Toshiko Sato Returns in Torchwood Audio Adventures

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Let’s talk Tosh! Naoko Mori is returning to the Whoniverse in a future Big Finish audio, as part of the second series in their Torchwood range.

Announced live on stage at Big Finish Day, Toshiko Sato will return in the second release of Torchwood Series 2, which comprises of six titles across this year. Big Finish says:

“Since we started, we’ve been bombarded with people’s wish lists. And obviously poor, doomed Tosh was on them all. So, as we entered Series 2, we decided to get Naoko in – and she was a delight. She really loves that character, and, as she entered the studio, Tosh came back to life – lovely, excitable, brilliant Toshiko Sato.”

She first appeared in the 2005 Doctor Who episode, Aliens of London, and became a full-time member of Torchwood in Everything Changes, the debut of the spin-off show. Though she was killed in the Series 2 finale, Exit Wounds, she was responsible for the Time Lock that sealed the Dalek out of the main Hub in Journey’s End (2008).

She comes back in Torchwood: Zone 10 by David Llewellyn, which also introduces the KVI – the Russian equivalent of Torchwood! Directed by Scott Handock, here’s the synopsis:

They call it “Pulse” – a radio signal which has puzzled the world for 40 years. But now Toshiko Sato has solved it. She’s uncovered a message which leads her to Russia, and into an uneasy alliance with the KVI. Toshiko needs to get into Zone 10 – a frozen wasteland which officially doesn’t exist.

An intergalactic war was once fought in Zone 10. And it turns out there’s a survivor.

Series 2 begins in March with Torchwood: The Victorian Age by acclaimed crime author AK Benedict (The Beauty of Murder) – in which Queen Victoria (Rowena Cooper) will enlist the assistance of a young renegade by the name of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) in her annual inspection of the Torchwood Institute. As well as confirming the return of Tom Price as PC Andy Davison, Big Finish says:

“Hopefully people will enjoy the second run of adventures as much as the first. We continue to focus in on one or two Torchwood characters, and try and give them a brilliant adventure. Captain Jack and Queen Victoria are a joyous double-act to kick things off with. We’ve got Tosh going rogue with Russian Torchwood, we’ve got Sgt Andy having an adventure with a ghost, and… Hmm. Well, you can probably guess who else is returning. But there’s a lot more to come.”

So might Burn Gorman, aka Owen Harper, also appear in a future audio adventure? We can only hope!

The next release of Series 1, Torchwood: Uncanny Valley, starring John Barrowman, Steven Cree, and Emma Reeves, will be available to download on Monday January 18th.

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