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Torchwood Miracle Day • Episode 1

The New World

3.85/ 5 501 votes

First aired Thursday, July 14, 2011
Production Code 101
Written by Russell T Davies
Directed by Bharat Nalluri
Runtime 50 minutes
Time Travel Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQA+
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Miracle Day
UK Viewers 6.59 million
Synopsis

One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next and the next. People keep ageing, they get hurt and sick, but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight.

With all the extra people, resources are finite. It's said that in four months time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can't be a natural event – someone's got to be behind it. It's a race against time as CIA agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. The answers lie within an old, secret British institute. As Rex keeps asking, “What is Torchwood?”, he's drawn into a world of adventure and a threat to change what it means to be human ... forever.

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