Although one of the sharpest squads in sci-fi, there’s sadly not much left of the original Torchwood team (no, you're still crying over Ianto). However, if given the chance to recruit more members to the alien-busting agency, who would Captain Jack sign up?
His prime pick? Sarah-Jane Smith, the companion to Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker’s incarnations of the Doctor, played by the late Elisabeth Sladen.
Elisabeth Sladen and Tom Baker in 2010
Claiming she’d put "Jack into his place", Barrowman said: "Sarah Jane never liked guns, she never liked violence.
"She was a smart woman, she was a character that was before her time. She was a journalist. She stood up to the Doctor. So I think that would be a great mix."
There’s also another friend of the Doctor that Barrowman would conscript to team Torchwood: Donna Noble, the fiery red-head played by Catherine Tate during the show’s David Tennant era.
Why? "The humour," explained Barrowman. "Because Donna liked Jack – remember when she saw him on the screen for the first time she was like 'and who is THAT?!'"
Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) Big Finish
Could the two characters reunite anytime in the future? There’s always one place seemingly mad Whovian dreams become a reality: Big Finish audio adventures – Barrowman himself saying a team-up could "possibly happen" in such a format.
Thomas is Digital editor at BBC Science Focus. Writing about everything from cosmology to anthropology, he specialises in the latest psychology, health and neuroscience discoveries. Thomas has a Masters degree (distinction) in Magazine Journalism from the University of Sheffield and has written for Men’s Health, Vice and Radio Times. He has been shortlisted as the New Digital Talent of the Year at the national magazine Professional Publishers Association (PPA) awards. Also working in academia, Thomas has lectured on the topic of journalism to undergraduate and postgraduate students at The University of Sheffield.
