Fusion Patrol

What will cloning mean for crime in the future?  A fascinating subject… will they touch on it here?  John and Eugene discuss a Double Life. Episode Synopsis On Earth, famous concert pianist James Bannerman plays live before an appreciative audience. On the moon, an unfinished medical area, an unseen interloper breaks into and steals fertilized … Continue reading 490 – Star Cops – A Double Life

Dante and the gang’s latest target, Novak.  A man who is one bad hombre, or so we’re told.  But has he also got a valuable secret? Kenneth and Eugene discuss The Man Who Sold the World. Episode Synopsis: On Pluto, a bounty hunter confronts Mr. Kavon, he accuses him of being Dr. Novak, a wanted criminal, … Continue reading 489 – Starhunter Redux – The Man Who Sold the World

Doomwatch hits the big screen! Movie Synopsis: Nighttime on the Cornish island of Balfe and a grieving family bury the body of young girl in a shallow grave.  This looks like a job for Doomwatch! At Doomwatch’s ultra-modern, hi-tech command centre. Dr. Quist, and his staff, Dr. John Ridge, Colin Bradley and fan favorite Doomwatch … Continue reading 488 – Doomwatch – Doomwatch (Movie)

There’s an elephant in the room that can’t be ignored in this week’s episode. Television hasn’t always been the place for the most enlightened views on people, and if you don’t laugh at it, you have to cry. This week we look at In Warm Blood. Episode Synopsis Spacecraft Pluto 5 is returning to the … Continue reading 487 – Star Cops – In Warm Blood

A baffling tale from outer space. Kenneth and Eugene discuss the Siren’s Song. Episode Synopsis: A luxury sailing ship passes too closely to the Ganymede Ultra prison and is overtaken by desperate escaping criminals escaping from the facility. Montana and the gang are sent to gather up escaping prisoners for the bounty, but when they … Continue reading 486 – Starhunter Redux – Siren’s Song

“Sex and Violence?!” It must be ratings week! Simon and Eugene discuss the final episode of Doomwatch. Episode Synopsis: Things are getting all evangelical at a church hall meeting of the women of Housewives, a group of mothers concerned about permissiveness, filth, perversion and sex ed classes for kids by long-haired liberals. And then, the … Continue reading 485 – Doomwatch – Sex and Violence

This case… is not what you think it is. John and Eugene discuss “This Case to be Opened in a Million Years.” Episode Synopsis Kenzy is finishing up some routine business, an Italian engineer has been caught in possession of illegal substances and sent down to Earth for prosecution.  As she closes the file, a … Continue reading 484 – Star Cops – This Case to be Opened in a Million Years

Families.  You can’t live with ’em, you can’t live without, ’em. Ammirite? Kenneth and Eugene discuss Family Values. Episode Synopsis: Rudolfo monologs at the captive audience on the Trans-utopian, it is unclear if they are hearing a word he’s saying.  Time seems to weigh heavily upon them.  Dante shuts himself in his room and engages … Continue reading 483 – Starhunter Redux – Family Values

It’s Freudians versus Technologists in this week’s episode of Doomwatch.  Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis For reasons never adequately explained, Dr. Anne Tarrant is visiting the Weatheroak Maximum Security Medical Research Facility where she is given demonstrations of a new, cutting-edge technological procedure being tested on psychiatric patients.  The Director, Dr. Hetherington and lead … Continue reading 482 – Doomwatch – Hair Trigger

Crazy genius developing diabolical plans on a remote space facility.  Are we watching Blakes 7 again? John and Eugene discuss Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits? Episode Synopsis: A salvage ship scores big.  They find cargo module drifting on a course into the sun.  They retrieve it, hoping to return it for a reward from the … Continue reading 481 – Star Cops – Trivial Games and Paranoid Pursuits

Percy nearly gets everyone killed. Episode Synopsis: Lucretia is helping Percy with her martial arts training.  Important stuff, since Percy has entered a competition on Mars, their next port of call.  One problem, Dante knew about neither the training nor the competition – of which neither he approves.  Family drama ensues, leading to Percy and … Continue reading 480 – Starhunter Redux – Trust

People are going crazy everywhere, and everyone knows everyone!  Can it be the leaded gas, or the constraints of 1970’s television?  Simon and Eugene discuss Waiting for a Knighthood. Episode Synopsis: A vicar is giving a sermon.  It’s a bizarre rambling assemblage of incoherent thoughts.  But it’s not just scripture, it’s other incoherent thoughts, and … Continue reading 479 – Doomwatch – Waiting for a Knighthood

O Rose thou art sick.  The invisible worm,  That flies in the night  In the howling storm:  Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy                        -- William Blake Episode Synopsis: On Earth, there’s trouble at … Continue reading 478 – Star Cops – Intelligent Listening for Beginners

Bounty hunting in the 23rd century in nothing like a trek to the stars. On a new show we’re looking at here on Fusion Patrol, we join the dysfunctional crew of the spacecraft, Trans-Utopian, a luxury liner re-purposed into a a bounty hunter’s ship.  That bounty hunter is Dante Montana, man of few words, his … Continue reading 477 – Starhunter Redux – The Divinity Cluster

When inadequate safety protocols at a factory in a small industrial town lead to the death of a child, the events set in motion are about to make a new public enemy. Simon and Eugene discuss the Doomwatch episode, Public Enemy. Episode Synopsis: In the town of Carlingham a healthy young boy kicks a football … Continue reading 476 – Doomwatch – Public Enemy

What happens in scientific research on the lawless frontier can’t get approvals for human or animal trials?  You conduct it anyway because it’s the “lawless” frontier. John and Eugene discuss the Star Cops episode, Conversations with the Dead. Episode Synopsis: A freighter bound for Mars, the Daedalus, has a wee problem.  Its engines have fired … Continue reading 475 – Star Cops – Conversations with the Dead

Firefly comes to a close with the motion picture, Serenity.  Simon and Eugene discuss. Movie Synopsis: We open on what appears to be flashbacks showing the day Simon broke River out of the Alliance experimentation facility.  Paradoxically, even though this happened in the past, he seems to know quite a bit more about what was … Continue reading 474 – Serenity

Teaching and computers.  An amoral match made in hell? Simon and Eugene discuss the Logicians. Episode Synopsis: It’s a jolly lovely summer’s day at the Elsdene School and the boys are preparing for a field trip to a pharmaceutical company after spending the night planning a heist.  The boys seem a bit full of themselves … Continue reading 473 – Doomwatch – The Logicians

This week we start a new series on Fusion Patrol:  The 1987 BBC Science Fiction Police Drama, Star Cops by creator Chris Boucher, who long-time listeners will know from his work on Blakes 7. What does murder and crime look like in the age of computers and space travel? And what constitutes being a good … Continue reading 472 – Star Cops – An Instinct for Murder

We come to the end of the TV Series Firefly as Simon and Eugene discuss Objects in Space. Episode Synopsis: River is wandering about the ship, as if in a dream, she sees the others and hears their thoughts, or what she thinks their thoughts, she sees a branch on the floor… then she comes … Continue reading 471 – Firefly – Objects in Space