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Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 319 The 21 Jump Street TV Pilot Episode!
This week Part-Time Fanboy continues its expedition into the eighties with a look at a very different kind of cop show that debuted in 1987. 21 Jump Street told the story of a squad of detectives who infiltrated high schools and colleges busting young adults and...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 318 Tim Larsen Rides Mayfield Eight Onto Kickstarter!
Mayfield Eight is a comic created in the spirit of a grindhouse style biker gang movie. The creator of Mayfield Eight just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the second issue of his biker gang bonanza. Tim Larsen started his artistic career as a painter but...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 317 V The Final Battle!
In 1984, almost a year to the day that the original mini-series debuted, NBC television aired the much-anticipated sequel to V. The original series had ended in a bit of an open ended fashion with Earth resistance fighters still locked in a struggle with the invading...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 316 Steven Prince Kickstarts The Monster Matador!
Steven Prince is a writer and artist who has been self publishing his own comic book, Monster Matador, for years. This week sees him kicking off a Kickstarter campaign for the latest chapter in the saga of his creation known as Monster Matador: Tango of the Matadors....
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 315-V The Original Miniseries!
In May of 1983 the TV watching public would be treated to a television event unlike any they had ever seen before. Television mega-producer, director, and writer Kenneth Johnson (the man behind the creation of The Bionic Woman, The original live-action Incredible Hulk...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 314-Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Pilot Episode!
When Star Wars debuted in 1977 to blockbuster success the rest of Hollywood moved in to cash in on its good fortune. Television producer Glen A. Larson was one of the first to try and capitalize on the success of George Lucas's space operatic debut, first with...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 313-The Greatest American Hero Pilot Episode!
In the early eighties, decades before there would be a Marvel Cinematic Universe, television mega-producer Stephen J. Cannell was given the task of producing a superhero TV show. Cannell, not being a comic book fan himself and having no real desire to work on a...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 312: Doctor Who Season Twelve Wrap Up!
Almost two months ago the latest season of Doctor Who ended with a tenth episode that rocked the Who-verse. The series finale of the Doctor's twelfth series saw a change in the status quo for the show the likes of which it hadn't seen since, well, The Doctor became a...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 311: The Sean McArdle The Fuhrer and The Tramp Interview!
Several years ago when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un threatened to kill Hollywood movie starts Seth Rogan and James Franco because of their creating the comedy The Interview, artist and writer Sean McArdle began wondering...what if Adolf Hitler had decided to do...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 310 PTF Film Club-Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club!
In the 1980's writer/director John Hughes's name was directly tied to the word "teenager". During the early part of that decade, Hughes wrote and directed two movies that would mold the template for any film whose lens focused on the teen mindset for years to come....
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