Doctor Who - in EastEnders

Yesterday fans saw the Tardis, a Dalek and K9 being filmed in London at the famous Doctor Who location of St Paul's Cathedral. But it wasn't for everybody's favourite time-travelling drama: it was for a scene in a forthcoming episode of EastEnders. Walford's unlucky Bradley (Charlie Clements) is a Who fan and in the episode he and his wife Stacey (Lacey Turner) visit an exhibition called Doctor Who - the Time Lord Revisited at the cathedral. The exhibit features the Tardis, which along with the Dalek was made by a company that works on the real Doctor Who and Torchwood shows, and a life-size replica of K9 that belongs to a fan. The BBC is not commenting on the storyline or when we will see it air. EastEnders and Doctor Who go back a long way: recently Barbara Windsor filmed a vignette as Peggy for a scene in The Army of Ghosts story. And in 1993 there was a Doctor Who special for Children in Need set in Albert Square itself. It was unimaginably awful, but actually you don't need to imagine: you can see that two-part disaster now on YouTube: part 1 and part 2.