John Kittelsrud – Fusion Patrol

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: ... Read more

Our hosts Eugene and John dive into the Star Cops episode, “A Double Life,” providing an exhaustive analysis of the episode’s intriguing plot twists and characterization. They begin by summarizing the essentials: the theft of fertilized embryos belonging to the influential Madame Asadi, a Saudi widow, sets off a series of events that plunge the ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

What happens in scientific research on the lawless frontier can’t get approvals for human or animal trials?  You conduct it anyway because it’s the “lawless” frontier. John and Eugene discuss the Star Cops episode, Conversations with the Dead. Episode Synopsis: A freighter bound for Mars, the Daedalus, has a wee problem.  Its engines have fired ... Read more

This week we start a new series on Fusion Patrol:  The 1987 BBC Science Fiction Police Drama, Star Cops by creator Chris Boucher, who long-time listeners will know from his work on Blakes 7. What does murder and crime look like in the age of computers and space travel? And what constitutes being a good ... Read more

Our tour of Moonbase 3 comes to an abrupt end with the destruction of all life on Earth.  What happens when the last remnants of the human race contemplate the imminent end of all mankind? John and Eugene discuss this uplifting – and final – episode of Moonbase 3. Episode Synopsis:   Moonbase 3 is ... Read more