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The Torchwood Institute, or simply Torchwood, is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood. It was established in 1879 by Queen Victoria after the events of "Tooth and Claw". Its prime directive is to defend Earth against supernatural and extraterrestrial threats.
Doctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.
"The Name of the Doctor" was released on BBC One on 18 May 2013. The overnight ratings estimated that it was seen by 5.46 million viewers upon its initial release. [25] When viewers who watched the episode later on were taken into account, the figure rose to 7.45 million, making Doctor Who the third most-watched programme of the week on BBC One.
The Doctor and Yaz pursue Karvanista, of the Lupari species, to Liverpool, where he kidnaps tradesman Dan Lewis. The Doctor experiences a psychic vision of the mysterious Swarm, who claims to share a history with her, escaping from his imprisonment by the Time Lord Division. Before leaving Liverpool the Doctor and Yaz meet Claire, a woman from ...
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.Having ceased broadcasting in 1989, it resumed in 2005.The 2005 revival traded the earlier multi-episode serial format of the original series for a run of self-contained episodes, interspersed with occasional multi-part stories and structured into loose story arcs.
The briefcase is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex, and the Doctor and Joy flee. Trev, who connected psychically to Villengard's system before he died, contacts the Doctor. Trev reveals the briefcase's location, and the Doctor finds it sealed in a shrine. The Doctor opens it, but Joy takes the star seed outside, and lets the star seed enter her.
Three of the six actresses to portray River Song at different stages in her story. From left to right: Sydney Wade, Nina Toussaint-White and Alex Kingston. River Song first appears in the Doctor Who 2008 series two-parter "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" (which was written by future showrunner Steven Moffat) during the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who.
The series' first serial, The Giants, was to be written by C. E. Webber.In the first episode, "Nothing at the End of the Lane", [2] the four main characters (then the Doctor, Cliff, Lola, and Biddy) are shrunk to a miniature size and attacked by giant animals.