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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