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The Worst Episodes of Torchwood

Every episode of Torchwood ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Torchwood!

The Worst Episodes of Torchwood

The exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

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  1. Background image for Cyberwoman
    6.2/10(1.7k votes)

    #1 - 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.

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  2. Background image for Day One
    6.7/10(1.7k votes)

    #2 - 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.

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  3. Background image for From Out of the Rain
    6.8/10(1.1k votes)

    #3 - 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.

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  4. Background image for Combat
    6.9/10(1.3k votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Andy Goddard
  5. Background image for Small Worlds
    7.0/10(1.5k votes)

    #5 - 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.

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  6. Background image for Greeks Bearing Gifts
    7.2/10(1.4k votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. Background image for Ghost Machine
    7.4/10(1.6k votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Colin Teague
  9. Background image for Sleeper
    7.4/10(1.2k votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Colin Teague
  10. Background image for The New World
    7.4/10(20 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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  11. Background image for Everything Changes
    7.5/10(1.9k votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. Background image for Meat
    7.5/10(1.2k votes)

    #11 - Meat

    S2:E4

    When Rhys discovers the truth about Torchwood, he helps the gang to find the source of an unusual alien meat supply.

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  13. Background image for The Middle Men
    7.5/10(6 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Guy Ferland
  14. Background image for Countrycide
    7.6/10(1.7k votes)

    #13 - 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.

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  15. Background image for End of Days
    7.6/10(1.4k votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    Director:Ashley Way
  16. Background image for Something Borrowed
    7.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #15 - 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

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    Director:Ashley Way
    Writer:Phil Ford
  17. Background image for They Keep Killing Suzie
    7.7/10(1.4k votes)

    #16 - They Keep Killing Suzie

    S1:E8

    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.

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  18. Background image for Random Shoes
    7.7/10(1.6k 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.

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  19. Background image for To the Last Man
    7.7/10(1.2k votes)

    #18 - To the Last Man

    S2:E3

    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?

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    Director:Andy Goddard
  20. Background image for Dead Man Walking
    7.7/10(1.2k votes)

    #19 - 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.

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    Director:Andy Goddard
    Writer:Matt Jones
  21. Background image for Immortal Sins
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for Dead of Night
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #21 - Dead of Night

    S4:E3

    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.

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  23. Background image for End of the Road
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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  24. Background image for Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
    7.9/10(1.5k votes)

    #23 - 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?

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    Director:Ashley Way
  25. Background image for Adam
    7.9/10(1.2k votes)

    #24 - Adam

    S2:E5

    A memory thief gets in to the minds of the Torchwood team, and uncovers long forgotten secrets.

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  26. Background image for Reset
    7.9/10(1.2k votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Ashley Way

Worst Episodes Summary

"Cyberwoman" is the worst rated episode of "Torchwood". It scored 6.2/10 based on 1685 votes. Directed by James Strong and written by Chris Chibnall, it aired on 11/5/2006. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Day One".