10 Insane Doctor Who Episodes That Almost Happened

10. The Tenth Doctor Goes Full Indiana Jones

Mark Gatiss has scripted many Doctor Who episodes since 2005. In fact, from the Ninth Doctor to the Twelfth Doctor, he wrote an episode for every single series except the third and the fourth, although he did come close to filling in one of those gaps.

Back in the late 2000s, Gatiss was working on a story called The Suicide Exhibition, which was intended to air during Series 4, but was eventually replaced by The Fires of Pompeii. This huge blockbuster episode was set to involve Nazis, the British Museum and the Second World War, and according to the writer himself, it would've been an adventurous romp in the vein of a classic Indiana Jones flick:

"After the first draft, Russell [T Davies, former showrunner] 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."

Imagine the Doctor investigating a booby-trapped museum in the 1940s, all the while dodging Nazis and dealing with Donna's sass. For David Tennant's "action hero" Tenth Doctor in particular, this sounds like a perfect episode. Somebody make it happen!