It seems this has been finally given an air date of Thursday, 21st November, 9PM on BBC2.

For those who don't know what this is, it's part of the 50th anniversary of Dr Who. This is a 90 minute special on how Dr Who came about, starring William Hartnell, Brian Cox and my sister She is playing the part of Carol Ann Ford.

So proud and pleased for my sister in her first proper acting role, it's just a shame I'm going to be on the other side of the world when it's shown here.

For pete's sake man, she's got access to a Tardis. Being on the other side of the planet is not acceptable!

Great first role - Congratulations to your sis! My 11-year-old stepson is a Dr Who addict, I'm sure he'll be watching.

Cheers Jim. She has also been filmed in something else being shown on the BBC the same day, but she wants to keep that one low key.

Here is one of the official pictures doing the rounds at the moment:

I think the word you're looking for was had. It was filmed back in Feb / March time.

Has? Had? It's a *time* machine, man!

Err thats just you in a wig isn't it?

she looks just like you! (she's the one on the left, yeah?)

Just a bump to say this is on tomorrow evening for you lot. I won't be able to watch it till the 24th out here in Melbourne

Our sympathy is all that it should be.

Its Begbie with no facial hair...

I watched it but I didn't see Alexis!

Going to watch it later, had to translate last night. Much less fun than regenerating.

It was an okay programme and the girl did good

I thought it was a great programme and it brought back memories of wobbly sets and black and white TV that gave the stories a bit more depth.

Indeed.Though I don't remember anyone before Patrick Troughton, I'm still 'of that vintage'.

I seem to recall they gave John Pertwee a vintage car in one series for some reason?

He did, he had a quirky silver car during his time too

It was like a spangly silver Reliant Robin.

The first one was "Bessie".
Notoriously unreliable kit car, commisioned by Jon Pertwee. The Doctor used it to get around whilst helping U.N.I.T, as the Tardis was kaput (season 7). Now in a Doctor Who museum, I believe.

The second one was "The alien", later dubbed "The whomobile". Designed by Pete Farries for Jon Pertwee, used in season 11. It was finally declared road legal after a bit of a battle which saw it being classified as an invalids tricycle (with a top speed of 103mph). Jon gave it away to a fan, bereaved by the death of his mother. It was kept on a trailer outside his home for years until it started to get in the way and it was sold at auction (wrongly classified as a boat) for £1700 in 1996. Apparently still exists, but is kept in storage by its private owner.

We finally got a chance to watch this tonight. Really enjoyed it, buying the DVD tomorrow.

I still haven't watched this fully yet. I managed to get it on in the only pub where I was staying in Oz, but with 30 - 40 pissed up Aussie's making a lot of noise, I didn't actually hear anything. Still, I watched her on 'Doctors' which was on earlier in the day. It's all very weird watching your sister act, when you really know what she is like