Fusion Patrol

After this episode, nothing will ever be the same.  Well, we can all hope against hope that they can fix this mess. Simon and Eugene discuss Fugitive of the Judoon. Episode Synopsis:  It’s Gloucester, modern day, and in what is not at all a contrived coincidence or metaphor, it’s Ruth Clayton’s birthday, but apart from ... Read more

Quick!  Name two famous inventors from the turn of the Twentieth Century. If you picked Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, you are right!  However, in this episode, Simon and Eugene talk about Nikola Tesla’s Night or Terror. Episode Synopsis: The Twentieth Century is dawning and Nikolas Tesla is having a bad day.  He’s trying to ... Read more

54 orphan planets in all, 54 orphan planets.  If another planet should happen to fall, 55 orphan planets in all. Simon and Eugene discuss Orphan 55. Episode Synopsis: Graham wins an all-inclusive vacation at Tranquility Spa, unfortunately, the vacation begins before they can adequately prepare as they are immediately teleported from the TARDIS to the ... Read more

Doctor Who returned to our screens in 2020 with the two-part opener, Spyfall. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis: Part One Operatives are attacked all over the world by strange creatures pushing through the walls. The Doctor and her fam (and if I never hear the word “fam” again it will be too soon) are ... Read more

On September 13th, 2019, Big Finish productions launched a new line of Space: 1999 audio adventures, starting with a re-imagining of the original series pilot, Breakaway. Eugene and John take a listen and decide if our wandering moon’s adventures are beginning again, or should they already be over. Episode Synopsis: The year is 1999 in ... Read more

Doomwatch tackles mustard gas… and also the implications of scientifically prolonging human life.  Simon and Eugene discuss In the Dark. Episode Synopsis:  A young man is improbably going for a swim in the waters off the Scottish coast.  He encounters a strange yellow substance floating in the water and dies.  He has been killed by mustard ... Read more

Sometimes you just need to get away from it all – and sometimes you succeed. John and Eugene discuss the Outsiders Episode Synopsis:  Important research continues at Moonbase 3, but Helen Smith has concerns about two of the scientists.  Drs. Partness and Conway.  Although Partness is working on important fuel research, he’s working at a desperate ... Read more

It’s time some things got cleaned up.  You might say it’s time to take out the Trash. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  Things are looking bad for Mal, he’s naked, stranded in the desert.  Oh wait, the storytellers can’t create appropriate tension without a flashback.

It’s time to say, “not yeti on the underground,” with a touch of disappointment, for while this episode does explore terrors underground, there is nary a yeti in sight. Simon and Eugene discuss the Web of Fear. Episode Synopsis: The Minister of Health and Duncan, Permanent Secretary at a mysteriously connected Ministry that somehow occasionally ... Read more

This is a short special announcement to give you an idea of what’s coming up through the rest of 2019 and into 2020. Throughout the month of December 2019 we will be continuing our coverage of Firefly, Doomwatch and Moonbase 3. We’ll be kicking off January 2020 with the special episode where we add Big ... Read more

Everyone has their Achilles Heel.  Can you make a compelling space story on that idea?  John and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  On the surface of the moon, scientists Adam Blaney and Bill Knight are working on an antenna installation.  Bill begins to act delirious, his oxygen supply running out.  Adam rushes to him, shares his ... Read more

Wash just wants some male bonding time with Mal.  He gets more than he bargained for in War Stories.  Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  Following the success of their raid on Ariel, the crew of the Firefly are sitting pretty with cash in their pockets.  Simon and River are especially buoyed because he has ... Read more

This week on Doomwatch – the dangers of jet lag!  I’m not making that up.  Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  It is 1971, during the Golden Age of jet air travel, when luxurious planes plied the skies serving Victorian-era foods in aspic… and it is at the tail end of a series of rapid ... Read more

Simon and Eugene continue their two-part discussion of the classic of Science Fiction cinema,  Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like ... Read more

Time for another celebration of some of the classics of Science Fiction cinema.  This time: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Simon and Eugene discuss. Movie Synopsis:  Rick Deckard is a former Blade Runner: A special cop charged with retiring (read: hunting down and killing) rogue Replicants.  Replicants are artificial humans that are used as slave ... Read more

Is there life on the moon?  Is it killing the crew of Moonbase 3?  Should we take this premise seriously? John and Eugene discuss Behemoth. Episode Synopsis:  A team of astronauts are working on the surface, conducting experiments in the Mare Frigoris.  There is some strange disturbance from under the surface.  Later, when they fail ... Read more

The Serenity gang’s master plotter, Simon, plans a high-stakes heist on the planet Ariel.  Meanwhile, perfidy is afoot. Simon and Eugene discuss Ariel. Episode Synopsis:  The Serenity arrives on the planet Ariel, one of the Core Planets in the Alliance.  While most of the crew are hoping to spend some time off the boat, Mal ... Read more

Medicine has come a long way since leeches and eye of newt… or has it? Simon and Eugene discuss the Iron Doctor. Episode Synopsis: In a hospital, George, an old man is ecstatically happy.  He’s just received word that his first great-grandchild has been born and has been named after him.  Better still, the child ... Read more

This week, we start looking at a new series:  The 1973 BBC science fiction series Moonbase 3 by Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks. John and Eugene discuss. Since this program is not readily available on DVD or streaming, at time of publication you can watch the episodes on this YouTube Playlist – Moonbase 3 Episode ... Read more

The Serenity and her crew have got some serious problems. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis: Two stories told through a series of flashbacks: