"Series 3" (BFTW)

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The third six-story batch in the Torchwood range of audios was released by Big Finish Productions in 2017. With the Committee arc both concluded and left forever open-ended in The Torchwood Archive, these six stories did not have a narrative arc running through them. They largely continued the trend of concentrating on a particular Torchwood personality each but also ventured further afield to yet unexplored localities and times of Torchwood. In addition to the characters already featured in Series 1 and 2, this season saw the return of Nerys Hughes and Burn Gorman to their characters of Rhys's mother Brenda Williams and Owen Harper respectively. It was also the first series of single-disc releases not to feature either Jack Harkness or Gwen Cooper.

Overview

With the Committee arc wrapped up in the special 10th anniversary release The Torchwood Archive in a way that the Committee could return in any story but did not have to be mentioned at all, "Series 3" embarked on the exploration of the further reaches of Torchwood history. In particular, two of the stories, The Dollhouse (story 2) and The Dying Room (story 6) featured a new setting and no familiar characters at all.

The Dollhouse showed an American offshoot of Torchwood in Los Angeles in the 1970s. With the three Torchwood operatives, played by Laila Pyne, Kelly-Anne Lyons and Ajjaz Awad, being female and directed from afar by an unseen man through loudspeakers, the setup bore a striking resemblance to Charley's Angels.

The Dying Room was set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II and also featured a never-before-seen Torchwood operative, played by Simon Russell Beale. He was pitted against the character of guest-starring Mark Elstob.

Stories with no familiar characters meant that some familiar ones would have to be sidelined. This fate befell Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, who did not appear this season, despite earlier teases of stories centred on them.

Music for the series was composed by Blair Mowat.

The stories were released monthly from March till August 2017.

Stories

# Title Author Director Featuring Released Pr. code
13 Visiting Hours David Llewellyn Scott Handcock 14 March 2017 BFPTWCD13
14 The Dollhouse Juno Dawson Lisa Bowerman 18 April 2017 BFPTWCD14
15 Corpse Day James Goss Scott Handcock 9 May 2017 BFPTWCD15
16 torchwood_cascade_CDRIP.tor Scott Handcock Toshiko Sato 7 June 2017 BFPTWCD16
17 The Office of Never Was James Goss Ianto Jones 6 July 2017 BFPTWCD17
18 The Dying Room Lizzie Hopley 8 August 2017 BFPTWCD18

Notes

  • This is the first season that did not receive an official number.

Featured actors

Production

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Cover gallery

Covers for the series were designed by Lee Binding.

External links

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Footnotes

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