The Space Museum

Information

Writer: Glyn Jones
Director: Mervyn Pinfield
Script Editor: Dennis Spooner
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None

Originally Broadcast: 24th April - 15th May 1964
Episodes: 4
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: Q
Series: 2
Story Number: 15
Enemy: Moroks
Setting: Xeros

Synopsis

The TARDIS jumps a time track and the travellers arrive on the planet Xeros. There they discover their own future selves displayed as exhibits in a museum established as a monument to the galactic conquests of the warlike Morok invaders who now rule the planet. When time shifts back to normal, they realise that they must do everything they can to try to avert this potential future.
Vicki helps the native Xerons to obtain arms and thereby to revolt against the Moroks. The revolution succeeds and the travellers go on their way, confident that the future has been changed.

Cast

The Doctor - William Hartnell

Ian Chesterton - William Russell

Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill

Vicki - Maureen O'Brien

Sita - Peter Sanders

Dako - Peter Craze

Third Xeron - Bill Starkey

Lobos - Richard Shaw

Tor - Jeremy Bulloch

Morok Messenger - Salvin Stewart

Morok Technician - Peter Diamond

Morok Guard - Lawrence Dean

Morok Guard - Peter Diamond

Morok Guard - Ken Norris

Morok Guard - Salvin Stewart

Morok Commander - Ivor Salter

Xeron - Michael Gordon

Xeron - Edward Granville

Xeron - Bill Starkey

Xeron - David Walliscroft

Morok Guard - Billy Cornelius

Dalek Voice - Peter Hawkins

Dalek Machine Operator - Murphy Grumbar

Extra - Brian Proudfoot

Story Notes

• All episodes exist in 16mm telerecordings
  
• Episode 3 was held in the BBC Film & TV Library when it was audited in 1978
  
• Negative Film Prints of all 4 episodes have been found
  
• A clearer print of episode 1 was returned to the BBC in 1981
  
• The episodes of this story went by different titles during the production stage. Episode 1 was originally known as The Four Dimensions of Time and Episode 4 was originally known as Zone Seven.
  
• William Hartnell does not appear in Episode 3.
  
• Of all the William Hartnell stories with individual episode titles, this is the only one for which only one overall story title has ever been used. See also Disputed story titles.
  
• Episode 1 begins with a brief reprise of The Crusade episode 4, which is currently the only surviving film footage of that episode
  
• Features a guest appearance by Jeremy Bulloch who is better known for his appearance as Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi
  
• 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
  
• The incidental music was all from stock recordings rather than being specially composed for the story
  
• In a nice piece of internal continuity, William Russell starts gently banging his fists together as he leaves the TARDIS interior set and carries this through to the next scene, following a recording break, as he emerges from the police box onto the Xeros surface set; this gives the effect of a continuous piece of action, and helps maintain the illusion that the TARDIS interior really is inside the police box shell.
  

Preceded by: The Crusade - Followed by: The Chase