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 Name of the Doctor while the Whispermen impressed initially, they did not "[make] a great villain." Michael Hogan of "The Daily Telegraph" said that the episode was "even better" than the previous two. He noted that it was "momentous, moving and thrilling". However, he also noted that the episode had "a tad too much clunking exposition, the odd spot of creaky CGI and some unconvincing metaphors about soufflés and leaves." Despite this, he called it a "breathless, brilliant finale". Some advance coverage of the story assumed the Doctor's name would actually be revealed in the episode. The episode was nominated for the 2014 Hugo