For Christmas week, Ian and Matthew discuss a holiday classic from 1988 - Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman in John McTiernan's DIE HARD.

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• Die Hard - Wikipedia
• IMMP - Holiday Episodes
• Previously on IMMP: MOONLIGHTING
• Die Hard | Brooklyn Nine-Nine Wiki | Fandom

Christmas is a time for parties, bright lights and surprises. So this year the IMMP kicks off our holiday theme with 1974's THE TOWERING INFERNO from disaster master Irwin Allen.

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• The Towering Inferno - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP: LOST IN SPACE - The Original Series
• Previously on IMMP: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961 Movie)
• Previously on IMMP: Irwin Allen’s VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (TV Series)
• Previously on IMMP: Irwin Allen’s THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
• Previously on IMMP: THUNDERBIRDS by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson
• Previously on IMMP: ALIENS
• Previously on IMMP: NO WAY OUT (1987)
• Thunderbirds Are Go episode: INFERNO | Thunderbirds Wiki | Fandom
• Dante's Peak - Wikipedia
• 2012 (film) - Wikipedia

After our prior episode about No Way Out, a 1987 adaptation of the novel The Big Clock, this time we talk about the original 1948 adaptation of The Big Clock called... THE BIG CLOCK.

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• The Big Clock (1946 Novel) - Wikipedia
• The Big Clock (1948 film) - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP: NO WAY OUT (1987)
• Ray Milland - Wikipedia
• Charles Laughton - Wikipedia
• Elsa Lanchester - Wikipedia
• 'The Hudsucker Proxy'—Yeah, That's Right, 'The Hudsucker Proxy'—Is the Coen Brothers’ Most Underrated Film | GQ

From the heyday of the techno thriller, we've got a very 80s movie with Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, and lots of political and criminal intrigue. It's NO WAY OUT.

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• No Way Out (1987 film) - Wikipedia
• The Big Clock (1946 novel) - Wikipedia

In 1983, Walt Disney Productions released an interesting experiment: A children's horror movie set in an old-timey American town menaced by an evil carnival, with a screenplay adapted by Ray Bradbury himself from his classic novel. Doesn't sound very Disney, does it? It's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

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• Previously on IMMP: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Novel, 1962)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (film) - Wikipedia
• Jason Robards - Wikipedia
• Jonathan Pryce - Wikipedia
• Scott Pilgrim Wiki | Fandom

For Halloween 2024 Matthew had Ian read Ray Bradbury's classic novel, in which a spooky dangerous carnival threatens a small town...by offering the people what they want. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES.

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• Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) - Wikipedia
• Ready? Begin! - Ray Bradbury
• We're Back A Dinosaur's Story Wiki | Fandom
• Previously on IMMP: THE MUMMY (1932)
• Previously on IMMP: The Prisoner
• Circus of Fear - TV Tropes

In 1986 James Cameron brought us another look at the creature from Ridley Scott's 1979 classic ALIEN. Plus some Space Marines. Plus a Space Yuppie. Plus an extra "S". It's ALIENS!

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• Aliens (film) - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP: ALIEN (1979)
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• Fermi Paradox: Where are the aliens? | Space
• JABBAWOCKEEZ | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE
• Mummenschanz
• Alien (franchise) - Wikipedia
• Alien movies in order: chronological and release | Space
• Alien: Isolation | Xenopedia | Fandom
• Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013 video game) | Xenopedia | Fandom

In 1984, John Carpenter brought to earth a movie than blended road trip, romance, sci fi, and just a touch of Stockholm Syndrome. It's Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges in STARMAN.

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• Starman (film) - Wikipedia
• The Official John Carpenter – The official website of John Carpenter
• Jack Nitzsche - Composer - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP - Episodes Tagged with “john carpenter”
• Voyager - NASA Science
• The Birth of Venus - Wikipedia
• J. J. Abrams - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
• Previously on IMMP: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
• Bakugan - Anime Episodes and Thrilling Toy Collections | Bakugan
• Contact (1997 American film) - Wikipedia

Before INITIAL D...Before REDLINE... before OVERTAKE!...there was SPEED RACER!

This special live episode was presented at the Nan Desu Kan anime convention in Aurora, Colorado.

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• Speed Racer - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP: GIGANTOR! live from NDK
• Previously on IMMP: STAR BLAZERS - Live from NDK 2023

Before UFO, before SPACE:1999, Sylvia and Gerry Anderson went to the far side of the sun for a movie known to most of the world as DOPPELGANGER.

For this special episode of the IMMP Podcast, Ian and Matthew are joined by Jim Porter. (He's Matthew's brother, and he's Ians uncle!)

Special Guest: Jim Porter.

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• Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Wikipedia
• Gerry Anderson - Wikipedia
• Sylvia Anderson - Wikipedia
• Robert Parrish - Wikipedia
• UFO (British TV series) - Wikipedia
• Space: 1999 - Wikipedia
• Previously on IMMP: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
• Previously on IMMP: The Prisoner
• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia
• Nuclear Pulse Propulsion: Gateway to the Stars -- ANS / Nuclear Newswire
• Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program
• Spaceballs: The Wiki | Fandom
• Who Is James Webb - Webb/NASA
• Counterpart (TV series) - Wikipedia