Torchwood Series 1

Series Overview

© Colin Harvey

Chris Chibnall's Torchwood stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and Eve Miles as Gwen Cooper, in episodes written by Russell T. Davies and Helen Rayner.

In 'Everything Changes,' the opening episode of Torchwood by Russell T. Davies, , when the Torchwood team arrive on the scene of a particularly nasty, brutal murder, one of the uniformed officers watching them is WPC Gwen Cooper (Eve Miles). Her curiosity piqued, Gwen refuses to be warned off by Torchwood leader Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman). Their attitud, their approach and above all their technology is at odds with everything that she believes in. But investigating the investigators leads her into a dark, paranoid world where even her own memories are suspect.

'Day One' by Chris Chibnall takes the viewer through Gwen’s first day at work, and her mistake that unleashes a sex addicted alien on Cardiff which leaves a trail of gruesome deaths in its wake, but inexplicably sparing Owen when it has him at its mercy.

In Helen Raynor's ‘Ghost Machine,’ when Gwen retrieves an alien object from a fleeing hoodie, she's haunted by a vision of a lonely young boy. As the team tracks down the object's owner, the elusive Bernie Harris, Owen experiences an even more terrifying vision and must solve a long-buried crime.

‘Cyberwoman’ by Chris Chibnall sees something terrible lurking in the basement that even Jack doesn’t know about, and Ianto isn’t telling. And he'll go to any lengths, sacrifice anything and anyone, to protect those he loves. The trouble is that ‘Bride of Frankenstein used the same idea, and did it so much better.

‘Small Worlds’ Is reviewed separately

Chris Chibnall's ‘Countrycide’ takes the team out and about, to an apparently deserted village in the Brecon Becons. When his people are separated, Jack finds they are the prey in a savage game of cat and mouse with a team of ruthless hunters.

‘Greeks Bearing Gifts’ Is reviewed separately

‘They Keep Killing Suzie’ Is reviewed separately

‘Random Shoes’ by Jacquetta May features Eugene, the ghost of a hit-and-run victim trying to convince Gwen to locate the 'alien' who might have been responsible for his death.

‘Out of Time’ Is reviewed separately

‘Combat’ Is reviewed separately

Catherine Tregenna's ‘Captain Jack Harkness’ takes Jack and Tosh to an abandoned dance hall to investigate reports of strange music being heard from within. Jack recognizes the music as from the 1940's, just as they turn a corner to find themselves in 1941, where Tosh learns that Cardiff in 1941 is no place to be Japanese. Captain Jack meets another airman, to whom he’s immediately attracted. Back in 2006, Gwen, Owen and Ianto try frantically to find their missing friends, despte their own inner demons...

In Chris Chibnall's 'End of Days,' the rift's been opened, and all over the world people from the past are stepping through into the present, bringing gifts like The Plague. It's up to Jack and Eve to save the world, but how far is either one of them prepared to go?


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