Something Interesting About Torchwood
Being an ardent fan of sci-fi, I have been a regular follower of both Torchwood and Doctor Who. I believe guys if you are reading this blog then you too must be a fan of Torchwood or Doctor Who or may be both. Here are some interesting pieces I thought you would find enjoyable as well as informative.
Torchwood happens to be the first Doctor Who spin-off to be turned into a series, and the first successful dramatic spin-off of Doctor Who (2005). A failed attempt to spin-off a series from the original Doctor Who (1963) resulted in the television special, K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend (1981) (TV), featuring the characters K9 and Sarah Jane Smith.
Are you aware that Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who? All the while the first series of Doctor Who (2005) was being made television pirates were desperate to acquire the preview tapes. Someone in the office had the idea to label the tapes with the anagram “Torchwood” instead of “Doctor Who”, as a security measure while delivering the tapes from Cardiff to London. Writer Russell T. Davies was so much tickled by this idea that it later inspired him to use this anagram as a title when creating a spin-off series.
If you recall, Torchwood members employ a drug called “Retcon” to clean the memories of people who know too much about the organization, in certain episodes. Retcon is a term derived from “Retroactive Continuity” and is used in serialized fiction, especially comic books. This concept is used when new events are meant to completely alter or obliterate the established history of a series.
Although Russell T. Davies had the idea for the series much before he started working on “Doctor Who”, yet that idea could be turned into reality only with “Torchwood” as an official spin-off of “Doctor Who” (2005),
The only member of the Torchwood team never to have had direct contact with the Doctor was Owen. Jack had been companion to two incarnations while Toshiko met the ninth Doctor while examining the space pig in Doctor Who: Aliens of London whereas Gwen and Ianto met the tenth Doctor through the sub-wave network in Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth.
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