Special Doctor Who episode released online
A mini-episode of Doctor Who starring Paul McGann, who only ever appeared as the Time Lord in one TV movie, has been released online.
Filmed especially to promote next week's 50th anniversary episode, the seven-minute video answers questions that fans of the long-running sci-fi show have been asking ever since it returned to screens in 2005.
Doctor Who had been off air for 16 years, with the exception of McGann's American-backed TV movie that was intended to launch a new series in 1996 but failed to win over audiences on the other side of the Atlantic.
Click here to watch the special mini episode on BBC iPlayer
Since then, fans have speculated as to what may have happened to his incarnation of the Doctor.
His was the only Doctor they had never seen 'regenerate' into another actor.
The episode also answers questions about the identity of veteran actor John Hurt's character, who was introduced very briefly on screen as The Doctor at the end of the last series.
The 50th anniversary episode The Day Of The Doctor, featuring incumbent Time Lord Matt Smith and his predecessor David Tennant, is on next Saturday.
McGann has played the Doctor on numerous occasions in radio plays and his version of the character also featured in a series of original novels during the years that the show was off air.