Children of Earth: Day Three (TV story): Difference between revisions

It notably introduced the 456 after the buildup in the previous two episodes. Torchwood Three also established a new temporary base of operations and pilfered a new car to replace their stolen SUV.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The eyes of the world turn to Britain. The 456 announce: "We are here," as the new Torchwood adventure continues. A pillar of fire descends upon London and Torchwood must battle to protect their own families as the fight gets personal. Will Clem's memories destroy everything?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The team, including Rhys, have set up a base in an old factory once used by Torchwood One for storage. As a former police officer, Gwen knows all the tricks of the criminal trade, including stealing mobile phones, debit cards and laptops from people off the street. Jack makes off with a car. Soon the base is stocked with creature comforts; coffee, electricity, access to the Torchwood server, toiletries, and new clothes for the group, including replacement World War II era apparel for Jack, thanks to an Army Surplus special. When he researches the other people targeted for assassination, Jack is shocked. He seems to recognise them and he runs off.

In Cardiff, Jack's daughter Alice is still trying to contact him; she goes outside and borrows a girl's mobile to phone the Cardiff police, but the government's scanners pick up Jack's name and try to find the connection between them. Agent Johnson gets word of this. Her team take Alice and her son away to "help" them. Suddenly, Steven points southeastwards to London as all the children on Earth are pointing towards London.

A pillar of fire descends from the sky and enters Thames House. Fiery energy fills the gas containment system. John Frobisher and Mr Dekker meet with the aliens, who instruct the humans to call them "456". During the discussion, Frobisher extracts a promise from the 456 that it will not mention its previous visit to Earth in 1965.

Gwen surprises Lois Habiba at a cafe and asks her to wear some special contact lenses to allow Torchwood to see what is going on. Lois protests but takes the contacts. Gwen phones PC Andy to bail Clem McDonald out from police custody and brings him to the base.

Jack sneaks into Frobisher's house and steals his wife's mobile. He phones Frobisher, having made the connection between the children and the events of 1965. He threatens Frobisher with "blow[ing] this thing sky high". Frobisher tells Jack they have taken his daughter and grandson into custody and will kill them if he does. Jack threatens to do the same, but Frobisher knows he would never do such a thing.

That night, Frobisher, Bridget Spears and Lois Habiba enter the gas chamber room, which is being transmitted to a conference room where UNIT, an American general and Brian Green are watching. Frobisher demands the 456 cease using human children to communicate; in return the 456 demand a gift: 10% of the children on Earth.

Back at the warehouse base, Clem tells Gwen he can smell the man who brought the children to the aliens. When Jack walks in, Clem recognises him as the man who gave the twelve children up to the aliens in 1965. When Gwen protests that Jack is a "good guy" who fights aliens, Jack informs them that in this instance, he had done what was asked. He gave the 456 the children... "as a gift."

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Captain Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
Ianto Jones - Gareth David-Lloyd
Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
Lois Habiba - Cush Jumbo
Alice Carter - Lucy Cohu
Steven Carter - Bear McCausland
Bridget Spears - Susan Brown
John Frobisher - Peter Capaldi
Johnson - Liz May Brice
Clem McDonald - Paul Copley
Brian Green PM - Nicholas Farrell
General Pierce - Colin McFarlane
Mr Dekker - Ian Gelder
PC Andy Davidson - Tom Price
Newsreader - Louise Minchin
French Newsreader - Anthony Debaeck
Trinity Wells - Lachele Carl
Colonel Oduya - Charles Abomeli
Rhiannon Davies - Katy Wix
Johnny Davies - Rhodri Lewis
Anna Frobisher - Hilary Maclean
Parliamentary Secretary - Rachel Ferjani
Press Officer - Christopher James
Operative - Ben Loyd-Holmes
David Davies - Luke Perry
Mica Davies - Aimee Davies
Holly Frobisher - Julia Joyce
Lilly Frobisher - Madeleine Rakic-Platt
Sandwich Shop Man - Patrice Etienne
The 456 - Simon Poland
Young Clem - Gregory Ferguson

Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]

Executive Producers Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner


Written by Russell T Davies & James Moran	Produced by Peter Bennett	Directed by Euros Lyn	Director of Photography Rory Taylor	Production Designer Edward Thomas	Visual Effects The Mill

Make-up Designer Marie Doris	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Ben Foster	Costume Designer Ray Holman	Edited by John Gillanders	Special Effects Any Effects
Title music by Murray Gold • With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

1st Assistant Director - Steffan Morris
2nd Assistant Director - James DeHaviland
3rd Assistant Director - David Chalstrey
Runners - Alison Jones, Nicola Brown, Tom Evans
Continuity - Non Eleri Hughes
Camera Operators - James Leigh, Alwyn Hughes
Focus Pullers - Steve Rees, Jamie Southcott
Grip - Clive Baldwin
Assistant Grip - Bobby Williams
Camera Assistants - Tom Hartley, Jon Vidgen
Boom Operator - Jeff Welch
Gaffer - Mark Hutchings
Best Boy - Steve Slocombe
Electricians - Ben Griffiths, Jonathan Cox, Gareth Williams

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Make-up Supervisor - Abi Brotherton
Make-up Artists - Nel Batt, Hannah Proverbs
Make-up Trainee - Catherine Williams
Prosthetics - Millennium FX
Prosthetics Designer - Neill Gorton
Millennium FX Studio Manager - Rob Mayor
Millennium FX Coordinator - Kate Walshe
Administration - Martina Hawkins
Millennium FX Technicians - Martin Rezard, Ivan Manzella, Gustav Hoegen, Henrik Svensson, Kate Smith, Robin Schoonraad, Jimmy Bernadinis, Jill Reeves, Paula Eden, Valentina Visintin, Aris Kolokontes, Vikki Holt, Fiona Walsh, Lauren Wellman, Alexandra Wathey, Ben Brown, Charlie Bluett, Claire Green, Jon Grundon, Lenny Sant

Movement

Stunt Co-ordinator - Tom Lucy

Casting

Casting Associate - Andy Brierley

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound


Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
This episode did not have a "created by Russell T Davies" credit.

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Clement McDonald is held at a police station on Albany Street in Camden.
Clem describes Ianto as "queer", which he considers to be highly offensive.
Jack's lover, Lucia Moretti, is said to have died in October 2006.
Fishponds, Huxley, Market Harborough, Middlesbrough, Streatham, Watford, Waverley, Caersws and Greenham are located in Britain.
Alice's maiden name is Sangster.
Andy fears that the children are heralding the arrival of Godzilla.
Prior to Agent Johnson's raid on Alice's home, Steven watched the TV series Trapped!.

Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The footage of the lift going up is the same used in Rose and New Earth.
Trinity Wells and the French newsreader both make their first appearances in Torchwood and become the only two characters to have also appeared in both Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Ratings[[edit] | [edit source]]

5.9 million BBC One viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures
6.4 million viewers, according to final official BARB viewing figures^[1]
AI of 90%
14th most-watched programme in Britain during the week of transmission

Filming locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Broadcasts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Date	Time	Channel	Notes
Wednesday 8 July 2009	21:00	BBC One & BBC HD	First broadcast.
Thursday 9 July 2009	00:00	BBC HD
Thursday 9 July 2009	00:15	BBC Three
Friday 31 July 2009	21:00	BBC Three
Saturday 1 August 2009	01:45	BBC Three
Tuesday 4 August 2009	22:00	BBC HD
Monday 29 December 2009	23:30	BBC HD

Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

During the first scene in the warehouse, when Jack "lets slip" he knew about the pregnancy, Gwen mutters, "You promised, John," instead of, "You promised, Jack". This was corrected in home media and streaming releases to "Christ, Jack."
When Lois Habiba wears the contact lens, she puts them both in the same eye (her left eye).
The green goo sprayed on the front of the tank disappears and reappears in different shapes several times between shots.
When Gwen is demonstrating the lenses to Lois, several times she looks in different directions and moves her head, but the display on the laptop doesn't move. Also, when Gwen blinks, the display is unaffected (although the computer program may be able to compensate the blinking).
When Torchwood accesses the (production mock-up) BBC News website, the word Minister is misspelled as "Minster".
Torchwood, like many BBC-produced shows in the 21st century including Doctor Who, is shot digitally at 50fps, and a film effect is introduced in post to remove every other frame, creating the illusion of more cinematic 25fps footage. However here are two moments in this episode where the film effect has not been applied to the footage. The first occurs during the high-wide shot of Frobisher addressing the 456, and is subtle enough to miss. The second occurs during the shot of the TV screen showing the news feed in the scene immediately afterwards, as well as close-up shots of the news feed later in the episode (particularly, after Frobisher receives the call about becoming the point-of-contact for the 456, and Jack leaves his daughter's house).
- Of note, this error is noticeable because the BBC required production houses to provide material in 720p50 for broadcast purposes at the time Children of Earth was produced. The end credits of almost all BBC-produced or commissioned series are seen to scroll at 50fps. This is what allows this error to become apparent - if the material had been output at 25fps, it would go unnoticed.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Lois wears contact lenses with the same abilities as the ones Martha wore while infiltrating the Pharm. (TV: Reset ^[+]Loading...["Reset (TV story)"])
Ianto asks Jack whether he felt being blown up when the bomb inside him went off at the Torchwood Hub. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One ^[+]Loading...["Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)"])
Jack tells Ianto that the Doctor called him "a fixed point in time and space". (TV: Utopia ^[+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"])
Ianto shows his continued fondness for Jack's coat. (TV: End of Days ^[+]Loading...["End of Days (TV story)"], Fragments ^[+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])
Gwen has taken Torchwood equipment home with her for "fun", as other members of Torchwood Three have. (TV: Everything Changes ^[+]Loading...["Everything Changes (TV story)"])

Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]

Children of Earth: Day Three was released on DVD along with the rest of Children of Earth on 13 July 2009.
It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.)

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

↑ BARB Ratings - July, 2009

[1] BARB Ratings - July, 2009

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+It notably introduced [[the 456]] after the buildup in the previous two episodes. [[Torchwood Three]] also established a new temporary base of operations and pilfered a new car to replace their stolen [[Torchwood SUV|SUV]].
 == Synopsis ==
+The eyes of the world turn to [[Great Britain|Britain]]. [[The 456]] announce: "We are here," as the new [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] adventure continues. A pillar of fire descends upon [[London]] and Torchwood must battle to protect their own families as the fight gets personal. Will [[Clem McDonald|Clem]]'s [[memory|memories]] destroy everything?
+== Plot ==
+The [[Torchwood Three|team]], including [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]], have set up a base in an [[Torchwood holding facility|old factory]] once used by [[Torchwood One]] for storage. As a former [[police officer]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] knows all the tricks of the criminal trade, including stealing [[mobile phone]]s, debit cards and laptops from people off the street. [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] makes off with a car. Soon the base is stocked with creature comforts; [[coffee]], [[electricity]], access to the Torchwood server, toiletries, and new clothes for the group, including replacement [[World War II]] era apparel for Jack, thanks to an Army Surplus special. When he researches the other people targeted for [[assassination]], Jack is shocked. He seems to recognise them and he runs off.
+In [[Cardiff]], Jack's daughter [[Alice Carter|Alice]] is still trying to contact him; she goes outside and borrows a girl's mobile to phone the Cardiff police, but the government's scanners pick up Jack's name and try to find the connection between them. [[Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One)|Agent Johnson]] gets word of this. Her team take Alice and her [[Steven Carter|son]] away to "help" them. Suddenly, Steven points southeastwards to [[London]] as all the children on [[Earth]] are pointing towards London.
+A [[pillar of fire]] descends from the sky and enters [[Thames House]]. Fiery energy fills the gas containment system. [[John Frobisher]] and [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] meet with the [[alien]]s, who instruct the humans to call them "[[the 456|456]]". During the discussion, Frobisher extracts a promise from the 456 that it will not mention its previous visit to Earth in [[1965]].
+Gwen surprises [[Lois Habiba]] at a cafe and asks her to wear some [[Torchwood contact lenses|special contact lenses]] to allow Torchwood to see what is going on. Lois protests but takes the contacts. Gwen phones [[Andy Davidson|PC Andy]] to bail [[Clem McDonald]] out from police custody and brings him to the base.
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+Jack sneaks into Frobisher's house and steals his wife's mobile. He phones Frobisher, having made the connection between the children and the events of 1965. He threatens Frobisher with "blow[ing] this thing sky high". Frobisher tells Jack they have taken his daughter and grandson into custody and will kill them if he does. Jack threatens to do the same, but Frobisher knows he would never do such a thing.
-== Plot ==
+That night, Frobisher, [[Bridget Spears]] and Lois Habiba enter the gas chamber room, which is being transmitted to a conference room where [[UNIT]], an [[American]] general and [[Brian Green]] are watching. Frobisher demands the 456 cease using human children to communicate; in return the 456 demand a gift: 10% of the children on Earth.
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-The team set up base at the remains of what had been a Torchwood One facility in London, furnishing it with laptops and stolen credit cards. In researching the people targeted for assassination, Jack recognises them and leaves the base in a hurry. At the same time Alice contacts the police in an attempt to discover if her father is alive which alerts Agent Johnson to her identity. As Johnson and her soldiers arrive to take Alice and her son hostage, Steven joins every other child in the world in pointing to the centre of London — the 456 have arrived.
-A member or members of the 456 race enters the enclosed tank, with the gases masking its form and a built in speaker translating its words into English. At Frobisher's request, the 456 agrees to hide the knowledge of the species's previous meeting with Britain's rulers.
-Meeting again at the cafe with Lois, Gwen recruits her to use hidden cameras inside a pair of contact lenses in order to report on Frobisher's communication with the 456. Gwen then bails Clement from a local police station. In a meeting with representatives from the US military and UNIT, the prime minister makes Frobisher a scapegoat ambassador to the 456. As he prepares for his first official meeting with the alien, he is called by Jack using his wife's stolen mobile phone. Jack demands answers under threat of going public with the knowledge of the first contact with the 456. Frobisher tells him that his daughter and grandson are held hostage and will be killed should he act.
-Frobisher begins diplomatic talks with the 456, with Torchwood watching by way of Lois's contact lens camera. Although the creature appears to mock him, it keeps to its agreement by refusing to say why the 456 are in Britain. The 456 then demand a gift: 10% of Earth's children. Back at base, Jack returns and is recognised by Clement as the man who in 1965 gave 12 children to the 456, "as a gift."
-==Cast==
+Back at the warehouse base, Clem tells Gwen he can smell the man who brought the children to the aliens. When Jack walks in, Clem recognises him as the man who gave the twelve children up to the aliens in 1965. When Gwen protests that Jack is a "good guy" who fights aliens, Jack informs them that in this instance, he had done what was asked. He gave the 456 the children... "as a gift."
-*Captain [[Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]
-*[[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
-*[[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
-*[[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]]
-*[[Lois Habiba]] - [[Cush Jumbo]]
-*[[Alice Carter]] - [[Lucy Cohu]]
-*[[Steven Carter]] - [[Bear McCausland]]
-*[[Bridget Spears]] - [[Susan Brown]]
-*[[John Frobisher]] - [[Peter Capaldi]]
-*[[Johnson (Children of Earth)|Johnson]] - [[Liz May Brice]]
-*[[Clem MacDonald]] - [[Paul Copley]]
-*[[Brian Green|Brian Green PM]] - [[Nicholas Farrell]]
-*[[Trinity Wells]] - [[Lachele Carl]]
-==Production crew==
+== Cast ==
-''to be added''
+* [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]
+* [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
+* [[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
+* [[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]]
+* [[Lois Habiba]] - [[Cush Jumbo]]
+* [[Alice Carter]] - [[Lucy Cohu]]
+* [[Steven Carter]] - [[Bear McCausland]]
+* [[Bridget Spears]] - [[Susan Brown]]
+* [[John Frobisher]] - [[Peter Capaldi]]
+* [[Johnson (Children of Earth: Day One)|Johnson]] - [[Liz May Brice]]
+* [[Clem McDonald]] - [[Paul Copley]]
+* [[Brian Green|Brian Green PM]] - [[Nicholas Farrell]]
+* [[Austin Pierce|General Pierce]] - [[Colin McFarlane]]
+* [[Dekker|Mr Dekker]] - [[Ian Gelder]]
+* [[Andy Davidson|PC Andy Davidson]] - [[Tom Price]]
+* [[Louise Minchin (in-universe)|Newsreader]] - [[Louise Minchin]]
+* [[French newsreader|French Newsreader]] - [[Anthony Debaeck]]
+* [[Trinity Wells]] - [[Lachele Carl]]
+* [[Augustus Oduya|Colonel Oduya]] - [[Charles Abomeli]]
+* [[Rhiannon Davies]] - [[Katy Wix]]
+* [[Johnny Davies]] - [[Rhodri Lewis]]
+* [[Anna Frobisher]] - [[Hilary Maclean]]
+* [[Parliamentary Secretary (Children of Earth: Day One)|Parliamentary Secretary]] - [[Rachel Ferjani]]
+* [[Press Officer]] - [[Christopher James]]
+* [[Operative (Children of Earth: Day One)|Operative]] - [[Ben Loyd-Holmes]]
+* [[David Davies]] - [[Luke Perry]]
+* [[Mica Davies]] - [[Aimee Davies]]
+* [[Holly Frobisher]] - [[Julia Joyce]]
+* [[Lilly Frobisher]] - [[Madeleine Rakic-Platt]]
+* [[Sandwich shop man|Sandwich Shop Man]] - [[Patrice Etienne]]
+* [[The 456]] - [[Simon Poland]]
+* [[Clement McDonald|Young Clem]] - [[Gregory Ferguson]]
-== References ==
+== Crew ==
-*This is the second time in the recent Doctor Who multiverse that an alien asked for ten percent of a population, the first being in ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' when the Master kills ten percent of Earth's population. Both stories involved Captain Jack Harkness.
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+|WithThanksTo=BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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+|ExecutiveProd2=Julie Gardner
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+|DedicatedTo=<!--This exact credit never actually used as of April 2010; left for future use-->
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+|Note=This episode did not have a "created by Russell T Davies" credit.
+}}
-*[[The Doctor]] is mentioned. This is the first episode of Torchwood to explicitly reference The Doctor.
+== Worldbuilding ==
+* [[Clement McDonald]] is held at a police station on [[Albany Street]] in [[Camden]].
+* Clem describes [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] as "[[queer]]", which he considers to be highly offensive.
+* Jack's lover, [[Lucia Moretti]], is said to have died in [[October]] [[2006]].
+* [[Fishponds]], [[Huxley, Cheshire|Huxley]], [[Market Harborough]], [[Middlesbrough]], [[Streatham]], [[Watford]], [[Waverley]], [[Caersws]] and [[Greenham]] are located in Britain.
+* Alice's [[maiden name]] is Sangster.
+* Andy fears that the children are heralding the arrival of [[Godzilla]].
+* Prior to Agent Johnson's raid on Alice's home, Steven watched the TV series ''[[Trapped! (TV series)|Trapped!]]''.
 == Story notes ==
-''to be added''
+* The footage of the lift going up is the same used in ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' and ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]''.
+* [[Trinity Wells]] and the [[French newsreader]] both make their first appearances in ''Torchwood'' and become the only two characters to have also appeared in both ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.
 === Ratings ===
-''to be added''
+* 5.9 million [[BBC One]] viewers, according to unofficial overnight figures
+* 6.4 million viewers, according to final official BARB viewing figures<ref>[https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-10/ BARB Ratings - July, 2009]</ref>
+* [[AI]] of 90%
+* 14th most-watched programme in [[Britain]] during the week of transmission
-=== Myths ===
+=== Filming locations ===
 ''to be added''
-=== Filming Locations ===
+=== Broadcasts ===
-''to be added''
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+!Date
+!Time
+!Channel
+!class="unsortable"|Notes
+|-
+|[[Wednesday]] [[8 July (releases)|8 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|21:00
+|[[BBC One]] & [[BBC HD]]
+|First broadcast.
+|-
+|[[Thursday]] [[9 July (releases)|9 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|00:00
+|[[BBC HD]]
+|
+|-
+|[[Thursday]] [[9 July (releases)|9 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|00:15
+|[[BBC Three]]
+|
+|-
+|[[Friday]] [[31 July (releases)|31 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|21:00
+|[[BBC Three]]
+|
+|-
+|[[Saturday]] [[1 August (releases)|1 August]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|01:45
+|[[BBC Three]]
+|
+|-
+|[[Tuesday]] [[4 August (releases)|4 August]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|22:00
+|[[BBC HD]]
+|
+|-
+|[[Monday]] [[29 December (releases)|29 December]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]]
+|23:30
+|[[BBC HD]]
+|
+|}
-=== Discontinuity, Plot Holes and Errors ===
+=== Production errors ===
-''to be added''
+{{Torchwood discontinuity}}
+* During the first scene in the warehouse, when Jack "lets slip" he knew about the pregnancy, Gwen mutters, "You promised, ''[[John Barrowman|John]]''," instead of, "You promised, ''Jack''". This was corrected in home media and streaming releases to "Christ, Jack."
+* When Lois Habiba wears the contact lens, she puts them both in the same eye (her left eye).
+* The green goo sprayed on the front of the tank disappears and reappears in different shapes several times between shots.
+* When Gwen is demonstrating the lenses to Lois, several times she looks in different directions and moves her head, but the display on the laptop doesn't move. Also, when Gwen blinks, the display is unaffected (although the computer program may be able to compensate the blinking).
+* When Torchwood accesses the (production mock-up) BBC News website, the word Minister is misspelled as "Minster".
+* ''Torchwood'', like many BBC-produced shows in the 21st century including ''Doctor Who'', is shot digitally at 50fps, and a film effect is introduced in post to remove every other frame, creating the illusion of more cinematic 25fps footage. However here are two moments in this episode where the film effect has not been applied to the footage. The first occurs during the high-wide shot of Frobisher addressing the 456, and is subtle enough to miss. The second occurs during the shot of the TV screen showing the news feed in the scene immediately afterwards, as well as close-up shots of the news feed later in the episode (particularly, after Frobisher receives the call about becoming the point-of-contact for the 456, and Jack leaves his daughter's house).
+** Of note, this error is noticeable because the BBC required production houses to provide material in 720p50 for broadcast purposes at the time ''Children of Earth'' was produced. The end credits of almost all BBC-produced or commissioned series are seen to scroll at 50fps. This is what allows this error to become apparent - if the material had been output at 25fps, it would go unnoticed.
 == Continuity ==
+* [[Lois Habiba|Lois]] wears [[Eye-5|contact lenses]] with the same abilities as the ones [[Martha Jones|Martha]] wore while infiltrating [[the Pharm]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Reset (TV story)}})
+* Ianto asks Jack whether he felt being blown up when the [[bomb]] inside him went off at the [[Torchwood Hub]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)}})
+* Jack tells Ianto that the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] called him "a fixed point in time and space". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Utopia (TV story)}})
+* Ianto shows his continued fondness for Jack's coat. ([[TV]]: {{cs|End of Days (TV story)}}, {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}})
+* Gwen has taken Torchwood equipment home with her for "fun", as other members of Torchwood Three have. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Everything Changes (TV story)}})
-== DVD releases ==
+== Home video releases ==
-*This Episode will be released on DVD along with the rest of Children of Earth on the 13th of July.
+* ''Children of Earth: Day Three'' was released on DVD along with the rest of ''Children of Earth'' on [[13 July (releases)|13 July]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]].
+* It was also released in the Series 1-4 boxset (Region 2 release: 14 November 2011.)
-==See also==
-''to be added''
-==External links==
+== Footnotes ==
+{{Reflist}}
+{{TWTV}}
+{{UNIT stories}}
+{{TitleSort}}
+[[fr:Day Three]]
+[[ro:Children of Earth: Day Three]]
-==Footnotes==
+[[Category:Torchwood television stories]]
-[[Category:Torchwood episodes]]
+[[Category:Series 3 (Torchwood) stories]]
-[[Category:2009 television stories]]
+[[Category:Stories set in 2009]]
+[[Category:Stories set in London]]
+[[Category:Stories set in Cardiff]]
+[[Category:UNIT television stories]]
+[[Category:Stories set in the City of Westminster]]
+[[Category:Stories set in Camden]]