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The Worst Episodes of Torchwood

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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Cyberwoman" is the worst rated episode of "Torchwood". It scored 6.2/10 based on 1628 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".

  • Cyberwoman
    6.2/101,628 votes
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    #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

  • Day One
    6.7/101,667 votes
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    #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

  • Combat
    6.9/101,229 votes
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    #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

  • From Out of the Rain
    6.9/101,101 votes
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    #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

  • Small Worlds
    7.0/101,447 votes
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    #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

  • Dead of Night
    7.1/10833 votes
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    #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

  • Escape to L.A.
    7.1/10780 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • The Middle Men
    7.1/10670 votes
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    #8 - 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

  • Greeks Bearing Gifts
    7.2/101,395 votes
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    #9 - 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

  • Immortal Sins
    7.2/10716 votes
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    #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

  • End of the Road
    7.2/10671 votes
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    #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

  • Ghost Machine
    7.4/101,537 votes
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    #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

  • Sleeper
    7.4/101,184 votes
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    #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

  • Rendition
    7.4/10905 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • The Gathering
    7.4/10657 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Everything Changes
    7.5/101,871 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Meat
    7.5/101,149 votes
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    #17 - 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 Categories of Life
    7.5/10690 votes
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    #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

  • Countrycide
    7.6/101,621 votes
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    #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

  • The Blood Line
    7.6/10814 votes
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    #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

  • They Keep Killing Suzie
    7.7/101,392 votes
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    #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

  • Random Shoes
    7.7/101,522 votes
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    #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

  • End of Days
    7.7/101,309 votes
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    #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

  • To the Last Man
    7.7/101,189 votes
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    #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

  • Dead Man Walking
    7.7/101,134 votes
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    #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