Captain Jack Harkness - Leading His Torchwood Team Into The Unknown
The Immortal Time Traveller
Captain Jack Harkness (played by John Barrowman) is a mysterious time traveler from the 51st century. Jack first appears in the 2005 Doctor Who episode The Empty Child as a renegade time agent turned con man. Doctor Who is a British science fiction TV series that ran from 1963 to 1989, and was relaunched in 2005. It shows the adventures of the Doctor, an inscrutable humanoid alien (the last of the Time Lords) who travels through time and space in his TARDIS spaceship. Impressed by his brillia...

Do Aliens Have Rights?
Captain Jack Harkness is biased against aggressive aliens
One of the common ethical themes of Torchwood is the question of alien "rights" versus human rights. In one episode Captain Jack Harkness uses a captured alien as bait, something that Gwen Cooper considers deplorable. In another episode Jack tries to rescue an alien that is being severely abused, claiming that it doesn't deserve its treatment. The difference between the two aliens? The first was aggressive, known for attacking and killing humans; the second was passive and non-threatening...

Torchwood and Doctor Who Links
Great Television Science Fiction and Drama
Alien involvement, time travel, great character development all make for a great television series right? Try two great television series! Doctor Who and its new spinoff, Torchwood. Doctor Who focuses on The Doctor and his dealings with multi-universal crisis, most often involving his much loved race, humans. In addition to time travel, Doctor Who adds space travel including travel into alternate and parallel universes. Torchwood has not involved space travel from the viewers vantage point, a...

Torchwood
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TV Schedule | Torchwood Videos | Books and DVDs | Blogs Torchwood-tv.com will be your indispensable guide to the Cardiff based BBC TV Science Fiction / Fantasy Dramaseries TorchWood, a spin off series to the ever popular Doctor Who.  Series 3 of Torchwood will be a shorter series - just 5 episodes and should air in 2009 NEW Torchwood T Shirts