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The Time of Angels was the first serial of Season 42 of Doctor Who. It was written by Steven Moffat, directed by James Strong and starred Liam Cunningham as the Eleventh Doctor, Kate Ashfield as Hannah Ward & Richard Armitage as Brian Whiteford

Synopsis[]

The TARDIS receives a distress signal from the planet, Alfava Metraxis. The Byzantium starliner has crash landed, and it's only prisoner has escaped captivity - the last of the Weeping Angels. Working with the Church, Doctor is recruited to help track down the angel, which has escaped into the terrifying Maze of the Dead.

Plot[]

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Cast[]

Crew[]

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Worldbuilding[]

Individuals[]

  • Berger was in charge of laying the explosives.
    • This is an incorrect hearing. "Berger" is not the person's name -- the individual is addressed by his title, the clerical position "verger", just like the commander is a "father".
  • The Doctor is on Virginia Woolf's bowling team.
  • Amy guesses that River Song is the Doctor's wife in the future. River doesn't tell the truth to keep the established timeline from being polluted. However, she notes Amy is good for being able to figure this out from their interactions.
  • Everyone in the service of the Church is given a Sacred Name.

Species[]

  • The Doctor states that humans are like rabbits, spreading out across the universe.
  • Over hundreds of years Weeping Angels lose their form.
  • The Aplans are a two-headed species.
  • The Doctor had dinner with the Aplans' chief architect.
  • The Aplans are said to have died out over 400 years before the Byzantium crashed on Alfava Metraxis.
  • There are over 6 billion human colonists on Alfava Metraxis.
  • In the book the Doctor reads about the Weeping Angels, it states "that which holds the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel".
  • One of the Clerics talks about chasing lava snakes.

Languages[]

Locations[]

  • The Weeping Angel was discovered in the ruins of Razbahan at the end of the 50th century.

Planets[]

  • Alfava Metraxis is seventh planet of the Dundra system, which is located in the Garn belt.
  • Alfava Metraxis has an oxygen rich atmosphere and toxins in its soft-band. Its days last for 11 hours.
  • Alfava Metraxis was terraformed nearly 200 years before the crash of the Byzantium.

Religion[]

  • The soldiers are from the Church.
  • The Angels' use of the phrase, "Come and see", is a reference to the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Revelation, specifically the Angel of Death.

Technology[]

  • The projection of a Weeping Angel is able to deadlock seal the landing pod, despite the pod not having the capability.
  • Perception filters are referred to again.
  • The sonic screwdriver is as ineffective against deadlock seals as its predecessors.

Spacecraft[]

  • The Byzantium is a spacecraft carrying a Weeping Angel. It crash lands when its warp engines suffer a phase shift.

Influences[]

  • In comparing this two-parter with Blink, Steven Moffat said that if Blink was like Alien, the two-parter is like Aliens.

Notes[]

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Continuity[]

  • The Doctor previously used the TARDIS to chase a crashing spaceship in TV: The Empty Child.
  • After flicking quickly through the book on the Weeping Angels, the Doctor remarks, "Not bad, bit boring in the middle." He did a similar thing with a book in TV: City of Death and TV: Invaders from Mars.
  • The Doctor tells River that he is not a taxi service. The Fifth Doctor told Adric the same thing in TV: Earthshock.
  • The Doctor's regret on not getting to know Octavion mirrors his sixth incarnation's remorse when he realised how wrong about Lytton he was. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)

Home video releases[]

DVD[]

  • This story along with the other stories in Season 42 were released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Second Season in 2006.

Blu-ray[]

  • This story along with the other stories in Season 42 were later released as Doctor Who: The Complete Forty-Second Season on Blu-ray.
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