IMMP
Matthew Porter and his son Ian Porter explore movies, TV, books and music from Matthew's youth, way back in the 20th Century. 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.
(Music by Jason Aro / Pond5)
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 188
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
046: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
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.
045: WKW - SPACE: 1999, PROJECT U.F.O. and THE THIN 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…
044: THE THIN MAN
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 …
043: Disney’s THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD
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 star…
042: KRULL
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.
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041: Disney’s NOW YOU SEE HIM NOW YOU DON’T
Retun with us to Disney's Medfield College Cinematic Universe, where science student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) has created an invibility formula.
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040: MOONLIGHTING
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
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039: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
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.
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038: MAZES AND MONSTERS
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.
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037: THE FIRST EASTER EGG
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.
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036: BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY
In the 1979 TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the future is a place of danger, intrigue, and big shiny hairstyles.
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Bonus Show - HACKERS
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 t…
035: MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
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?
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034: Disney’s THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
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 MacMurra…
033: Disney’s THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES
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 Ten…
032: John Carpenter’s THE THING
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 sc…
Bonus Show: THUNDERBIRDS Live Action Movie (2004)
Reposted from the IMMP Patreon feed, this special bonus episode covers the 2004 live action THUNDERBIRDS movie.
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031: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
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 …
030: POINT OF KNOW RETURN by Kansas
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.
029: LOST IN SPACE - The Original Series
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 o…