Fusion Patrol

Caravaggio is damaged, and Percy replaces him with Kate, the crew’s new holographic pal that’s fun to play with, designed by Percy. Would could possibly go wrong? Find out as Kenneth and Eugene look at the Starhunter Redux episode: Kate. Episode Synopsis Percy is having a conniption fit.   She wanted to use some hot water during the routine water maintenance period and somehow blames Caravaggio fo...

Simon and Eugene discuss their previous encounters with this missing story, pure historicals and historical accuracy, and the editorial decisions around reconstructing a story where there is insufficient original material to convey the narrative. Foreword You’ll often hear that the world you create in the mind’s eye when listening to audio adventures is in every way superior to what can be created...

John and Eugene tackle two more episodes of Logan’s Run.  This week we contemplate the nature of good and evil and look at another of the masterpieces from the pen of legendary writer Harlan Ellison. Half Life Synopsis Logan and the gang encounter electronic interference in their car and then get captured by a bunch of savages with nets.   It’s just another day on Logan’s Run. The savages, c...

Simon and Eugene discuss the similarities between Holly Turner and Romana I, whether you could plug a time machine into a 30 amp ring main, and what the conviction rate is like in the world of Crime Traveller. Episode Synopsis Holly and Slade are at the bank.   Holly is looking for a loan to pay for her expensive electronics addiction and Slade is tagging along because… well, who wouldn’t want to...

The Divinity Cluster rears its ugly head once more, and like night follows day, so does The Orchard.  This time their subject is the human guinea pig, Travis Montana.  Kenneth and Eugene discuss The Prisoner. Episode Synopsis Travis is being a grumpy puss, and the events that make him a grumpy puss haven’t even happened yet.   The Trans-Utopian has arrived at Clarke Station to pick up Jane Doe, an...

This week John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Logan’s Run.  In the Innocent: Take one awkward, socially-isolated teenage girl, place her in close proximity to a TV series’ hunky lead, and watch the television inevitable happen.  Oh, did I mention she has superpowers?  Then, in Man out of Time: A time-traveling researcher from before the holocaust arrives searching for the caus...

Just in time to spread some holiday cheer, John and Eugene are taking a look at 1968’s The Green Slime. Synopsis A member of the crew aboard the UNSC Gamma 3 space station utters those inevitably fateful words, “nothing exciting ever happens around here,” and fast than you can say, “sir, I’ve got something on the screen,” the asteroid Flora, six million tons of rock, is hurtling towards a ce...

Just in time for Christmas, it’s a new series here on Fusion Patrol!  (And this is one we’ve been looking forward to for a very long time – for at least seven years!) We’re beginning our journey through Anthony Horowitz’s 1997 time-traveling* detective series, Crime Traveller. Simon and Eugene get our first look at our heroes and the premise of this oft-forgotten BBC...

WARNING: Subjectively, I feel like this may be the harshest episode of Fusion Patrol ever.  It may not be suitable for listeners of a nervous disposition. Dimension hopping? Time displacement? Body/Soul swapping? We don’t know what’s going on here, and we daresay no one else does, either.  Kenneth and Eugene ponder A Stitch in TIme. Episode Synopsis Travis has a weird topsy-survey drea...

Two episodes.  First, John and Eugene ponder which of Logan and Jessica’s biological functions inconveniences him the most in The Collectors.  Second, in Capture, they discuss how many times they’ve both seen TV remakes of The Most Dangerous Game. The Collectors Synopsis The legendary quality of 1970s American cars shines as the solar car has broken down in the desert.   Rem is repairi...

Simon and Eugene discuss what happens when the police  finally appear at a crime scene in Bugs, the best way to deal with any inconvenient build-up of anti-matter, and whether the definition given of viruses adequately explains the infection of man by machine.  (Spoiler: it doesn’t) Episode Synopsis: The Bureau of Weapons Military types are mildly distressed to learn that CyberAX, a top-secr...

When someone starts blowing up planets in another solar system, it’s Travis and the Gang to the rescue! Kenneth and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis Evil Scientists aboard Keres Station are doing evil things, in this case, blowing up a planet – in secret. Elsewhere, the Trans-Utopian experiences a space earthquake which decreases the efficiency of their anti-matter by 50%.   This is qu...

Join John and Eugene as they journey to fantastical sights and dangers of the 24th century as we follow Logan’s Run. Episode Synopsis In the year 2319, 200 years after a devastating nuclear war, the people in the City of Domes live a perfect life.   Perfect, that is until their 30th birthday. That day they must die or renew into a new body on Carousel. Logan 5 is a Sandman with doubts, and w...

Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor’s era comes to a close. Simon and Eugene conclude a two-part discussion of the fall of the Thirteenth.

Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor’s era comes to a close. Simon and Eugene begin a two-part discussion of the fall of the Thirteenth. Episode Synopsis The enhanced Time Lord Cybermen are attacking a train in space carrying some very special cargo, a small child.   The Doctor, Yaz, and Dan do some derring do and rescue the train, but fail to stop the Cybermen from taking the child. In 2022, Tegan...

John and Eugene take a look at what may be the last of Hollywood’s Pre-Star Wars Sci-Fi spectacles.  It all changes after this one, folks. Synopsis The Domed City is a closed- oasis in a world destroyed by war.   Logan 5 is one of the elite Sandmen who enforce the ultimate law of the Domed City:   That life must end on your 30th birthday unless you are renewed in the ritual of Carrousel.   A...

For some of us, Star Trek is where it started, and where Star Trek started was The Cage.  To celebrate our 600th episode of Fusion Patrol, Simon and Eugene go where no podcast has ever gone before (I’m pretty sure about that claim, I couldn’t find any other podcasts that have ever taken a look at Star Trek, which honestly is a little strange.) We discuss pushing the moral and technical...

Simon and Eugene split hairs over whether the Spitznbergen Separatist are terrorists or extortionists, we discuss sending a remote-controlled dog to do a robot’s job, and the connections between the worlds of Bugs and Batman. Episode Synopsis Three evil motorcycle-riding Power Rangers stage a raid on the Austin Institute.   Inside, Dr. Siegal and his assistant, Dr. Kim are working on an exci...

It’s the sequel to the episode you couldn’t get enough of!  Kenneth and Eugene discuss, Supermax Redux. Episode Synopsis Travis and Callie return to the Trans-Utopian with a prisoner.   They’re carrying a crazy person who hears voices from the Quantum Federation in his ears, which he claims are technologically enhanced.   He’s nuts, so they don’t bother to check them.   He’s on his way...

We bid a fond adieu to Ultra Q as John and Eugene look at the final episode, Open Up! and ask the question: What have they done with Ippei? Episode Synopsis After 27 episodes, finally , Yuriko acts on her feelings for Jun, and, indirectly, Ippei.   She entices Jun to ditch Ippei so they can run off together and have some carefree time alone. Ippei sees a flying train. Driving, Jun and Yuriko discu...

Simon and Eugene discuss the ending, again , of the Doctor Who animation series, where animation improves on live action, and we look at what missing serials from Doctor Who remain unanimated. Episode Synopsis In the Himalayas, at a mountain camp, a strange creature enters the camp and leaves one man dead.   Shortly thereafter, somewhere else on the mountain, the TARDIS arrives.   The Doctor has c...

Simon and Eugene discuss explaining quantum mechanics badly, Simon explains quantum mechanics badly and we talk about a plot so convoluted it involves buying your way out of prison by buying the prison. Episode Synopsis Doctor Neumann and his daughter Cassandra visit, at gunpoint, an archaeological site in the country of Naobi(?) They are brought before strongman General Maliq, who hopes to take c...

Beauty is only skin deep, or so they say, so what’s a little plastic here and there?  Grounds for murder, that’s what! Kenneth and Eugene discuss Skin Deep. Episode Synopsis An episode in two stories Leena’s tale. Back before Callie was in the military, she went to university, and there she knew a woman she wasn’t friends with, named Leena.   Now they’ve re-connected, just in time for...

Boxing and Kaiju are not two words you’d think go together.  Do they?  You decide as we discuss Blazing Victory.  Then Jun and Ippei get lost in another dimension with a dangerous criminal and giant walrus as we explore the Disappearance of Flight 206. John and Eugene discuss. Blazing Victory Episode Synopsis Featherweight boxer Dynamite Joe is… well, “dynamite!” Not only does he have an unb...

Join us as we discuss the adventures of Dr. Who, Tom Campbell, Susan, and Louisa as they travel to the far-flung future Earth and meet some old friends.  Simon and Eugene discuss. This episode, originally released to our Patrons in 2020, is being released in honor of the late Bernard Cribbins, who recently passed. Synopsis Tom Campbell, constable, bumbles into a smash and grab jewelry store robber...