Torchwood: Lincoln City

**Torchwood: Lincoln City** is a British spin-off series from the universe of Doctor Who, it is based off the Doctor Who spin-off "Torchwood" and was the main series in the Eyoho verse from 2019 until 2023.

All episodes were written by creator of the series Shane Wray.

"Torchwood: Lincoln City", like its parent show, features occasional swearing however when compared to its parent show, its a lot more tamer compared to it and even "loses it's sense of Torchwood" in later series as it's clear that Shane was wanting to expand the canon.

The series itself is set in Lincoln City (a city in England) however in some episodes, the show has moved away from its primary setting and focused on elements outside the city (eg: a mansion) or has even shown glimpses of another place altogether (eg: London.)

The first episode was called City Life. and the last was called The Lost.

## History and Background

Shane, the creator of the show, has been a fan of Doctor Who since around 2010, a few years later he discovered Torchwood for the first time and throughout the years always wanted to make a Torchwood series of his own as he liked the uniqueness of the show, he also made an exaggerated version of himself to serve as the main character to add a "personal touch" to the series.

This wouldn't properly happen until 2019 when he started writing Series 1 of Torchwood: Lincoln City, he would write the stories in advance in "blocks" and then publish them online on the site Wattpad, overall the first 2 series hasn't got the best view totals in the world but that didn't stop Shane who planned on making many more seasons in the future.

In Summer 2019, Series 1 was released comprising of 6 episodes (Episode 5 and 6 were a two part episode) and featured a variety of enemies and concepts which was given a positive reception.

For Halloween, a spin-off regarding the first villain of the Torchwood: Lincoln City series - Lamashtu was released by Shane, it was called Lamashtu: Daemonium (Latin for Demon) and is a reboot of a character that Shane "had been featuring in his stories for a while due to the interesting nature of the character" however some of this story is non longer considered canon in universe.

In November 2019, Series 2 was released also comprising of 6 episodes, this time all episodes were singular stories, the reception was mixed as online friends of Shane described the series as ambitious due to the series still finding its feet at this point, the finale of the second series was a Christmas Special released to Wattpad on Christmas Eve.

In November 2020, Series 3 was released and whilst details on the series are scarce what is known is that it will follow a story-arc which will be spread out across the series, it was described as "a change to the Torchwood: Lincoln City formula." during the writing process the head writer called the series "more tense and with more higher stakes compared to the first two series."

On the 23rd November 2020, the first episode of the series "Contact" was released on Wattpad as part of "Doctor Who Day." the series then continued into December 2020.

On the 12th June 2021, the first special of the series was released it was called "The Mad Woman in the Mansion" and according to head writer, Shane, it bridges the gap between what he calls "Phase 1" (Seasons 1-3) and "Phase 2" (This special and beyond.)

Phase 2 is due to end in Spring 2023 with the conclusion of Season 4: Multiverse in Crisis and is confirmed to be the last series to carry the Torchwood branding as Shane felt restricted by this and felt that a soft reboot was needed so created "Lincoln City" - a series inspired by the TV show Supernatural, this decision was made so Shane could give new readers a jumping on point as a friend of his pointed out how the Eyoho Verse in it's current state was like a "Spider's Web" and thus not easy to follow which was one of the contributing factors to the change along with Shane simply wanting more creative freedom.

## From the Vault (2021)

Following inspiration from Big Finish Audio productions' Torchwood monthly range, head writer Shane decided to make a set of stories based off some of the side characters that have appeared throughout Torchwood: Lincoln City to give those characters their own adventures as well as more development, there were three stories - "The Pier" with Season 3 characters Dan and Alexa, "The Hand of Anarchy" with the returning Miles Windsor and finally "The Blood Hunter" featuring Lamashtu (who previously got his own spinoff story, the aforementioned Daemonium, between Seasons 1 and 2, he also appeared in Season 2.)

## A Tale from Tamriel (2022)

A Tale From Tamriel was a special crossover episode featuring Shane and Lamashtu from the Torchwood: Lincoln City series crossover with the character Evorio of Akavir who is also from the multiverse - it also features characters of the former Drunken Hound community group from the game The Elder Scrolls Online which allowed for an ongoing story thread of the series (the multiverse) to be discussed more - according to 365Shane he was compelled to write a special episode after the creator of the Evorio character got in touch with him via social media and the two discussed writing.

Shane remembers being inspired to do something with The Drunken Hound tavern (which has made minor appearances before) as he used to part of a community group on Elder Scrolls Online of the same name alongside the creator of Evorio and many others and had always wanted to do a crossover with one of the characters as he felt that they were interesting but no one ever used them to their true potential, a crossover had been on Shane's idea as far back as 2020 during writing of Series 3 of Torchwood: Lincoln City but the time was never right until recently when he started writing again following his discovery of a Drunken Hound manga series made by the creator of Evorio.

According to Shane, the episode went through two drafts and took several weeks to get it to the way he wanted - he shared it with the creator of Evorio who gave the episode a positive review.

A stand alone Lamashtu story called "The Bells of Saint Mary's Tower" was released between this project and the fourth season in May 2022.

## Season 4: Multiverse in Crisis (2023)

In January 2023, Shane announced his plans to a Discord chat about making a cross franchise crossover between his universe's canon and Supernatural, the amount of episodes is unknown at the moment, due to the season still being in the writing stage, however we do know that this crossover will count as Season 4 of the "show" and will be once again solely written by Shane himself - In February 2023, it was discovered that Episode 3 had been re-written due to Shane not thinking the original was good enough and that he "much preferred the second version he came up with" this was the first time a whole episode had been re-written in the series history, with only minor changes being present in other stories before.

This season will be the "least Torchwood compared to the previous three" according to Shane simply due to the season being more of a transition from one project to the next, it also takes a look into the future as it features heavy influence and inspiration from Supernatural, it also features Crossover Characters from the Dead by Daylight video game.

## The Pilot Episode

Originally, Torchwood: Lincoln City's first story was "The Pilot" in which we were introduced to the characters of Shane, Kasuti and villain Lamashtu however this was unpublished from Wattpad and turned non canon as Shane revealed that this particular story, up against the two full series, just didn't make the cut anymore plus he also felt that The Pilot itself wasn't that great and also wasn't originally intended to be The Pilot Episode of the series in fact it wasn't supposed to be a Torchwood: Lincoln City episode at all as it was just "made for fun."

## Series and Episodes

A full episode list can be found in the "Categories" section when "Torchwood: Lincoln City" is clicked on.