Village of the Angels (TV story)

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

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

 * 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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