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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?

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 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...

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. WARNIN...

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?