Fusion Patrol

Simon and Eugene discuss why you can’t go back in time to before you went back in time, the possibilities for using a time machine for committing crimes rather than solving them, and the messages hidden in Crime Traveller, which prove the whole thing takes place in an alternate reality. Episode Synopsis Professor Hayward is ... Read more

John and Eugene look at George Pal’s 1950 Technicolor space extravaganza, Destination Moon. It’s the film about a plucky band of industrialists who shoot for the moon so they can save the U.S. Space Program by extracting massive government contracts. Synopsis At White Sands, Dr. Cargraves and General Thayer, Ret. are about to witness the ... Read more

This week Kenneth and Eugene begin looking at a new series, Jarheads in Space! Sometimes called Space Above and Beyond, the failed 1995 Fox space war series from two of the creatives behind the X-Files. First up is the pilot episode, known as Pilot. It’s the episode where a rag-tag group of new recruits learns ... Read more

For four years, our coverage has endured the wilderness of space. And now we near the end of one of our journey. The Galactica has, at last, found Earth. This week we begin our look at Battlestar Galactica Season 2, aka Galactica 1980, John and Eugene discuss the three-part pilot movie, Galactica Discover Earth. Episode ... Read more

Simon and Eugene discuss whether time is a sentient trickster, the ramifications for gambling laws when time travel is possible, and we reminisce about the era of fax machines when mobile phones were as common as jacuzzis. Episode Synopsis Jeff Slade, still in the doghouse with Holly Turner, has brought flowers to apologize.  Danny, the ... Read more

John and Eugene look at the TV movie starring Andy Griffith that inspired countless school children to shoot for the moon: It’s 1979’s Salvage (sometimes referred to as Salvage-1), where the owner of a junkyard builds and launches a rocket ship. Its destination: The Moon. Synopsis Harry Broderick is a highly-successful scrap and salvage man ... Read more

This week it’s the moment we’ve all been looking forward to – the culmination of all the story-arc goodness when all the loose ends are tied up neatly with a bow in the two-part series finale of Starhunter Redux in Hyperspace parts I & II. Kenneth and Eugene discuss. Hyperspace I Episode Synopsis Marcus contemplates ... Read more

John and Eugene look at the final episode of Logan’s Run entitled Stargate. When aliens from another world invade Earth, Logan and Jessica are put on ice, figuratively, and Rem is just spare parts, literally. Episode Synopsis Driving through the countryside, Rem and his pets come across a seemingly-injured man who appears to be freezing, ... Read more

Simon and Eugene discuss whether the Uk government has a time machine, we talk about referencing the TARDIS and the Doctor Who theme, and we discuss the technical implications of “…if they’d had mobile phones in this show to time travel with.” Episode Synopsis A dangerous gang known as the Apostles is meticulously planning a ... Read more

John and Eugene look at George Pal’s 1951 end-of-the-world film When Worlds Collide and ask, “They really wouldn’t blow up the Earth, would they?” Synopsis Dr. Bronson, an astronomer at the Mount Kenna, South Africa Observatory, has made an unsettling discovery.  He calls in reliable freelance pilot and courier, Dave Randall, to delivery photographic observations ... Read more