Don’t blink! Blink and you’re dead! The Weeping Angels are one of the oldest and deadliest creatures in the universe. The Angels are stone statues that are quantum locked, which means that they can only move when they are not being observed. If a Weeping Angel touches you then it sends you back in time and it feeds on the potential energy of the days you might have had. The Doctor has encountered the terrifying Weeping Angels many times during his travels in time and space throughout Doctor Who.
Blink
★★★★★
TX: 09/06/2007
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Hettie Macdonald
A young woman named Sally Sparrow investigates a haunted house called Wester Drumlins, in which many scrawled messages from a man called the Doctor to her are written on the walls. Things become even more peculiar after Sally’s friend Cathy Wainwright is zapped back in time to 1920 after being touched by a stone angel statue in the garden. After being left various clues from Cathy who is trapped in the past (and from another victim of the stone statues, Detective Inspector Billy Shipton) Sally discovers a series of DVD Easter eggs of a man called the Doctor and his friend Martha. The two of them are stuck in 1969 and have been trying to communicate with Sally through time via the DVD Easter eggs. The Tenth Doctor warns Sally and Cathy’s brother Larry that they are facing the Weeping Angels – terrifying, ancient stone statues that can only move when they are not being observed.
One touch of a Weeping Angel sends the victim back in time and the Angel feeds on all of the potential energy left behind. The Angels at Wester Drumlins want access to the Doctor’s TARDIS so they can feast on its time energy forever. Sally and Larry use the TARDIS key to gain access to the TARDIS. Emergency Programme 712 is activated and the TARDIS is sent back in time to the Doctor. The Weeping Angels surrounding the TARDIS in the basement of Wester Drumlins are looking at each other when the TARDIS dematerialised, leaving the Angels frozen forever. A year later, the Doctor and Martha (at an earlier point in time) are spotted by Sally and Larry outside their DVD rental shop. Sally gives the Doctor a package with all of the information he needs for his future encounter with the Angels and her. It’s time for another gentle reminder that David Tennant is the best Doctor! David Tennant is the best Doctor, it’s a fact not an opinion! You either think that Tennant is the best Doctor or you’re wrong! There will never be a better Doctor than David Tennant! Blink is one of David Tennant’s best episodes, regardless of the fact that he barely appears in it. Blink is an iconic episode and it is really well written! How could anyone think that David Tennant is not the best Doctor?!
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
★★★★☆
TX: 24/04/2010 – 01/05/2010
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Adam Smith
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy discover a message from River Song on the home box from the spaceship Byzantium that has crashed in the past. After rescuing River, the Doctor and Amy land on Alfava Metraxis, where they join an expedition by the Church of the Papal Mainframe, led by Father Octavian. A Weeping Angel has escaped from the cargo hold of the crashed Byzantium. However, this was secretly a rescue mission for the Angels. Time energy pours out of the crashed ship into the many statues in the Aplan Temple ruins cave system that the Doctor and his friends are exploring. Every statue in the Aplan Temple ruins is a Weeping Angel and they are regenerating thanks to the energy from the crashed Byzantium. The Doctor, Amy, River Song and the Clerics climb through the wreck of the Byzantium, only to discover that Amy is turning into a Weeping Angel after she looked into the eyes of an Angel on a recording. Amy has to shut her eyes to confuse the Angel in her mind. The Doctor, Amy and River Song survive the Angel attacks, which claim the lives of the rest of the Clerics. A crack in time in the skin of the universe runs through the hull of the Byzantium. The Doctor disables the gravity field of the ship and all of the Weeping Angels fall into the time crack. Before leaving with Amy, the Doctor asks River Song why she was imprisoned by the Clerics at the Stormcage. River tells the Doctor that she killed a good man, but refuses to say who. Back in Leadworth, Amy makes a pass at the Doctor in her bedroom because she is horny, the night before her wedding to Rory. The Doctor refuses her advances and takes her into the TARDIS to sort things out. Some girls do things for attention! I am ashamed to say that I have had sex with women in relationships with other men… I have also stolen girlfriends from other guys. I can have any woman I want, regardless of whether they are single or not. I am definitely not a prude! I love to play with women’s nipples in order to crank them up and make them more horny so that they are ready for sex. Like the Eleventh Doctor, I am very naughty! Karen Gillan is bloody gorgeous! Who the hell would say no to her, even if she was getting married the next day?!
The Angels Take Manhattan
★★★★☆
TX: 29/09/2012
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Nick Hurran
The Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory are relaxing on holiday in Central Park, New York City… until Rory is zapped back in time to 1938. Rory meets River Song before being taken to Mr Grayle’s residence, where he keeps a pet Weeping Angel, which grabs River’s wrist. The Doctor and Amy follow Rory to 1938 through clues placed in a book written in the future by River Song under the pseudonym Melody Malone. The Weeping Angels have infested Grayle’s house and the rest of New York City. The time travellers discover a dying, old future Rory in a hotel bed who was zapped back in time by the Angels. In order to prevent his horrifying future, Rory and Amy travel to the roof of the building where they are confronted by the Statue of Liberty, which is also a Weeping Angel. It makes no sense that the Statue of Liberty is a Weeping Angel in this story because how does it get across New York without being seen? There would be at least 1000 people looking at it at any one time. To defeat the Angels, Amy and Rory create a paradox by jumping off the roof of the building to their apparent deaths. The plan works and the paradox defeats the Angels. The Doctor, Amy, Rory and River Song wake up in a graveyard nearby in the present day. However, a lone surviving Angel zaps Rory and then Amy back in time so that they live to death in the past in New York City. Unfortunately, the Doctor can’t take the TARDIS back in time to New York to rescue them because of the earlier paradox. Again, this makes literally no sense because the Doctor could easily take the TARDIS back to Boston in 1938 and then get a bus down to New York and rescue Rory and Amy! They die because plot. However, the ending is still really sad and I can’t watch it without crying. The heartbroken Doctor is given consolation by River Song, when she reminds him to read the last page of the book she is destined to write posing as Melody Malone. The Doctor returns to the picnic area from the start of the episode where he reads a touching farewell message from Amy Pond. Doctor Who was very popular in America when Matt Smith was the Doctor. Doctor Who was therefore Matt Smith and Karen Gillan’s passport to Hollywood. If you crack the American TV market then you crack the world. During the Matt Smith era, Doctor Who made a successful appeal to the American TV market by casting American actors in the show and also filming Doctor Who in America (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, The Angels Take Manhattan). Consequently, the series has become a global franchise. The show also featured multiple Eleventh Doctor episodes set in the USA (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, A Town Called Mercy (which was filmed in Spain) and The Angels Take Manhattan) in addition to other America-set episodes: The Gunfighters (First Doctor), The TV Movie which was filmed in Canada (Eighth Doctor), Dalek (Ninth Doctor), Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks, Dreamland (Tenth Doctor) and Rosa which was filmed in South Africa (Thirteenth Doctor). Doctor Who has always had a strong following in America, but it was not until the Matt Smith era that the series entered the mainstream of popular culture there and started to appear at sci-fi and fantasy comic cons etc. The most recent Doctor Who US premiere was in 2024 and every February there is a major Doctor Who convention in Los Angeles, USA called Gallifrey One. I have visited America many times, I have been to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Florida, New York, Boston and I worked at a summer camp in Maine. However, I never want to go back to America because I don’t like the United States and most Americans are stupid because they re-elected Donald Trump as US President, despite the fact that he is a racist rapist.
The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald encountered some Weeping Angels submerged in the snow on the planet Trenzalore. The Twelfth Doctor and Clara later encountered some Weeping Angels and a few other monsters in the catacombs of Gallifrey.
The Weeping Angels made a cameo appearance at the end of the first and only season of the Doctor Who teenage spin-off Class, which teased the Weeping Angels’ home world and the coming of a gigantic Angel! A potential second season of Class would have explored this, however this was not to be.
The Thirteenth Doctor encountered the Weeping Angels a few times during her travels, notably when she was in prison.
Flux: Chapter 4 – Village of the Angels
★★★★★
TX: 21/11/2021
Written by Chris Chibnall and Maxine Alderton Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone
In this adventure, the Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz and Dan encounter a scary Weeping Angel inside the TARDIS, which forces the Doctor to reboot the ship. This leaves the time travellers stranded in the village of Medderton, on 21st November 1967. Yaz and Dan join the search for Peggy, a missing girl, while the elderly Mrs Hayward warns the villagers to evacuate. The Doctor finds a laboratory where Professor Jericho is conducting psychic experiments on Claire, who was sent back in time from 2021. Jericho’s home is surrounded by Angels interested in Claire, who reveals to the Doctor that Medderton is the site of a mass disappearance that occurs that night and in 1901. An Angel sends Yaz and Dan back to Medderton in 1901 where they find Peggy. They encounter Mrs Hayward in 1967, on the other side of an energy barrier. Mrs Hayward reveals she is Peggy’s future self.
Back in 1967, the Doctor, Claire, and Jericho barricade themselves in the basement, while Claire reveals she is slowly becoming an Angel. As a seer, she had a premonition of an Angel which led to its image seizing her mind. The Doctor enters Claire’s mind to get rid of the Angel and learns it hijacked the TARDIS and is hiding from the other Angels, members of the Division’s extraction squad. The rogue Angel claims to have knowledge of the Division, offering to return the Doctor’s missing memories if she helps it escape. Jericho disrupts the link because the Angels are breaking in. They escape through a tunnel, but the Weeping Angels send Jericho to 1901 and corner Claire and the Doctor. The Doctor learns the Angels have taken the village out of time and space in order to capture the rogue Angel. The Doctor tries to make a deal with the Angels, but the rogue Angel reveals it offered the Doctor to them for its own safety. The Doctor is recalled to the Division as she is turned into a Weeping Angel… Jodie Whittaker was the first woman Doctor, I realised a long time ago that women exist for the pleasure of men.
Chris Olsen's TARDIS 