Wells helped Torchwood cover up an alien invasion in the s. Object 1 , a gift from the Committee to Tsar Alexander and then passed onto Victoria, was the first entry to the Archive. Jack Harkness during his recruitment to Torchwood. TV : Fragments. By , a branch of Torchwood had been founded in Cardiff , which was based around a rift in space and time.
In , Jack Harkness was recruited by two of this branch's operatives, Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd as a freelance agent of the Institute. His first mission was to apprehend a Blowfish ; he succeeded, but was greatly disturbed when Guppy summarily executed the creature before his eyes. He continued to work for Torchwood largely against his will, having been told by a young girl who could see the future using tarot cards that he would have to wait more than a century before seeing the Doctor again.
Meanwhile, he needed money to live. He continued to work for the organisation over the decades that followed, although he remained disturbed by the Institute's callous disregard for alien life forms. On 17 May , the Life-stealer escaped from Torchwood London 's base at the National History Museum and proceeded to feed on the youth of Londoners starting with Torchwood London director, Archie , who was left permanently incapacitated as he was rapidly aged, at the same time Torchwood was visited by Queen Victoria for her annual inspection of the Institute, resulting her sharing an adventure with Jack Harkness as she took to pursuing the creature.
After Victoria killed the creature by exploiting its weakness against the elderly, both she and Jack declined their offers to each other to take command of Torchwood London, with the Queen retiring from public life while Jack returned to Torchwood in Cardiff.
At some point, Victoria also established Torchwood India to collect all things alien in the British Raj. After years of study, Torchwood concluded that Object 1 was a bad luck device which had caused significant strife in Russia whilst Alexander owned it, negatively affecting infantry mortality, crop yields and political dissatisfaction.
Upon being presented this evidence by Jack, Victoria ordered him to dispose of it in the Cardiff Rift. TV : Exit Wounds. He told them to freeze him in the cryo-chambers so he could defeat his brother Gray. Subsequently, Jack's future self resided in the cryo-chambers even as his younger self continued to work nearby. In , Eliza Cooper and Robert Lewis used a machine they commissioned Professor Alexander Hugh to build to travel to another planet thousands of years into the future.
Neither Cooper nor Lewis returned; the former remained on the planet while the latter was killed. Professor Hugh was returned home by the Tenth Doctor.
Jack continued to work as an operative throughout the 20th century. In , he was put in charge of a group of soldiers who were all killed by Fairies. TV : Small Worlds. Torchwood was planning to use alien weaponry during World War I , but eventually decided against it. In , Torchwood Three investigated ghost sightings in a hospital in Cardiff. As present and future blended, they caught glimpses of the 21st century , receiving instructions from future Torchwood to take shellshocked soldier Tommy Brockless from the hospital and keep him in cryogenic suspension.
At this time they had a team of five, the leader being a man called Gerald Carter. They already had equipment capable of detecting disturbances in time. TV : To the Last Man. Circa , Harriet Derbyshire , one of the investigators of the hospital sightings and only in her mid-twenties, died in action.
In the s, Jack worked undercover with a travelling circus in pursuit of the Night Travellers , though he was unsuccessful. TV : From Out of the Rain. WC : Monster File: Pyrovile. In , Torchwood sent Jack Harkness to India to close down the branch there, led by the Duchess , before the fall of the Raj.
In , Jack Harkness was sent on a mission to New York City in order to thwart a plot by the Trickster's Brigade to infect Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a Brainspawn and change the course of history. With assistance from his lover Angelo Colasanto , Jack succeeded in eliminating the parasite. TV : Immortal Sins.
In Paris they stayed at a hotel which was secretly a front for Torchwood. LeDuc subsequently invited Berber , who he'd used as a cover, to join Torchwood, which she agreed to. Neil ", an alien child Jack had brought in to the Hub, overpowering the rest of the team when they objected.
The Light briefly possessed her, enabling Jack to shoot her. According to Norton Folgate , in the s Torchwood had to deal with a large amount of black market trading in alien artefacts as a result of the number of spacecraft shot down during World War II. However, they were mostly called out to the sites of unexploded bombs. Norton and Jack sought to remove all trace of the virus and devised contingencies should it resurface.
By , the London branch was influential enough that London police feared its involvement when investigating the strange occurrences provoked by the activities of an alien entity known as the Wire. Norton manipulated events to trick gangster Fat Kim into taking control of an alien war machine whilst the Vicar led Torchwood against her. In the ensuing confrontation Andy killed Kim by passing on the key to the machine to her mind and the Vicar was killed when the disabled war machine fell on him.
During the s, Adam Smith took over Torchwood One using his memory manipulation abilities and rallied the organisation for war against the approaching Kernaz fleet, which was actually seeking him. Norton, who had been tricked into allowing Adam into Torchwood in the first place, and Lizbeth eventually worked out what had happened, despite numerous setbacks as Adam kept altering their memories.
In , the government asked five highly ranked officers, including Jack, to give twelve children to the as a gift in return for an anti-virus for a mutated form of Indonesian influenza. It was decided that the children would be taken from a Scottish orphanage as they wouldn't be missed. Despite eleven children being taken, Clem McDonald managed to escape.
After Charley's death, Valerie Fox joined the trio. Circa , Torchwood bought the London-based security firm H. TV : The Runaway Bride. In , Torchwood sent Doctor James Greco to investigate Gabriel Tyler and his psychic powers, hoping to find a breakthrough in understanding the human mind. The Queen later banished them from returning to Great Britain.
She set up Torchwood to stop alien threats and to make sure the Doctor never returned. Army of Ghosts was part of Doctor Who series two which aired in Torchwood finally caught up with the Doctor in Without knowing, Torchwood was opening a breach between two universes allowing the Cybermen through. While other spin-offs had featured appearances from the Doctor himself — and even companions from the old series, thanks to The Sarah Jane Adventures — Torchwood was severely lacking on that front.
A couple of characters had appeared on Doctor Who , but never the other way around. The organization that eventually became Torchwood actually first appeared in Doctor Who as the long-running arc in its second season. This version of Torchwood was far more mainstream and was situated in Canary Wharf, a far cry from a damp basement in Cardiff. The question is, where did all the government funding go?
Surely this should have warranted a makeover, or at least more resources, rather than just five or six team members at a time? Much like Torchwood itself, the vortex manipulator also made its debut on Doctor Who.
However, when it was first introduced, it was nothing more than a cheap time-travel device — and quite uncomfortable as well. When it popped up again on Jack's wrist in Torchwood , its function had changed drastically.
It could no longer travel through time but at least we got an in-house explanation for the malfunction. What the show didn't explain, though, was how it suddenly became a multi-functional device, arguably even more useful than the Doctor's own sonic screwdriver. Torchwood was established as an organization outside the government, founded by Queen Victoria to protect Earth from supernatural threats, including the Doctor himself. When the show first began back in , Jack Harkness, a fan favorite companion to the Ninth Doctor, was discovered to be its leader.
This lined up perfectly with what the audience already knew about Jack; he was charismatic and charming with a natural leadership ability. The Paternoster Gang Investigates. The ArcHive Tapes. Big Finish Doctor Who audio spin-offs. Beyond the Doctor. Imaginary Boys. Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective.
The Adventures of K9. Faction Paradox , Faction Paradox The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict. The Story of Fester Cat. Wilde Stories : Imaginary Boys. Twelve Stories. Golden Age. The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass.
The Daleks. Free-Fall Warriors. Faction Paradox. The Forge. Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor. Cancel Save. RDF feed. Has image. File:Torchwood title. Universal Conquest Wiki. Series 1. Series 2. Series 3. Series 4. Stories listed here are only those that have been officially licensed by the BBC. Licensed by the BBC.
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