The Worst Episodes of Torchwood
Every episode of Torchwood ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Torchwood!
The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Torchwood" is "Cyberwoman", rated 6.2/10 from 1622 user votes. It was directed by James Strong and written by Chris Chibnall. "Cyberwoman" aired on 11/5/2006 and is rated 0.5 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Day One".
6.2/10 1,622 votes#1 - 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
6.7/10 1,657 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
6.9/10 1,224 votes#3 - 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
6.9/10 1,096 votes#4 - From Out of the Rain
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/12/2008
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
7.0/10 1,442 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
7.1/10 831 votes#6 - Dead of Night
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2011
Torchwood goes on the run and finds a new enemy, but as they launch a raid on PhiCorp headquarters, Jack must confront the mysterious Oswald Danes.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Jane Espenson
7.1/10 669 votes#7 - The Middle Men
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/18/2011
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
7.2/10 1,387 votes#8 - 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
7.2/10 779 votes#9 - Escape to L.A.
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2011
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
7.2/10 715 votes#10 - Immortal Sins
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 8/25/2011
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
7.2/10 670 votes#11 - End of the Road
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 9/1/2011
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
Writer: Jane Espenson, Ryan Scott
7.4/10 1,526 votes#12 - 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
7.4/10 1,178 votes#13 - Sleeper
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/2008
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
7.4/10 656 votes#14 - The Gathering
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 9/8/2011
With the whole world in recession, a defeated Torchwood team take their last chance and make a deal with the devil.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: John Fay
7.5/10 1,855 votes#15 - 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
7.5/10 1,143 votes#16 - 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
7.5/10 902 votes#17 - Rendition
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2011
As the Torchwood team is reunited, Jack realizes he's the most vulnerable man on Earth. A flight to the United States turns into a desperate battle for survival.
Director: Billy Gierhart
Writer: Doris Egan
7.5/10 689 votes#18 - The Categories of Life
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 8/11/2011
Torchwood goes undercover and discovers the terrible truth behind the Miracle. The enemy is closing in, and death is about to make a shocking return.
Director: Guy Ferland
Writer: Jane Espenson
7.6/10 1,614 votes#19 - 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
7.6/10 813 votes#20 - 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: Jane Espenson, Russell T Davies
7.7/10 1,385 votes#21 - 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
7.7/10 1,512 votes#22 - 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
7.7/10 1,303 votes#23 - 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
7.7/10 1,185 votes#24 - 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
7.7/10 1,128 votes#25 - 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