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)
It might have seemed to Matthew that everyone in the world has seen The Brady Bunch. But Ian hadn’t!
Until now.
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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.
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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 Internationa…
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!
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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.
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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, …
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 sufficien…
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 fav…
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 Str…
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 …
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.
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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 …
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 p…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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/Har…
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?
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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 2…