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Audio Described. Northern Ireland. Sport News Entertainment Music. Regions Northern Ireland Scotland Wales. Start Watching Series 1: 1. Everything Changes. Captain Jack Harkness and his team need to find alien technology that has fallen to Earth. Science-fiction drama. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Captain Jack Harkness, the former Time Agent and con man from the 51st century last seen traveling with the Doctor, ventures to early 21st century Cardiff. There, he becomes a member of Torchwood Institute, a renegade criminal investigation group founded by Queen Victoria to battle hostile extraterrestrial and supernatural threats.

The 21st century is when it all changes. Did you know Edit. Trivia "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who". When the first series of Doctor Who was being made, television pirates were desperate to acquire the preview tapes. One of the people in the office had the idea of labeling the tapes with the anagram "Torchwood" rather than "Doctor Who", as a security measure to disguise the tapes when they were delivered from Cardiff to London. Writer Russell T. Davies liked this idea so much that it later inspired him to use it as a title when creating this spin-off series.

Quotes Captain Jack Harkness : [voiceover during first season opening] Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police. Alternate versions As this series was released in Spain before Doctor Who, the translation modifies some mayor canon facts in order to make them understandable for the audience.

No dubbing actors repeated their roles in both series. Some other modifications were also made when Doctor Who was first broadcast in Castilian Spanish.

Connections Featured in Screenwipe: Review of the Year User reviews Review. Top review. Better than these reviews would lead you to believe. There seems to be an awful lot of negative comment about Torchwood on these pages and there is definitely a certain 'its not like Doctor Who' element. I love the re-vamped Dr Who, and I was a fan as a child, I grew up with Jon Pertwee as the Doctor and to me he was always the definitive incumbent, until being eclipsed by both the modern incarnations.

No, Torchwood is not like Doctor Who, it's a different series; I feel that the characters are very well drawn. They are a team of typical people, they do not have the solutions to all the problems they face, they get scared, they argue, they make mistakes. As far as I see it they behave exactly how most normal people would if recruited and working in a tightly knit team under stressful conditions.

There is of course the Russell Davies trademark BLG sexual behaviour, but it is portrayed in a refreshing manner and very much it keeping with the general vibe of the show. What many of the reviewers seem to miss is the fact that the show is as much about the characters as the aliens, the scripts with a couple of exceptions have been excellent, exploring human relationships and attitudes from a range of perspectives, but most importantly they have been rip-roaring entertainment.

The acting is strong, Barrowman being particularly good, but they all acquit themselves well. The casting is excellent, rather than a stable of beautiful people, they have chosen actors that look, and thanks to good writing, behave, like real people.

A couple of points; John Barrowman's American accent isn't fake; he lived there from the age of eight. Torchwood is a unique cases, mainly because it was technically never canceled. Showrunner Russell T. Davies put the series on hold after his husband's diagnosis with brain cancer, and the series has been in a strange limbo ever since. The only real successful effort at a revival happened in in the form of an audio drama, but Gwen actress Eve Myles wasn't quite as involved in the series as Barrowman.

Both Myles and Barrowman have stayed fairly busy since the show's hiatus, so getting them together for a full season could be quite a challenge. It gets doubly hard when adding Russell T.

Davies to the equation, who is back in the spotlight thanks to his television series It's A Sin. It wouldn't be hard to believe more projects are heading his way soon, assuming Season 5 of Torchwood isn't already being inked out to conflict with that. The odds seem better now than in previous years that Torchwood may one day return to television, but fans will have to wait and see if it happens for sure. Mick likes good television, but also reality television. Mick Joest.