![]() ![]() ![]() I peered through and saw an angel statue with its face plunged in its hands and thought, ‘Well, that’s creepy.’ Many years later, we were back at the same hotel, so I took my son Josh to the graveyard to show him the original Weeping Angel - but it wasn’t there.” Moffat got the idea for the infamous monsters from a statue he spotted while on a family holiday: “I saw this chained-up cemetery with an ‘Unsafe Structure’ sign on the gates. Styled as a homework essay from 12-year-old Sally, it sees her encounter evidence of the Ninth Doctor’s presence while visiting her aunt’s house in Devon, but there were no Weeping Angels. It began life as a short story written by Moffat for the 2006 Doctor Who annual, titled “What I Did In My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow”. It also has a fairly timeless setting and no major special effects, because those can date quite badly.” Obviously Carey Mulligan became famous after Blink - not as a consequence, I might add, just afterwards. “It’s unexpectedly got a film star in it, which doesn’t half help. “It’s the kind of episode that holds up well,” says Moffat. ![]() He’s surprised it’s been 15 years (“Bloody hell, where’s the time going?”) but believes Blink has endured better than many Who stories. Pretty good for a story only created to solve a production problem.īlink was written by Steven Moffat, the ex-teacher from Paisley who would go on to become Doctor Who showrunner and create Sherlock. Yet this deeply creepy slice of sci-fi horror would receive unanimous critical acclaim, win a raft of awards, put a future Hollywood A-lister on the map and introduce the scariest Who monsters of the modern era. Airing at 7.10pm on Saturday, 9 June 2007, it was watched by 6.6m UK viewers – a success by today’s standards but at the time, the year’s lowest-rated episode. “Blink” was tucked away towards the end of the series, the 10th episode in a 13-part run. It’s 15 years today since arguably the best-ever Doctor Who story, certainly the best since its 2005 reboot, was broadcast on BBC One. Don't turn your back, don't look away and don’t blink. ![]()
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