9.2/101,620 votesLoading...#1 - Day Four
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/9/2009
Torchwood finally learns the truth about the events of 1965. But Britain is in danger of becoming a rogue state, and everything now pivots around John Frobisher, as the Ambassador of the 456 destroys its old allegiances and reveals its true intent.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: John Fay
9.1/101,723 votesLoading...#2 - Day Five
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 7/10/2009
Torchwood is defenceless, and Gwen Cooper stands alone, as the final sanction begins. As violence erupts and the world descends into anarchy, an ordinary council estate becomes a battleground where the future of the human race will be decided.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Russell T Davies
8.9/101,846 votesLoading...#3 - Day One
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/2009
At 8.45am, every child in the world suddenly stops, chanting the words "we are coming" again and again. Whilst investigating, the remaining Torchwood team face greater personal and professional challenges than ever before, having to work with their numbers depleted.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Russell T Davies
8.8/101,487 votesLoading...#4 - Day Three
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/8/2009
The eyes of the world turn to Britain, as the 456 announce, 'We are here'. As a pillar of fire descends upon London, the members of Torchwood must battle to protect their own families, as the fight gets personal. But will Clem's memories destroy everything?
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: James Moran, Russell T Davies
8.7/101,277 votesLoading...#5 - Exit Wounds
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2008
Captain John Hart returns to wreak havoc upon Jack's world, who ends up getting captured. It is up to the Torchwood team to rescue him and save the city.
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
8.7/101,517 votesLoading...#6 - Day Two
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/7/2009
Torchwood are forced underground, as the government takes swift and brutal action. With members of the team being hunted down, only Lois holds the key to Torchwood's salvation - but she is helpless as her superiors make plans for the mysterious Floor 13.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: John Fay
8.4/101,153 votesLoading...#7 - Fragments
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/2008
As the team are knocked unconscious we find out how Jack, Toshiko, Ianto and Owen were initiated into Torchwood.
Director: Jonathan Fox Bassett
Writer: Chris Chibnall
8.3/101,580 votesLoading...#8 - Captain Jack Harkness
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/1/2007
A Jack themed episode Whilst 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...
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Catherine Tregenna
8.2/101,511 votesLoading...#9 - Out of Time
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/2006
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.
Director: Alice Troughton
Writer: Catherine Tregenna
8.1/101,150 votesLoading...#10 - Adrift
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2008
Gwen finds the darker side of Torchwood when a teenager disappears, investigating why hundreds of people have vanished without a trace. Jack is obstructing attempts to find them, and the answer appears to lie in the Rift.
Director: Mark Everest
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.9/101,428 votesLoading...#11 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/2008
Captain Jack returns, as the Torchwood team reunite to fight a rogue Time Agent. The mysterious Captain John Hart is determined to wreak havoc, and needs to find something hidden on Earth. But with Gwen's life in danger, and cluster bombs scattered across the city, whose side is Jack on?
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.9/101,210 votesLoading...#12 - Adam
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2008
A memory thief gets in to the minds of the Torchwood team, and uncovers long forgotten secrets.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Catherine Tregenna
7.9/101,155 votesLoading...#13 - Reset
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/2008
Jack calls in an old friend for a favour, none other than Martha Jones, as they attempt to stop a pharmaceutical facility that uses aliens in the hope of discovering a cure for all diseases.
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: J. C. Wilsher
7.9/101,142 votesLoading...#14 - A Day in the Death
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/2008
A victim of his newfound circumstances, Owen Harper believes he needs absolution. Will the lonely girl on the rooftop help him, or will it be a mission to the retrieve an alien device that is proving more lethal by the second? And how far will Toshiko go to help him?
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Joseph Lidster
7.7/101,401 votesLoading...#15 - They Keep Killing Suzie
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2006
A Suzie themed episode Using 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.
Director: James Strong
Writer: Paul Tomalin, Dan McCulloch
7.7/101,530 votesLoading...#16 - Random Shoes
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/2006
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.
Director: James Erskine
Writer: Jacquetta May
7.7/101,317 votesLoading...#17 - End of Days
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/2007
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.
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.7/101,194 votesLoading...#18 - To the Last Man
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/2008
Toshiko falls for a handsome soldier, trapped out of his time, who unwittingly holds the key to saving the world. With an old hospital haunted by ghosts from 1918, a crisis foreseen by Torchwood 90 years ago is about to reach its climax. Time zones are colliding and with life and death decisions to be made, will Torchwood be able to stop an explosive end for Cardiff?
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Helen Raynor
7.7/101,141 votesLoading...#19 - Dead Man Walking
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2008
Captain Jack resurrects Owen with a resurrection glove, only to find out that the new glove isn't quite what they'd bargained for. Owen, in an undead state, helps the team figure out why he's still around.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Matt Jones
7.7/101,107 votesLoading...#20 - Something Borrowed
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2008
Gwen awakes on her wedding day to find she has been impregnated by a shape-shifting alien male. With it's life-partner eager to retrieve it's mate at the cost of Gwen's life, the team race to intercept her as Gwen decides to go through with her marriage at a secluded location with all of her family present
Director: Ashley Way
Writer: Phil Ford
7.7/102,783 votesLoading...#21 - The New World
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2011
Convicted child killer Oswald Danes is executed for his crimes and when he miraculously survives his fate a series of events is set in place that forces CIA Agent Rex Matheson to investigate a global event. His investigation leads him from America to Wales and an old defunct British Institute - Torchwood.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Russell T Davies
7.6/101,630 votesLoading...#22 - Countrycide
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2006
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.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.6/10818 votesLoading...#23 - The Blood Line
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 9/15/2011
As the Torchwood team launch a final, desperate mission against the seemingly undefeatable Three Families, they realize it may come down to the ultimate sacrifice.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Russell T Davies, Jane Espenson
7.5/101,882 votesLoading...#24 - Everything Changes
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/22/2006
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.
Director: Brian Kelly
Writer: Russell T Davies
7.5/101,154 votesLoading...#25 - Meat
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/6/2008
When Rhys discovers the truth about Torchwood, he helps the gang to find the source of an unusual alien meat supply.
Director: Colin Teague
Writer: Catherine Tregenna
The Best Episodes of Torchwood
Every episode of Torchwood ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Torchwood!
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Best Episodes Summary
"Day Four" is the best rated episode of "Torchwood". It scored 9.2/10 based on 1620 votes. Directed by Euros Lyn and written by John Fay, it aired on 7/9/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Day Five".