8 Doctor Who Episodes With Alternate Endings

7. The Angels Take Manhattan

The Televised Ending

Sorry to bring all this sadness bubbling back to the surface... but here we go.

The concluding moments of The Angels Take Manhattan see Amy and Rory get zapped back in time by a Weeping Angel, while a heartbroken Eleventh Doctor watches on. From here, the Raggedy Man reads a letter that Amy has written for him, informing him that she and Rory lived happily ever after, despite being stuck in the past.

The Alternate Ending

This additional scene can be described as an alternate ending, as well as an extension/continuation of the televised ending.

Titled "P.S.", the scene takes place after the events of the main episode, and shows Rory's father, Brian, learning what has happened to his son and his daughter-in-law. Brian also meets his grandson, Anthony, who is older than him (insert timey-wimey joke here), and the two embrace, bringing the scene to a close.

P.S. was penned by current showrunner Chris Chibnall, and it originated from then-showrunner Steven Moffat's desire to give Brian some closure. Unfortunately, Moffat knew that there was no room for Brian in The Angels Take Manhattan, and so, Chibnall (who introduced the character in a previous episode, Dinosaurs On A Spaceship), offered to write a short scene for the home media release of Series 7.

So that's exactly what he did! But because actor Mark Williams was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts, P.S. was unable to be filmed in a live-action setting, and instead, it was re-imagined as a sequence of animated storyboards.

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