The Torchwood Timeline

Here is ‘The Torchwood Timeline’.

I’ve referred to

• ‘The History of the Doctor’ website – http://www.doctorwhoreviews.altervista.org/Index.html

and

• The Eyespider ‘Doctor Who’ site index – http://eyespider.org.uk/drwho/compleat.html

to help me put this version of the timeline together.

I’ve included all the TV stories, audios; books; comics and short stories into this list for now.

The (TV) and (Audio) stories are highlighted in RED.

The (Book) stories are to remain un-highlighted for now.

The short stories are highlighted in RED and/or ITALICS; and are CENTRED.

The stories with links to reviews by me on my blog are highlighted in BOLD and RED.

Regarding the (Book) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
*VNA – Virgin New Adventures
*TWN – Torchwood Novels

Regarding the (Audio) stories, I’ve identified each of them as follows in the KEY below.

KEY
**BAD – BBC Audio Drama
**BAB – BBC Audio Book
**BFAD – Big Finish Audio Drama
**BFAB – Big Finish Audio Book

Please feel free to ask questions about this timeline, as I intend to revisit this and add new stories to the list as time goes on.

I’ve divided the timeline into 15 phases
1. The 1870s
2. The 1880s
3. The 1890s
4. The 1900s
5. The 1910s
6. The 1920s
7. The 1940s
8. The 1950s
9. The 1960s
10. The 1970s
11. The 1980s
12. The 1990s
13. The 2000s
14. The 2010s
15. The 4220s

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1. The 1870s

Torchwood’s formation by Queen Victoria in 1879 from ‘Tooth and Claw’ (TV) takes place here.

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2. The 1880s

The 1887 scenes from ‘The Death of Captain Jack’ (Audio) – BFAB** take place here.
Queen Victoria and Torchwood’s appearance in ‘The Time Machination’ (Comic) takes place here in 1889.

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3. The 1890s

The 1897 scene of Archie, head of Torchwood London, beginning the Torchwood Archive from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Fortitude (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

Captain Jack joining Torchwood Three in Cardiff in 1899 from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.

• The Victorian Age (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

Queen Victoria’s recording of a speech for the Torchwood Institute on its 20th anniversary in 1899 from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place after ‘The Victorian Age’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**.
‘The Baby Farmers’ from ‘Consequences’ (TW) (Book) – TWN* takes place here.

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4. The 1900s

Queen’s Victoria’s message of The Committee and the Red Key gift to Torchwood from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here circa 1900.
Captain Jack given the Red Key by Queen Victoria and taking the key back to Torchwood Cardiff from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here circa 1900.
Captain Jack Harkness gets unearthed by Torchwood in 1901 from ‘Exit Wounds’ (TW) (TV).
The 1902 scene of Archie, head of Torchwood London, still archive objects in the Torchwood Archive from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
The two Torchwood agents’ appearance in 1906 during ‘Final Sacrifice’ (Comic) takes place here.
Captain Jack’s 1909 scenes from ‘Small Worlds’ (TW) (TV) take place here.

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5. The 1910s

The coming of the Weevils in 1914 from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

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6. The 1920s

Captain Jack’s 1920s scenes from ‘From Out Of The Rain’ (TW) (TV) take place here.
The 1924 scenes of Torchwood India from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
Captain Jack’s scenes with Angelo Colasanto from ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV) take place here.

• Overture (TW) (Comic)

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7. The 1940s

• The Dying Room (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Curios (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

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8. The 1950s

The scenes of ‘Ghost Mission’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** from Norton Folgate’s point of view occurs here.
The 1953 scenes of Norton Folgate offloading the Red Key onto the Mandrake Organisation from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
The 1955 disastrous trial run of the Good Thinking Virus by Norton Fulgate and Captain Jack Harkness from ‘Outbreak’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
The 1950s scenes in ‘Goodbye Piccadilly’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** take place here.

• Parasite (TWS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Man From Room 13
2. Meet Mr Lyme
3. The Mould
4. The Spread
5. The Dead Hand
6. The Liberty of Norton Folgate

• Ashenden (TWS) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Pimlico

2. O Little Town of Ashenden

3. The National Health

4. Rivers of Blood

5. Now is the Time for All Good Men

6. The Hour of the Hollow Man

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9. The 1960s

The 1961 scene of Archie (at 100) still archiving the Torchwood Archive from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
Captain Jack’s dealing with the 456 in 1965 from ‘Children of Earth’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.

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10. The 1970s

• The Dollhouse (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

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11. The 1980s

Torchwood’s involvement in ‘Damaged Goods’ (Book/Audio) – VNA*+BFAD** takes place here.

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12. The 1990s

The 1918 scenes from ‘To The Last Man’ (TW) (TV) take place here.
Alex Hopkins, head of Torchwood Three (Cardiff) is given the Red Key from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**. He sees visions of ‘Children of Earth’ (TW) (TV), ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV) and beyond before he kills himself and his team, taking place here before New Year’s Eve 1999 from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV).

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13. The 2000s

The New Year’s Eve/Day scene from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV) where Captain Jack Harkness discovers Alex Hopkins kill his team and himself takes place here.

Toshiko Sato joining Torchwood Three in Cardiff in 2004 from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.

The 2004 scenes of Suzie Costello finding The Red Key with Yvonne Hartman and Captain Jack Harkness from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Torchwood One: Machines (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. The Law Machines
2. Blind Summit
3. 9 to 5

• One Rule (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Torchwood One: Before The Fall (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. New Girl
2. Through The Ruins
3. Uprising

Owen Harper joining Torchwood Three in Cardiff in 2006 from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.
Toshiko Sato’s appearance in ‘Aliens of London’ from ‘Aliens of London’/’World War Three’ (TV) takes place in March 2006.
‘Sync’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place between ‘Aliens of London’/’World War Three’ (TV) and ‘Moving Target’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
‘Moving Target’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** takes place in November 2006.
Torchwood’s attack on the Sycorax ship on Christmas Day, 2006 in ‘The Christmas Invasion’ (TV) takes place here.

• Torchwood One: Latter Days (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Retirement Plan
2. Locker 15
3. The Rockery

The flashback scene from ‘Broken’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** featuring Ianto Jones and Lisa Hallett takes place here.

• Army of Ghosts/Doomsday (TV)

Ianto Jones given the Red Key at Torchwood One, London from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place during ‘Doomsday’ from ‘Army of Ghosts’/’Doomsday’ (TV).
Ianto Jones joining Torchwood Three in Cardiff in 2007 from ‘Fragments’ (TW) (TV) takes place here.

• The Vigil (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Iceberg (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Everything Changes (TW) (TV)
• Day One (TW) (TV)
• Ghost Machine (TW) (TV)
• Another Life (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB**
• Border Princes (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB**
• Slow Decay (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB**
• Cyberwoman (TW) (TV)

The story’s opening scene from ‘Broken’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here shortly after ‘Cyberwoman’ (TW) (TV).

• Small Worlds (TW) (TV)

‘Mend Me’ (TW) (TWM)

• Countrycide (TW) (TV)
• Greeks Bearing Gifts (TW) (TV)

The main story of  ‘Broken’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here with the last scene leading into ‘They Keep Killing Suzie’ (TW) (TV).

• They Keep Killing Suzie (TW) (TV)
• Random Shoes (TW) (TV)
• Out of Time (TW) (TV)
• Combat (TW) (TV)
• Hidden (TW) (Audio) – BAB**

Torchwood’s involvement in ‘The Runaway Bride’ (TV) takes place here.
The 2007 sections from ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place here.

• Captain Jack Harkness (TW) (TV)
• End of Days (TW) (TV)
• Kaleidoscope (from ‘Consequences’ (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• Dinner and a Show (TW) (Audio) – BAB**

Gwen, Owen, Toshiko and Ianto sent on a wild goose chase by the Master to the Himalayas in ‘The Sound of Drums’ from ‘Utopia’/’The Sound of Drums’/’Last of the Time Lords’ (TV) takes place.

• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (TW) (TV)
• The Legacy of Torchwood One! (TW) (Comic)
• Sleeper (TW) (TV)
• Shrouded (TW) (Comic)
• To the Last Man (TW) (TV)
• The Conspiracy (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

Gwen’s talk with Madeline from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Fall to Earth (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Uncanny Valley (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Office Of Never Was (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

Eve Trent’s confession to Torchwood about Ovid and their dealings with the Committee from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.
Ivan Putin’s, agent of the KVI, complaints about telling some influential people that their lovers are Ovid sex dolls controlled by the Committee from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Something in the Water (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• Everyone Says Hello (TW) (Audio) – BAB**
• Zone 10 (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

Toshiko Sato’s recount of her experiments with the Red Key at a bar before throwing it into an alternate dimension and retconning her and the barman’s memories from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Meat (TW) (TV)

‘Unplugged’ (TW) (TWM)

• In The Shadows (TW) (Audio)  – BAB**
• Adam (TW) (TV)
• Trace Memory (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• The Twilight Streets (TW) (Book) – TWN*

The 2008 scene of Archie still archiving the Torchwood Archive at Torchwood Two from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Jetsam (TW) (Comic)

‘Harm’s Way’ (TW) (TWM)

• Rift War (TW) (Comic)

‘Black Water’ (TW) (TWM YB)
Captain Jack’s narration of ‘The Conspiracy’ (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

• The Last Beacon (Audio) – BFAB**
• Reset (TW) (TV)
  
• Dead Man Walking (TW) (TV)
  
• A Day in the Death (TW) (TV)
  
• Pack Animals (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• Serenity (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Mrs Acres’ (TW) (TWM YB)
‘The Beauty of Our Weapons’ (TW) (TWM YB)
‘The Book of Jahi’ (TW) (TWM)

• Something Borrowed (TW) (TV)
• SkyPoint (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• Believe (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Instant Karma (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

‘Planet Life’ (TW) (TWM YB)

• From Out of the Rain (TW) (TV)
• Adrift (TW) (TV)

‘Monster’ (TW) (TWM YB)

• Corpse Day (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
  
• The Hope (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Three Monkeys (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Gooseberry (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

The events as depicted in the recording during ‘torchwood_cascade_ CDRip.tor’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** take place here.

• Tropical Beach Sounds and Other Relaxing Seascapes #4 (Audio) – BFAB**
• Fragments (TW) (TV)
• Exit Wounds (TW) (TV)
• Lost Souls (TW) (Audio) – BAD**
• Expectant (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

The framing story of ‘torchwood_cascade_ CDRip.tor’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** takes place here.

• The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End (TV)
• Almost Perfect (TW) (Book) – TWN*

‘Who by Fire’ (TW) (TWM)

• The Selkie (TW) (Comic)

‘Gordian’ (TW) (TWM)
Gwen’s narration of ‘In The Shadows’ (Audio) – BAB** takes place here after the deaths of Owen and Toshiko in ‘Exit Wounds’ (TV).

• The Sin Eaters (TW) (Audio) – BAB**

‘The Man Who Dreamed Of Stars’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Closing Time’ (TW) (TWM)

• Into the Silence (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• Bay of the Dead (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• The House That Jack Built (TW) (Book) – TWN*

‘The Last Voyage of Osiris’ (TW) (TWM)

• Risk Assessment (TW) (Book) – TWN*
• The Undertaker’s Gift (TW) (Book) – TWN*

‘The Wrong Hands’ from ‘Consequences’ (TW) (Book) – TWN* takes place here.
‘Virus’ from ‘Consequences’ (TW) (Book) – TWN* takes place here.
‘Consequences’ from ‘Consequences’ (TW) (Book) – TWN* takes place here.

• Asylum (TW) (Audio) – BAD**
• Golden Age (TW) (Audio) – BAD**
• The Dead Line (TW) (Audio) – BAD**

The 2009 scene where PC Andy Davidson dates a woman and fails to impress with stories of his Torchwood contacts from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Broken (TW) (Comic)

‘Stakes on a Plane’ (TW) (TWM)
‘I May Be Some Time’ (TW) (TWM)
‘They Keep Killing Andy’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Flotsam and Jetsam’ (TW) (TWM)

• Fated To Pretend (TW) (Comic)

‘Happy New Year’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Photo Finish’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Postcards From The Rift’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Reflections’ (TW) (TWM)
‘The Package’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Ashes to Ashes’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Rift-Raff’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Lockdown’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Rare Earth’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Everything’s True’ (TW) (TWM)

• Somebody Else’s Problem (TW) (Comic)

‘The Secret of Crow Island’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Red Handed’ (TW) (TWM)
‘Cultural Firsts’ (TW) (TWM)

• Hell House (TW) (Comic)

‘The Mind’s Eye’ (TW) (TWM)
‘We All Go Through’ (TW) (TWM)

• The Devil and Miss Carew (TW) (Audio) – BAD**
• Submission (TW) (Audio) – BAD**

Rhys doing a job for the Committee with shipments of fridge parts coming in from ‘The Torchwood Archive’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** takes place here.

• Outbreak (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**
• Ghost Train (TW) (Audio)  – BAB**
• Department X (TW) (Audio) – BAB** 
• Dissected (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
  
• Children of Earth (TW) (TV)

1. Day One
2. Day Two
3. Day Three
4. Day Four
5. Day Five

‘Long Time Dead’ (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB**  takes place in October 2009, one month after the destruction of the Torchwood Hub in ‘Children of Earth’ (TW) (TV).

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14. The 2010s

• The House of the Dead (TW) (Audio) – BAD**

‘First Born’ (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB** takes place in the winter of 2010/2011, several months after the coda of ‘Children of Earth’ (TW) (TV).
‘The Men Who Sold The World’ (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB** takes place in 2011, prior to the events of ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

• The Green Life (Audio) (TW) – BFAB**
  
• Miracle Day (TW) (TV)
  

1. The New World

The 2011 sections of Episode 1 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘The New World’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

2. Rendition

The 2011 sections of Episode 2 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘Rendition’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

3. Dead of Night

The 2011 sections of Episode 3 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘Dead of Night’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

4. Escape to L.A.

The 2011 sections of Episode 4 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘Escape to L.A.’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

5. The Categories of Life

The 2011 sections of Episode 5 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘The Categories of Life’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

6. The Middle Men

The 2011 sections of Episode 6 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘The Middle Men’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

7. Immortal Sins

The 2011 sections of Episode 7 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘Immortal Sins’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

8. End of the Road

The 2011 sections of Episode 8 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘End of the Road’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

9. The Gathering

The 2011 sections of Episode 9 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘The Gathering’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

10. The Blood Line

The 2011 sections of Episode 10 of ‘Web of Lies’ (TW) (Webcast) take place after ‘The Blood Line’ in ‘Miracle Day’ (TW) (TV).

• Army of One (TW) (Audio) – BAB**
• Fallout (TW) (Audio) – BAB**
• Red Skies (TW) (Audio) – BAB**
• Mr. Invincible (TW) (Audio) – BAB**
• Exodus Code (TW) (Book/Audio) – TWN*+BAB**
• Forgotten Lives (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• More Than This (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Ghost Mission (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Made You Look (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• We Always Get Out Alive (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

The present day scenes in ‘Goodbye Piccadilly’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** take place here.

• Night of the Fendahl (Audio) (TW) – BFAB**
• Smashed (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

‘World Without End’ (TW) (Comic) takes place in 2017. 
‘Station Zero’ (TW) (Comic) takes place in 2017.
‘The Culling’ (TW) (Comic) takes place in 2017.
The 2017 scenes from ‘The Death of Captain Jack’ (Audio) – BFAB** take place here.

• Aliens Among Us (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Changes Everything

‘Visiting Hours’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** takes place between ‘Changes Everything’ and ‘Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy’ during ‘Aliens Among Us’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

2. Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy
3. Orr
4. Superiority Complex
5. Love Rat

‘Dead Man’s Switch’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAB** leads into ‘A Kill to a View’ during ‘Aliens Among Us’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

6. A Kill to a View
7. Zero Hour
8. The Empty Hand
9. Poker Face
10. Tagged
11. Escape Room
12. Herald of the Dawn

The ‘Cardiff Unknown’ (Audio) – BFAD** October 2018 podcast mini-episode takes place between ‘Herald of the Dawn’ from ‘Aliens Among Us’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD** and ‘Future Pain’ from ‘God Among Us’ (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**.

• Deadbeat Escape (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Sargasso (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• God Among Us (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

1. Future Pain
2. The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood
3. See No Evil
4. Night Watch
5. Flight 405
6. Hostile Environment
7. Another Man’s Shoes
8. Eye of the Storm
9. A Mother’s Son 
10. ScrapeJane
11. Day Zero
12. Thoughts and Prayers

• Red Base (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• The Red List (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Death In Venice (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**
• Sabotage (TW) (Audio) – BFAB**

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15. The 4220s

The Krop-Tor expedition on behalf of the Torchwood Archive during ‘The Impossible Planet’/’The Satan Pit’ (TV) takes place in 4221.

• The Torchwood Archive (TW) (Audio) – BFAD**

The two Torchwood agents’ appearance in the far future during ‘Final Sacrifice’ (Comic) takes place here.

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