The Weeping Angels may not be making another appearance in Doctor Who (Picture: BBC)

Steven Moffat has revealed that he’s not likely to re-visit the Weeping Angels in episodes he writes.

The Sherlock scribe and Doctor Who showrunner added that despite exhausting them in his own stories, he would be happy for other writers to bring the Weeping Angels back.

‘I’m probably done to be honest on what you can do with the Weeping Angels’ he told YouTube channel OfficiallyNerdcubed, ‘But other writers have to have a go.’

He went on: ‘There’s only so many times you can think “Right, it’s a chase scene and statues”. How many times can the lights flicker? What happens if a moth sees them? Is the alien invasion cancelled at the point?’




The Weeping Angels first appeared during the series three episode Blink, with their most recent appearance being The Angels Take Manhattan in series 7.

Moffat revealed that he’d recently heard a Weeping Angels storyline that tickled his fancy, but it sadly wouldn’t be making it into the sci-fi show straightaway.

Steven Moffat hopes that another writer can bring back the Weeping Angels in a later episode (Picture: AP)

‘It’s not going to happen but a very good Doctor Who writer pitched a great idea for the Weeping Angels the other day and I was very excited about it’ he said.

‘We had a long phone call about it and I went away thinking, “That is going to be brilliant!” And about two days later he admitted he wasn’t going to have time to do it. Hopefully we’ll get to it in the next year.’

The 50th anniversary of the show will be marked with a 75-minute special episode called The Day of the Doctor on November 23.