The original title for ‘Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang’ was ‘Separation Anxiety'.

In the first draft of ‘Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang’, Jack and Owen were originally going to ride a scooter to the rooftop at the end of the story.

On the iplayer version of COE Day5, During the scene where Gwen is Running & Jack is sacrificing Stephen, an unreleased soundtrack plays, meanwhile, on the original broadcast & the dvd boxset, a soundtrack similar to ‘Countdown to destruction’ plays

Captain John Hart’s name was originally Captain John Hammond

As part of promotion, mobile users were able to text ‘Torchwood’ to a number, which allowed them to not only obtain a trailer, but also some general information about the programme, as well as a wallpaper.

There was a dropped Torchwood Episode script by Andrew Rattenbury entitled ‘Virus’. This would later be the name of a short story by James Moran in the compilation novel: ‘Consequences’

The first teaser for Torchwood was broadcast on BBC One at 8:30am on October 1st 2006. It was a three second long teaser of the ‘T’ logo in red, which was then repeated numerous times the following week, on BBC One, Two and Three.

When the official website used to promote the show went live, the only available content at that time was a screen with the name of the organisation & a red, flashing ‘Access Denied’ message.

Rachel Stevens, a former member of S Club 7, was rumoured to be playing Gwen in Torchwood. This was later proven to be false.

There was a rumour sparked in October 2005 that Welsh opera-turned-pop-singer Charlotte Church would have a regular role in Torchwood as a raunchy, satan-worshipping villain called ‘Face of a Devil

Torchwood is not only an anagram of ‘Doctor Who’ but also any of several tropical American Trees of the genus Amyris, having wood that burns with a torch-like flame. This was referenced in ‘Another Life’ with one of the characters owning an ‘Amyris elemifera’ as a pot-plant

Julian Bleach, who plays the Ghost Maker in ‘From Out of the Rain’, has also played two other characters in the Whoniverse, these are Davros (Doctor Who) and The Nightmare Man (The Sarah Jane Adventures)

All of the Torchwood team members, minus Owen, have met The Doctor. Andy Davidson has also been a companion to them.

Ianto was named after Gareth David-Lloyd’s Character of the same name (Yanto Jones) in Mine all Mine. Their character’s scenes were unfortunately cut, so Ianto was named to honour him.

The name for Torchwood comes from the fact that television pirates tried to get their hands on the first series of doctor who, so one of the people in the office came with the idea of putting the anagram of Doctor Who (Torchwood) on the tapes as they travelled

The name for Torchwood comes from the fact that television pirates tried to get their hands on the first series of doctor who, so one of the people in the office came with the idea of putting the anagram of Doctor Who (Torchwood) on the tapes as they travelled

Ianto was originally going to be called ‘Idris Hopper’, The same Idris Hopper that was featured in the torchwood novel ‘The Twilight Streets’ & ‘Boom Town’

‘Everything Changes’ had two working titles. ‘Flotsam and Jetsam’, which was dropped after recording finished, and ‘The Valley of Death’

In the series 2 episode ‘From out of the Rain’, there were multiple sets/locations used from across the Whoniverse. These include: Hooverville, Sarah Jane’s Attic & the Torchwood One Warehouse featured in Children of Earth.

Before the show was broadcast, many fans speculated that Gwen was the reincarnation of Queen Guinevere from the legend of King Arthur, reinforced by the fact that Excalibur was the working title & the inclusion of the probe’s name in ‘the christmas invasion’ being Guinevere.