Long before Wandavision gave us its take on a magical being trying to make a home in the American suburbs, viewers were entertained by Wanda and Vision's forebears, Darrin and Samantha Stevens of Bewitched.

In this episode of the IMMP Matthew introduces Ian to the show, and Ian powers through his allergy to sitcoms long enough to dive way too deeply into its magic system, where he finds dark nuggets of existential dread.

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Matthew and Ian discuss the original 1986 movie that assured us There Can Be Only One.

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• Highlander (film) - Wikipedia

This TV movie from 1978 introduces Dr. Stephen Strange, a psychiatrist (?!) who learns he has a destiny in a magical war for the fate of humanity.

Marvel did some peculiar things back in the 70s.

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• Dr. Strange (1978 film) - Wikipedia

In the 1970s, the early days of the big-budget movie blockbuster, a lot of hopes and dollars went into this movie version of SUPERMAN directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve.

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• Superman (1978 film) - Wikipedia

Why do people keep wanting to freeze Sherlock Holmes? Or more to the point, why do people want to thaw him out in the future — his future, or ours?

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Our Holmes for the Holidays series concludes with what for some is the canonical screen adaptation of the character: the 1984 - 1994 Grenada TV series starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.

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• Previously on IMMP: A STUDY IN SCARLET by Arthur Conan Doyle

The IMMP Holmes for the Holidays series continues with the most famous 20th century adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's characters: the 1939 film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

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• Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series) - Wikipedia

It's the most wonderful time of the year. A time of magic, wonder, and the foiling of crime through incisive deduction. IMMP presents HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

For our first episode we start at the beginning: the story that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel A STUDY IN SCARLET.

Audio excerpts are from the AmazonClassics Kindle edition, and are used for purposes of critique and analysis.

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Twenty-eight years after Disney released TRON, we finally got a sequel: TRON: LEGACY. Which gave Ian a TRON movie for his own generation, and gave the IMMP this new Millennial Strikes Back episode.

As usual, there are spoilers ahead.

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• Previously on the IMMP: Disney’s TRON

That’s TRON. He fights for the users.

In 1982, Disney took us to the world inside a computer to combine an epic fantasy quest with ground-breaking visuals.

Yeah, this is pretty much coded to attach itself to Matthew and Ian's DNA.

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