Children Of Earth : Day Five 

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Episode Details

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50:00

10/07/2009

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Cast Details

Regular Cast
John Barrowman (Captain Jack), Eve Myles (Gwen)

Guest Cast
Lois Habiba (Cush Jumbo), Alice Carter (Lucy Cohu), PC Andy (Tom Price), Mr Dekker (Ian Gelder), Steven Carter (Bear McCausland), Bridget Spears (Susan Brown), John Frobisher (Peter Capaldi), Colonel Oduya (Charles Abomeli), Johnson (Liz May Brice), Brian Green PM (Nicholas Farrell), Denise Riley (Deborah Findlay), Anna Frobisher (Hilary Maclean), Christopher (Edward Bresnan), Defence Secretary (Patrice Naiambana), Duty Sergeant (Gavin Young), Floor Manager (Claire Skekey)

Synopsis

With little choice now but to give in to their demands, the British authorities begin to round up the children under the pretense of giving them inoculations. Panic begins to set in as parents begin to wonder what is happening to their children. Captain Jack is released as are his daughter and grandson and he tries to find a way fight the 456..

1. Russell T Davies originally wrote a role for Noel Clarke as Mickey Smith in both Day Four and Day Five, but these scenes were cut when Clarke became unavailable due to a film commitment.
2. Even though Colonel Oduya was in this episode he was not credited.
3. This is actually not the first time a canonical Doctor Who franchise story has dealt on the subject of sentient beings converted into drugs. DW: Nightmare of Eden dealt with a similar topic, although in that case the drugs were harvested from the corpses of Mandrels rather than from living humans.
4. Originally, the final shot of the episode was to have been of a computer screen reading "TORCHWOOD STATUS: TERMINATED," referring to the fact that all Torchwood operations in the UK had ceased operation by the end of the miniseries. This was taken out at a late stage, as Davies did not wish to give the impression that the series had been cancelled, even though he knew that Children of Earth would very possibly be the last-ever instalment of Torchwood. As it turned out, Children of Earth would indeed prove to be the final instalment of the show's original incarnation, but the series will continue as a British-American coproduction starting in 2011.