Have Classic era Doctors been on protest over their apparent omission in the 50th anniversary special?

Earlier today, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker were sighted by onlookers outside of BBC TV Centre holding up some interesting banners.

The banners read: “No Classics? No 50th!” and “Have a heart, Classic Doctors want a part!”

So what is going on here? Is this genuine, or a clever publicity stunt to build anticipation for the big occasion?

There have also been suggestions that it could be a special clip or DVD extra as the event was being filmed.

[Thanks to Conor Keegan]