Harrison Mandel

An art lover and his companion visited an art gallery in Paris in 1979 where they mistook the Doctor's TARDIS, which had been parked in the gallery, as just another exhibit.

The man proclaimed that "since it has no call to be here, the art lies in the fact that it is here." At that moment the Fourth Doctor, Romana II, and Duggan entered the TARDIS and it dematerialised. The art lovers seemed to admire the TARDIS's disappearance as just another aspect of the art. (TV: City of Death)

Behind the scenes

 * Both the male and female art lover characters were unnamed in City of Death. John Cleese and Eleanor Bron shared the collective on-screen credit "Art Gallery Visitors".
 * Cleese and Bron only agreed to appear on the condition that they received no advance publicity or credit in Radio Times — their appearances thus coming as a complete surprise to viewers.
 * Cleese's outfit is the same one he wore as Basil Fawlty in the very last Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat", recording of which had been halted due to BBC industrial action.