7.5/101,871 votes#1 - 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
6.7/101,667 votes#2 - Day One
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/2006
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.
Director: Brian Kelly
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.4/101,537 votes#3 - Ghost Machine
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/2006
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.
Director: Colin Teague
Writer: Helen Raynor
6.2/101,628 votes#4 - Cyberwoman
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/2006
A Ianto themed episode Ianto 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.
Director: James Strong
Writer: Chris Chibnall
7.0/101,447 votes#5 - Small Worlds
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2006
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.
Director: Alice Troughton
Writer: Peter J. Hammond
7.6/101,621 votes#6 - 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
7.2/101,395 votes#7 - Greeks Bearing Gifts
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2006
A Toshiko themed episode Tosh 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.
Director: Colin Teague
Writer: Toby Whithouse
7.7/101,392 votes#8 - 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
7.7/101,522 votes#9 - 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
8.2/101,502 votes#10 - 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
6.9/101,229 votes#11 - Combat
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/24/2006
An Owen themed episode Weevils 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.
Director: Andy Goddard
Writer: Noel Clarke
8.3/101,572 votes#12 - 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
7.7/101,309 votes#13 - 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
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Everything Changes" is the best rated episode of "Torchwood" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 1871 votes. Directed by Brian Kelly and written by Russell T Davies, it aired on 10/22/2006. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Day One".