Torchwood quite often avoided making direct references to Doctor Who, but one of the spinoff's earliest moments could easily reference the Time Lords.

During the episode, Jack speculated that the fairies could be "part Mara", implying that they may have been agents of the Pantheon's god of beasts. He stated that, like the Mara, the fairies could ...

somewhere there's an answer." The Torchwood Institute was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879 to protect the British Empire against the threat of alien invasion. By 2008, all that remains of the ...