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Beast Mode (Retracing “The Star Beast” Comic Strip)


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If cats have nine lives, Beep the Meep must be part cat. The titular character of The Star Beast comic strip and 60th anniversary special has already had at least two lives in Doctor Who: First as a featured player in the comic strip of Doctor Who Magazine, where he (it?) encountered the Fourth Doctor twice — in Beep’s 1980 debut and the 1996 sequel. Then Beep made the jump to audio in The Ratings War for Big Finish, meeting the Sixth Doctor where we finally got to hear the creature’s catchphrase, “Meep Meep!”


Now Beep is graduating to the TV series, and in celebration of that we’ve put the Randomizer on standby and have steered the podcast to Beep the Meep’s first adventure, The Star Beast — the original, you might say. Follow along with us as we go back to 1980 Blackcastle, where a cute alien was on the run, lead was plentiful on rooftops, and the Fourth Doctor picked up a new companion named Sharon…


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    Story Essentials:

    • Writer: Pat Mills, John Wagner
    • Artist: Dave Gibbons
    • First appeared: Doctor Who Weekly No. 19-26, 1980
    • Reprinted as Doctor Who from Marvel Comics, Nos. 1 and 2

    • Pull To Open: The Star Beast Comic Strip

      • Season 4
      • Episode 46

      • Hosts: ⁠Pete Pachal⁠ and ⁠Chris Taylor⁠


        Music: Martin West/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Thinking Fish⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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