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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? Ian and Matthew explore this in their discussion of 1987’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes , and the cartoon Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century .

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.

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 .

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 purpose...

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.

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.

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....

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 .

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 .

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.

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.

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 .

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.

Dashiell Hammett's writing helped define the American mystery genre. And in their adaptation of his novel The Thin Man , William Powell, Myrna Loy, and director W. S. Van Dyke showed us how smart and funny an American mystery film could be. Shake up a fresh cocktail, sharpen your wits, and join Ian and Matthew for a discussion of this glorious movie.

Unregulated biomedical testing on humans, performance enhancing substance use in collegiate athletics -- that's what the heroes are up to in the Disney comedy romp The Strongest Man in the World starring Kurt Russell as Medfield College man Dexter Riley.

As from the depths of space comes the Black Fortress, so from the early 1980s comes the weird, colorful fantasy film called KRULL . Podcast contains SPOLIERS for this 1983 movie.

Retun with us to Disney's Medfield College Cinematic Universe, where science student Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) has created an invibility formula.

In 1985 Glenn Gordon Caron, Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis turned a classic Hollywood formula into one of the most 80s TV series ever produced: MOONLIGHTING

Starting from the vantage of the 1981 BCC TV show, Ian and Matthew discuss Douglas Adams' sprawling multimedia masterwork The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy .

In Rona Jaffe's MAZES AND MONSTERS we get an 80s TV movie take on Dungeons and Dragons and how it can sever a young person's ties to reality. Make a saving throw or take 4d8 sensationalism damage. Warning, SPOILERS!

We know it looks like an adorable little bunny rabbit! But don't be fooled. The First Easter Egg is a basket full of subversive humor disguised as a cute holiday cartoon.

In the 1979 TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century , the future is a place of danger, intrigue, and big shiny hairstyles.

Our theme of computerized kids versus The Man does not end with the Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes . In this bonus show for patrons, we talk about the 1995 movie HACKERS . We saw this thanks to a special “Hindsight is 20/20” screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, and — spoiler alert — it was a lot of fun.

If you ask The Bixby Boys, Bill Bixby is good in anything. But can he find his way through a 60s sitcom opposite Ray Walston as a super-powered, supercilious man from Mars?

Eight long years before The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Disney introduced Medfield College, and “flubber," in THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR . It doesn't have Kurt Russell, but it does have Fred MacMurray and Nancy Olson as the most charming couple ever to violate the laws of thermodynamics.