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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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• A Study in Scarlet - Wikipedia

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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• Tron - Wikipedia

In 1897 H.G. Wells wrote the novel War of the Worlds.

In 1938 Orson Welles created a radio drama based on the novel, and sent Americans into a panic when they believed it was a real news broadcast.

In 1975 the ABC Television Network produced a TV movie dramatizing the making of the radio broadcast and the public reaction to it.

In 2020, Ian and Matthew offer this podcast about the 1975 TV movie.

Layers upon layers.

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• The Night That Panicked America - Wikipedia

It ran for two TV movies and one series season, but it launched a thousand other monster-for-the-week TV shows. It's the 1970s Darren McGavin classic Kolchack: The Night Stalker.

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• Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Wikipedia

It's a Hitchcock-style spy thriller with kidnapping, murder, gunfights and explosions.

And, um, it's a "family" movie?

It's the strange 1984 gem CLOAK & DAGGER.

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• Cloak & Dagger (1984 film) - Wikipedia

Take the creators of Lidsville and H.R. Pufnstuf, add a pool of creative 1970s science fiction writers, and mix with rubber lizard-man suits and stop motion dinosaurs. The results are probably not what you're expecting.

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• Previously on the IMMP: LIDSVILLE

A special Millennial Strikes Back episode. Ian talks with his dad Matthew about Donnie Darko, how the movie affects him, and the story of how he first watched it.

We don't doubt your commitment.

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• Donnie Darko - Wikipedia

Action, Sci Fi, and the widest bell bottoms ever shown on broadcast television. With a side of Bigfoot. Ian and Matthew finally go up against Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man.

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What do Project U.F.O., Space: 1999, and The Thin Man have in common? After talking about them on the podcast, Matthew and Ian kept watching. This episode of the IMMP dives into the later seasons and movies of all three series.

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• Previously on the IMMP: Project U.F.O.