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The Torchwood Institute (usually referred to simply as Torchwood) is a fictional secret...

The Torchwood Institute (usually referred to simply as Torchwood) is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood. Established by HM Queen Victoria in 1879, its prime purpose is to defend the earth against extraterrestrial threats. However, the Torchwood institute begins to use their findings to restore the British Empire to its former glory. To those ends, the organisation acquires and reverse engineers alien technology by any means deemed necessary. According to one of its base's directors, Yvonne Hartman, its nationalist attitude includes refusing to use metric units. While described as "beyond the United Nations", the Torchwood Institute is known to cooperate with UNIT (the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, formerly known as the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) to some extent. There appears to have been some rapport with the Prime Minister although this may not always be the case. To those that have come in contact with Torchwood, they are primarily believed to be a special forces team. They appear to maintain this illusion by using false witnesses, or by sectioning any journalists who