie for his own generation, and gave the IMMP this new Millennial Strikes Back episode. As usual, there are spoilers ahead.
That’s TRON. He fights for the users. In 1982, Disney took us to the world inside a computer to combine an epic fantasy quest with ground-breaking visuals. Yeah, this is pretty much coded to attach itself to Matthew and Ian's DNA.
In 1897 H.G. Wells wrote the novel War of the Worlds. In 1938 Orson Welles created a radio drama based on the novel, and sent Americans into a panic when they believed it was a real news broadcast. In 1975 the ABC Television Network produced a TV movie dramatizing the making of the radio broadcast and the public reaction to it. In 2020, Ian and Matthew offer this podcast about the 1975 TV movie. Layers upon layers.
It ran for two TV movies and one series season, but it launched a thousand other monster-for-the-week TV shows. It's the 1970s Darren McGavin classic Kolchack: The Night Stalker.
It's a Hitchcock-style spy thriller with kidnapping, murder, gunfights and explosions. And, um, it's a "family" movie? It's the strange 1984 gem CLOAK & DAGGER.
Take the creators of Lidsville and H.R. Pufnstuf, add a pool of creative 1970s science fiction writers, and mix with rubber lizard-man suits and stop motion dinosaurs. The results are probably not what you're expecting.
A special Millennial Strikes Back episode. Ian talks with his dad Matthew about Donnie Darko, how the movie affects him, and the story of how he first watched it. We don't doubt your commitment.
Action, Sci Fi, and the widest bell bottoms ever shown on broadcast television. With a side of Bigfoot. Ian and Matthew finally go up against Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man.
What do Project U.F.O., Space: 1999, and The Thin Man have in common? After talking about them on the podcast, Matthew and Ian kept watching. This episode of the IMMP dives into the later seasons and movies of all three series.
Dashiell Hammett's writing helped define the American mystery genre. And in their adaptation of his novel The Thin Man, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and director W. S. Van Dyke showed us how smart and funny an American mystery film could be. Shake up a fresh cocktail, sharpen your wits, and join Ian and Matthew for a discussion of this glorious movie.
Unregulated biomedical testing on humans, performance enhancing substance use in collegiate athletics -- that's what the heroes are up to in the Disney comedy romp The Strongest Man in the World starring Kurt Russell as Medfield College man Dexter Riley.
As from the depths of space comes the Black Fortress, so from the early 1980s comes the weird, colorful fantasy film called KRULL. Podcast contains SPOLIERS for this 1983 movie.
Retun with us to Disney's Medfield College Cinematic Universe, where science student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) has created an invibility formula.
In 1985 Glenn Gordon Caron, Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis turned a classic Hollywood formula into one of the most 80s TV series ever produced: MOONLIGHTING
Starting from the vantage of the 1981 BCC TV show, Ian and Matthew discuss Douglas Adams' sprawling multimedia masterwork The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
In Rona Jaffe's MAZES AND MONSTERS we get an 80s TV movie take on Dungeons and Dragons and how it can sever a young person's ties to reality. Make a saving throw or take 4d8 sensationalism damage. Warning, SPOILERS!
We know it looks like an adorable little bunny rabbit! But don't be fooled. The First Easter Egg is a basket full of subversive humor disguised as a cute holiday cartoon.
In the 1979 TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the future is a place of danger, intrigue, and big shiny hairstyles.
Our theme of computerized kids versus The Man does not end with the Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. In this bonus show for patrons, we talk about the 1995 movie HACKERS. We saw this thanks to a special “Hindsight is 20/20” screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, and — spoiler alert — it was a lot of fun.
If you ask The Bixby Boys, Bill Bixby is good in anything. But can he find his way through a 60s sitcom opposite Ray Walston as a super-powered, supercilious man from Mars?
Eight long years before The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Disney introduced Medfield College, and “flubber," in THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR. It doesn't have Kurt Russell, but it does have Fred MacMurray and Nancy Olson as the most charming couple ever to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Before he was MacReady in THE THING, before he was Snake Plisskin in ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, Kurt Russell was happy-go-lucky Medfield College man Dexter Riley in the Disney comedy The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Continuing the theme of survival against a harsh environment and an alien menace, Ian and Matthew discuss the second feature film adaptation of the novella "Who Goes There?": John Carpenter’s 1982 sci fi/horror classic THE THING.
Reposted from the IMMP Patreon feed, this special bonus episode covers the 2004 live action THUNDERBIRDS movie.
In 1951, producer Howard Hawks and director Christian Nyby drew on the current flying saucer craze and a 1938 novella to create an amazingly tight movie of survival at the North Pole: The Thing From Another World.
For the first album covered by the IMMP, we've chosen a prog rock platinum standout: POINT OF KNOW RETURN by Kansas. Can an album review have spoliers? If so, this podcast probably has some.
Drink gloog, make sleemoth, and join Ian and Matthew as they talk about the original 1960s TV version of LOST IN SPACE. DANGER! DANGER! Contains spoilers for both the original TV show and Season 1 of the Netflix reboot.
It might have seemed to Matthew that everyone in the world has seen The Brady Bunch. But Ian hadn’t! Until now.
The 1981 movie DRAGONSLAYER may be little remembered today, but it contains lots of magic and adventure. And more gore than you might expect from a Disney production. And surprising explosions. A lot of spoilers in this episode, so please beware.
Back in the 1960s, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson imagined the 2060s as a world of engineering marvels, space exploration, and smooth, swinging style. And they imagined an organization called International Rescue to help keep that world safe. This was the Tracy family and their amazing machines, the Thunderbirds.
English bikers, weird cults, standing stones, the undead, and very questionable folk music come together in the strangely compelling 1973 movie Psychomania. Happy Halloween, everyone! Please note: The movie discussed in this episode of the IMMP Podcast deals with the subject of suicide, in a horror fantasy context. If you might find this subject upsetting, please consider listening to a different episode or to another fine podcast.
To kick off the Halloween season Ian and Matthew talk about the original 1964 TV version of The Addams Family. And about what a cool guy Lurch is.
What if Sherlock Holmes and John Watson had met when they were still in school, long before Watson was a combat surgeon and Holmes was a cocaine addict? And what if Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Chris Columbus and Henry Winkler got together to make a movie about it? The surprising and often neglected Young Sherlock Holmes may be the most 80s thing ever.
In their almost-sort-of sequel to UFO, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson show us the glory of space exploration: a moon base that serves as a way station and a nuclear waste dump. But if that’s not sufficiently glamorous, hold on: before long the moon is blasted out of orbit to drift among the stars, wandering into a new adventure each week. This is SPACE: 1999.
Sometimes after watching a show for the IMMP, Ian and Matthew are happy to leave it behind. But sometimes , they keep watching. For this episode of the podcast they return for another look at two favorites: Peter Falk in COLUMBO, and Patrick Macnee as John Steed in THE AVENGERS
Religious themes explored through a combination of psychedelic vegetation and innovative, discursive storytelling style. No, Ian and Matthew didn’t watch Altered States again. For this Millennial Strikes Back episode, they watched Jonah, a VeggieTales Movie. But they watched it with the strange and incredibly funny DVD commentary track featuring the characters Larry the Cucumber and Mr. Lunt, everyone's favorite decorative gourd. The movie may be for kids, but this commentary track is not.
Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky. Direction by Ken Russell. Ideas by throwing hippies, scientists, spiritual seekers and horror fanatics into a supercollider. This week Matthew and Ian discuss the 1980 movie ALTERED STATES.
The often neglected 1970s gem Capricorn One features secrets, conspiracies, action, and astronauts showing a kind of heroism very different from what they signed up for.
As The Magician, Bill Bixby played Anthony Dorian. Or was it Anthony Blake? Anyway, he was super wealthy, and lived on a posh custom airliner. Except maybe he didn't. It's a little confusing, but if you listen to the podcast Matthew and Ian will try to explain it all.
Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe put all of our favorite super powers on screen, one man quietly went from town to town solving problems, serving justice, getting angry, turning green, throwing people thirty feet in the air, and breaking big solid things into teeny tiny pieces. This week Matthew and Ian discuss the 70s TV series The Incredible Hulk.
For 12 TV seasons and a bunch of TV movies, Angela Lansbury played a retired school teacher who wrote bestselling mysteries and solved murders in her spare time. On this IMMP podcast Ian and Matthew explore Murder, She Wrote to find out why Cabot Cove, Maine was such a deadly place, and why Jessica Fletcher was a dangerous person to invite to a dinner party.
1967 saw the launch of a British TV series that changed the world. Or at least, changed the world for a certain kind of person who found it at the the right time. In this IMMP Podcast Ian and Matthew talk about Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner.
For the Inter-Millennium Media Project's first book discussion, we've selected a title that had a huge influence on Matthew. It's James Lincoln Collier's The Teddy Bear Habit, a kids' book and a show biz thriller featuring a remarkable 12-year-old narrator and the amazing setting of 1960s Greenwich Village, New York. Excerpts are from the Blackstone Audio edition, and are used for purposes of critical review and commentary. Excerpts are played at x1.25 speed.
With his 1970 series UFO, the great Gerry Anderson put aside his Supermarionation puppets to create a live-action TV series chronicling the exploits of SHADO, a secret organization protecting earth from alien invaders in the weirdly stylish year 1980. WARNING 1: Spoilers for several episodes of UFO. WARNING 2: Discussion of fishnet naval uniforms worn aboard an anti-alien submarine.
There is a special place in every man’s heart for the stupid comedies that spoke to him when he was sixteen. But do they hold up decades later? Find out as the IMMP discusses the 1981 Bill Murray/Harold Ramis/Ivan Reitman movie Stripes.
Is The Rockford Files the best private eye TV series of the 70s? Merely one of the best private eye series of the 70s? Or the best private eye series of all time?
For the Inter-Millennium Media Project's first sitcom, Ian and Matthew choose a groundbreaking classic: The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Or as they will forever know it: The prequel to Ted Baxter in the 23rd Century
This week Ian and Matthew discuss the PROJECT U.F.O. TV series created by Jack Webb and Harold Jack Bloom. Was it TV’s answer to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND? Or was it DRAGNET’s answer to flying saucers? WARNING 1: Spoilers for several episodes of PROJECT U.F.O. WARNING 2: Irresponsible speculation about the potential offspring of Robby the Robot and MST3K's Gypsy.
The Millennial Strikes Back! This week Ian takes over to showcase a favorite show from his youth: Disney's The Weekenders.
Lidsville is a Sid and and Marty Krofft kids' show from 1971 featuring bright colors, puffy costumes and the broadest of broad comedy. Lidsville is also an epic tale fueled by lust and violence, filled with pain and dread. At least that's how it seemed to Ian and Matthew, who watched this show so you don't have to.
For almost 50 years, until 1976, Guy Lombardo defined New Years Eve broadcasting. For almost as long, and still going today, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve has worn that mantle for later generations. Join Ian and Matthew as they analyze the Dead-Eyed Camera Stare, survive the Cola Wars, and talk about TV no one likes to admit watching.
IMMP leaves the TV lounge and goes to the movies, to watch the Disney adventure classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Before Red October was hunted, before K-19 made any widows, before the Beatles lived in a xanthous submersible filled with drugs, there was the greatest submarine of all. The Nautilus, from the Jules Verne novel of 1870. And there was one of the great tortured antiheroes in its Captain Nemo. In 1954, Walt Disney Productions released a grand, spectacular feature film version of the tale, the most costly movie ever at the time it was made. Will the film hold the same magic for Matthew as it did in the 70s when he was an eight-year-old lover of adventure stories? And what will Ian make of Peter Lorre as a good guy, or Kirk Douglas as a singing whaler? WARNING 1: Contains spoilers for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. WARNING 2: Ian sings a fo'c's'le song. Have question, comments? You can reach us at immpcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter @IMMPcast.
This week IMMP takes on The Avengers. The surreal, Swinging Sixties secret agent series from the U.K., not the endless Marvel superhero franchise. Sometimes scary, sometimes silly, always suave and stylish, The Avengers brought sci fi and secret agent adventure to Sixties TV. How well does it hold up 50 years later? WARNING 1: Podcast contains spoilers for several episodes of The Avengers. WARNING 2: Podcast contains intermittent terrible British accents.
Ian and Matthew talk about one of the best, most innovative, most beloved crime shows of all time: Columbo. WARNING 1: Contains spoilers for several episodes of Columbo. WARNING 2: Contains the worst Columbo impression ever recorded. You can reach us at immpcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter @IMMPcast.
Ian and Matthew watch the classic of 1980s made-for-TV cyberpunk: Max Headroom. Which should be called The Adventures of Edison Carter. Will Network 23 make sense to a viewer raised on YouTube?