The audio sequence follows the human survivors of ‘The Devil Pit’ as they put the Ood into Torchwood. 

Together with the Weeping Angels and the Vashta Nerada, the Ood are one of many standout creations of Physician Who’s fashionable period.

Launched within the devilish Collection 2 two-parter ‘The Inconceivable Planet’/’The Devil Pit’, the subservient, spaghetti mouthed aliens have continued to pop up variously, as just lately as 2022’s Flux.

Whereas the assembled Ood didn’t survive their encounter with The Beast on Krop Tor, three of the people did. Working for the Torchwood Archive, Zachary Cross Flane (Shaun Parkes), scientist Ida Scott (Claire Rushbrook) and ethicist Danny Bartock (Ronny Jhutti) all lived to inform the story. Now, Huge End are presenting a free Ood-themed Torchwood audio drama trilogy to comply with their forty third Century adventures.

Shaun Parkes has reprised Zachary Cross Flane earlier than, for Torchwood: Empire of Shadows, and Claire Rushbrook works commonly with the corporate (as Tula Chenka in The Robots), however this marks Ronny Jhutti’s debut on Huge End.

Shaun Parkes, Ronny Jhutti, Claire Rushbrook © BBC Studios

Throughout all three tales, Silas Carson returns to voice the Ood.

The Torchwood Ood trilogy

Launched between October and December 2023, the tales are ‘Odyssey’ by Patrick O’Connor, ‘Oodunnit’ by James Goss and ‘Oracle’ by Ash Darby.

‘Odyssey’

Ida Scott has spent her life working from her father. However now she’s come in search of him.

The Spire is an historical relic left behind by The Resilient – a mysterious race who warped each gravity and time.

Odysseus Scott lies dying in a mattress in The Spire. He believes it should treatment him. However are The Resilient actually lifeless?

‘Oodunnit’

Who would homicide an Ood? Within the forty third Century, all of the Earth Empire’s waste goes to the recycling world of Paraglas IV. However has one thing else been despatched there? One thing price killing for?

The Torchwood Archive sends Zachary Cross Flane to research, and he uncovers a horrible secret. The Empire has a use for everybody, even after loss of life.

‘Oracle’

Within the forty third Century, the peak of the Earth Empire. A ship from 1000 years sooner or later has crashed on a lava world and is looking for assist. How harmful is the information it gives?

The Torchwood Archive sends Danny Bartock. As a result of solely an ethicist can save humanity from the long run.

Producer James Goss stated:

“For this Ood trilogy script editor Tim Foley steered we comply with the sport of Rock Paper Scissors, so every a part of the trilogy appears to be like at a unique side of humanity’s future. We begin on a world the place the seas are rock, in Oodunnit we go to the Empire’s recycling planet and, lastly, in Oracle we discover out if fact is the sharpest knife of all. Who would be the winner?”

Every of the three Torchwood audio adventures can be found to pre-order as a collector’s version CD (+obtain), or on obtain solely, from Huge End.