diff --git a/dvc/commands/experiments/show.py b/dvc/commands/experiments/show.py
index c00df5a4f..28580b876 100644
--- a/dvc/commands/experiments/show.py
+++ b/dvc/commands/experiments/show.py
@@ -426,11 +426,12 @@ def show_experiments(
             subset=subset,
         )
         td.drop_duplicates("rows", subset=subset)
-        td.column("Experiment")[:] = [
-            # remove tree characters
-            str(x).encode("ascii", "ignore").strip().decode()
-            for x in td.column("Experiment")
-        ]
+        if "Experiment" in td:
+            td.column("Experiment")[:] = [
+                # remove tree characters
+                str(x).encode("ascii", "ignore").strip().decode()
+                for x in td.column("Experiment")
+            ]
         out = kwargs.get("out") or "dvc_plots"
         output_file = os.path.join(out, "index.html")
         ui.write(
diff --git a/tests/func/experiments/test_show.py b/tests/func/experiments/test_show.py
index a83b70ee3..efa7490e1 100644
--- a/tests/func/experiments/test_show.py
+++ b/tests/func/experiments/test_show.py
@@ -621,6 +621,10 @@ def test_show_parallel_coordinates(tmp_dir, dvc, scm, mocker, capsys):
     assert '"label": "Created"' not in html_text
     assert '"label": "foobar"' not in html_text
 
+    assert main(["exp", "show", "--pcp", "--drop", "Experiment"]) == 0
+    html_text = (tmp_dir / "dvc_plots" / "index.html").read_text()
+    assert '"label": "Experiment"' not in html_text
+
 
 def test_show_outs(tmp_dir, dvc, scm):
     tmp_dir.gen("copy.py", COPY_SCRIPT)