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Adding footnote explaining the problems of extrapolating a specific date in the TV spin offs as corresponding with RTD era Doctor Who. Also, don't use wording such as "today", "now", or "currently" that dates articles.
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(Adding footnote explaining the problems of extrapolating a specific date in the TV spin offs as corresponding with RTD era Doctor Who. Also, don't use wording such as "today", "now", or "currently" that dates articles.)
Tag: 2017 source edit
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|featuring2            = Rhys Williams
|featuring2            = Rhys Williams
|enemy                = [[Mark Lynch]]
|enemy                = [[Mark Lynch]]
|setting              = [[Cardiff]], [[2000s]]
|setting              = [[Cardiff]], [[2000s]]<ref>Episodes 11-13 of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' are set anywhere from [[2007]]-[[2010]] as a result of [[Aliens of London dating controversy|conflicting evidence]] shown in the episodes  ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'', ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'', ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]'', ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'', ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'', ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'', ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'', ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', and ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]''. As episode 10, ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'', is set at the end of [[December]], this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.</ref>
|writer                = [[Noel Clarke]]
|writer                = [[Noel Clarke]]
|director              = [[Andy Goddard]]
|director              = [[Andy Goddard]]
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It principally featured [[Owen Harper]] and significantly developed the mythos surrounding the [[Weevil]]s, establishing that Owen had a unique relationship with them — something that would be explored further in [[series 2 (Torchwood)|series 2]] and stories in other media.
It principally featured [[Owen Harper]] and significantly developed the mythos surrounding the [[Weevil]]s, establishing that Owen had a unique relationship with them — something that would be explored further in [[series 2 (Torchwood)|series 2]] and stories in other media.


Written by Noel Clarke, it was, as of today, the only ''Doctor Who''-related television episode to be penned by an actor who portrayed a major DWU character.
Written by Noel Clarke, it was, {{As of|2023|3|lc=y}}, the only ''Doctor Who''-related television episode to be penned by an actor who portrayed a major DWU character, though not the first or only penned by ''any'' actor that appeared in the DWU as a named character.


== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
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