Stories Television Doctor Who Series 3 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Blink 3 images Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 11 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 5 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Saturday, June 9, 2007 Production Code 3.10 Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Hettie MacDonald Runtime 45 minutes Story Type Doctor-Lite Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Time Travel Pivotal Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England, London UK Viewers 6.62 million Appreciation Index 87 Synopsis In an abandoned house, the Weeping Angels wait. The only hope to stop them is a young woman named Sally Sparrow and her friend Larry Nightingale. The only catch: the Weeping Angels can move in the blink of an eye. To defeat the ruthless enemy — with only a half of a conversation from the Tenth Doctor as help — the one rule is this: don't turn your back, don't look away and don't blink! Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Sally Sparrow First Appearance Larry Nightingale First Appearance Weeping Angels First Appearance Kathy Nightingale Billy Shipton Tenth Doctor David Tennant Martha Jones Freema Agyeman Show All Characters (7) How to watch Blink: Watch on iPlayer Doctor Who Confidential Blu-Ray The Complete Third Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray Series 3 DVD The Complete Third Series DVD Series 3 Volume 3: Human Nature – The Family of Blood – Blink Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Default Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 11 reviews 4 July 2025 New· · 254 words Review by InterstellarCas Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Fun fact, this is the first Doctor Who episode I “watched”. Technically, I caught a few brief moments of it on TV (specifically the scene where Sally sees the Angels on the cathedral outside the police station) before I went on with whatever child me was doing. It’s been a bit since I’ve rewatched, so I had figured that however good it was, and I’ve always liked the story, it might be overrated. I have to admit it though, this is such a fantastic episode. Weeping Angels are by far one of the best monsters introduced in NuWho and this introduction cements them as a formidable foe. Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow just knocks it out of the park, deserving of the reverence she gets for her guest role here. The core of this episode is what the Doctor so eloquently describes as timey-wimey: people being shot back in time, a conversation via DVD special features, and our iconic quantum-locked statues. There’s a perfect balance of the mystery on Sally’s side to confrontation with the Weeping Angels that ensures the monsters don’t overstay their welcome yet still leave a great impact. A decade or so earlier, I could see this being an episode of The X-Files, given the similar atmosphere it provides. But it is so specifically Doctor Who, and that is was what elevates it. It has just the right amount of absurdity combined with sincerity that really shows what the series is all about, telling creative stories that you’d see nowhere else. InterstellarCas View profile Like Liked 0 25 April 2024 · 173 words Review by 15thDoctor Spoilers 6 This review contains spoilers! Blink is another high water mark for the series. A perfectly paced, beautifully acted piece of drama that proves that the show has no defined formula and can even survive without its lead actors! Carey Mulligan delivers one of the best (if not the best) guest cast performances of all time. She is perfect dream casting companion material. Finlay Robertson’s Larry is the perfect companion to her companion - a brilliant comic foil. The Weeping Angels, in a single 45 minute story, solidify themselves as a top tier classic villain - and there are only three of those. One introduced in 1963, another in 1966, this one in 2007. Quite an achievement, further cementing “new” Doctor Who’s legitimacy - it is here to stay. Even after watching this story at least 50 times since I was 14 I found myself engrossed. The line about The Doctor’s timey wimey machine cooking an egg at 30 paces genuinely made me laugh out loud. Don’t think I’ve ever properly appreciated that line before. All these years later, still new details to take in. 15thDoctor View profile Like Liked 6 20 April 2025 · 73 words Review by Lizzie-Hassan-Robyn 3 WOW WOW WOW THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE EVER EVER!!!! We've seen every episode and this is all three of us' favourite Doctor Who adventure ❤️❤️ Hassan's thoughts: Come on, it's a story where you're not allowed to blink! Who wouldn't love that? Lizzie's thoughts: An absolute epic! Robyn's thoughts: It hasn't been this good since. #RIPDoctorWho - Lizzie, Hassan, and Robyn. xxxxx Next up: The Church on Ruby Road Lizzie-Hassan-Robyn View profile Like Liked 3 19 June 2025 · 301 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Blink is one of the all-time great Doctor Who horror stories. It used to be my go-to as an introductory story for the franchise for newcomers, but I've since shied away from that a little bit. Blink is almost too scary and too good to the extent it feels as though it might leave new viewers with the wrong impression for the larger franchise. It's better for something fans discover on their own time, and let its work its magic more naturally without the weight of being somebody's first episode. I love the framing of this story and it does a really good job of featuring the Doctor in a very limited role. Sally Sparrow is extremely entertaining and well done as a protagonist. I can totally see why she was considered for a more full-time companion part. That would have been very cool. The Angels are every bit as terrifying as when I first saw this episode. Blink is extremely re-watchable and holds up really well against the test of time. Even the DVD extras don't feel culturally irrelevant all these years and innovations later. It's easy to forget how ingenious these monsters were right out of the box, too. Moffat had a really good idea here and it is explored excellently across the episode, with so much care and attention given to building suspense and tension as we learn more and more about the Weeping Angels. It's a really strong build-up to a scary ending I really didn't know how our characters were going to survive, and the little trick with the TARDIS at the end works well for a quick resolution. Fine content overall, especially because you can figure out how everything fits together right at the ending in a way that is immensely satisfying for any story. dema1020 View profile Like Liked 0 26 October 2024 · 99 words Review by Bongo50 2 Blink is one of the most well-liked Doctor Who television stories and for good reason. It's gripping. It's well paced. The directing is excellent. There are multiple genuinely scary moments (not to mention the ending...). The characters are likeable. The plot feels interesting and clever. All of these and more work together to make Blink one of the best Doctor Who stories out there. The only thing holding me back from giving it a full 5 stars is that there are a number of plot holes and unexplained/nonsensical things which, when noticed, do detract from the immersion a little. Bongo50 View profile Like Liked 2 Show All Reviews (11) Open in new window Statistics AVG. 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They're coming for you, but listen, your life could depend on this. Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast, faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck. — Blink Show All Quotes (5) Open in new window Transcript + Script [Wester Drumlin] (On a dark wet night, a woman climbs over a lovely set of wrought iron gates with a notice on them: Danger Keep Out Unsafe Structure London County Council She goes up the gravel driveway to the big house. She breaks in through a boarded up window and takes photographs of the plastic covered chandeliers resting on the floors, and other pieces of furniture. Then she notices the letter B peeking from underneath a piece of peeling wallpaper. She pulls at it to reveal the words "Beware the weeping angel". Underneath that is "Oh, and duck! Really, duck! Sally Sparrow duck, now." So she ducks just before the window behind her is broken by a thrown pot, which bounces off the wall and breaks on the floor. The light of her torch reveals a statue outside, a winged angel with its hands covering its face. She goes back to the wall and pulls off more paper to reveal -Love from the Doctor 1969) [Hallway] Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)