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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 differen...

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, eve...

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 cri...

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?