History Trivia / DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan

** This story originally featured the Daleks. With the new setting, the Weeping Angels were considered a better fit, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5DaleksInMahattan as it would be treading old ground]].

** This story originally featured the Daleks. It was decided that the Weeping Angels were a better fit.
** Originally, the item made in ancient China at the Doctor's request was a TARDIS-shaped puzzle box. River discovered it among Grayle's collection and stored her vortex manipulator inside. The Doctor then used the vortex manipulator to travel to 1938 New York after locating the puzzle box in a museum in the twenty-first century.
** The Chinese foreman reappeared later in the script: Grayle was transported back to his workshop by the Weeping Angels, and was put to work making the very things he had collected as antiques. The final script instead saw Grayle wind up as a slave during the Renaissance, as depicted in one of his paintings; however, this was lost during editing. In the finished product, it seems the Weeping Angels just straight up killed him.
** Early drafts saw more obvious time manipulation at Winter Quay, with multiple versions of both Rory and Sam Garner present at different ages.
** Originally, when the TARDIS was unable to materialise in New York, it was shunted back in time to the Viking era.

* ShrugOfGod: A fan asked Creator/MattSmith at a convention why the Doctor can't go back and get a bus or a boat to NewYork to visit Amy and Rory in the past. His answer? "Because Moffat".

* ActingForTwo: Arthur Darvill plays both young Rory and the old Rory, nearing death, that the gang encounters.

* TheDanza: Rory's middle name is revealed as Arthur, just like Creator/ArthurDarvill, whose real first name is Thomas.
* {{Defictionalization}}: ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Angels-Kiss-ebook/dp/B009KJ6DTO The Angel's Kiss]]''. Though it's not exactly the book from the episode — it reads more like a prequel.

* ShrugOfGod: A fan asked Creator/MattSmith at a convention why the Doctor can't go back and visit Amy and Rory in the past. His answer? "Because Moffat".

** Originally, the item made in ancient China at the Doctor's request was a TARDIS-shaped puzzle box. River discovered it amongst Grayle's collection and stored her vortex manipulator inside. The Doctor then used the vortex manipulator to travel to 1938 New York after locating the puzzle box in a museum in the twenty-first century.
** The Chinese foreman reappeared later in the script: Grayle was transported back to his workshop by the Weeping Angels, and was put to work making the very things he had collected as antiques. The final script instead saw Grayle wind up as a slave during the Renaissance, as depicted in one of his paintings; however, this was lost during editing.

* DeletedScene: The script let us see how Rory's father was affected, in a scene that was unfortunately not filmed, but there is an animation.

* {{Defictionalization}}: ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Angels-Kiss-ebook/dp/B009KJ6DTO The Angel's Kiss]]''. Though it's not exactly the book from the episode -- it reads more like a prequel.

* DeletedRole: Zac Fox is credited as playing the Photoshoot PA but there is no trace of him in the story at all.

* ActorAllusion: Rory's middle name is Arthur, just like Creator/ArthurDarvill, whose real first name is Thomas.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Karen Gillian wanted to be killed off by a Weeping Angel.

* DeletedScene: The script let us see how Rory's father was affected, in a scene that was unfortunately not filmed, but there is an animation.

* DeletedScene: The script let us see how Rory's father was affected, in a scene that was unfortunately not filmed, but there is an animation.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]]'s frenemy FDR is an Angel collector.

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* [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Kramer]]'s friend FDR is an Angel collector.