Astaire, Fred American dancer, singer and actor. Tosh had watched him in the movie Easter Parade. Twice. (2.9)

Astoria Ballroom Dancehall where 17-year-old Estelle Cole met and fell in love with Jack just before Christmas. He also loved her but, because of his immortality, he pretended to go abroad during the Second World War. Years later, he met Estelle again and convinced her he was her Jack’s son. (1.5)

ATLAS Biggest of the particle detectors at the CERN facility in Switzerland. (LS)

‘Atlas’ Track by American band Battles, which Owen listened to whilst clearing out his apartment after his death. (2.8)

Audrey Good-time girl at the Ritz Dance Hall in 1941, who made out with both George and Smiler the day before they were due to fly out on training exercises. (1.12) (Played by NADINE BEATON)

Australia Country Linda at Passmore Telesales told Eugene she had always wanted to visit. He tried to sell his Dogon Sixth Eye on eBay and use the money to send her there. (1.9) The fictitious Samantha Jones had visited Australia. (2.6)

Australia House Diplomatic building in London, which raised a figurative red flag with John Frobisher at the start of the 456 incident. (CoE)

Authorisation codes Security access codes used by Torchwood to access Government files and identify operatives and confirm their status to official authorities. Code 45895 identified Jack when he contacted the UK Prime Minister and later Owen used the same code to access the police files on Operation Lowry. (1.7) Jack used the code 474317 to identify himself to the police. (2.7) Gwen used the code 474317432 to gain access to the secret facility on Flat Holm Island. (2.11)

Automatic, The Band whose song ‘Monster’ was being played in the car driven by Ellie Johnson when she was abducted and murdered in the Brecon Beacons. (1.6)

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B587 Cardiff road that led to Hedley Point. (1.8)

Bahamas Ianto didn’t expect to die there, any more than he did in a freezing tunnel beneath Switzerland. (LS)

Ball, Lee Probable victim of the alien, Mary, who ripped out people’s hearts to thrive upon. Ball died in 1976. (1.7)

Banana Boat Rhys’s mate and eventually his best man at his wedding to Gwen. He and Rhys were feeling middle age creeping up on them (1.1) and eventually Banana went off to the Canary Islands to sell pirated CDs. He was arrested (2.8) and deported, and got back to Wales in time for the wedding only to be attacked by an alien Nostrovite and trapped in a cocoon with Tosh. Eventually freed, he was given a healthy dose of Retcon. (2.9) (Played by JONATHAN LEWIS OWEN)

Banksy Owner of the Nightspot nightclub in Cardiff. He was watching Carys Fletcher and Matt Stevens have sex in the women’s toilets on his club when he witnessed Matt die in a burst of sexual energy. (1.2) (Played by CERI MEARS)

Bar Reunion Cardiff drinking establishment where John Hart waited for Jack. Once his fellow Time Agent arrived, the two smashed the place up during a fight. (2.1)

Barbara Not, Jack considered, a suitable name for a Weevil. (1.11)

Barmaid Worked in a pub where Clement MacDonald went after fleeing the Duke of York Hospital. She turned him in to the police. (CoE) (Played by LIBBY LIBURD)

Barman (1) Man in the pub where John Ellis and Jack shared a drink who wouldn’t let John smoke his pipe. (1.10) (Played by CIARAN DOWD)

Barman (2) Worked in the bar where Owen had a vision of Diane Holmes and disturbed Owen, breaking the vision. (1.13) (Played by PAUL BENNETT)

Barman (3) Served Tommy with drinks in a bar. (2.3)

Barry Seaside town near Cardiff, where a Hoix was once found eating its way through the contents of a Kebab shop. (2.13)

Battersea South London area where the Torchwood Institute had a warehouse that acted as a holding area. The Cardiff Torchwood team used it as a base, naming it Hub 2, during the 456 crisis. (CoE)

Battle of Britain Famous Second WorldWar aerial dogfight, which occurred in 1940. The real Captain Jack Harkness took part. (1.12)

Battles American band, whose first single, ‘Atlas’, was played by Owen while he cleared out his fiat after his death. (2.8)

Baxter, Simon John Frobisher’s talkative driver, who took him from home to Whitehall and back regularly. (CoE) (Played by DENZIE PHIPPS)

Baxters, the Family living opposite Rhiannon and Johnny Davies. (CoE)

BBC reporter TV news presenter who reported on the events of the 456’s return. (CoE) (Played by LOUISE MINCHIN)

Beatles, The Liverpudlian pop group who disbanded in 1969 but were seen performing atop the Abbey Road studios when Owen opened the Rift. (1.13)

Bedlam Outlands Planet where John Hart found Gray, surrounded by corpses and chained to a ruined building, long abandoned by the savage aliens that had kidnapped him from the Boeshane Peninsula, and driven completely mad by his experiences. (2.13)

Beethoven, Ludwig van German composer and pianist in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His Moonlight Sonata was playing on the radio that Jack tuned in for John Ellis. (1.10)

‘Begging You’ Song by the Stone Roses, which was playing in the bar where Owen had a vision of Diane Holmes. (1.13)

Bekaran Deep-Tissue Scanner Alien device Owen had been adapting before he died. Gwen used it on Leon Foiret and revealed that his neutrons were vanishing. (LS)

Bengal Bay Area flown over by Diane Holmes during her four-day flight between England and Australia in 1952. (1.10)

Bennett, Myra Probable victim of the alien, Mary, who ripped out people’s hearts to thrive upon. Bennett was a 37-year-old found dead by her daughter in 1970. She was victim number 37. (1.7)

Bennett, Tony Popular singer whose recording of ‘The Good Life’ was danced to by Diane Holmes and Owen. (1.10)

Bernard Pianist who supplied live musical accompaniment to the 1920s films being shown at the Electro Cinema in Penarth. (2.10) (Played by PETER BLACKWOOD)

Berry, Chuck American musician whose song ‘Johnnie B Goode’ was included aboard NASA’s Voyager Golden Records project, remembered by Owen. (2.8)

‘Better Do Better’ Song by Hard-Fi played at Lynne Pearce and her partner Roy’s BBQ to celebrate their fifth anniversary. (1.5)

Bevan, Jonah At the age of 15, while walking home to Penarth one night across the Cardiff Bay Barrage, he was taken by the Rift and deposited on a distant planet that was completely on fire. Badly scarred and burned, he was rescued by a spaceship and, forty years later, was finally returned to Earth and taken into Torchwood’s care by Jack. Disfigured and insane after staring into a dark star, Jonah was placed in a secure safe house on Flat Holm, an island in the Bristol Channel. His disappearance had been vigorously investigated by PC Andy Davidson, and a tiny glimpse of Rift energy on the CCTV was enough to have Andy bring Gwen into the picture. Having found Jonah, Gwen took his mum to meet him, but she was so shocked at how damaged, physically and mentally, Jonah was that she left and never returned. (2.11) (Played by OLIVER FERRIMAN and ROBERT PUGH)

Bevan, Nikki Mother of Jonah, who had gone missing seconds after waving to her from the Cardiff Bay Barrage. She spent seven months and eleven days trying to find him, scouring hours of crowd footage hoping for a glimpse of him. She kept his room immaculate and even slept in his room sometimes, just to breath in his smell. With Andy Davidson’s support, she set up a self-help group for other victims of missing people and, when Gwen came to the inaugural meeting, she was staggered by how many people had gone missing. When Gwen located Jonah, she told Nikki about Torchwood and took her to visit her son, but Nikki was horrified by Jonah’s mental state. She begged Gwen never to reveal the truth to anyone else who had lost someone. Shortly afterwards, all hope lost of ever getting her son back, Nikki stripped his room. (2.11) (Played by RUTH JONES)

Big Dave Friend of Rhys’s who said that having kids made him feel like his life had ended, although he had said the same thing when his wife Susy made him get rid of his motorcycle. (2.11)

Big House, The Main building in the village of Brynblaidd. The villagers would kill, skin and cook their victims of their cannibalistic rituals in the barn. (1.6)

BigVal Neighbour of Rhiannon and Johnny Davies. (CoE)

Bikini Cops One of the names John Hart thought would be better than Torchwood for Jack’s group. (2.1)

Bioxenic Microtron Machine at the Hub which Owen wanted to use on Gwen to remove the Nostrovite egg growing inside her. It wasn’t portable and so he took the Singularity Scalpel instead. (2.9)

Birmingham English city. The first bid for Eugene jones’s Dogon Sixth Eye came from there, for £2.50. (1.9)

Black Holes and the Uncertainty Principle A seminar organised by the North Wales Astronomy Society and held at Aberystwyth University. Eugene Jones and his mate Gary had planned to attend it, but Gary went alone after Eugene’s death. Eugene’s ‘spirit’ form, created by his ingestion of the Dogon Sixth Eye, enabled him to accompany Gwen there, unseen by everyone. (1.9)

Blackley Suburb of Manchester, where Tommy Brockless was born in 1894. (2.3)

Blackpool Northern football team who beat Bolton Wanderers in the 1953 FA Cup final, which john Ellis had watched on TV with his son Alan. (1.10)

Blackstaff, Mr C. A man who was known on eBay as a buyer of alien ephemera, Beanie Babies and Nazi memorabilia. He was willing to pay £15,000 for Eugene Jones’s Dogon Sixth Eye but was jokingly outbid by Josh, who added another £5.50 to the bid. (1.9)

Blaine, Margaret Former Mayor of Cardiff, whose face on a newspaper front page adorned the entrance to Ianto’s tourist-shop façade.

Blank Page A document containing a list of names, used by the Government to issue untraceable execution orders. (CoE)

Bletchley Park MOD monitoring base where Tosh’s grandfather once worked. (1.7)

Blind patient First World War patient at St Teilo’s Military Hospital, in a wheelchair, who cheerfully sung ’I Start My Day Over Again (Clock Song)’ to the Nurse. (2.3) (Played by TIM GEBBELS)

Blitz, the Extended period of continuous heavy German bombing raids on British cities including London and Cardiff during the Second World War. (1.1, 1.3, 1.12)

Blizzard One of the names John Hart thought would be better than Torchwood for Jack’s group. (2.1)

Bloom, Orlando English actor, of whom Carys Fletcher was something of a fan. (1.2)

Blowfish Colloquial name for a member of a piscine species who have been spotted on Earth a few times. Jack’s first freelance assignment for Torchwood was to find one. Another, high on cocaine, took a Cardiff family hostage and was killed by Jack. It was actually a business partner of John Hart. (2.1, 2.12) (Played by PAUL KASEY, voiced by JONATHAN HART)

Bob Tosh’s boss at Lodmoor Research Facility, who thought she was an excellent worker, unaware she was stealing MoD secrets. (2.12) (Played by SIMON SHACKLTON)

Boeshane Peninsula A fifty-first-century Earth colony where Jack grew up. After an alien attack devastated the colony, Franklin, his father, was killed and his brother Gray was taken prisoner. Jack stayed there, earning a job with the Time Agency, which brought him a degree of fame and a nickname – the Face of Boe – thanks to his image being proudly displayed around the colony. (2.5)

Bolton Wanderers Northern football team who lost 4-3 to Blackpool in the 1953 FA Cup final which john Ellis had watched on TV with his son Alan. (1.10)

Bond, James Fictional spy, whom a man in a street fancied himself to be. (1.7)

‘Born to be a Dancer’ Song by the Kaiser Chiefs played at Lynne Pearce and her partner Roy’s BBQ to celebrate their fifth anniversary. (1.5)

Bosnia Eastern European country which reported its children had become entranced by the 456, causing road traffic accidents. (CoE)

Bouncer (1) Worked in the club where Jack went to visit the Eight-Year-Old Girl and glean the whereabouts of the second Resurrection Glove. (2.7) (Played by BRETT GRIFFITHS)

Bouncer (2) Worked at the Cardiff Bay nightclub, where Torchwood were tracking a Weevil when Martha Jones phoned Jack to ask them to come to Switzerland. (LS) (Played by MARK MEADOWS)

Bouncers Hired help at Bar Reunion who tried to throw John Hart out until the Time Agent revealed some of his weaponry, at which point the bouncers fled along with the staff and customers. (2.1) (Played by ROBERT STONE and JAMES HANNON)