Torchwood BBC Three Controller Stuart Murphy invited Davies to develop an after-watershed science fiction series for the channel. During the production of the 2005 series of "Doctor Who", the word "Torchwood" (an anagram of "Doctor Who") had been used as a title ruse for the series while filming its first few episodes to ensure they were not intercepted. Davies connected the word "Torchwood" to his earlier "Excalibur" idea and decided to make the series a "Doctor Who" spin-off. Subsequently, the word "Torchwood" was seeded in "Doctor Who" episodes and other media that aired in 2005 and 2006. Because "Torchwood" is shown
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