The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)

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The Angels Take Manhattan was the fifth episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It featured the departure of Amy Pond and Rory Williams as Companions, and the return of River Song.

Synopsis

A simple trip to New York City goes horribly wrong when Rory is sent back to 1938 by the Weeping Angels. There he finds that River is investigating the angels and Manhattan has become their hunting grounds. The Doctor and Amy must find Rory before it is too late, but they soon find that not every point in time can be changed. And here, the Doctor must do the one thing he has been dreading - say a final farewell to Amelia Pond.

Plot

A detective is sent by an art collector and mob boss to Winter Quay a place "Where the statues live". When he arrives he notices a little girl in a nearby building mimicking a Weeping Angel's pose. He enters the building unaware the girl was trying to warn him about the Weeping Angel that was sitting on a plinth near the building which is now awake.

The detective enters a room in the building that has his name on it; unaware the angels are prowling the corridors. He encounters an elderly version of himself who warns him that "They" are going to send him back in time now he is there. The Dective is then attacked by the angels but manages to avoid them has something large is heared aproaching from outside. Since the angels have blocked the stairwell he is forced onto the roof and comes face to face with the snarling Statue of Liberty; revealed to be a Weeping angel of gigantic size. Has he sucumbs to his fate the audience is made aware that somone is writing about the man's demise on a type writer.

In current day Ney York the Docot and the Ponds are haveing a picknick in present day New York in central Park. The Ponds are annoyed by the Doctor's habbit of reading his detective novel Melony Melone out loud while he intern is petrupt by Amy's use of reading glassess. Roary eventualy gose off to fetch them more coffe.

Cast

Crew

General production staff

Script department

Camera and lighting department

Art department

Costume department

Make-up and prosthetics

Movement

Casting

General post-production staff

Special and visual effects

Sound



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

Buildings

Foods and beverages

  • Rory goes to get and is taken through time whilst holding 3 coffees.

TARDIS

  • River tells Rory that the TARDIS Translation Circuit 'sticks around' when he sees writing on ancient Chinese vases being translated.

Theories and concepts

  • By changing his future and creating a paradox Amy and Rory's actions wipe out the Angels' Winter Quay building.

Time

Timeline

  • The Doctor visits China in 221 BC to have a message placed on a vase to alert River.

Story notes

  • The title of the book River Song writes is The Angel's Kiss. An e-book version of the novel will be released on 4th October 2012.[1][2]
  • This is the first episode to feature River Song that is not a two-parter or is at least following a cameo appearance by River in the previous episode.

Ratings

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Rumours

Filming locations

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Production errors

  • When Amelia is running in the garden, the shed is standing up; however, in The Eleventh Hour the TARDIS crashed into it and destroyed it.
  • When Amy and Rory are contemplating suicide, there are clearly some moments in which neither one of them is observing the Statue of Liberty angel, meaning it could easily have taken them both.
  • Multiple times throughout the episode Angels are seen standing in groups or facing each other without their eyes covered, what we know of angels from past episodes would mean those angels would be permanently frozen as they are all able to see each other.

Continuity

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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External links

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Footnotes