This week, Simon and Eugene look at Season 4, Episode 2 of Bugs, Sacrifice to Science. 

They discuss the naming of government security departments, the difference between boathouses and houseboats, and whether you could be excused for not trusting scientists if you only ever meet the mad ones. 

A washed-up comedian, Buddy Hackett, arrives for a show, and there’s a disaster…

No, that description might just be a little too meta.

A washed-up comedian, Lenny Hacker, is en route for a show, and there’s a disaster. The Space Rangers team has to rescue him from a notorious prison planet.

Kenneth and Eugene discuss The Entertainer.

Investigating a mystery on the planet of the slave girls. Tough job, and only one man in the 25th century is up to it: Capt. Buck Rogers!

John and Eugene discuss Planet of the Slave Girls.

Between seasons 1 and 2 of Space: 1999, Gerry Anderson took another stab at space opera, this time with an eye towards teachiing children about Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.

How well did that plan go?

Find out as Ben and Eugene discuss The Day After Tomorrow. (AKA, Into Infinity)

Simon and Eugene pick up where they left off on their coverage of bugs, this time with the opening episode of series 4, Absent Friends.

Where they rant… er… discuss recasting, retcons, recasting, cliffhangers, and recasting.

This week, Kenneth and Eugene watch as Capt. Boon makes mistake after mistake after mistake as they muddle their way through the Space Rangers episode, Death Before Dishonor.

At long last, John and Eugene begin the much-requested coverage of the epitome of 1970s space opera: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century!

This week they look at the theatrical release and they spare some thoughts for the television re-edit.

This week, Simon and Eugene finally come to the end of the 2025 season of Doctor Who and the end of the Gatwa era, when they look at the final two episodes, Wish World and The Reality War.

They discuss Ncuti Gatwa’s performance as the Doctor, compare the Deadly Assassin with the Reality War, whether it would have been more or less tasteless to joke about Ernest Borgnine’s death if he was still alive, if it makes Dimensions in Time canon, and oh, so many more things than this story actually deserves.

“Barbarella, pychodella, there’s a kind of cockleshell about you…”

It began as a scandalous comic book, then Dino De Laurentiis thought, “hey, they oughta make a movie about that.”

…and now, Ben and Eugene have to watch it and discuss it.

It’s the 1968 movie, Barbarella starring Jane Fonda.

This week on Fusion Patrol, Simon and Eugene look at the 2025 season of Doctor Who, episode number six, the Interstellar Song Contest.

They discuss parallels between the ice in the Doctor’s heart and the Time Lord Victorious, the influence of Diamonds Are Forever on this episode, why Eugene’s local sports team is the New Zealand national cricket team, and you can listen to us googling 1970s Eurovision winners.

[Go Black Caps!]