The Torchwood Institute (usually referred to simply as Torchwood) is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood. Established by HM Queen Victoria in 1879, its prime purpose is to defend the earth against extraterrestrial threats. However, the Torchwood institute begins to use their findings to restore the British Empire to its former glory.

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  • Torchwood
  • the organisation within the Doctor Who universe
  • the spinoff programme
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  • The Torchwood Institute (usually referred to simply as Torchwood) is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood. Established by HM Queen Victoria in 1879, its prime purpose is to defend the earth against extraterrestrial threats. However, the Torchwood institute begins to use their findings to restore the British Empire to its former glory. To those ends, the organisation acquires and reverse engineers alien technology by any means deemed necessary. According to one of its base's directors, Yvonne Hartman, its nationalist attitude includes refusing to use metric units. While described as "beyond the United Nations", the Torchwood Institute is known to cooperate with UNIT (the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, formerly known as the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) to some extent. There appears to have been some rapport with the Prime Minister although this may not always be the case. To those that have come in contact with Torchwood, they are primarily believed to be a special forces team. They appear to maintain this illusion by using false witnesses, or by sectioning any journalists who threaten to expose the truth, and via the use of memory altering drugs. Following a major incident involving the Institute, the stance of the organisation becomes much less confrontational and secretive.
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  • Torchwood logo, composed of hexagonal shapes arranged in the shape of the letter T. Other coloured versions occur - for example, a red version appears in the intertitle for ''Torchwood'', and a blue version appears on the show's microsite.
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  • Torchwood
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  • Torchwood is a vastly powerful organisation, as such it possesses: *Wealth to build skyscraper and underground complex as headquarters *Influence beyond Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and United Nations *Staff given "psychic training", described as "basic mental training, level 1" which includes "psi shielding" as a defence from as well as utilisation of telepathy *Vast array of alien technology and weaponry
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  • Extraterrestrial research
    Protecting Britain
    Developing new technologies
    Arming humanity for the future
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  • Dimensional transporter
    Particle gun
    Large energy weapon
    Weight negation clamps
    Huon particles
    '' And more...''
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  • The Torchwood Institute (usually referred to simply as Torchwood) is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood. Established by HM Queen Victoria in 1879, its prime purpose is to defend the earth against extraterrestrial threats. However, the Torchwood institute begins to use their findings to restore the British Empire to its former glory.
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  • Torchwood Institute
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