Trivia / Doctor Who S29 E10 "Blink"

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• Author Phobia: Steven Moffat had always found the idea of statues scary even before writing the episode.
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: While the story is the Trope Namer for the Timey-Wimey Ball, the Doctor actually doesn't phrase it that way, instead calling it a "big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff".
• Blooper: When Sally gets the TARDIS key at the top floor of Wester Drumlins, she moves between the audience and a Weeping Angel in the background, causing it to subtly move. However, one of the times she does this, she is looking directly at the Angel, yet it still moves slightly.
  • There are also a few scenes where the characters are looking at angels we can't see and blink, yet they don't move.
• California Doubling: Wester Drumlins, the coffee shop, the DVD shop and the police station with the church opposite are all stated to be in London. However, in real life they are in South Wales.
• Completely Different Title: The French title is "Les Anges pleureurs" (The Weeping Angels).
• Defictionalization:
  • There are lots of t-shirts that have "The Angels Have the Phone Box" on them.
  • The DVD itself has the Easter Egg of the Doctor's part of the conversation.
• Deleted Scene:
  • One humorous deleted scene would have formed part of the pre-credits teaser. After Sally discovered the message behind the wallpaper, Steven Moffat had requested the sound of cliched horror movie music. This would turn out to be Sally's mobile phone ringtone, and it was actually Kathy calling her friend from a pub.
  • A scene cut from the epilogue had Larry revealing that he regularly checks to ensure that the Weeping Angels are still petrified.
• Inspiration for the Work: Steven Moffat got the idea from a similar angel statue which he had seen in a graveyard. However when he took his son to show him, it had gone, leaving him wondering if he had simply misremembered the location and gone to the wrong place, or if there was a more sinister explanation...
• Self-Adaptation: The plot of this episode was heavily based on a short story Steven Moffat wrote for the Doctor Who Annual 2006 called "What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow". There, a kid named Sally Sparrow is writing her school assignment where she was contacted by the Ninth Doctor through old photographs and a videotape. Of many other changes, the Weeping Angels aren't the villains. The Doctor being separated from the TARDIS was due to an accident. And he ends up knowing what to do thanks to an adult Sally telling him the story of her experience.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Steven Moffat revealed that Carey Mulligan was offered the chance to stay on as a companion, but she declined.
  • In the original script’s end, Sally would have appeared pregnant, but Moffat decided that her and Larry would continue their romance after meeting the Doctor.
  • Moffat later revealed that he considered an alternate Bittersweet Ending where Sally ends up trapped in the past.
  • Michael Obiora was supposed to play both the young and old versions of Billy Shipton. The makeup was decided against for looking too fake, and instead Louis Mahoney was cast to play the older version.
  • The first draft of the script is very close to the finished episode with the exception of the ending. Instead of taking off by itself, the TARDIS brings Sally and Larry to 1969 where they meet the Doctor and Martha. After returning them to the present, the Doctor reveals that he learned everything from a book called Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels. He asks Sally to sign it and she sees that the author's name is Sally Nightingale. Also, Kathy was originally named Jenny.
• Working Title: "Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angels".

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