IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 23 in total of IMMP with the tag “kids”.
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178: Live at NDK 2025 - BATTLE OF THE PLANETS meets GATCHAMAN
September 4th, 2025 | 42 mins 7 secs
70s, action, adventure, animation, kids, scifi
Anime special from Nan Desk Kan in Colorado -- You may know them as SCIENCE NINJA TEAM GATCHAMAN. But middle-schoolers in the 1970s knew them as G-Force from BATTLE OF THE PLANETS!
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176: CODE LYOKO (The Millennial Strikes Back)
August 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
2000s, animation, kids, scifi, tv
RETURN TO THE PAST NOW! Specifically, return with us to 2003 for a Millennial Strikes Back episode about the French animated kids' sci fi cartoon CODE LYOKO.
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165: Rankin/Bass' THE RETURN OF THE KING (1980)
March 3rd, 2025 | 58 mins 31 secs
80s, animation, kids, musical, tolkien, tv
Ian and Matthew talk about one of the most bewildering productions from Rankin/Bass, when the skipped past two thirds of THE LORD OF THE RINGS to give us their RETURN OF THE KIBNG
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156: Disney's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983)
October 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
80s, disney, drama, horror, kids, movie
A children's horror movie set in an old-timey American town menaced by an evil carnival. Doesn't sound very Disney, does it?
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155: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Novel, 1962)
October 14th, 2024 | 58 mins 39 secs
60s, book, halloween, horror, kids
A spooky carnival comes to town just in time for Halloween.
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134: THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS by Rankin/Bass
December 24th, 2023 | 48 mins 25 secs
animation, holiday, kids, musical, tv
Christmas 2023 at the IMMP wraps up with one of the weirdest of all Rankin/Bass Christmas specials: THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS.
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133: Rankin/Bass’ SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN
December 11th, 2023 | 54 mins 33 secs
70s, animation, holiday, kids, musical
The IMMP Rankin Bass Christmas continues with the sprawling Santa Claus fanfic SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN.
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132: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER from Rankin/Bass
November 27th, 2023 | 54 mins 46 secs
60s, animation, holiday, kids, musical, tv
We kick off the holiday season at the IMMP with a Rankin/Bass Christmas classic: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER.
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Bonus: THE LOST ISLAND
October 22nd, 2023 | 13 mins 58 secs
70s, bonus, kids, tv
At long last, Ian and Matthew have seen a mysterious, legendary part of the Sid and Marty Krofft universe: THE LOST ISLAND.
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126: STAR BLAZERS - Live from NDK 2023
September 4th, 2023 | 52 mins 25 secs
70s, animation, kids, live, scifi, tv
Recorded live at Nan Desu Kan 2023 in Colorado, this special episode takes on STAR BLAZERS -- the Americanized version of Leiji Matsumoto's SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, and the object of Matthew's first anime fan geek-outs with his middle school friends, way back in the 1970s.