Torchwood: Season 1

2006 · 13 episodes · ★ 7.0

Series 1

What Season 1 of Torchwood

Gwen Cooper is a police officer in Cardiff. While investigating a murder, she runs into Torchwood, a secret group that answers to no government, police force or the UN, and about which very little is known. Gwen persuades its leader, Captain Jack Harkness, to let her join the team after Suzie Costello's departure. Alongside Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Ianto Jones, she investigates alien incidents in a city split by a time rift. Gwen struggles between her all-consuming devotion to her work and her boyfriend, Rhys, who has no idea what she really does.

13episodes

Oct 22, 2006aired

Jan 1, 2007Latest episode

10.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Everything Changes
Oct 22, 2006 · 52 min · ★ 7.8
WPC Gwen Cooper is at the scene of a brutal murder, when the "special ops," known only as Torchwood, arrive. After witnessing the group bring the dead man back to life, Gwen goes in pursuit of this mysterious organisation, only to see weirder things than she could ever imagine existed. Soon after, she begins to regret giving in to her curiosity, when she meets Captain Jack Harkness.
Directing: Brian Kelly · Writing: Russell T Davies · Starring: Indira Varma, Tom Price, Jason May, Rhys Swinburn
1x02 Day One
Oct 22, 2006 · 48 min · ★ 6.0
It's Gwen's first day on the job, and it's not going very well. After accidentally releasing a mysterious gas from a comet that landed, a new type of alien is let loose on the streets - an alien that's addicted to sex. Torchwood must find the inhabited body, and prevent anymore deaths from the violent form of sex.
Directing: Brian Kelly · Writing: Chris Chibnall · Starring: Sara Gregory, Tom Price, Adrian Christopher, Ross O'Hennessy
1x03 Ghost Machine
Oct 29, 2006 · 49 min · ★ 7.4
Whilst chasing a man, Gwen retrieves an unusual machine that allows the user to see back into the past. It is considered dangerous, and no members of Torchwood are permitted to use it. But Owen has other plans, and witnesses a violent murder that took place over forty years ago. Using the information he gathered, Owen starts to track down the still-living murderer.
Directing: Colin Teague · Writing: Helen Raynor · Starring: John Normington, Gareth Thomas, Ben McKay, Llinos Daniel
1x04 Cyberwoman
Nov 5, 2006 · 50 min · ★ 6.1
A Ianto themed episodeIanto Jones hides a very big secret at Torchwood - his half-converted girlfriend from the Canary Wharf Battle - down in the basement. He is quick to hire a Japanese doctor who believes he can "cure" her. But things soon go wrong, and the Cyberwoman's destructive powers are released to the whole of Torchwood. Upgrading is compulsary.
Directing: James Strong · Writing: Chris Chibnall · Starring: Caroline Chikezie, Togo Igawa, Bethan Walker
1x05 Small Worlds
Nov 12, 2006 · 47 min · ★ 6.7
Jack catches up with a very old friend of his, who is investigating fairy sightings in the local wood. After having visited her, Torchwood are informed of a man's mysterious death in a prison cell. Then, Tosh uncovers a series of localised, extreme weather patterns. Nobody at the organisation is sure of these events, or how they may be connected. Except Jack, who has witnessed the creatures causing this, almost a century ago.
Directed by Alice Troughton · Written by Peter J. Hammond · Starring Eve Pearce, Russell T Davies, Lara Phillipart, Adrienne O'Sullivan
1x06 Countrycide
Nov 19, 2006 · 47 min · ★ 7.1
Whilst investigating a group of unexplainable deaths in a village, the Torchwood team are separated. Discovering further, Jack, Gwen and Owen find a scared man, hiding from the thing responsible for the murders. But Tosh and Ianto go that one step extra, and locate the killer, who wants them as their next victims.
Directed by Andy Goddard · Written by Chris Chibnall · Starring Robert Barton, Owen Teale, Maxine Evans, Rhys ap Trefor
1x07 Greeks Bearing Gifts
Nov 26, 2006 · 50 min · ★ 6.5
A Toshiko themed episodeTosh meets an unusual woman, Mary, at a bar, who gives her a strange pendant. She is upset, yet amazed by what she now has - the ability to read people's minds. However, Tosh finds this terrible curse, that contains her friends darkest secrets, must be broken. So she asks for help from Mary, the only person who knows, but first, Tosh has to get her into Torchwood.
Directed by Colin Teague · Written by Toby Whithouse · Starring Daniela Denby-Ashe, Shaheen Jafargholi, Paul Kasey, Ravin J. Ganatra
1x08 They Keep Killing Suzie
Dec 3, 2006 · 53 min · ★ 7.7
A Suzie themed episodeUsing the Resurrection Gauntlet that former Torchwood member Suzie Costello originally had, the team are able to bring a number of murder victims back to life. However, these all have a link with the now-deceased Suzie, and the group have no choice but to bring her back. After the process goes wrong, and permanently keeps her alive, Suzie manipulates the naïve Gwen into taking her to see her father.
Directed by James Strong · Written by Dan McCulloch, Paul Tomalin · Starring Yasmin Bannerman, Badi Uzzaman, Indira Varma, Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
1x09 Random Shoes
Dec 10, 2006 · 50 min · ★ 7.2
Eugene Jones wakes up, finding himself lying on the middle of a road. He then discovers that he has been the victim of a hit-and-run incident, and is, now, not only dead, but invisible. Eugene recalls events leading up to his death, involving a mysterious alien eye. Simultaneously, Gwen investigates the suspicious circumstances around his fatality.
Directing: James Erskine · Writing: Jacquetta May · Starring: Nicola Duffett, Steven Meo, Paul Chequer, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
1x10 Out of Time
Dec 17, 2006 · 50 min · ★ 7.4
Three passengers from 1953 arrive in modern day Cardiff, when their plane flies through the Rift. With no means of travelling back, each person must adapt to their new life, starting personal relationships with the separate members of Torchwood.
Directed by Alice Troughton · Written by Catherine Tregenna · Starring Mark Lewis Jones, Rhea Bailey, Louise Delamere, Olivia Hallinan
1x11 Combat
Dec 24, 2006 · 48 min · ★ 6.9
An Owen themed episodeWeevils are appearing all over the streets of Cardiff, and then disappearing again - but not by alien forces. People are abducting them, and using the Weevils for their own purposes, so Owen investigates.
Directing: Andy Goddard · Writing: Noel Clarke · Starring: Paul Kasey, Alex Hassell, David Gyasi, Alexandra Dunn
1x12 Captain Jack Harkness
Jan 1, 2007 · 49 min · ★ 7.5
A Jack themed episodeWhilst investigating an old, derelict dance hall, Jack and Tosh are transported back to the 1940s, during the Blitz. Owen, Ianto, and Gwen realise, in modern day, that this has happened, and go in search of clues Tosh may have left. Meanwhile, back in the forties, Jack meets a very interesting man. One with the name Captain Jack Harkness...
Directing: Ashley Way · Writing: Catherine Tregenna · Starring: Murray Melvin, Matt Rippy, Melissa Moore, Elen Rhys
1x13 End of Days Season Finale
Jan 1, 2007 · 47 min · ★ 6.9
With the Rift having been opened, people and objects throughout time are falling through it, and being spread across the world. "The thing in the darkness" has finally come, and Jack realises that he is the only one who can save planet Earth from the destruction that "the son of the Beast" will cause.
Directed by Ashley Way · Written by Chris Chibnall · Starring Murray Melvin, Caroline Chikezie, Louise Delamere, Tom Price