A Day in the Death Kroagnon in the 1987 Seventh Doctor serial "Paradise Towers". The song playing in Owen's apartment is "Atlas" by Battles. A Day in the Death "A Day in the Death" is the eighth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series "Torchwood", which was broadcast on BBC Three on 27 February 2008. The episode follows the dismissal and later readmission of the recently undead medical officer Owen Harper (Burn Gorman) to the alien-hunting team Torchwood. Owen Harper narrates the opening of the episode, detailing his life and his death, which he is living through. On top of
The End of Time (Doctor Who) two. In the accompanying episode of "Doctor Who Confidential", Russell T Davies stated that the character's name was indeed Rassilon. Verity Newman is played by Jessica Hynes, the same actress who played Joan Redfern, who is Verity's great-grandmother, in the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood". The name "Verity Newman" is based on "Doctor Who" creator Sydney Newman and the show's first producer, Verity Lambert. Professor John Smith averred that his parents were Verity and Sydney. A pocket watch featured prominently in the plot of both Hynes's original episodes, and a pocket watch is featured on the cover