22nd October 2006: Everything Changes

“Everything Changes”, the first episode of BBC television’s Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, aired in the autumn of 2006.

Aimed at an older audience than Doctor Who, the programme follows the adventures of a group of alien hunters in Cardiff – one of whom is a popular character from Doctor Who, Jack Harkness.

The programme won praise from the bisexual community for its positive, normal portrayal of bisexuality: most of the team are bisexual but most of the time this is just a part of who they are rather than a point of drama or tension.

Series three of the programme, the five-part Children of Earth story, explored the situation of a bisexual man coming out to his family.

 

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