Torchwood Institute - Conception

Conception

See also: Torchwood#Overview and Story arcs in Doctor Who#Torchwood

The term "Torchwood", an anagram of "Doctor Who", was used as the codename for the new 2005 series of Doctor Who while filming its first few episodes and on the 'rushes' tapes to ensure that they would not be intercepted. At the end of the first series, Russell T Davies confirmed that the arc word for Series 2 would be an anagram which had been used before (the "Old Earth Torchwood Institute" had been mentioned in the episode "Bad Wolf").

The Torchwood arc ran the length of the second series, either mentioned just in passing ("Rise of the Cybermen", "The Idiot's Lantern", "Fear Her", "Love & Monsters'), or providing backstory about the Institute: its inception in 1879 ("Tooth and Claw"), its access to alien technology ("The Christmas Invasion"), and an expedition to a planet orbiting a black hole ("The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit"), until the first contemporary appearance in "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday". Following the conclusion of the Torchwood arc, ancillary media and the Torchwood spin-off itself would contribute towards defining and expanding upon the Institute's fictional history.

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