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, Chris Columbus and Henry Winkler got together to make a movie about it? The surprising and often neglected Young Sherlock Holmes may be the most 80s thing ever.

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• Young Sherlock Holmes - Wikipedia

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 sufficiently glamorous, hold on: before long the moon is blasted out of orbit to drift among the stars, wandering into a new adventure each week. This is SPACE: 1999.

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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 favorites: Peter Falk in COLUMBO, and Patrick Macnee as John Steed in THE AVENGERS

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• Previously on IMMP: COLUMBO

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 Strikes Back episode, they watched Jonah, a VeggieTales Movie. But they watched it with the strange and incredibly funny DVD commentary track featuring the characters Larry the Cucumber and Mr. Lunt, everyone's favorite decorative gourd. The movie may be for kids, but this commentary track is not.

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• Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie - Wikipedia

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 movie ALTERED STATES.

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• Altered States - Wikipedia

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 you listen to the podcast Matthew and Ian will try to explain it all.

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• The Magician (American TV series) - Wikipedia

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 people thirty feet in the air, and breaking big solid things into teeny tiny pieces. This week Matthew and Ian discuss the 70s TV series The Incredible Hulk.

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• The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series) - Wikipedia

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 explore Murder, She Wrote to find out why Cabot Cove, Maine was such a deadly place, and why Jessica Fletcher was a dangerous person to invite to a dinner party.

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• Murder, She Wrote - Wikipedia

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 talk about Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner.

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• The Prisoner - Wikipedia