Stories Television Torchwood Children of Earth Torchwood Children of Earth Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 Day One 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 1 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 6 Transcript Overview First aired Monday, July 6, 2009 Production Code 3.1 Written by Russell T Davies Directed by Euros Lyn Runtime 60 minutes Time Travel Past, Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQA+ Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) The 456 Location (Potential Spoilers!) Cardiff, Earth, Scotland, Wales UK Viewers 6.47 million Synopsis When all children on Earth stop and start chanting "We are coming", the Torchwood team investigates. Could this be the start of a global crisis? Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Captain Jack Harkness The 456 First Appearance Gwen Cooper Ianto Jones Rhys Williams Lois Habiba First Appearance John Frobisher First Appearance Clement McDonald First Appearance Alice Carter First Appearance Agent Johnson First Appearance Bridget Spears First Appearance Trinity Wells Rhiannon Davies First Appearance Rupesh Patanjali Show All Characters (14) How to watch Day One: Watch on iPlayer DVD Torchwood: Children of Earth DVD Torchwood: Series 1-3 Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 7 August 2024 · 232 words Review by WhoPotterVian Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! I've seen the entirety of Children of Earth before, so this isn't new for me, but I absolutely love it. This first episode is easily one of the greatest openers to a series of any show I have ever seen. It does such a spectacular job of establishing the sinister threat with the kids chanting 'We are coming', and goes into some delightfully dark places, with the speech about the suicide victims who lost religious faith upon the discovery of aliens in the Whoniverse, and saw themselves as nothing but a tiny part of the universe. I really, really like the way they up the stakes by making Gwen pregnant too. It ties in thematically with the children as the threat, and also means there's more emotional peril for Gwen. Suddenly, she's not only fighting for her own safety against the aliens, but the safety of the child she is carrying too. Oh, and that twist with the NHS doctor who you are led to believe wants to join Torchwood, and then turns out he was a spy just trying to get in to take them down from the inside is SO great. You genuinely don't see it coming. I remember when I watched it for the first time on the way back from a Scottish holiday, it took me totally by surprise. Like the best twists, I never saw it coming. Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating256 members 4.46 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating315 votes 4.12 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating61 votes 4.65 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 663 Favourited 68 Reviewed 1 Saved 2 Skipped 0 Owned 7 Related Stories Torchwood Children of Earth • Episode 2 Day Two Rating: 4.40 Story Skipped Television Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Torchwood Children of Earth Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Torchwood Children of Earth • Episode 3 Day Three Rating: 4.45 Story Skipped Television Reviews(2) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Torchwood Children of Earth Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Torchwood Children of Earth • Episode 4 Day Four Rating: 4.61 Story Skipped Television Reviews(2) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Torchwood Children of Earth Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Torchwood Children of Earth • Episode 5 Day Five Rating: 4.61 Story Skipped Television Reviews(3) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Torchwood Children of Earth Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite IANTO: It's weird. It's just different. It's not men, it's just him. It's only him. And I don't even know what it is, really, so. So I'm not broadcasting it. — Ianto Jones, Day One Show All Quotes (6) Open in new window Transcript Needs checking [1965 Scotland] (A small bus full of young children stops in the middle of nowhere. The children get off and are lead towards a bright light. One boy hangs back to look at the adult who is with them.) [Cardiff] (Present day. Gwen is getting money from an ATM.) MOTHER: Come on, Tyler. Tyler, just stop it. I haven't got time to muck around. Show Full Transcript Open in new window