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Is The Rockford Files the best private eye TV series of the 70s? Merely one of the best private eye series of the 70s? Or the best private eye series of all time?

For the Inter-Millennium Media Project's first sitcom, Ian and Matthew choose a groundbreaking classic: The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Or as they will forever know it: The prequel to Ted Baxter in the 23rd Century

This week Ian and Matthew discuss the PROJECT U.F.O. TV series created by Jack Webb and Harold Jack Bloom. Was it TV’s answer to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND? Or was it DRAGNET’s answer to flying saucers? WARNING 1: Spoilers for several episodes of PROJECT U.F.O. WARNING 2: Irresponsible speculation about the potential offspring of Robby the Robot and MST3K's Gypsy.

The Millennial Strikes Back! This week Ian takes over to showcase a favorite show from his youth: Disney's The Weekenders.

Lidsville is a Sid and and Marty Krofft kids' show from 1971 featuring bright colors, puffy costumes and the broadest of broad comedy. Lidsville is also an epic tale fueled by lust and violence, filled with pain and dread. At least that's how it seemed to Ian and Matthew, who watched this show so you don't have to.

For almost 50 years, until 1976, Guy Lombardo defined New Years Eve broadcasting. For almost as long, and still going today, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve has worn that mantle for later generations. Join Ian and Matthew as they analyze the Dead-Eyed Camera Stare, survive the Cola Wars, and talk about TV no one likes to admit watching.

IMMP leaves the TV lounge and goes to the movies, to watch the Disney adventure classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Before Red October was hunted, before K-19 made any widows, before the Beatles lived in a xanthous submersible filled with drugs, there was the greatest submarine of all. The Nautilus, from the Jules Verne novel of 1870. And there was one of the great tortured antiheroes in its Captain Nemo. In 1954, Walt Disney Productions released a grand, spectacular feature film version of the tale, the most costly movie ever at the time it was made. Will the film hold the same magic for Matthew as it did in the 70s when he was an eight-year-old lover of adventure stories? And what will Ian make of Peter Lorre as a good guy, or Kirk Douglas as a singing whaler? WARNING 1: Contains spoilers for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. WARNING 2: Ian sings a fo'c's'le song. Have question, comments? You can reach us at immpcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter @IMMPcast.

This week IMMP takes on The Avengers. The surreal, Swinging Sixties secret agent series from the U.K., not the endless Marvel superhero franchise. Sometimes scary, sometimes silly, always suave and stylish, The Avengers brought sci fi and secret agent adventure to Sixties TV. How well does it hold up 50 years later? WARNING 1: Podcast contains spoilers for several episodes of The Avengers. WARNING 2: Podcast contains intermittent terrible British accents.

Ian and Matthew talk about one of the best, most innovative, most beloved crime shows of all time: Columbo. WARNING 1: Contains spoilers for several episodes of Columbo. WARNING 2: Contains the worst Columbo impression ever recorded. You can reach us at immpcast@gmail.com, or on Twitter @IMMPcast.

Ian and Matthew watch the classic of 1980s made-for-TV cyberpunk: Max Headroom. Which should be called The Adventures of Edison Carter. Will Network 23 make sense to a viewer raised on YouTube?