TM 17

The seventeenth issue of Torchwood Magazine had a cover date of 20 August 2009.

Articles and features

 * Set Report: Torchwood: Children of Earth Day Five
 * "Three Heads are Better Than One” Creating the 456 with Millennium FX
 * Children of Earth Day-by-Day
 * Archivist Andrew Pixley presents the first of Three Day Diaries covering Pre-shoot Day to Day 25 of the 77 Day recording shoot.


 * Beyond the Hub: Once Upon a Time (Time Travel) by Kate Lloyd

Interviews / Profiles

 * Russell T Davies Creator, Writer and Producer
 * RIP Ianto Jones "Stop all the Clocks" with Gareth David-Lloyd
 * Paul Chequer Actor who played Eugene Jones
 * Paul Copley Actor who played Clem McDonald in Children of Earth
 * Close-Call: Kai Owen answers the reader’s questions over the phone for Kate Lloyd

Comic strips

 * Broken by Gary Russell (Part 3 of 5) (11 coloured pages)

Fiction

 * The Last Voyage of Osiris (preview to the new Risk Assessment novel) by James Goss with illustrations by Adrian Salmon
 * Closing Time (Part Two) by Andy Lane with illustrations by Mike Dowling

Story Archive

 * 1.9 Random Shoes (Detailed analysis and comment by Neil Edwards)

Posters

 * A4 Hub Pin-Up 4: Jack & Ianto
 * A4 Ianto Jones 1983 – 2009

Additional features

 * The Hub (News) including Children of Earth Ratings
 * T-mail (Readers Letters)
 * Children of Earth Survey with a chance to win the new radio drama The Dead Line

Credits

 * Editor: Simon Hugo
 * Deputy Editor: Neil Edwards
 * Comics Editors: Martin Eden
 * Designers: Philip White
 * Admin Assistant: Jen Evans
 * At the piano Colin Sell
 * Managing Editor: Brian J Robb

Facts included

 * All episodes of Children of Earth showed ratings higher than 6 million.
 * The Torchwood pet pterodactyl was called Myfanwy
 * The working title of Random Shoes was Invisible Eugene. It was changed at the last possible moment and the Radio Times (and other listing titles) got it incorrect.
 * The Radio Times also credited Russell T Davies as co-writer, whereas the broadcast itself credited Jaquetta May alone.
 * The Bolt gun being examined in Random Shoes was similar to that belonging to the Torchwood Archive and used by Rose Tyler in TV: The Satan Pit.
 * Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.

Additional details

 * This issues contains a number of articles that were held over because the anticipated screening date of Children of Earth was moved back.
 * Torchwood: The Official Magazine from Titan Magazines continued to be a bi-monthly title with only six issues a year. Each issue featured 100 pages and cost £4.99 (UK), offering a 15% saving to subscribers.
 * Aimed at mature fans of the series, the magazines did not shy away from discussions involving sex and violence, topics integral to the success of this "adult" spin-off series from the BBC’s more family-friendly Doctor Who.