| Torchwood: Complete BBC Series 1 Box Set [2006] | ![Torchwood: Complete BBC Series 1 Box Set [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SRW8HqOpL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Alice Troughton, Andy Goddard, Ashley Way, Brian Kelly, Colin Teague
Actors: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori, Gareth David-lloyd
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £54.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 544
Format: Box Set, Dolby, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 630 minutes
Number Of Items: 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.5
EAN: 5014503225322
ASIN: B000VA3JFW
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: November 19, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
While occasionally clumsy in the way it goes about things, the first season of Torchwood ultimately makes good on its promise to be a science fiction programme for an older market. So while it's spun out from the more family-friendly Doctor Who, it does carve out an edgy, entertaining niche for itself. The programme follows the adventures of the Torchwood agency (who we met in far more prestigious form at the end of Doctor Who's second series), a small team led by John Barrowman's Captain Jack Harkness who investigate the extra terrestrial and the paranormal. And across the thirteen episodes of this maiden season, they have a lot to look into, from the likes of a sex-craved alien and cyberwoman, through to cannibalistic foes and strange, spooky fairies. Admittedly, particularly in the early stages when Torchwood is finding its feet, there are a few missteps, and a little too much side-indulgence in exploring material that the more mainstream Doctor Who wouldn't allow. But it'd be to your folly to write Torchwood off: by the time it gallops into the second half of this first season, the quality is strong, the storylines are interesting, and the show proves to be a real winner. Intertwining with the narrative of the main Doctor Who show, Torchwood nonetheless then works as an independent programme in its own right, replete with a strong cast of characters (led by the terrific Barrowman) and scripts that have more of an experimental edge to them. It's certainly one of the most interesting science fiction shows Britain has produced in the last decade or two, and there's much to enjoy again and again in this box set. --Jon Foster
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
It's OK but grated on a few issues November 28, 2008
Why can the BBC not get the volume balanced properly? The menus have blastingly loud music compared to the episodes themselves, so you have to turn the volume down to select the episode and then up again to watch it. Minor irritation but no excuse for it from the BBC. Also the menu links you are forced to watch every time you want to go turn on the subtitles or something are annoyingly long. Let me watch the DVD already!
That said onto the review of the material itself.
Torchwood is based around Captain Jack Harkness from the new Dr Who series and Torchwood the shadowy agency "outside the government, beyond the police" set up to capture and use alien artifacts.
The (13) episodes themselves are a mix of suspence, horror, action and character building. One of them is 100% focused on character buidling of a characger thats just dull. Don't watch it (it's called "the alien eye" or something similar).
Darker and with more 'adult' themes than Dr Who, Torchwood is clearly aimed at the adult audience, fair enough.
Captain Jack is Gay, fair enough again except they *keep on* about his sexuality. Gee, OK, he's gay, can we have a episode where he doesn't kiss or shag someone? Or if he has to can we avoid lingering on it like it's the whole point of the episode?
Otherwise it's enjoyable but not outstanding. I'm gald I watched it but in no hurry to buy season 2.
 A nine O clock Doctor Who November 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Torchwood with very adult style is brillent. The first series sparkled onto on BBC Three in October 2006 and the first two episodes rocked. With the crossover to Doctor Who in End Of Days was a true masterpiece and you can see the crossover in Upotipa the thrid season of Doctor Who. Despite not ever doing a post-watershed show Russell T Davies has done a fanastic job.
Torchwood rocks
Love the second series as well
 Why can I not rate this a Zero. November 6, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have to say that Owen was almost an ok character, Yanto (or something like that I really don't care enough to check), Gwen's kind of man, Tosh (the hyper asian lady in AbFab whom I loved in that series), and Jack's ex where pretty ok done (Jack's ex being the mosty likable).
Other than that the series is the most horrid peice of trash I have ever had the misfortune to download for free...I am so glad I had been downloading Who before buying the DVDs...I liked the actors, but after series one of the new ones it sarted losing something (good plots for one). Well I downloaded this because Jack may have been a bit horridly over played at times but I liked him in the first season because he was a neat change. Well they force the horrid fish eyed gap toothed Gwen on you right away with a voice that could peel paint out of a closed paint tin. As an actor she may be good, but they have her act slow and do these horrid stares at everything under the sun that makes her look a bit genetically disadvantaged. They force her as the main character for no good reason, run horrible plots that I would have been ashamed to write even when I was in the second grade...no really they are that bad. They put items laying around a building to be found in the future 60 years later and the person just happens to walk right up to where they had set them. It is torture to watch as a Who fan, it is horrid to watch as a person wanting to see Sci-Fi, if you want a good show with gay characters in it then watch The Wedding Banquet or V for Vendetta (I am looking at you Fry...darned fine actor). This series could have been great but it is the worst written series I have ever ever ever ever ever seen. And I watched Full House growing up. Do yourself a favor and download the first series...if you still want it then buy a PS3 and get the Blu-ray version...not because the Blu-Ray version is better, but because you are already throwing away your money, so you might as well do it in style.
 Don't buy it just 'cos you like Dr Who! October 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being immensely impressed with the new Dr Who, I was naturally intrigued by a spin-off from the same team. I shouldn't have bothered. What a load of old tut. There's every cliche in the book, right from the opening credits with the line of serious people walking ever-so-determinedly in slow motion towards the camera.
I sat through 4 or 5 episodes, of which only one was amusing (the nymphomaniac) then stuck the lot back in its box and returned it for a refund. (Which Amazon promptly paid, so I'm not complaining!)
Torchwood! Go on treat yourself to something different. September 21, 2008
Some of you when you hear that it has been made and produced by the Dr Who lot may be expecting a sort of Dr Who-esque style sci-fi with more adult references. Torchwood is so much more than you average sci-fi genre programme. It has very new and innovative stories. An excellent cast and deeply embedded character profiles which all are shown throughout the series.It aims to add a human and deeply reflective response to situations when the occur. Sometimes the explicit adult sequences that happen may at the times appear a bit too much and over the top, but nonetheless it makes for interesting viewing. I would defintely recommend Tourchwood to you all. It is a quite refreshing programme disimillar from you typical American sci-fi shows and I think you will enjoy it. It has the charm of Dr Who but is shown through a manner fit for its adult viewers.
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