September 5th, 2016
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Big Finish The Torchwood Archive
Available to order from www.bigfinish.com
A special feature-length story celebrating 10 years of Torchwood!
The Torchwood Archive
“Welcome, visitor. The Torchwood Archive provides a complete history of our Institute from its distant beginnings to the present day. When we founded our great enterprise in the year of our Lord 1879, we decreed that there should be a record of this achievement, stored at the very furthest limits of the British Empire. By visiting you are spreading that legacy, perhaps out through the skies. For now, I shall bid you a good day and welcome you to the Torchwood Archive. Do, please look around.”
The Torchwood Archive is a forgotten asteroid in the centre of a great war. Jeremiah is its first visitor in many centuries. He’s come to learn something very important. And the ghosts of Torchwood are waiting for him.
Written By: James Goss
Directed By: Scott Handcock
Cast
John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness), Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones), Naoko Mori (Toshiko Sato), Indira Varma (Suzie Costello), Kai Owen (Rhys Williams), Tom Price (Andy Davidson), Tracy-Ann Oberman (Yvonne Hartman), Richie Campbell (Jeremiah Bash Henderson), Rowena Cooper (Queen Victoria), Julian Lewis Jones (Alex Hopkins), Samuel Barnett (Norton Folgate), David Warner (The Committee), Emma Reeves (Miss Trent), Krystian Godlewski (Maxim Ivanov), Guy Adams (Archie), Geoffrey Breton (Bartender), Lisa Bowerman (Miss Mitford), Laura Doddington (Delilah), Aaron Neil (Mandrake), Kerry Gooderson (Little Girl), Ryan Sampson (Ivan Putin), Damian Lynch (Kieran Frost), Paul Clayton (Mr Colchester)
Produced by James Goss
Script edited by Steve Tribe
Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
Categorised under: Big Finish, CD, Torchwood
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DOCTORWHOFAN1
November 12th, 2016 - 3:59pmAmazing!!!!
Savethecoffeeboysavetheworld
September 5th, 2016 - 5:02pmI haven’t started collecting any big finish yet but this looks really good so I might start getting the torchwood range soon
TheTorchwoodTowers
September 5th, 2016 - 4:58pmAwesome! Shame about Burn but this looks epic. I now strongly believe Torchwood will return to TV soon…
booboo
September 5th, 2016 - 4:59pmi hope so, but back in a new Hub in Cardiff where it belongs
TheTorchwoodTowers
September 5th, 2016 - 6:56pmI would love it either back in Cardiff or perhaps the team could go and find “Torchwood 4” or go to “Torchwood 2” in Glasgow.
James A
September 5th, 2016 - 8:47pmA story arc about finding Torchwood 4 would be interesting…an idea could be that the branch severed itself from the rest of the institute for certain reasons..?
TheTorchwoodTowers
September 5th, 2016 - 11:13pmperhaps Torchwood 4’s main aim was to kill Jack? Maybe Victoria saw him as a threat, as he came from the future and knew the doctor, so she created an independent organisation to try and kill him. However Jack nor the other institutes knew this. Then employees who worked for Torchwood 4 became “The Three Families” and to cover themselves, disconnected Torchwood 4 from the world to prevent being caught. They then caused Miracle Day, to make Jack mortal, and to kill him. Just an idea 🙂
JA
September 6th, 2016 - 3:32am…and because the Three Families are enablers of the Committee, this was part of their plan to eliminate Jack. The Families probably didn’t know this, so most of them were probably drones to the Comittee with the leading members being enablers.
Maybe Torchwood 4 is still in operation? Working in maxium secrecy with the Committee’s influence.? Im getting carried away now xD
TARDIS H
September 5th, 2016 - 4:30pmBooBoo is this the finished cover?
TARDIS
booboo
September 5th, 2016 - 4:48pmdont know i would say probably not
JA
September 5th, 2016 - 2:45pmThere’s a trailer on the Big Finish page, sounds like everyone cast plays a valid part. I guess they were recording this bit by bit as they recorded the first 12 stories…makes sense from a scheduling point of view. Cant wait for it though!
100,000BC
September 5th, 2016 - 10:55amThe podcast today announced that series 3 will start in March 2017, with ‘Visiting Hours’ (starring Kai Owen and Nerys Hughes) and ‘The Doll’s House’. Once again, the series will feature John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd.
(presumably the reason for the break is to allow for the production of Archives, Outbreak and the other promised Torchwood releases including the one with Jackie Tyler teased earlier this year)
Sean Bassett
September 5th, 2016 - 6:24pmI doubt the Jackie Tyler audio drama is a Torchwood release. Jackie has nothing to do with Torchwood and the clip sounded like it came from a Doctor Who release given Jack seemed to be about to tell her a story about when he was travelling with the Doctor and Rose. My guess is a ninth Doctor ‘Companion Chronicle’ (only released under a different/new brand like ‘The Many Lives of Captain Jack Harkness’).
100,000BC
September 6th, 2016 - 9:01amYeah good point, I heard that clip and I can see what you mean. However, it has been strongly implied that more BF Torchwood news (along with series 3) is on its way…
Tom Baker Plush
September 5th, 2016 - 10:18amLooks exciting. I guess this is the closest we’ll ever get to having the whole team back together
100,000BC
September 5th, 2016 - 10:49amOff the top of my head, I can’t think of any time Burn Gorman has said he categorically wouldn’t return to the role (correct me if I’m wrong) – my guess is that (much like Matt Smith and David Tennant) he’s a busy actor who works away from Britain a lot, and given time, he may eventually find a weekend to record one or two stories for Big Finish.
They currently have the licence until 2025 for both Torchwood and Doctor Who, so there is plenty of time. I imagine that as soon as they have the chance to do a full-cast series 1-2 story, they will.
TARDIS H
September 5th, 2016 - 9:47amSo boo boo is this just all of the past torchwood audios together?
No new ones?
TARDIS H
booboo
September 5th, 2016 - 9:49amits a brand new adventure
TARDIS H
September 5th, 2016 - 9:55amSo BooBoo does it have the entire cast from the past 12 audios?
TARDIS H
booboo
September 5th, 2016 - 10:40amLooks like it
100,000BC
September 5th, 2016 - 11:01amAll of the leading cast from the past audios (including Norton Folgate, Queen Victoria and a couple of supporting characters) are returning.
Most of the rest of the supporting cast in here have featured in previous Big Finish Torchwood audios as different characters.
Also note the appearance of Julian Lewis Jones returning as Alex Hopkins, the Torchwood member from ‘Fragments’ in the 1999 segment who **SPOILER** shot the rest of the team at the turn of the millennium.
TARDIS H
September 5th, 2016 - 11:15amNo way!!!!!!!!
That news about Alex is amazing!!!!
I am so happy!!!!!!
Definitely getting this!!!!!!!
Thanks 100,000BC and BooBoo
TARDIS H
Gordon
September 5th, 2016 - 9:35amShame burn Gorman still hasn’t come back yet