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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Torchwood Season 1 Episode 2 - Day One
    6.1/10(1836 votes)

    #1 - Day One

    S1:E2

    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

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  2. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 4 - Cyberwoman
    6.1/10(1780 votes)

    #2 - Cyberwoman

    S1:E4

    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

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  3. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 7 - Greeks Bearing Gifts
    6.5/10(1523 votes)

    #3 - Greeks Bearing Gifts

    S1:E7

    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

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  4. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 5 - Small Worlds
    6.8/10(1581 votes)

    #4 - Small Worlds

    S1:E5

    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

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  5. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 11 - Combat
    6.8/10(1346 votes)

    #5 - Combat

    S1:E11

    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

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  6. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 6 - Countrycide
    6.9/10(1766 votes)

    #6 - Countrycide

    S1:E6

    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

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  7. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 13 - End of Days
    6.9/10(1437 votes)

    #7 - End of Days

    S1:E13

    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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  8. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 1 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
    6.9/10(1547 votes)

    #8 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

    S2:E1

    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

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  9. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 2 - Sleeper
    7.1/10(1287 votes)

    #9 - Sleeper

    S2:E2

    When a burglary turns into a slaughter, Torchwood suspect alien involvement. Who is Beth, and can she be as innocent as she seems? But when the investigation escalates into a city-wide assault, Jack realises that the whole planet is in danger.

    Director:Colin Teague
    Writer:James Moran

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  10. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 8 - A Day in the Death
    7.1/10(1250 votes)

    #10 - A Day in the Death

    S2:E8

    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

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  11. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 9 - Something Borrowed
    7.1/10(1206 votes)

    #11 - Something Borrowed

    S2:E9

    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

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  12. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 10 - From Out of the Rain
    7.1/10(1210 votes)

    #12 - From Out of the Rain

    S2:E10

    An old cinema reopens and mysterious horrors of the past return to Cardiff. Why are people trapped between life and death, questions are asked about the Night Travellers, and what Torchwood can do to stop them.

    Director:Jonathan Fox Bassett
    Writer:Peter J. Hammond

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  13. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 10 - Out of Time
    7.3/10(1640 votes)

    #13 - Out of Time

    S1:E10

    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

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  14. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 12 - Captain Jack Harkness
    7.3/10(1703 votes)

    #14 - Captain Jack Harkness

    S1:E12

    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

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  15. Torchwood Season 4 Episode 6 - The Middle Men
    7.3/10(744 votes)

    #15 - The Middle Men

    S4:E6

    With Gwen, Rex and Esther trapped on both sides of the Atlantic, it's a race against time as Jack goes straight to the heart of the conspiracy.

    Director:Guy Ferland
    Writer:John Shiban

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  16. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 3 - Ghost Machine
    7.4/10(1689 votes)

    #16 - Ghost Machine

    S1:E3

    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

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  17. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 9 - Random Shoes
    7.4/10(1653 votes)

    #17 - Random Shoes

    S1:E9

    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

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  18. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 4 - Meat
    7.4/10(1255 votes)

    #18 - Meat

    S2:E4

    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

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  19. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 6 - Reset
    7.5/10(1254 votes)

    #19 - Reset

    S2:E6

    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

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  20. Torchwood Season 2 Episode 7 - Dead Man Walking
    7.5/10(1244 votes)

    #20 - Dead Man Walking

    S2:E7

    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

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  21. Torchwood Season 4 Episode 1 - The New World
    7.5/10(2849 votes)

    #21 - The New World

    S4:E1

    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

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  22. Torchwood Season 4 Episode 4 - Escape to L.A.
    7.6/10(853 votes)

    #22 - Escape to L.A.

    S4:E4

    Torchwood relocates to LA to sneak into PhiCorp's headquarters to find some useful information, unaware that their mission has been compromised. Elsewhere, Oswald and Jilly face a new adversary in Ellis Hartley Monroe, who is using the Miracle Day for her own agenda.

    Director:Billy Gierhart
    Writer:John Shiban

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  23. Torchwood Season 4 Episode 7 - Immortal Sins
    7.6/10(794 votes)

    #23 - Immortal Sins

    S4:E7

    Gwen must fight to protect her family and takes a terrifying journey, covering both miles and decades, as the long history of the Miracle is revealed.

    Director:Gwyneth Horder-Payton
    Writer:Jane Espenson

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  24. Torchwood Season 4 Episode 8 - End of the Road
    7.6/10(750 votes)

    #24 - End of the Road

    S4:E8

    Jack faces a showdown with a man he thought was long since dead, while Rex takes extreme action to prevent the collapse of society.

    Director:Gwyneth Horder-Payton
    Writers:Jane Espenson, Ryan Scott

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  25. Torchwood Season 1 Episode 1 - Everything Changes
    7.7/10(2051 votes)

    #25 - Everything Changes

    S1:E1

    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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Day One" is the worst rated episode of "Torchwood". It scored 6.1/10 based on 1836 votes. Directed by Brian Kelly and written by Chris Chibnall, it aired on 10/22/2006. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Cyberwoman".