Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About The Weeping Angels

10. An Angel Was Originally The Villain In Heaven Sent

After having one story in the David Tennant era and two stories in the Matt Smith era, the Angels had zero stories while Peter Capaldi was behind the TARDIS controls. In fact, aside from a brief cameo in Hell Bent, they didn't feature in his era whatsoever.

A little disappointing? Sure. But things were almost a lot different.

Heaven Sent is one of the Twelfth Doctor's strongest episodes, and it's very hard to imagine it being executed in any other fashion. The Doctor, trapped in a castle that constantly shifts and changes, all the while being pursued by a slow, yet relentless shadowy figure. It's a wonderfully envisioned story that drips with foreboding, partly due to its simple yet effective villain, The Veil.

However, Moffat's original pitch for Heaven Sent was “the Doctor in a haunted house with Weeping Angels”, and to that end, the episode's baddie was originally going to be a lone Weeping Angel, stalking the Doctor throughout the castle.

Would it have worked? Well, Blink already proved that creepy buildings and Weeping Angels go together quite well, so we don't see why not!