Torchwood Institute by sectioning any journalists who threaten to expose the truth, and via the use of memory-altering drugs. Following a major incident which led to the destruction of Torchwood One, Jack Harkness rebuilds Torchwood to become less confrontational and more secretive in honour of the Doctor. The name "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who", with which tapes of series 1 of the "Doctor Who" TV series were labelled to prevent the footage from being leaked. While writing "Doctor Who" series 2, head writer and executive producer Russell T Davies established the word "Torchwood"—which was the name of an institute previously
Out of Time (Torchwood) Out of Time (Torchwood) "Out of Time" is the tenth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television series "Torchwood", which was originally broadcast on the digital television channel BBC Three on 17 December 2006. The episode involves the alien-hunting team Torchwood taking care of and trying to repatriate a pilot and two passengers of an aircraft from 1953 which were brought forward to early 21st-century Cardiff. The Torchwood team meet the "Sky Gypsy", a vintage twin-engined aircraft that has passed through the Rift from 1953 and arrived in the present. The three people on board, pilot