Doctor Who: 10 Best NuWho Episodes

Ah, we’ve finally reached Moffat’s horror masterpiece. The Doctor Who equivalent of Ridley Scott’s Alien. Yes, this episode may be overrated, but that does not mean it shouldn’t be praised for what it accomplished.

The first successful Doctor-lite story (sorry Love and Monsters!), season three’s Blink introduces us to the companion that should have been – Sally Sparrow, who receives a cryptic message from the Doctor about an alien species after the TARDIS.

The Weeping Angels have become iconic staples of the show, alongside classic monsters like the Daleks and the Cybermen, with Moffat once again harnessing an ordinary object like a stone statue and turning it into something scary.

“Don’t blink! Blink and you’re dead!”. This extraordinary warning is given to Sally and the audience from a Doctor who is stuck in the past. When we are introduced to Sally, the villains have already won and The Doctor is stranded with Freema Agyeman’s Martha Jones in 1969.

Moffat’s play with time travel has never been greater here, with some shocking and poignant moments occurring as a result of people who have been sent back in time and forced to live out the rest of their days in a brand new period of history.

Before she took on Hollywood, guest star Carey Mulligan made a profound turn as Sally Sparrow with a witty, heartfelt performance as the one off companion.

Blink is a modern classic of Doctor Who and it deserves all the praise it has and continues to receive for its genius screenplay and birth of one of the best villains in sci fi.