Village of the Angels (TV story)

Village of the Angels
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Yaz, Dan
Featuring:	Claire, Jericho, Azure, Bel, Vinder
Main enemy:	Weeping Angels
Main setting:	Medderton, 1901 and 21 November 1967 Puzano, 2021
Key crew
Writers:	Chris Chibnall, Maxine Alderton
Director:	Jamie Magnus Stone
Release details
Story number:	297d
Premiere broadcast:	21 November 2021
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x56 minute episode
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Village of the Angels, prefixed in the title sequence with Chapter Four and in other sources with Flux, was the fourth episode of series 13 of Doctor Who. It formed the fourth chapter of the six-part serial Doctor Who: Flux.

This episode's Weeping Angels were a special force called an Extraction Squad with the power to turn other beings into Angels if gathered in a large enough group, as well as being revealed to work for the Division who are revealed to be able to recruit any creature and being into their organisation.

Synopsis

Devon, November 1967. A little girl has gone missing, Professor Eustacius Jericho is conducting psychic experiments, and in the village graveyard, there is one gravestone too many. Why is Medderton known as the Cursed Village, and what do the Weeping Angels want?

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
• Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
• Dan Lewis - John Bishop
• Professor Jericho - Kevin McNally
• Claire Brown - Annabel Scholey
• Reverend Shaw - Alex Frost
• Gerald - Vincent Brimble
• Jean - Jemma Churchill
• Mrs Hayward - Penelope McGhie
• Bel - Thaddea Graham
• Namaca - Blake Harrison
• Vinder - Jacob Anderson
• Peggy - Poppy Polivnicki
• Azure - Rochenda Sandall
• Weeping Angels - Barara Fadden, Isla Moody, Lowri Brown
• Passenger - Jonny Mathers

Crew

Executive Producers   Matt Strevens and Chris Chibnall

Co-executive producer   Nikki Wilson

Written by Chris Chibnall & Maxine Alderton	Produced by Nikki Wilson	Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone	Director of Photography Robin Whenary	Production Designer Dafydd Shurmer	Visual Effects DNEG
Make-up Designer Claire Pritchard-Jones	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Segun Akinola	Costume Design & Creature Design Ray Holman	Edited by Joel Skinner	Special Effects Real SFX
Original theme music by Ron Grainer  •  Title sequence by Ben Pickles  Music orchestrated & conducted by Alec Roberts  •  Recorded by Jeremy Murphy  •  Mixed by Goetz Botzenhardt   Weeping Angel created by Steven Moffat

General production staff Head of Production - Jacquie Glanville Executive Producer for the BBC - Ben Irving Production Executive - Tracie Simpson Line Producer - Steffan Morris Associate Producer - Sheena Bucktowonsing Production Manager - Delmi Thomas Supervising Location Manager - Iwan Roberts Location Manager - Gareth Roberts Unit Managers - Kyle Yates, Jac Jones Production Co-ordinator - Sandra Cosfeld Assistant Production Co-ordinator - Jade Stephenson Production Secretaries - Nikhil Theva Raj, Brenna Ryan Executive Assistant - Caroline Cook Production Office Runner - Ellie Hilton Unit Drivers - Paul Watkins, Jolyon Davey, Steve Darwent Unit Medics - Glyn Evans, Andy Jones Business Affairs - Elaine Evans, Kyle Parsons, Steve Robson Production Accountants - Rhys Evans, Helen Searle Assistant Accountants - Kate Barber-Williams, Kim Dyer Contracts Booker - Leanne Bowcott Crew Payroll Accountant - Bethan Wray Covid Coordinator - Ellie Simmons Covid Assistants - Joseph Fletcher, Jonny Tarr Covid Office Assistant - Etty Stanley Script department Script Editors - Caroline Buckley, Rebecca Roughan Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Christopher J Thomas 2nd Assistant Director - Lauren Pate 3rd Assistant Director - Jennifer Day Assistant Directors - Jac Lewis, Laura Thompson, Tom May Script Supervisor - Vicky Cole Camera Operator - Mark McQuoid ACO Camera Trainee - Evangeline Davies Focus Puller - Jonathan Vidgen Key Grip - John Robinson Assistant Grip - Matt Clark Camera Assistant - Dan Patounas Gaffer - Mark Hutchings Rigging Gaffer - Andy Gardiner Best Boy - Gareth Sheldon Electricians - Gawain Nash, Stuart Gale, Matthew Hutchings, Rhodri Moses	Art department Supervising Art Directors - Rebecca Brown, Ifan Lewis Construction Art Director - Julia Jones Art Department Assistants - Laura Honeybun, Megan Depledge Art Department Co-ordinator - Hannah Miller Production Buyer - Billie Blue Williams Petty Cash Buyer - Sally Sharp Set Decorator - Vicki Male Action Props Buyer - Milannah Faith Summers Concept Artist - Louis Knight Graphic Designer - Stephen Fielding Trainee Graphic Designer - Lois Drage Standby Props - Matthew Ireland, Lewis Reece Standby Carpenter - Colm Garrett Prop Hands - Dewi Thomas, John Thomas, Liv Cheung, Tom Major Rigging - Shadow Scaffolding Standby Rigger - Alex Herbert Scenic Painters - Alison Drane, Rachel Willsher, Jason Tylke HOD Painter - Scenic Steve Painters - Lloyd Reece, Mark Reece Storeman - Lucy Hookings Prop Master - Paul Aitken Props Chargehand - Trystan Howell Props Driver - Paul Carmichael Construction Manager - Tom Berrow Construction Assistant - Matthew Pike Workshop Manager - Mark Hill Workshop Assistant - Chris Slocombe Construction Chargehands - Dan Berrow, Jonathan Tylke Construction Driver - Matthew Pike CNC Programmer - Kristian Tucker Plasterer - David Williams Practical Electricians - Rob Hearne, Matthew Dunford Draughtspersons - Lauren Harper, James Dyer, Alex Roberts Trainee Draughtsperson - Rachel Ellis Carpenters - Sam Burridge, Campbell Fraser, Matt Gronow, Rhys Andrews, Dean Tucker, David Hobbs, Marcus Scholl, Ben McDonald, Ashley Bullock, Mike Venables, Julian Tucker, Richard Briers Costume department Costume Supervisor - Grace Brooks Assistant Costume Designer - Simon Marks Costume Cutter/Maker - Brighde Penn Creature Costume Maker - Robert Allsopp & Associates Costume Assistants - Ian Fowler, Andie Mear, Jenny Tindle Costume Trainee - Yiwen Lin	Make-up and prosthetics Make-up Supervisor - Emma Cowen Make-up Artists - Amy Riley, Angharad Walsh Junior Make-up Artist - India Jones Prosthetics Trainee - Nyle Pritchard Prosthetics Designer - Danny Marie Elias Prosthetics Artist - Amy Paul Junior Prosthetics Artists - Elly Suggit, Ashley Lovett Movement Stunt Co-ordinator - Crispin Layfield Casting Casting Associate - Ri McDaid-Wren Casting Assistant - Ray Böhm General post-production staff Post-production Producer - Ceres Doyle Post-production Supervisor - Liv Duffin Assistant Editors - Hayley Williams, Brooke Taylor Michael On-line Editor - Christine Kelly Assistant On-line Editor - Luke Stanbury Special and visual effects Additional VFX - BBC Wales Graphics, Zodiak VFX, Ben Pickles VFX Editor - Emily Lawrence Assistant VFX Editor - Alastair Gray Colourist - Christine Kelly Head Model Maker - Lee Radford Model Makers - Penny Howarth, Lee Price Sound Sound Recordist - Deian Llŷr Humphreys AMPS Dubbing Mixers - Natasha Haycocks, Howard Bargroff Sound Maintenance Engineers - Christopher Goding, Joe Malone Sound Designer - Harry Barnes Dialogue Editor - Darran Clement ADR Editor - Matthew Cox Foley - Bang Post Production

Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.

References

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Story notes

• Just as The Halloween Apocalypse was set on its broadcast date of 31 October 2021, Village of the Angels was set on 21 November, albeit in 1967.
• This episode is the second episode of Doctor Who to feature a mid-credits scene, the first being Death in Heaven. The show also previously featured a post-credit scene in Face the Raven.
  • The mid-credit scene was given a special glitching effect as it started and as it ended.
  • The Doctor Who theme also received a special variation during the credits. It returns to normal during the Next Time segment.
• This was the first episode of Doctor Who: Flux to not feature Karvanista, Swarm or Joseph Williamson. Vinder is also absent for a majority of the episode, only appearing in the mid-credits scene.
• This episode marks the first time in the show's history that a victim of a Weeping Angel has been killed on-screen, with the characters in question shattering into rock debris.

Ratings

• Overnights: 3.45 million
• Consolidated: 4.55 million

Filming locations

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

• In the end credits, Barbara Fadden's name is mispelt as "Barara Fadden".

Continuity

• The Weeping Angel is still controlling the TARDIS' controls. (TV: Once, Upon Time)
• Bel and Vinder are still attempting to find one another. (TV: Once, Upon Time)
• The Doctor says "contact" when initiating telepathic contact. (TV: The Three Doctors, Spyfall)
• The Doctor tells her companions, "don't wander off". (TV: The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Eleventh Hour)
• The Weeping Angels have hidden in or emerged from rock before. The Fifth Doctor previously discovered that Michelangelo was being commissioned to carve living, sentient Weeping Angels out of stone. (AUDIO: Fallen Angels)
• The Thirteenth Doctor also met Weeping Angels whilst bumping into the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, who had been sent back to 1969. (COMIC: A Little Help from My Friends)
• The Doctor tricks two Weeping Angels into looking at each other to prevent them from moving. (TV: Blink)
• The Doctor once again has various objects in her pockets, making another individual hold them for her. (TV: The Halloween Apocalypse)
• The Doctor remembers River Song's statement: "that which holds the image of an Angel is an Angel" (TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone) and that they send people back in time to feed on the energy of the time they did not live in their normal time stream. (TV: Blink)
• The Doctor utters her previous incarnations' catchphrases, notably "when I say run, run!" (TV: The Power of the Daleks, et al.) and "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow". (TV: The Sea Devils, et al.)
• The TARDIS phone is used from the outside. (TV: The Empty Child, The Bells of Saint John, The Time of the Doctor, Time Heist)

Home video releases

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External links

• Official Village of the Angels page on the Doctor Who website