The Suicide Exhibition (unproduced TV story)
The Suicide Exhibition was an Indiana Jones-style story that according to Mark Gatiss was "verge of production for a while in the late 2000s". It was replaced by The Fires of Pompeii and was instead suggested by producer Julie Gardner to be part of the 2009-Specials, but still never got made. (DWM 515)
Synopsis
The Doctor encounters Nazis in the British Museum during World War II. (DWM 515)
Cast
Notes
- According to Gatiss he put "a lot of work into it", despite it never being made. He further explained:
The title came from this thing I was reading about how, in the First World War, they were evacuating stuff from museums to various Welsh museums. All this precious stuff, they hid in places like salt mines. But what they had in both World Wars was this amazing thing called the Suicide Exhibition. People still needed stuff to see, for spiritual succour. So if they had 300,000 Anglo Saxon pots, they just put some of them out that they could afford to lose! If a bomb fell, it wouldn’t matter, because they had loads of them.
- Mark also said about a discussion with Russell T Davies that:
After the first draft, Russell said, ‘Let’s make it the Nazis and do the full Indiana Jones on it.’ The whole museum was a puzzle box of sliding doors and traps and stuff.
- Mark Gatiss went on to say that "I would’ve liked to have done it, but it was not to be!". (DWM 515)
