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| {{merge|Archie (The Victorian Age)|the character first ''appeared'' in the audio ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]''. He was only mentioned in ''[[The Twilight Streets (novel)|The Twilight Streets]]''.|user=Amorkuz}}
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| {{Infobox Individual
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| |alias= Old Tartan Archie
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| |species=Human
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| |origin= [[Scotland]]
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| |affiliation = Torchwood Institute
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| |first mention = The Twilight Streets (novel)
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| |first = The Victorian Age (audio story)
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| |appearances = [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]''
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| |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]]'')
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| == History ==
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| Archie was born around [[1861]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Victorian Age (audio story)|The Victorian Age]]'')
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| In [[1897]], he worked at [[Torchwood House]] and started cataloguing the [[Torchwood Archive]] of alien artefacts, beginning with [[Last of Erebus|Object One]].
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| 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.
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| He celebrated his 100th birthday at a party thrown at [[Torchwood House]]. He was tasked with developing the Archive of Torchwood using a knowledge sponge. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')
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| 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]]'') He was still inputting information into the Archive when [[Owen Harper]] worked for [[Torchwood Three]]. He was in charge of placing the objects into the Archives across the Country. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archive (audio story)|The Torchwood Archive]]'')
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| 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]]'')
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| == Personality ==
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| 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]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| 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.
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| 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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| [[Category:20th century individuals]]
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| [[Category:21st century individuals]]
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| [[Category:19th century individuals]]
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| [[Category:Torchwood One personnel]]
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