Fusion Patrol

Simon and Eugene discuss how far futuristic shows should project from the present, and coincidentally where electric bolt guns fit with extrapolating the progression of genetic engineering.  We discuss baddies in Bugs and which we would and wouldn’t like to come back and somehow we end up exploring British and American naming conventions. Episode Synopsis ... Read more

John and Eugene ask the question, “why not vampires,” consider if racial prejudice goes away if you lose your pigmentation, and why Chuck Heston never gets a good ending in a film. It’s the Omega Man! Synopsis Col. Dr. Robert Neville is a man with a problem:  He’s the last man on Earth, roaming the ... Read more

Kenneth and Eugene discuss the Starhunter Redux episode Becoming Shiva and ask the question, are the terrorists playing Grand Master-level chess or deaf, dumb, and blind pinball? Episode Synopsis In a disused, restricted section of Ring Shepard Station, in orbit around Saturn, Salvatore and Nailson, two terrorists from Terra’s Children plant a bomb, and they ... Read more

John and Eugene ponder if eggs might have chains in the Rainbow’s Egg and marvel at the ejaculating alien in Challenge from the Year 2020. The Rainbow’s Egg Synopsis Two truckers are transporting a highly dangerous vaguely egg-shaped container of enriched uranium to a new industrial city in the country. They see blooming bamboo, which ... Read more

We kick off our Series Two of Bugs coverage with the two-part openers “What Goes Up…” and “…Must Come Down.” (In that same order.) Simon and Eugene discuss Bugs. What Goes Up… Synopsis Because I refuse to call them “Gizmos,” Team Bugs have been called in by the Space Technology Agency or STA to ensure ... Read more

Percy gets some lovin’ from a spaceman. Kenneth and Eugene discuss.

Tick tock, goes the clock.  It’s the penultimate 13th Doctor adventure, Legend of the Sea Devils.  Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis The year is 1807, and the infamous pirate Zhen Yi Sao is assaulting a statue of a sea devil over the protestations of one of the locals.  The statute cracks, and out pops ... Read more

This week we look at two more episodes of Ultra Q.  Garamon makes a surprise return in Garamon Counterattacks.  Will he be less derpy? In the 1/8 Project, Yuriko accidentally undergoes “voluntary” over-population reduction. John and Eugene discuss. Garamon Counterattacks Episode Synopsis A strange man approaches the Astronomical Physics Lab at night.  He uses a ... Read more

Is there room for miracles in Dr. Ian Hood, Scientist’s worldview?  No.  Simon and Eugene discuss Miracle. Episode Synopsis In Clayton, the police, acting on behalf of social services, take a child, Alfie, away from his father and proceed with emergency tumor removal surgery against the father’s wishes.  He’s been treating the boy with magic ... Read more

Callie has been shot. Kenneth and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis Travis and Callie are setting up to take in a smuggler named Strasser, but things go south when he recognizes Callie and shoots her.  She’s in a bad way and Travis doesn’t take her to the nearest ER, he takes her back to the ancient ... Read more

How does an investigation of the British Brain Drain turn into an expose on a secret US/USSR space program? Find out what is Alternative 3 as John and Eugene discuss this 1977 program. Synopsis Anglia Television’s science affairs program, Science Report presents the results months-long investigation, initially into the brain drain effecting Britain’s science community. ... Read more

Temperatures drop in Tokyo as an old friend returns and an exploration of the dangers of the power of gold. John and Eugene discuss Tokyo Ice Age & Kanegon’s Cocoon. Tokyo Ice Age Episode Synopsis It is a beautiful sunny summer’s day at Haneda airport when first a jet runs into trouble because its flaps are ... Read more

Climate Change and cryptography go hand in hand like seashells and fractals, and Dr. Ian Hood, Government Scientist soon finds out. Simon and Eugene discuss Kryptos. Episode Synopsis Richard Adams is a man who likes to walk on the beach, study shells, talk to himself, and run away from would-be assassins.  He also happens to ... Read more

Episode Synopsis Marcus and Callie have been duped into a team-building exercise by Travis.  It doesn’t work.  There’s no Marcus or Callie in Team Marcus and Callie. While not team building they encounter Taryn, an old friend of Marcus.  Long ago, on the mean city streets, they were vagabond, drug-addicts, doing whatever needed to be ... Read more

Movie Synopsis Somewhere in a mountain in Colorado, Dr. Charles Forbin flips the switch and activates the United States’ most secret and ambition project ever: Colossus – a huge impenetrable supercomputer That takes over the US missile arsenal. The goal of the project, to create an infallible, emotionless defensive system that will make sure human ... Read more

An ancient bird returns from the past and a monster from space arrives. John and Eugene discuss “I Saw a Bird” and “Garadama” I Saw a Bird – Synopsis It is nighttime at the zoo, and something is disturbing the animals.  It’s disturbing a zookeeper, too, as he cringes in terror. The next morning, guards ... Read more

The UK is on the verge of a pandemic which could killed 100s of thousands of people.  Government pandemic preparedness is abysmal, and the citizen’s compliance with necessary health directives is a joke.  Can Government Scientist Ian Hood save the day single-handedly?  Also, zombies? Simon and Eugene discuss Containment. Episode Synopsis Workers in a church ... Read more

Two lovers, two bounty hunters, two ex-Raiders… one of them is Travis Montana.  None of it is Shakespeare. Kenneth and Eugene discuss Star Crossed. Episode Synopsis The Dakota Clan, lead by Dakota 79, is buying a Thorium weapon.  Of course there’s no honor amongst thieves and so the sellers try to double cross the buyers ... Read more

In April of 2020 we did a live-stream video episode of Fusion Patrol on YouTube featuring our discussion on the movie, The Black Scorpion. (Link to YouTube video.) …and here it is for your audio enjoyment. John and Eugene discuss. Synopsis In the year 1957, in Mexico, a volcano forms near the small village of ... Read more

This week it’s two more episodes of Ultra Q, as John and Eugene look at the torturously-named (in English) The Underground Super Express Goes West, and the less-torturously-named, Balloonga. The Underground Super Express Goes West Synopsis At a rather futuristic-looking Tokyo station, our cast of characters assemble.  Yuri is there for the inaugural run of ... Read more