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 Doctor (Doctor Who) elaborate that the Doctor chose the name as a promise for the sort of man he wants to be: "Never cruel or cowardly. Never giving up and never giving in." By contrast, the Eleventh Doctor spoke of the War Doctor (John Hurt) as being the man who broke that promise, being the one to fight in the Time War before learning the actual fate of the Time Lords. Since contradicted by the television series, the 2003 Telos novella "Frayed" by Tara Samms, set prior to the programme's first episode in 1963, presents the alternative explanation that the Doctor was given