The Confessions of Dorian Gray/Trivia

Trivia about The Confessions of Dorian Gray includes:

• What Could Have Been:
  • The plot for "The Heart That Lives Alone" and the character of Toby was initially very different, and had some similarities with "The Lord of Misrule". Dorian would have been a musician and travelled the country with a man named Arthur, who he had known for some time prior to the start of the story. Dorian would at one point return to his flat and find Arthur and a girl dead, only to later find out that Arthur faked his death and was a vampire.
  • "The Needle" originally didn't include Simon from "The Fallen King of Britain", but was added after Scott Handcock learned the story was set in a bank.
  • "The Enigma of Dorian Gray" was meant to have Alan Turing but it was eventually decided to replace him with Adam Notting. Meanwhile "The Living Image" was originally meant to be set in the 1980s, but it was moved to the 1940s to avoid conflicting with the Toby storyline of "The Heart That Lives Alone" and because the values of that time fit the story better.
  • "Angel of War" was meant to give James Anderson a boyfriend, but that character was cut.
  • "The Lost Confessions" is all about this, being audiobooks based on three scripts that weren't included in the series. The first story "Last Man Standing" portrayed Dorian as being a captain in WWI and using the alias Christopher Gray, which wasn't included in later stories set during WWI. Meanwhile "There Are Such Things..." was originally titled "The Confession of Dorian Gray", but Handcock liked the title and reused it for the series. "The Last Confession" is a big example of this, being the original planned ending for Series 5, and includes a very different plot. Vlahos had been sent a different script and a few hours later received an email for Handcock telling him to ignore it as he had a new idea. Handcock changed his mind since he felt the original script was a bit "run of the mill" compared to the finalised script, and later confessed that he felt that it was something fans would expect which is why he went for something different.