Fusion Patrol

John and Eugene start looking at a new series: 1975’s Invisible Man starring David McCallum. Our series beings here with a look at the pilot TV Movie from May, 1975. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "fusionpatrol-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "search"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_default_search_ph...

Five Hundred episodes and we’ve landed on Altair IV, the Forbidden Planet. For our Big 500, Simon and Eugene discuss the impact this ground-breaking film had on things to come and talk about some of the things that have not aged so well. Surely, you’re not going to bring up the overt sexism? Yes, we are, and don’t call us Shirley. Movie Synopsis In the 22nd century, the United Pl...

Lucretia’s ex-husband shows up as an on-the-run fugitive from the Orchard and its sexy times galore (in her dreams only.) Kenneth and Eugene discuss Past Lives  Synopsis: On Saturn, a man, Eric, is apprehended for outstanding gambling debts.   His debt has been sold to the BioMycron corporation.   They use their debtors as human guinnea pigs, and he is injected, without warning with a substa...

Let’s face it, party crashers are rats, but what happens when your party crashers really are ratus ratus, and what can Barty do about it? Simon and Eugene discuss the episode, During Barty’s Party. Synopsis: During Barty’s Party Starring: Elizabeth Sellars, Anthony Bate Written by: Nigel Kneale Directed by: Don Taylor Date: 23 Oct 1976 We open on a romantic scene.   An open-top t...

Our look at the Star Cops TV series comes to an end with the ninth and final episode, Little Green Men and Other Martians.  The Star Cops are on the frontier of a bold new expansion, to the planet Mars, but how will the discovery of life on Mars impact that? John and Eugene discuss.  Synopsis: On Mars, a survey teams finds something extraordinary.   Soon, investigative reporter Daniel Larwood arri...

It is the year 1992, at 9:25 PM GMT on Halloween eve when an innocuous bit of reality TV goes out on the BBC looking at the spooky goings on at a purportedly haunted house in Northolt, London.  As the night wears on, the events get stranger and stranger and they begin to spill out all over the country.  It is the first National Seance. Simon, a big fan, and Eugene, who has never seen it before, di...

The Raiders are after children again, this time a young boy who has been experimented on by the Orchard. Kenneth and Eugene discuss Frozen – the episode of Starhunter Redux, not the Disney movie. Synopsis: Frozen Starring: Michael Paré, Claudette Roche, Tanya Allen Written by: Lorne Wise Directed by: François Basset Date: 20 Jul 2018 Dr. Devin dreams of white corridors, surgical tables, sini...

Simon and Eugene begin and exploration of a new series here for Fusion Patrol.  We start our look at the 1976 ITV series Beasts, by Nigel Kneale.  This anthology series concentrates on… you guessed it… beasts.  But they may not always be the beasts you expect. First up, Special Offer.  Has the mascot the Briteway supermarket come to life?  Or could it be something more sinister? Synops...

Routine psychiatric evaluation of people living and working in the hostile moon sounds straightforward and reasonable, but this is Star Cops, so why would you think that? John and Eugene discuss Other People’s Secrets.   Episode Synopsis: On a return flight to the moon, Devis and Kenzy are rudely awakened by Spring’s latest hi-tech cop gadget: A phone. On the moon, Alexi is introducing...

Have we hit the nadir yet?   Episode Synopsis Rudolfo’s latest assignment comes with a VHS copy of a snuff film. On it, a woman seemingly talks a man to death while babbling about a mother’s love. Dante’s job might be to bring her in.  [expand title=”Click here to see the complete synopsis”] Cut to next scene where Dante has brought her in, along with her son, Ajit, to Lucretia’s...

Doomwatch is due for a revival.  Is this attempted pilot for a new series up to the task? Simon and Eugene discuss the Winter Angel. Movie Synopsis: A man named Sam is spying on the movements of some shipping containers.   He makes a report, via telephone box, to the answering machine of an unknown confederate detailing that more containers have arrived and that one of them is “hot.”   Before he c...

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 embryos. [expand title=”More…”...

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, when he insists on a DNA scan to verify his identity, Belle, Kavon’s beautiful ass...

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 team member, Dr. Dell Shaw, are reviewing the situation with regard...

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 moon on automatic, but the crew are not responding to moon traffic cont...

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 overtake the hijacked ship, Petrakis, leader of the crimin...

“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. [expand title=”More…” swaptitle=”...

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 launch failure results in a nuclear waste freighter crashing on the pad...

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 maximum privacy protocols.   There he...

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. Hethe...

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 owner or salvage of the scrap.   They’re also not above fudging the lo...

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 Dante refusing to talk to each other like a...

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 then the vicar collapses.   In the p...

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 the mill as a computer system goes haywire blowing up a chemical plant, but it’s not a total loss, it gives the BBC stunt team a chance...

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 co-worker Lucretia Scott, woman with a secret agenda, Percy Montana, child in d...