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'''Archie''' was the director of the [[Torchwood Institute]]'s [[London]] [[Torchwood One|branch]] in [[1899]]. On [[17 May]] that year, he was rendered permanently incapacitated when he was rapidly aged by an [[alien]] [[Alien (The Victorian Age)|creature]] which fed on youth, leaving the position of Torchwood London leader vacant. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'')
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|alias= Old Tartan Archie
|species=Human
|origin= [[Scotland]]
|affiliation  = Torchwood Institute
|first mention = The Twilight Streets (novel)
|first = The Victorian Age (audio story)
|appearances = [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]''
|voice actor= Guy Adams (writer)
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'''Archie''' was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] man who worked for the [[Torchwood Institute]] in the [[19th century|19th]], [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st centuries]]. Due to an alien attack and subsequent recovery, he did not visibly age, and appeared to be around 80 years old for over a century. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')


== History ==
He later became leader and seemingly sole employee of the Glasgow-based [[Torchwood Two]], apparently living well into the 21st century. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'') His former teammate, [[Captain Jack Harkness]], once described him as a "very strange man". Torchwood Two was disbanded some time before the [[The 456|456 crisis]] which also saw the destruction of the [[Torchwood Three|third and final Torchwood branch]], then under the direction of Harkness. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')
Archie was born around [[1861]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'')


In [[1897]], he worked at [[Torchwood House]] and started cataloguing the [[Torchwood Archive]] of alien artefacts, beginning with [[Last of Erebus|Object One]].
He was the director of the [[Torchwood Institute]]'s [[London]] [[Torchwood One|branch]] in [[1899]]. On [[17 May]] that year, he was rendered incapacitated when he was rapidly aged by an [[alien]] [[Alien (The Victorian Age)|creature]] which fed on youth, leaving the position of Torchwood London leader vacant. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'') He eventually recovered, but never got his looks back. However, as a result, his appearance also did not change for over a century.
He celebrated his 100th birthday at a party thrown at [[Torchwood House]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')
Archie was still alive in the early [[21st century]] and ran [[Torchwood Two]] from its base above a bank in [[Glasgow]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets]]'')
Torchwood Two closed down at some point before [[2009]], as by that time [[Torchwood Three]] was the only operational branch of Torchwood. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Two]]'')
== Personality ==
Archie was, according to [[Jack Harkness]], a "very strange man". ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') Given his age, he referred to himself as a "[[dinosaur]]" by the second half of the 20th century. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'') Called "Old Tartan Archie" by his colleagues, he did not have the hang of [[computer]]s, and exchanged bizarre [[email]]s with [[Owen Harper]]. The words used were "interesting and not always used in the right context," and he referred to himself in the third person, which Owen attributed to either eccentricity or [[whisky]]. His ineptitude with email caused him to send a picture of the [[Loch Ness Monster]] to the ''[[Glasgow Herald]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Twilight Streets]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
Jack Harkness first mentioned Archie (not by name) in the television story ''[[Everything Changes]]''. [[John Barrowman]] has suggested at a public appearance that if he ever appeared on-screen, [[David Tennant]] should play him in heavy make-up.
In his first audio appearance in ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'', Archie was portrayed by either [[Youssef Kerkour]] or [[Aaron Neil]] – the credits did not specify which of the two actors played which roles.
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Revision as of 04:59, 26 February 2019

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It should be relocated at Archie (The Twilight Streets) because This page is now redundant, was created when it wasn't known that the two Archies are the same person. The other page is older
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Archie was the director of the Torchwood Institute's London branch in 1899. On 17 May that year, he was rendered permanently incapacitated when he was rapidly aged by an alien creature which fed on youth, leaving the position of Torchwood London leader vacant. (AUDIO: The Victorian Age)

He later became leader and seemingly sole employee of the Glasgow-based Torchwood Two, apparently living well into the 21st century. (AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive) His former teammate, Captain Jack Harkness, once described him as a "very strange man". Torchwood Two was disbanded some time before the 456 crisis which also saw the destruction of the third and final Torchwood branch, then under the direction of Harkness. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Two)

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