Video Podcast – Fusion Patrol: Recent Episodes
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In 2017 Big Finish were back with their second set of re-imaginings of the classic Patrick McGoohan TV series, the Prisoner. In their first box set, they made an uneasy balance between adapting and updating classic stories and producing their own, new story – with the new story being the best material on the set. ... Read more
The Chimes of Big Ben, another adaptation from the original Prisoner TV series is the final story on the first Big Finish Prisoner box set, and like the first two stories, it’s a slightly uncomfortable fit. Technically well done, but somehow more awkward than the original. I am now more convinced than ever that Big ... Read more
In the third Big Finish Prisoner story, Your Beautiful Village, Number Six wakes to the sound of the phone ringing, and nothing else. Number Six finds himself plunged into absolute darkness, even, at times unable to hear or feel anything. Number Two says it’s a massive Village systems failure and they are all in danger. ... Read more
The Prisoner – Volume One – Big Finish The Schizoid Man By Nicolas Briggs Episode two of the Big Finish Prisoner Volume One box set is the schizoid man. This is another reinterpretation of an original episode from the TV series. In this new version, as with the original version, the Prisoner wakes to find ... Read more
The Prisoner – Volume One – Big Finish Departure and Arrival By Nicholas Briggs In 2016, Big Finish, purveyors of hundreds of Doctor Who audio drama took on a new project, a re-imagining of the cult British TV series, the Prisoner, with a series of new stories and re-tellings of old stories. Now, in 2019 ... Read more
The Godzilla franchise has bounced back and forth from artistic allegorical work, to mindless child-pleasing monster battles. Sometimes villain, sometimes anti-hero, sometimes hero – you never really know what the next Godzilla film holds in store. In 2016’s Shin Godzilla, the entire Godzilla canon is jettisoned in favor of a completely new start. The ... Read more
Earth II is a true speculative look at what a future space colony might look like; what ideals its people might espouse; and how it might interact politically with the Earth below. This potential pilot movie, released in 1971 stars Gary Lockwood, Scott Hylands and Hari Rhodes as the command crew that originally founded Earth ... Read more
After two bites at the spin-off series apple, it seems that Universal finally gave up on the idea of a new bionic series and brought the promised close to the love story of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman in their third and final reunion movie, Bionic Ever After? Steve and Jamie ... Read more
Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man and Jamie Sommers, the Bionic Woman are back again in this second reunion movie from 1989. In this attempt at a new series pilot, Rudy Wells has created a new Bionic Woman, Kate Mason. This time with an all-new type of bionics designed to repair muscular dystrophy. Jamie ... Read more
The love affair of Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers was indeed a difficult one. Childhood sweethearts who were brought back together and rekindled their love, their love affair seemed cursed because television is a harsh mistress for romance, and the path for Steve and Jamie was rockier than most, being split by death, amnesia and ... Read more