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Here's details of scrapped Who episode for Tennant

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From Digital Spy

Details of a scrapped Doctor Who episode during the David Tennant era have surfaced.

Titled 'The Suicide Exhibition', the story would have seen the Tenth Doctor taking on Nazis during World War Two.

Mark Gatiss added to Doctor Who Magazine that it was planned for the 2008 series and was "on the verge of production for a while".

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"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," he explained.

"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."

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Gatiss added: "After the first draft, Russell [T Davies] 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."

It's a shame it never got made.

Doctor Who just ended its most recent series, and will return to BBC One this Christmas for Peter Capaldi's last adventure 'Twice Upon a Time', before Jodie Whittaker takes over as the 13th Doctor from next year.

Doctor Who Magazine issue 515 is on sale from tomorrow.


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