"It was a nice day" as read by Gabriel is the opening sentence of the book "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. The book was source material for the first season of the show.
Job and Ennon are played by Peter Davison and Ty Tennant respectively. They are also the father-in-law and son of David Tennant, also respectively.
The paperback book with which Gabriel fans the Archangel is "The Colour of Magic" by Terry Pratchett, the first novel in the Discworld series.
Terry Pratchett co-wrote the book Good Omens with Neil Gaiman, which was the basis of season one of the show.
Terry Pratchett co-wrote the book Good Omens with Neil Gaiman, which was the basis of season one of the show.
"It was the day my grandmother exploded," as read by Gabriel, is the first line from Iain Banks' novel, "The Crow Road." It refers to what happened when she was cremated with her pacemaker still inside her. The novel describes Prentice McHoan's preoccupation with death, sex, his relationship with his father, unrequited love, sibling rivalry, a missing uncle, cars, alcohol and other intoxicants, and God, against the background of the Scottish landscape. It was adapted as a TV Mini Series in 1996, and featured Peter Capaldi, another Scottish actor who played the 12th Doctor in Doctor Who.
Both Peter Davison (Job) and David Tennant (Crowley) have portrayed The Doctor in Doctor Who (2005); Davison was the Fifth Doctor and Tennant was both the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors.