IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
We found 10 episodes of IMMP with the tag “80s”.
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040: MOONLIGHTING
May 18th, 2020 | 50 mins 59 secs
80s, comedy, mystery, romance, tv
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
May 4th, 2020 | 52 mins 16 secs
2000s, 70s, 80s, comedy, movie, novel, radio, scifi, tv, uk
Starting with the 1981 BCC TV show, Ian and Matthew discuss the sprawling multimedia Douglas Adams masterwork THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.
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038: MAZES AND MONSTERS
April 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 3 mins
80s, drama, movie, tv
An 80s TV movie about troubled students playing pseudo Dungeons and Dragons. Roll saving throw versus sensationalism. Warning, SPOILERS!
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036: BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY
March 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
70s, 80s, scifi, tv
Can a cocky US Air Force pilot from the 1980s save what remains of humanity 500 years in the future? It’s 1970s TV. Of course he can.
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032: John Carpenter’s THE THING
January 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
80s, horror, john carpenter, movie, scifi
Ian and Matthew discuss another version of the classic story of survival against an alien invader in a frozen wasteland: John Carpenter’s 1982 version of THE THING.
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027: DRAGONSLAYER
November 18th, 2019 | 1 hr 13 mins
80s, adventure, disney, fantasy, movie
Ian and Matthew talk about the Disney/Paramount feature DRAGONSLAYER, an under-appreciated movie with lots of surprises.
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023: YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES
September 23rd, 2019 | 1 hr 25 mins
80s, adventure, movie, mystery
YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES is a movie built on fond and unlikely speculation, rather than the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And it’s a movie that could have been made only in the 1980s.
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019: Ken Russell’s ALTERED STATES
July 29th, 2019 | 1 hr 49 secs
80s, horror, movie, scifi
The movie ALTERED STATES may seem like a hallucination, but it’s real. Ian and Matthew watched it to make sure.
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015: Murder, She Wrote
June 3rd, 2019 | 53 mins 28 secs
80s, crime, mystery, tv
This week Ian and Matthew brave the crime-written hellscape that is Cabot Cove, Maine to investigate the classic 80s series MURDER, SHE WROTE.
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011: Bill Murray in STRIPES
April 8th, 2019 | 1 hr 1 min
80s, comedy, movie
Platoon, fall in! This week the IMMP holds inspection of the 1981 comedy STRIPES