Fusion Patrol

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

This week we start looking at a new series: The 2006 ITV science-speculation series, Eleventh Hour starring Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen.  In the first episode, Resurrection, the ethics of human cloning is explored. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis: A car chase lead police to discovering what appears to be dozens of human remains, ... Read more

Travis Montana is lost back in time and hyperspace (yay!)  Lucretia is missing without a mention (meh.) Percy has emerged from hyperspace 15 years later, still alive (boo!) and Travis Montana has been been genetically resequenced and is now a “successful” bounty hunter.  Yes, it’s time for a rebirth to the Starhunter saga.  Kenneth and ... Read more

Episode 559 before 558?  What the heck?  Blame a Time loop. Blame Chibnall.  Why not? The 2022 New Year’s Day Doctor Who Special Eve of the Daleks is here and the year is off to… a start. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis Warning: The following plot synopsis contains both editorializing and swearing. It’s New ... Read more

Everyone knows how terrifying honey can be, but who knew a haunted house with giant spiders could be a thing? John and Eugene discuss two more episodes on Ultra Q.  This week it’s Terror of the Sweet Honey & Baron Spider. Terror of the Sweet Honey Synopsis It is a dark and stormy night, when ... Read more

Just in time for a very merry Fusion Patrol Xmas!  It’s K•9 and Company – the failed 1981 Doctor Who spin-off pilot starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and John Leeson as the voice of K•9. Simon and Eugene discuss this holiday classic! Synopsis: In the village near Chipping Norton, a Black Mass is ... Read more

We conclude our two-part look at Doctor Who Flux as if it were a single six-part story.  At six hours of television, it rivals the length of even the longest classic Doctor Who series.  There’s a lot to unpack and the unpacking ends here. Simon and Eugene continue to discuss Doctor Who Flux.  

We start our two-part look at Doctor Who Flux as if it were a single six-part story.  At six hours of television, it rivals the length of even the longest classic Doctor Who series.  There’s a lot to unpack and the unpacking begins here. Simon and Eugene discuss Doctor Who Flux. Serial Synopsis Chapter 1 ... Read more

Series 1 of Bugs comes to its dramatic conclusion with some really strong nostalgia about how computers used to be… and also how they didn’t used to be.  Simon and Eugene discuss Pulse. Episode Synopsis A businessman is brought before Patrick Marcel, venture capitalist, of sorts.  He wants to make him an offer he can’t refuse ... Read more