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Each week, we look at one episode of a classic (or not-so-classic) science fiction TV series and discuss it. Come join the conversation.

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    • May 31, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • weekly NEW EPISODES
    • 56m AVG DURATION
    • 553 EPISODES


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    738 – Barbarella

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 44:12


    “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.

    737 – Doctor Who – The Interstellar Song Contest

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2025 81:13


    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 ... Read more

    736 – Doctor Who – The Story & The Engine

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 64:30


    The Doctor lands in Lagos, and Simon and Eugene land on their thoughts about the Story & the Engine. The consider which continents on Earth the Doctor tends to visit, barbershops in television culture, and give their Fusion Patrol literary recommendations.

    735 – Doctor Who – Lucky Day

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 71:30


    Is it Simon and Eugene's lucky day as they discuss Lucky Day? They argue over the capability of this incarnation of UN.I.T., they discuss the history of the Think Tank organization and whether Kate Stewart sends the Doctor monthly reports.

    734 – Doctor Who – The Well

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 68:56


    Simon and Eugene discuss whether the Well is needed to be a sequel and which episode it should have been a sequel to, whether twice is too many times to play Britney Spears' Toxic in two decades, and whether dialogue on TV used to be easier to hear.

    733 – Doctor Who – Lux

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 70:35


    Doctor Who 2025 barrels on with episode 2, Lux, as Simon and Eugene discuss whether animations have depth, the missing merchandise from this episode, whether they're seeing a new season template emerging, and how the new TARDIS wardrobe works.

    732 – Doctor Who – The Robot Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 89:42


    Simon and Eugene kick off the 2025 season of Doctor who looking at the episode, The Robot Revolution, where they discuss meta-paradoxes, RTD using Moffatisms, and how you count hyphenated words when you are missing every ninth word.

    731 – Doctor Who – The Savages

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025


    Simon and Eugene discuss different forms of mind transference, they rate Steven's departure against other companions, and they discuss what aspects of animation take us out of a animated reconstructed story. Come join the conversation as they look at the newly-released animated Doctor Who story, the Savages.

    730 – Space Rangers – The Replacements

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 36:09


    Kenneth and Eugene discuss “…so many pieces…” of this episode of Space Rangers.

    729 – Star Maidens – Creatures of the Mind & The Enemy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025


    John and Eugene come to the end of Star Maidens with the final two episodes. In Creatures of the Mind, where they discuss the implications of what happens if AI learned to move without the aid of wheels or legs. In The Enemy, they ask the question, “was the whole point of this series leading ... Read more

    728 – Starcrash

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 77:37


    Cheap Star Wars ripoff, or a more brilliant parody than Space Balls? This week, Ben and Eugene look at the Roger Corman film, Starcrash!

    727 – Real Humans – The Code

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 70:10


    This week, Simon and Eugene look at the final episode of the first series of Real Humans, episode 10, The Code. They discuss the source of HuBot morality, how HuBot's having an old USB-A port is at least better than a Lightning port, why HuBots don't have laser eyes, and what the Swedish Actors Union ... Read more

    726 – Space Rangers – Banshees

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 46:31


    Eugene and Kenneth look at the next episode of Space Rangers, in which Boon and the gang go on an expedition to capture their most deadly enemy, a race of aliens they know virtually nothing about and they discover along the way that they have deadly sonic powers. Oh, so that's why they're called “banshees!” ... Read more

    725 – Star Maidens – The End of Time & Hideout

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025


    John and Eugene explore two more episodes of Star Maidens. First, the President of the planet Medusa dies and it is “The End of Time,” followed by Shem getting a girlfriend, who may just be cray cray in “Hideout.”

    724 – Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 57:03


    This week, it's movie night, and Ben and Eugene take a serious look at a movie about a giant flying turtle. It's 1995's Gamera: Guardian of the Universe!

    723 – Real Humans – Heritage

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025 90:13


    In this episode, Simon and Eugene look at Season 1, Episode 9 of Real Humans, Heritage. They discuss the Engman family melodrama, Hubot fire safety, and they reveal if they'd choose to be copied and put into a machine after they're dead.

    722 – Space Rangers – Fort Hope

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 57:50


    This Week, Kenneth and Eugene start a full-series look at Space Rangers with episode one, Fort Hope.

    721 – Star Maidens – The Perfect Couple – What Have They Done to the Rain?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 44:15


    John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Star Maidens. In The Perfect Couple, they find out what happens when bored surburan housewives get a load of the boys from Medusa, and in What Have the Done to the Rain? they ponder how stupid Rudy can be while at the same time being really ... Read more

    720 – Baffled!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2025 63:07


    This week, Ben and Eugene look at the 1972 British-American pilot movie Baffled!, a supernatural thriller starring Leonard Nimoy.

    719 – Real Humans – Make Haste

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 78:36


    This week, Simon and Eugene tackle Episode 8 of Real Humans: Make Haste. They discuss Hubots in Love, Hubot Humor, and Hubot Voltage Standards.

    718 – Space Above and Beyond – And If they Lay Us Down to Rest… & …Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 99:28


    Our coverage of Space: Above and Beyond concludes as Kenneth and Eugene discuss the final two-part season finale (and, as history records, also the series finale) episodes, “And If They Lay Us Down to Rest…” and “…Tell Ours Moms We Done Our Best.” They discuss this week's court-martial-able offenses, things that might have been if ... Read more

    717 – Star Maidens – The Trial & Test for Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2025 40:10


    This week, John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Star Maidens, The Trial, and Test for Love. They marvel at everyone's utter in these episodes.

    716 – Doctor Who – Joy to the World

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 77:15


    This week, Simon and Eugene look at the 2024 Doctor Who Christmas special, Joy to the World, where they discuss whether Christmas episodes can break all the show's usual rules, whether the TARDIS jukebox will be replaced by a chair, and how Doctor Who should treat the politics of the COVID lockdown rules.

    715 – Real Humans – Blind Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 58:52


    Simon and Eugene look at the Real Humans episode, Blind Love. They discuss legal statutes in alternative universe Sweden, constructive dismissal by Hubot, and whether the video site glimpsed in this episode is an alternate Swedish version of YouTube because they didn't dare to google whether Bigtubes is a real site. 

    714 – Space Above and Beyond – Sugar Dirt

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 44:46


    This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Season 1, Episode 21 of Space Above and Beyond, entitled Sugar Dirt. They look at bad historical analogies, check in on this week's contestant on Wheel of Court Martial and ask the question, “What has the 58th been eating for three months?”

    713 – Star Maidens – The Proton Storm & Kidnap

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 40:33


    Want to know what a proton storm is, or how big it is? You won't find out by watching the Star Maidens episode The Proton Storm, but you might by listening to John and Eugene discuss the episode. For the double the fun, they then turn their eye towards the episode Kidnap.

    712 – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2024 43:50


    John (suspicious name) and Eugene discuss that most 80's of 1980's cult films: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

    711 – Real Humans – Sly Leo

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2024 86:09


    This week, Simon and Eugene look at Season one, Episode six of Real Humans: Sly Leo. They discuss the current draw of parallel universe USB-A, the paradox of tolerance applied to free will for Hubots, translating smutty Hubot magazines, and downloading sex drives. …and, of course, sex with robots.

    710 – Space Above and Beyond – Stardust

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2024 38:46


    This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at the Space: Above and Beyond episode “Stardust” in which they consider the deeply offensive use of Native Americans in television and this episode in particular, consider, once again, the absolutely illogical incompetence of the Earth Forces' military strategies, and talk about the episode's pretentious yet somehow still inadequate ... Read more

    709 – Star Maidens – Nemesis & The Nightmare Cannon

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2024 43:08


    This week John and Eugene look at two episode of the Star Maidens. They discuss the episodes Nemesis and the Nightmare Cannon, and contemplate if the Medusans are supposed to be so smart, how come they cannot read a room? And they marvel at lightning done on a really small budget.

    708 – Real Humans – Power at Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2024 72:54


    On this week's episode, Simon and Eugene examine season one, episode five of Real Humans, Power at Heart. They discuss coincidences in the number of Hubot sex clubs in this Swedish city, computers programming computers, robots watching soap operas, and actually, finally, seeing some sex with robots.

    707 – Space Above and Beyond – R&R

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2024 42:30


    This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Episode 19 of Space Above and Beyond, R&R, where they ask, “Will people know Clint Eastwood in the year 2064?” “Do they save sex-ed class for the end of invitro school?” and “What power does W.C. Fields have over Colonel McQueen?” Also, this week, exclusively for our patrons ... Read more

    706 – Star Maidens – Escape to Paradise

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 32:52


    This week, John and Eugene begin looking at a new series: Star Maidens, a 1976 TV series co-produced by the United Kingdom and West Germany. It's a contemporary (for 1976) look at female equality through the lens of a planet run by women.

    705 – Real Humans – Semi-Human Rights

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2024 88:38


    This week, Simon and Eugene look at season one, episode four of Real Humans: Semi-human rights. They discuss non-human rights within the Swedish legal system, whether the uncanny valley is legally mandated, and whether HuBots are capable of actually lying or just crafty deception. Oh, and maybe they also mention sex with robots.

    704 – Shin Kamen Rider

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 41:01


    John and Eugene look at the third “Shin” reimaging movie of classic Japanese science fiction/fantasy properties. This week, it's 2023's Shin Kamen Rider. How well does a movie about human-grasshopper cyborg translate to the big screen?

    703 – Space Above and Beyond – Pearly

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2024 42:14


    This week, Fusion Patrol examines the 18th episode of Space Above and Beyond, entitled “Pearly,” where Kenneth and Eugene finally find out why Wang wasn't court-martialed at the end of Episode 9, why the space jarheads are too stupid to realize that the Chigs talk, and when discretion is the better part of valor when ... Read more

    702 – Quark – All the Emperor’s Quasi-Norms 1 & 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 43:48


    This week, Fusion Patrol looks at the two-part Quark episode “All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms.” John and Eugene ask if American television in the 1970s was ready for full-frontal pollination, why Jean didn't get equal time with Gene, and if Ficus is the most alien character ever committed to the small screen.

    701 – Real Humans – The Lord Shall Be Our Companion

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2024 90:44


    This week, Simon and Eugene examine season 1, episode 3 of Real Humans, “The Lord Shall Be Our Companion.” When they discuss Swedish search warrants, whether and who Bea is bluffing, double bluffing or triple bluffing, the parallels between the politics of immigration and being anti-Hubot, and, yes, of course, sex with robots.

    700 – The Day the Earth Stood Still

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2024 81:29


    This episode, we're celebrating our 700th episode of Fusion Patrol with the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 edition. Simon and Eugene discuss whether the film is an appeal to authoritarianism or pacifism, whether the spaceship was guarded by UNIT soldiers, and, of course, Eugene talks about sex with robots.

    699 – Silent Running

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2024 43:17


    This week, John and Eugene look at the 1972 film Silent Running. They discuss the naming order of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, does Eugene find the film as boring now as he did as a child in the 1970s, and how much of a monster is Freeman Lowell for murdering a robot?

    698 – Space Above and Beyond – Dear Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024


    This week on Fusion Patrol, Kenneth and Eugene look at the Space: Above and Beyond episode, “Dear Earth,” where they discuss who gets first naming rights for babies in a family, just how good the Marines are at killing sons and daughters, what is the Emily Post-approved length of a “Dear Jane” letter, and whether ... Read more

    697 – Quark – Goodbye, Polumbus & Vanessa 38-24-36

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024


    This week John and Eugene look at episodes 5 and 8 of Quark. In episode number 5, “Goodbye, Columbus,” they discuss heirloom peaches, and in episode 8, “Vanessa 38/24/36,” they compare a sentient ultimate computer to Bridget Bardot's hourglass figure.

    696 – Real Humans – Trust No One

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2024


    On this episode of Fusion Patrol, Simon and Eugene will examine Season 1, Episode 2 of Real Humans, “Trust No One.” They discuss having a criminal investigation division for a particular kind of technology and what their sniffer dogs are smelling, robo-nature versus robo-nurture, and they question our hetero-robosexual outlook as we discuss even more ... Read more

    695 – Space Above and Beyond – Toy Soldiers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2024 48:56 Transcription Available


    This week, Kenneth and Eugene examine the Space Above and Beyond episode “Toy Soldiers.” They ask the questions: Which is more honorable: going into the military during peacetime or in wartime? Did the writers of this episode actually ever read the Red Badge of Courage or just quote mine from it? And is it ever ... Read more

    694 – Quark – The Old and the Beautiful & The Good, the Bad, and the Ficus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2024 42:40 Transcription Available


    This week, John and Eugene examine two more vintage 1978 space opera parody TV series Quark episodes. First, it's “The Old and the Beautiful,” where Quark contracts a fatal aging disease. Will an extended romantic interlude with a young, beautiful, and voracious princess be the death of him? And then, in “The Good, the Bad, ... Read more

    693 – Real Humans – Break In, Break Loose

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2024 75:08 Transcription Available


    This week on Fusion Patrol, we begin our look at a new series, the 2012 Swedish sci-fi series Real Humans. Simon and Eugene discuss whether androids make efficient robots; remakes, adaptations, and cultural differences; and, of course, sex with robots.

    692 – Space Above and Beyond – Never No More & The Angriest Angel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2024 57:36 Transcription Available


    This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at the Space Above and Beyond, the two-part Chiggy von Richthofen saga with episodes 14 and 15, Never No More, and The Angriest Angel, where Killer tries to grab some action on the rebound, Winslow goes after Zero-G-Sex with the Colonel, and McQueen crosses the line into being a ... Read more

    691 – Quark – Quark & May the Source Be With You

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 52:23 Transcription Available


    This week, John and Eugene kick off our coverage of the 1977 TV series Quark, which aired on NBC and starred Richard Benjamin as space garbage collector Adam Quark. First, we look at the pilot episode, which introduces us to the eccentric group of characters under Quark's command. Then, we watch May the Source Be ... Read more

    690 – Doctor Who – The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2024 105:29


    This week, Simon and Eugene discuss the two-part Doctor Who series finale, #TheLegendOfRubySunday & #EmpireOfDeath. They discuss why the One Who Waits waited, wanting more Mel, the difference between an anagram and a homophone, and a new UNIT dating controversy.

    689 – The Celestial Toymaker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 84:58


    Simon and Eugene look at the very recently released 3D animated re-creation of the missing 1966 Doctor Who story, #TheCelestialToymaker. They discuss the new art style for 3D motion-captured animated Doctor Who, the consequences of budgetary constraints in both the original and animated productions of this story, and they finally agree on whether the animation ... Read more

    688 – Doctor Who – Rogue

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 73:05


    This week, Simon, Ben, and Eugene discuss the Doctor's sexuality and changes in the representation of sexuality on Doctor Who, Gatwa singing the same pitch as Gene Wilder, and Checkov's psychic earrings as we look at the #DoctorWho episode #Rogue.

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