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Torchwood: Captain Jack Harkness
Jack and Tosh investigate an old dance hall after reports of music are heard coming from it. They suddenly find themselves stuck in 1941 and the dance hall is full up. As the rest of the team try and find a way of bringing them back, Jack and Tosh meet an American man who is called Captain Jack Harkness.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x12 Production Number: 112 Airdate: Monday January 01st, 2007 Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
Jack and Tosh arrive at the Ritz Dance Hall, which has been abandoned since 1989. People have heard music from the 1940s coming out of it. They hear the music as they go in and go upstairs to investigate. They find nothing and start to leave but the sound of people talking echo through the halls. They go back upstairs and find the empty dance hall filled with people from 1941. Jack confirms it's a temporal shift. They go outside only to discover that it's night, the SUV has vanished, and they've been shifted back to January 20, 1941...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Bad Wolf graffiti from Series 1 of Doctor Who can be seen on the stairwell behind and to the left of Jack and Tosh as they come down the stairs
A "Vote Saxon" sign from Series 3 of Doctor Who can be seen on the outside door of the Ritz dance Hall.
This episode reveals that Captain Jack Harkness is a pseudonym for the protagonist. The character's true name has yet to be revealed.
This episode takes place seventeen days before the events of the 2005 Doctor Who episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", in which Jack Harkness was introduced.
When Torchwood's Jack Harkness introduces himself to the original Jack Harkness, he uses the pseudonym Captain James Harper.
Music
| Artist | Song Title | Played When |
| Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin | A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square | |
| Ernie Burnett and George A. Norton | My Melancholy Baby | |
| Walter Kent and Nat Burton | (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of D |
Episode Quotes
Tosh: My grandfather’s eighty-eighth birthday today.
Jack: I thought you’d gone to all this trouble for me.
Tosh: Eighty eight is a joyous year for the Japanese. I’m off to London to watch grown men throw rice.
Jack: You can get that in the Balti after stop-tap.
Jack: I thought you’d gone to all this trouble for me.
Tosh: Eighty eight is a joyous year for the Japanese. I’m off to London to watch grown men throw rice.
Jack: You can get that in the Balti after stop-tap.
Tosh: Why does that man have your name? I'm lost enough here without you holding back on me!
Jack: It's not my name. It's his. I took his. But I didn't realise he was...so hot!
Tosh: Jack?
Jack: I know too much.
Tosh: Then share.
Jack: You wouldn't want that, trust me.
Jack: It's not my name. It's his. I took his. But I didn't realise he was...so hot!
Tosh: Jack?
Jack: I know too much.
Tosh: Then share.
Jack: You wouldn't want that, trust me.
Jack: I went to war when I was a boy. I was with my best friend. We got caught crossing the border over enemy lines. They tortured him, not me, because he was weaker. They made me watch him die. And they let me go.
Original Jack: Who were they?
Jack: The worst possible creatures you can imagine. I persuaded him to join up. I said it would be an adventure. He hadn't lived.
Original Jack: Have any of us?
Original Jack: Who were they?
Jack: The worst possible creatures you can imagine. I persuaded him to join up. I said it would be an adventure. He hadn't lived.
Original Jack: Have any of us?
Jack: (about Captain Harkness) Tomorrow’s their last training exercise. Just another day. They go out on a sortie and are surprised by two formations of Messerschmitts. He destroys three of the enemy. His men listen to his whoops of joy over the radio. Then it all goes quiet. He can’t bail out because his whole plane is on fire. But his men all make it back to safety.
Owen: Good job you're a crap shot.
Ianto: I was aiming for your shoulder.
Ianto: I was aiming for your shoulder.
Episode Goofs
While in 1941, Tosh writes an equation in her own blood. In reality, the blood would have turned from red to brown yet when the rest of the team find it, it is still red.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Russell T. Davies |
| • Executive Producer | Russell T. Davies | Julie Gardner (1) |
| • Producer | Richard Stokes |
| • Associate Producer | Terry Reeve |
| • Production Designer | Edward Thomas |
| • Editor | Nick Ames |
| • First Assistant Director | Nick Rae |
| • Second Assistant Director | Lynsey Muir |
| • Music | Ben Foster (3) |
| • Costume Designer | Ray Holman |
| • Make-up | Sarah Astley-Hughes | Kate Roberts | Hayley Watkins |
| • Grip | Dai Hopkins |
| • Camera Operator | Jenny Budd |
| • Location Manager | Paul Davies (3) |
| • Production Coordinator | Carmelina Palumbo |
| • Assistant Editor | Matt Mullins (2) |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Chris Blatchford | Helen Vallis |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Doug Sinclair (2) |
| • Gaffer | Mickey Reeves |
| • On-Line Editor | Matthew Clarke (2) | Jon Everett |
| • Director of Photography | Ray Orton |
| • Production Secretary | Margarita Felices | Kristy Jones |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Marie Brown (2) |
| • Production Management | Kaela Langan |
| • Sound Editor | Paul McFadden |
| • Script Editor | Brian Minchin |
| • Assistant Producer | Sophie Fante |
| • Dubbing Mixer | Peter Jeffreys |
| • Sound Recordist | Dave Baumber |
| • Third Assistant Director | Paul Bennett (2) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Charlotte Mitchell (1) |
| • Boom Operator | Kevin Staples (2) |
| • Art Department Coordinator | Matt North (1) |
| • Main Title Theme | Murray Gold |
| • Visual Effects Supervisor | David Houghton | Barney Curnow |
| • Production Accountant | Endaf Emyr Williams | Ceri Tothill |
| • Camera Assistant | Steve Davies |
| • Best Boy | Llyr Evans |
| • Casting Associate | Andy Brierley | Kirsty Robertson |
| • Visual Effects Producer | Will Cohen (3) | Marie Jones (3) |
| • Production Executive | Julie Scott (2) |
| • Unit Manager | Geraint Havard Jones |
| • Colorist | Mick Vincent |
| • Continuity | Suzanna Binding |
| • Focus Puller | Alwyn Hughes |
| • Runner | Joney Lyons | Llywarch Davies | Glenn Coxon |
| • Casting Director | Andy Pryor |
| • Designer | Julie Signy |
| • Supervising Art Director | Keith Dunne |
| • Standby Art Director | Alison Brown (2) |
| • Construction Manager | Matthew Hywel-Davies |
| • Art Department Production Manager | Jonathan Allison |
| • Sound Special Effects Editor | Howard Eaves |
| • Make-up Designer | Marie Doris |
| • Make-up Supervisor | Claire Pritchard |
| • Chief Supervising Art Director | Stephen Nicholas |
| • Props Master | Stuart Wooddisse |
| • Costume Assistant | Sara Morgan | Bobbie Peach |
| • Script Secretary | Helen Pugsley | Claire Thomas |
| • Art Department Operations Manager | Adrian Anscombe |
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