1981 WEEK (COMIC-CON @ HOME EDITION)

What this episode covers

THIS WEEK ON THE 4:30 MOVIE, it's "1981 WEEK" as we celebrate from 40 years ago today. Join us for a special Comic-Con @ Home Edition of The 4:30 Movie. It'll be a great week. Trust us.  As always, your favorite co-hosts are back including MARK A. ALTMAN (author, THE SECRETS OF THE FORCE, THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION), STEVEN MELCHING (writer, THE CLONE WARS, REBELS), ASHLEY E. MILLER (writer; DOTA: DRAGON'S BLOOD, THOR, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS) and DAREN R. DOCHTERMAN (concept designer; WESTWORLD, MASTER & COMMANDER).   Also, you can support our new docuemntary, 1982: GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER, by visiting 1982movies.com. Join the party doay! You can follow THE 4:30 MOVIE on social media at: Twitter: @430moviepodcast Instagram: @the430movie Facebook: Facebook.com/430movie & Facebook.com/ElectricSurge **Now, you can watch THE 4:30 MOVIE and all your favorite Electric Surge podcasts on the free Electric Now! video streaming app available for download at your favorite app store including INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS, THE BEST MOVIES NEVER MADE and CARTOON BARROOM. Plus: don't miss the all-new LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION AFTER SHOW exclusively on the Electric Now app.   ***Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross's bestselling oral history of James Bond, NOBODY DOES IT BETTER, is now available in paperback from Tor/Forge as well as hardcover, digital and audio. And don't miss SECRETS OF THIS FORCE, the uncensored oral history of Star Wars, now out from St. Martin's Press in hardcover, digital and audio. Available now wherever you buy your books.   NOTE TO LISTENERS: Due to the pandemic, we are recording remotely via Zoom and not in the studio so the audio may not be up to our usual high standards. We trust you will nursemaid us through these difficulties. Stay safe, stay healthy, get vaccinated... and support cinemas everywhere!

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