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==== Early 20th century ==== | ==== Early 20th century ==== | ||
[[File:Jack, Alice, Charles.jpg|left|thumb|[[Alice Guppy]] and [[Charles Gaskell]] interrogate another version of Jack Harkness. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')]] | [[File:Jack, Alice, Charles.jpg|left|thumb|[[Alice Guppy]] and [[Charles Gaskell]] interrogate another version of Jack Harkness. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')]] | ||
In [[1901]], [[Alice Guppy]] and [[Charles Gaskell]] dug up a future version of Jack Harkness that had been taken from the 21st century and buried in [[27|27 AD]] [[Cardiff]]. He told them to freeze him in the cryo-chambers so he could defeat his brother [[Gray (Fragments)|Gray]]. Subsequently, Jack's future self resided in the cryo-chambers even as his younger self continued to work nearby. ([[TV]]: | In [[1901]], [[Alice Guppy]] and [[Charles Gaskell]] dug up a future version of Jack Harkness that had been taken from the 21st century and buried in [[27|27 AD]] [[Cardiff]]. He told them to freeze him in the cryo-chambers so he could defeat his brother [[Gray (Fragments)|Gray]]. Subsequently, Jack's future self resided in the cryo-chambers even as his younger self continued to work nearby. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}}) | ||
In [[1906]], [[Eliza Cooper]] and [[Robert Lewis]] used a machine they commissioned Professor [[Alexander Hugh]] to build to travel to another planet thousands of years into the future. Neither Cooper nor Lewis returned; the former remained on the planet while the latter was killed. Professor Hugh was returned home by the Tenth Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: | In [[1906]], [[Eliza Cooper]] and [[Robert Lewis]] used a machine they commissioned Professor [[Alexander Hugh]] to build to travel to another planet thousands of years into the future. Neither Cooper nor Lewis returned; the former remained on the planet while the latter was killed. Professor Hugh was returned home by the Tenth Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Final Sacrifice (comic story)}}) | ||
In [[1909]], Jack was put in charge of a group of soldiers who were all killed by [[Fairies]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Small Worlds (TV story)}}) | |||
Torchwood was planning to use [[alien]] weaponry during [[World War I]], but eventually decided against it. ([[PROSE]]: | Torchwood was planning to use [[alien]] weaponry during [[World War I]], but eventually decided against it. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Risk Assessment (novel)}}) | ||
In [[1918]], [[Torchwood Three]] investigated [[ghost]] sightings in [[St Teilo's Hospital|a hospital in Cardiff]]. As present and future blended, they caught glimpses of the [[21st century]], receiving instructions from future Torchwood to take shellshocked soldier [[Tommy Brockless]] from the hospital and keep him in cryogenic suspension. At this time they had a team of five, the leader being a man called [[Gerald Carter]]. They already had equipment capable of detecting disturbances in [[time]]. ([[TV]]: | In [[1918]], [[Torchwood Three]] investigated [[ghost]] sightings in [[St Teilo's Hospital|a hospital in Cardiff]]. As present and future blended, they caught glimpses of the [[21st century]], receiving instructions from future Torchwood to take shellshocked soldier [[Tommy Brockless]] from the hospital and keep him in cryogenic suspension. At this time they had a team of five, the leader being a man called [[Gerald Carter]]. They already had equipment capable of detecting disturbances in [[time]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|To the Last Man (TV story)}}) | ||
Circa [[1919]], [[Harriet Derbyshire]], one of the investigators of the hospital sightings and only in her mid-twenties, died in action. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'') Gerald stood down as leader of Torchwood Three as a result. ([[COMIC]]: | Circa [[1919]], [[Harriet Derbyshire]], one of the investigators of the hospital sightings and only in her mid-twenties, died in action. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'') Gerald stood down as leader of Torchwood Three as a result. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Rift War! (comic story)}}) | ||
In the 1920s, Jack worked undercover with a travelling circus in pursuit of the [[Night Travellers]], though he was unsuccessful. ([[TV]]: | In the 1920s Sir Reginald Dellafield worked for Torchwood in London, aided by his butler, [[AC Forster]], and Torchwood London was headquartered in the house of [[Reginald Dellafield’s aunt]]. Whilst investigating [[The Serpentine Club]], Sir Reginald was possessed by the [[Mara]], which continued to use him to defeat alien incursions to keep Earth for itself. Forster eventually destroyed the club, killing all of the Mara’s hosts bar Reginald, and then used a [[containment field]] to confine the Mara to Reginald’s body as long as it lasted, forcing it to continue aiding Torchwood. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Art Decadence (audio story)}}) During this decade Jack worked undercover with a travelling circus in pursuit of the [[Night Travellers]], though he was unsuccessful. ([[TV]]: {{cs|From Out of the Rain (TV story)}}) | ||
In [[1923]], thanks to a Professor [[Livesy-Smythe]], Torchwood found evidence that an alien race called the [[Pyrovile]]s invaded Earth at [[Pompeii]] in [[79|79 AD]]. ([[WC]]: | In [[1923]], thanks to a Professor [[Livesy-Smythe]], Torchwood found evidence that an alien race called the [[Pyrovile]]s invaded Earth at [[Pompeii]] in [[79|79 AD]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|Monster File: Pyrovile (webcast)}}) | ||
In [[1924]], Torchwood sent Jack | In [[1924]], Torchwood sent Jack to India to close down the branch there, led by [[the Duchess]], before the fall of the Raj. He arranged the transportation of all their alien artefacts back to Britain, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Golden Age (audio story)}}) though left behind Object 1 which the Duchess had sent to him anyway. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Torchwood Archive (audio story)}}) Torchwood India would secretly persist for decades by using a time store to prevent the passage of time in their former headquarters. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Golden Age (audio story)}}) | ||
In [[1927]], Jack | In [[1927]], Jack was sent on a mission to [[New York City]] in order to thwart a plot by the [[Trickster's Brigade]] to infect [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] with a [[Brainspawn]] and change the course of history. With assistance from his lover [[Angelo Colasanto]], Jack succeeded in eliminating the parasite. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Immortal Sins (TV story)}}) | ||
==== World War II and the 1950s ==== | ==== World War II and the 1950s ==== | ||
