Fusion Patrol

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 error doesn’t lead to nuclear war.   The Uni...

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 at the zoo discover that all of the animals have busted out of th...

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 are just busting things up and hau...

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 and the buyers are just fine with that because they wanted them dead a...

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 San Lorenzo and grows to 9,000 ft in just a few days.   The earthquakes and lava ar...

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 the Super-Express to the West, a 4...

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, and a suspect, in the form of a highly-religious car...

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 Eugene discuss the series two Starhunter Red...

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 Year’s Eve, it’s only been a few weeks since the Lupari put a shield...

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 an old man is awakened by the sound of someone breaking into a nearby greenhouse.   He sees a fig...

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 being held, presided over by a goat-masked high priest and priestess, the burn...

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 A long-imprisoned villain called Swarm escapes imprisonment. A woman living an ordinary...

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 to buy out a controlling interest in his small company.  ...

This week John and Eugene look at two rather different episodes of Ultra Q with tales of a child’s fantasy world and a modern-day Tarzan – who fights monsters.  Join us as examine Grow Up! Little Turtle & S.O.S. Mt. Fuji. Grow Up! Little Turtle Episode Synopsis At school a boy named Taro isn’t paying attention to his school work.   He’s measuring his turtle.   No, thats not a euphe...

Five episodes into the six and we’re still piling new storylines on. It’s our compressed reaction to Doctor Who Flux, Chapter 5, Survivors of the Flux.

Galaxy 4 is back from oblivion via animated recreation!  Simon and Eugene take a second look at this third series, first Doctor story. For our original take, see our 2016 episode (259 – Doctor Who – Galaxy Four) . Story Synopsis The Doctor, Vickie, and Steven land on what appears to be a dead planet, but soon the TARDIS is being investigated by small robots.   Vickie coins the name Chu...

The Weeping Angels are back and creepier than ever. Does this represent the high-water mark for Chibnall’s era?

A bonus double-set of Starhunter Redux action this week as we bring to the close of our series 1 coverage as Dante learns the old adage, “sometimes wanting is better than having.” Kenneth and Eugene discuss. Travis – Episode Synopsis We start following the events of the previous episode, although many hours or days have elapsed.   Dante has Caravaggio using a probe to see if they...

The Flux is back, and this time it’s brought up more flashbacks that never happened. Have COVID restrictions changed the way television is conceived and shot?

Who knew Team Bugs had such depths of athletic abilities?   That will come in handy as they enter the seedy world of performance-enhancing drugs.   Simon and Eugene discuss A Sporting Chance. Episode Synopsis Ed, it turns out, is some sort of black belt in a curiously mixed mode martial art.   He is at Dr. Defreitas’ school on an assignment.   His job, to beat up students, which, with some difficu...

Our Compressed Fusion reaction quick look at Chapter 2 of Doctor Who Flux, War of the Sontarans. Things are looking up for Doctor Who, if not so much for the Sontarans.

A pair of Ultra Q episodes this week as we travel from the lush jungle vegetation of Tokyo to the frozen wastelands of Antartica as deadly prehistoric flowers and creatures threaten mankind. John and Eugene discuss Mammoth Flower & Peguila is Here. Mammoth Flower Synopsis: On an empty street, a policeman meets an untimely end as he spies a strange underground disturbance and then part of a bui...

BONUS EPISODE A quick look, first reaction to the Halloween Apocalypse.

There’s a new circus in town and you’ll die laughing. Fusion Patrol movie night finds John and Eugene looking at the cult film, Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Movie Synopsis: Crescent Cove is just another example of a small rural American college town. It’s a nice little, until the circus big top arrives. Mike and Debbie are making out at the Top of the World, the local make-out place when they s...