In 1973, he was with his mum Kathy whilst she chat with her sister-in-law Pauline when Susan encountered the Sixth Doctor outside the Queen Vic pub. 20 years later, he walked past Phil and Grant Mitchell shortly before they found Romana in the Arches. (TV: Dimensions in Time)

Behind the scenes[]

Ian Beale is a character on EastEnders. While he is played in the series primarily by Adam Woodyatt, Tim Handel, who plays the character as a child in Dimensions in Time, has considerably more screen time as the character in said story, whereas Woodyatt only appears in a split-second walk-on part in which he is not even identified as the character.