Doctor Who: 10 Things You Forgot From “Blink”

“Blink” Is one of the best-known Doctor Who episodes featuring the Weeping Angels, one of the show’s most notorious alien creations. Later versions of the Angels can be found throughout the show, particularly featured in run-ins with Matt Smith’s Doctor as they become the greatest fear of his companion Amy Pond. However, when many fans think of these creepy stone creatures, they instantly turn their minds to David Tennant’s Doctor–and, most specifically, the episode “Blink”.

Like most Doctor Who episodes, “Blink” involves the complicated interweaving of timelines, several characters unique to the one episode, and, of course, some wholesome, touching moments. It wouldn’t be a Doctor Who episode if it didn’t both raise arm hair and warm the heart. And with such a jam-packed show, it’s always a little hard to remember exactly what went on in each episode–but always fun to recall.

10 The Writing Behind The Wallpaper

At the start of the episode, Sally stands in a mansion facing a wall of peeling wallpaper. Revealing her curious nature, Sally leans forward to pull at the wallpaper, slowly unmasking words that someone has written beneath–words that turn out to feature her own name, warning her to “DUCK” just before something is thrown at her head.

9 The Yale Lock

This episode unlocks (pun intended) a tiny detail relating to the Tardis, something Doctor Who fans are always eager for more of.

Billy, the inspector initially set out to help Sally with her strange situation, reveals that the lock to an old police box that was found outside the mysterious mansion, is impossible to get into despite it taking a simple yale lock. The key Sally later uses confirms that the key to the tardis is indeed an ordinary key.

8 Billy Growing Old

Sally almost has a romance and goes so far as to give Inspector Bill Shipton her telephone number. Alas, Billy goes the same way as sally’s friend Kathy: after being touched by the Angels, he is taken back in time. Sally meets him again the same day, but this time as a very old man who is at the end of his life.

7 Kathy’s Letter

Fans only get a few small scenes with Kathy before she becomes the first victim of the Angels. In the very scene where she is taken, the reason for her capture is Sally answering the mansion door to receive a letter that Kathy herself has sent from back in time, where the Angels launched her to.

6 The Angels Have The Phone Box

This phrase is well known by Doctor Who fans. It has such a fun, nonsensical ring to it that even the writers chose to have Larry make a crack about the fact that it should be made into a T-Shirt. Needless to say, countless fans have had these words emblazoned on their clothes ever since.

5 The Timey-Wimey Detector

Another fan favorite, David Tennant’s Doctor, in all his childlike yet suave glory, joyfully refers to a machine he uses as his “timey-wimey” detector that “goes ding when there’s stuff”. If one is looking for David Tennant highlights, this is certainly one of the best.

4 Sally Holds Larry’s Hand

Nearing the end of the episode Larry alludes to the fact that Sally’s fixation with preserving the documents relating to their conflict with the Angels might be getting in the way of a possible romance between them. Sally instantly rejects this notion, asserting that they simply run a shop together, period. Yet at the end of the episode, after Sally meets the doctor, she gleefully takes Larry’s hand and holds him to her as they waltz into the store together–an odd turn of events.

3 The Angels Flicker The Lights?

Just before Larry and Sally make their way into the Tardis they find themselves stuck in the basement surrounded by Angels. Stricken with horror, Sally notices that one of the Angels is pointing at a lightbulb that is flickering, and shouts that the Angels are putting out the lights.

Now, fans know that the Angels have the power to send people back in time…but their ability to manipulate electricity is new and random. It almost feels like a misjudged improv line that was allowed to stay.

2 Sparrow And Nightingale DVD Shop

Just as the camera is panning out for the finish of the episode, it catches the top of the DVD shop that Larry has worked in throughout the episode, except the name of the shop has changed to reflect the partnership of Larry and Sally–and, by extension, Kathy, who once remarked how well hers and Sally’s last names sounded together.

1 Sally Gives The Doctor The Documents

Something that is a bit mysterious throughout the episode is the question of how exactly The Doctor got access to all of the information he would need in order to so perfectly weave himself into Sally’s timeline and aid her against the Angels. The answer is revealed when Sally compiles all of the related documents and hands them off to The Doctor and Martha when she happens to see them running down the street one day.