A special Millennial Strikes Back episode. Ian talks with his dad Matthew about Donnie Darko, how the movie affects him, and the story of how he first watched it.

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• Donnie Darko - Wikipedia

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.

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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 movies of all three series.

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• Previously on the IMMP: Project U.F.O.

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 funny an American mystery film could be. Shake up a fresh cocktail, sharpen your wits, and join Ian and Matthew for a discussion of this glorious movie.

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• The Thin Man (film) - Wikipedia

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 starring Kurt Russell as Medfield College man Dexter Riley.

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• The Strongest Man in the World - Wikipedia

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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• Krull (film) - Wikipedia

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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• Now You See Him, Now You Don't - Wikipedia

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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• Moonlighting (TV series) - Wikipedia

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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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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.

Warning, SPOILERS!

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• Mazes and Monsters - Wikipedia