10 Unmade Doctor Who Stories We Wish We'd Seen
4. Nazis in the British Museum
Mark Gatiss has written for almost every series of Doctor Who from 2005 to 2017 with gaps here and there. One of these gaps was the fourth series, when his script entitled The Suicide Exhibition was dropped in favour of James Moran's The Fires of Pompeii. It was held over as a potential special for the following year, but ultimately went unmade.
Set in the British Museum at the height of the Blitz, it was an Indiana Jones style adventure that pitted the Doctor and Donna against a team of Nazis trying to release "something". The museum is revealed to be a giant puzzle box and the Doctor and Donna have to deal with trap doors, booby traps and various other nasties in order to stop the Nazis achieving their goal.
The Suicide Exhibition refers to the more expendable exhibits that replaced valuable works. These items therefore wouldn't be missed if the bombs fell. The priceless artefacts were hidden away in various locations, not unlike Gatiss' script which has sadly never seen the light of day. He would reinvigorate public interest in another London tourist attraction however, when he set Victory of the Daleks in Churchill's war rooms.