Bobby discovers the value of a classical education as Rocky and the rest of crew of the Orbit Jet are drawn into the ongoing conflict between a pair of rogue moons (Posito and Negeto) that are linked by a strange 'atmospheric bridge'. Meanwhile the intrepid Space Ranger's lovely nemesis, Cleolanta (the 'Suzerain' of the planet Ophecius) takes advantage of his disappearance to trick the 'The United Worlds of the Solar System' into conceding planets to her evil empire. Even by Rocky Jones standards, this episode is pretty silly. Perhaps to placate critics of vapid TV programming, Bobby is told to read Homer's Odyssey and conveniently Odysseus' solutions to his problems are applicable to the dilemmas faced by Rocky's team. Spotting the references to the famous epic in the less-than-epic space opera is the most entertaining aspect of this far-fetched fusion of episodes 3-6 ('Rocky's Odyssey' parts 1-3). As well, there are some interesting, almost surreal shots of the strange troubled skies of the bipolar moons, and of the two 'sirens' on Negato whose strange, hypnotic music is their world's most formidable weapon. Having resolved the twin-moons' problems, the Orbit Jet heads for an bazaar Arabesque world, allowing the 'Odyssey theme' to continue as Bobby and the Professor disguise themselves as beggars (and Vena as a belly-dancer) in an attempt to ferret out Cleolanta's duplicitous plot. As science-fiction goes, the story-arc is pretty fanciful but showing that Vena's translator machine actually has to 'learn' an alien language is relatively sophisticated for the tele-genre and the show's visual effects team seem to have been able to do a lot with limited resources (although some shots are recycled from the Rocky's first adventure). Entertaining if viewed through a 70 year old lens (and easier to follow than James Joyce's spin on the Homeric opus).
