The Space Museum

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015 –The Space Museum
Doctor Who serial
Amused, the Doctor emerges from his hiding place - inside the shell of a Dalek from the planet Skaro exhibited in the titular "space museum".
Cast
Doctor	William Hartnell (First Doctor)
Companions	Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) William Russell (Ian Chesterton) Maureen O'Brien (Vicki)
Guest stars
Richard Shaw — Lobos Ivor Salter — Morok Commander Salvin Stewart — Morok Messenger Peter Diamond — Morok Technician Lawrence Dean, Ken Norris, Salvin Stewart, Peter Diamond, Billy Cornelius — Moroks Peter Sanders — Sita Peter Craze — Dako Jeremy Bulloch — Tor Bill Starkey — Third Xeron Michael Gordon, Edward Granville, Bill Starkey, David Walliscroft — Xerons Peter Hawkins — Dalek voice Murphy Grumbar — Dalek Operator
Production
Writer	Glyn Jones
Director	Mervyn Pinfield
Script editor	Dennis Spooner
Producer	Verity Lambert
Executive producer(s)	None
Production code	Q
Series	Season 2
Length	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	April 24–May 15, 1965
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Crusade The Chase
IMDb profile

The Space Museum is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from April 24 to May 15, 1965. The story is set on the planet Xeros, a subjugated planet in the Morok Empire, now home to a vast museum and a young, rebellious population.

Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Synopsis 2 Production 2.1 Casting 3 Commercial releases 3.1 In print 4 References 5 External links 5.1 Reviews 5.2 Target novelisation

[edit] Plot

[edit] Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives near a vast Space Museum on the planet Xeros, but has jumped a time-track. The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki have a series of bizarre experiences as they venture outside and into the Museum – not least that they see but cannot be seen by the militaristic Moroks who run the museum, or the servile indigenous Xerons who work for them. The museum contains fascinating exhibits, including a Dalek shell as shown in the picture, but the most worrying is the four travellers themselves encased and on display. Quite soon afterward the time track slips back and, though the exhibits of the TARDIS and the four travellers vanish, they still find themselves inside the Museum.

The head of the Moroks, Lobos, is a bored and desperate museum administrator and colony governor, who reflects sourly that the glories of the Morok empire are past. Like Rome, the Empire became decadent and then declined. The Moroks have found the TARDIS and now start tracking down the occupants who have, as usual, become separated. The Doctor is the first to be found, but evades their interrogation tactics.

Meanwhile, Vicki has made contact with the Xerons and, hearing of their enslavement, aids them in their plans to stage a revolution. They attack the Morok armoury and Vicki outwits its controlling computer. With their new weapons, the Xerons are able to begin a revolution which slowly takes hold.

Ian has meanwhile freed the Doctor from Lobos, who had begun the process of freezing him and turning him into an exhibit. Ian and the Doctor are quickly recaptured by the Morok guards, and Barbara and Vicki are captured shortly thereafter. With all four held prisoner in the Museum, it looks like the time track prediction of their future as museum exhibits will soon be realised after all.

Help comes from the Xeron revolutionaries, who kill Lobos and the other Morok captors. The Xerons then go about destroying the hated Museum as the TARDIS crew slips away. They take with them a time/space visualiser as a souvenir. On the planet Skaro, their departure is noted by the Daleks….

[edit] Production

Serial details by episode:

Episode	Broadcast date	Run time	Viewership (in millions)	Archive
"The Space Museum"	24 April 1965	23:38	10.5	16mm t/r
"The Dimensions of Time"	1 May 1965	22:00	9.2	16mm t/r
"The Search"	8 May 1965	23:33	8.5	16mm t/r
"The Final Phase"	15 May 1965	22:15	8.5	16mm t/r
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• Episode 1 begins with a brief reprise of The Crusade episode 4, which is currently the only surviving film footage of that episode.
• This is one of the few William Hartnell stories that uses the overall title story to name one of the episodes, others include: The Keys of Marinus, Planet of Giants and The Web Planet.

[edit] Casting

• William Hartnell was on holiday during the recording of episode 3. His only appearance is in the reprise of episode 2.
• This story features a guest appearance by Jeremy Bulloch - see also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.
• Richard Shaw, who spoke with a Cockney accent, was cast as Governor Lobos, but was asked to deliver his lines with a BBC accent. His accent slips only once, when he bellows at an underling use "maximum securi'ee!" He later appeared as Cross in Frontier in Space with his own accent.
• Peter Craze is the younger brother of Michael Craze, who played the First and Second Doctor's companion Ben Jackson from 1966 to 1967.

Doctor Who book
The Space Museum
Series	Target novelisations
Release number	117
Writer	Glyn Jones
Publisher	Target Books
Cover artist	David McAllister
ISBN	0-426-20289-9
Release date	January 1987 (Hardback) 18th June 1987 (Paperback)
Preceded by	The Faceless Ones
Followed by	The Sensorites

[edit] Commercial releases

This story was released alongside the surviving episodes of The Crusade on VHS in 1999. The audio soundtrack was released with narration from Maureen O'Brien on CD in 2009.

[edit] In print

Writer Glyn Jones appears as Krans in The Sontaran Experiment (1975) starring Tom Baker. A novelisation of this serial, written by Jones, was published by Target Books in January 1987.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Space Museum at bbc.co.uk
• The Space Museum at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
• The Space Museum at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Space Museum at Outpost Gallifrey

[edit] Reviews

• The Space Museum reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• The Space Museum reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

[edit] Target novelisation

• On Target — The Space Museum

v • d • e Doctor Who season 2 serials Planet of Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler

v • d • e Dalek television stories First Doctor The Daleks • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Chase • "Mission to the Unknown" • The Daleks' Master Plan Second Doctor The Power of the Daleks • The Evil of the Daleks Third Doctor Day of the Daleks • Frontier in Space • Planet of the Daleks • Death to the Daleks Fourth Doctor Genesis of the Daleks • Destiny of the Daleks Fifth Doctor Resurrection of the Daleks' Sixth Doctor Revelation of the Daleks Seventh Doctor Remembrance of the Daleks Ninth Doctor "Dalek" • "Bad Wolf" / "The Parting of the Ways" Tenth Doctor "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday" • "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks" • "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End" Minor appearances The Space Museum • The Wheel in Space • The War Games • The Mind of Evil • Logopolis • Mawdryn Undead • The Five Doctors • Doctor Who • "Human Nature" See also Dr. Who and the Daleks • Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD • Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death