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Rocketships! Mad scientists! Alien invaders! Radioactive mutants! Join Rick and Ryan aboard their ship, the Lexaproteus-IV, as they traverse time and space on a ten-year mission to explore, year by year, the science fiction cinema of the 1950s! Your heart may pound! Your mind may explode! Prepare yourself for an adventure light-years beyond your imagination...when you blast off with THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING PODCAST!

The Unidentified Flying Podcast!


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    Episode 18 - 1951 - WHOOPS! - Fury of the Congo

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 80:29


    The crew are still stuck in 1951 after Ryan screws up! But at least they get to yap about Rick's favorite manly man, JUNGLE JIM! They also briefly discuss the Brazilian sci-fi-comedy TrĂªs Vagabundos, and reveal the results of their first-ever poll! Grab yourself some glandular drugs and enjoy the WHOOPS!

    1950/1951 - STATUS REPORT: RECAPPING SEASON ONE

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 59:39


    Ever wonder what DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL would be like as an animated Disney musical? Or DESTINATION: MOON as a xXx parody? And what do Dexter and John Waters have to do with all of this? Can your heart stand the shocking truth?? Join Rick and Ryan as they look back at their first season and ask each other stupid questions

    Episode 17 - 1951 - When Worlds Collide

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 107:18


    Rick and Ryan close out 1951 by looking extinction right in the eye as they discuss the granddaddy of modern disaster films, WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! They also yap about its influence on pop culture, its ties to 1998's DEEP IMPACT, and take a look back at the history of disaster cinema.

    Episode 16 - 1951 - Flight to Mars

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 94:21


    Rick and Ryan beat Musk to the punch, when they take a FLIGHT TO MARS! Join them aboard the Lexaproteus-IV as they discuss the film, examine the history of Mars and Martian cinema, investigate the real Elephant Man, swoon from the big d**k energy of Cameron Mitchell, and fantasize about an animated Disney version of the Alamo! Find us online!@theufp.bsky.socialFacebookor email us: TheUnidentifiedFlyingPodcast@gmail.com

    Episode 15 - 1951 - Superman and the Mole Men

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 71:09


    Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's the new episode of THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING PODCAST!

    Episode 14 - 1951 - Unknown World

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 67:46


    Rick and Ryan join Dr. Morley in digging their way to the 1951 film from Lippert Studios...Unknown World.

    Episode 13 - 1951 - Jungle Manhunt

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 92:20


    Rick and Ryan find Jungle Jim when they go on a JUNGLE MANHUNT.

    Episode 12 - 1951 - The Whip Hand

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 51:44


    Rick and Ryan investigate the town of Winnoga, in William Cameron Menzie's, The Whip Hand. They also uncover the secrets surrounding the film that it originally was intended to be.

    Episode 11 - 1951 - The Day The Earth Stood Still

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 115:22


    Ryan and Rick fawn over and go deep into the origin of science fiction classic, The Day The Earth Stood Still.

    Episode 10 - 1951 - The Lost Continent

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 51:11


    Rick and Ryan get infected with Space Madness with their conflicting opinions over the 1951 Sam Newfield adventure film, The Lost Continent.

    Episode 09 Double Feature: 1951 - Lost Planet Airmen & The Man in the White Suit

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 73:15


    Rick and Ryan ponder the Lost Planet Airmen and take a look at The Man in the White Suit.

    Episode 08 - 1951 - FIVE

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 46:29


    Grim happenings aboard the Lexaproteus-IV as Rick and Ryan discuss Arch Oboler's post-nuclear holocaust drama FIVE!

    Episode 07 - 1951 - The Thing From Another World

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2024 45:16


    Rick and Ryan are proud to present a stone cold classic of the 1950s, that spawned another in 1982.

    Episode 06 : 1951 - The Man From Planet X

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2024 50:28


    "Something sinister stalks the Scottish moors when Rick and Ryan meet the Man from Planet X!"

    Episode 05 Double Feature: 1951 - Mister Drake's Duck + 1951 - Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2024 59:51


    Rick and Ryan lament over not getting to know a duck more, and help Bud Abbott and Lou Costello clear Tommy Nelson of Murder in Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man.

    Episode 04: 1951 - Two Lost Worlds

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2023 45:47


    Rick and Ryan move on to the next year of the decade with the James Arness and Kasey Rogers (sort of) dinosaur epic... 1951's Two Lost Worlds!

    Episode 03: 1950 - The Flying Saucer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 42:38


    Rick and Ryan wrap up the last of the science fiction films of 1950, with Mikel Conrad's opus, The Flying Saucer.

    Episode 02 -1950 - Destination Moon

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 47:18


    Rick and Ryan plot a course for DESTINATION MOON.

    Episode 01: 1950 - Introduction/Rocketship X-M

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 57:09


    The inaugural episode of The Unidentified Flying Podcast! Rick and Ryan welcome you aboard their ship, the LEXAPROTEUS IV, and kick things off with their first feature film of 1950, Kurt Neumann's ROCKETSHIP X-M.

    THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING PODCAST! teaser

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2023 3:18


    A trailer for THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING PODCAST! A chronological deep dive into the science fiction films of the 1950s!

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