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
Before the Flood (Doctor Who) "Before the Flood" is set in both 2119 and 139 years before, in 1980. In the cold opening, the Doctor explains to the audience the nature of the bootstrap paradox, posing that if a time traveller recreated Beethoven's music after learning Beethoven never existed, what is the origin of the music, or "Who really composed Beethoven's Fifth?" The Doctor, O'Donnell, and Bennett arrive in 1980, before the town was flooded and the day the alien craft landed. Bennett asks why they are in Russia, and the Doctor explains they are still in Scotland, but in a mock Soviet town. They