Overview - Torchwood

Overview

The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 12

  A ten episode companion series with events taking place during the "Torchwood: Miracle Day" series. There are also two introductory videos featuring the characters of Gwen and Holly. A young man is shot in 2011 Los Angeles, but he doesn't die — this is Miracle Day. When it's revealed that he knew the Miracle was coming, his sister, Holly Mokri, sets to work to figure out what he knew and why he was silenced. Can she figure it out before someone decides to silence her next? Back in 2007, Gwen Cooper saw Jack Harkness get abducted during a mission. Who did this and why do they seem to be experimenting with how they kill Jack? And how does this tie into the events happening in the future...?

  Date first aired: 2011-07-05

• Name: Series 1

  Episode: 13

  Separate from the government, outside the police, beyond the United Nations, Torchwood sets its own rules. Led by the enigmatic, ever watchful Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. Everyone who works for Torchwood is young. Some say that’s because it’s a new science. Others say it’s because they die young.

  Date first aired: 2006-10-22

• Name: Series 2

  Episode: 13

  The second season takes the Torchwood team through dare-devil action, temptation, heartache, and a life-changing event. They journey to the 51st Century and World War I, save a stranded creature from horrific abuse, battle a memory thief who uncovers long-forgotten secrets among the entire team, and come face-to-face with an entity that may well be Death itself. And slick Captain Jack returns to battle a rogue Time Agent, the charismatic-but-psychopathic Captain John Hart.

  Date first aired: 2008-01-16

• Name: Children of Earth

  Episode: 5

  In 1965 twelve children are gathered together on a deserted moor when they become surrounded by a harsh, bright light, and then suddenly they are gone. Back in the present day, all over planet Earth, children stop moving. Stop playing. Stop laughing. Stop everything. Then, as one, they begin to speak with the same voice, announcing to the governments of the world the imminent arrival of a new alien threat. It becomes clear to the Torchwood team that this isn't the aliens' first visit to Earth, and a terrible price is going to be paid for sins of the past.

  Date first aired: 2009-07-06

• Name: Miracle Day

  Episode: 10

  One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep ageing - they get hurt and sick - but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. With all the extra people, resources are finite. It’s said that in four month's time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can’t be a natural event – someone’s got to be behind it. It’s a race against time as CIA agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. The answers lie within an old, secret British institute. As Rex keeps asking “What is Torchwood?” he’s drawn into a world of adventure, and a threat to change what it means to be human, forever.

  Date first aired: 2011-07-14