Joe Bean
Joe Bean was the pilot of the cargo freighter Spacehog in the New Earth System.
Biography
Joe's engineer was originally Ben Roth, but when he died in a freak accident, Ben's widow Babe was left the job of raising their children along with half of the Spacehog.
When the Spacehog was attacked by Werelox, the Fourth Doctor forcibly allowed the ship to escape the grasp of the Dalek battlecraft's tractor beam. Joe survived laser fire from the attacking Werelox when they only "greased [his] gurney", while K9 Mark II and Babe stopped the Werelok attack.
After the Doctor cured himself of being infected by a Werelok scratch, the Spacehog arrived on New Earth, where the Doctor warned the system's President Wilson K. Wilson of the Werelox and the Daleks. When the Doctor departed for the battlecraft, Joe and Babe intended to ram the ship with the Spacehog, which was lined with explosives, as Joe did not believe the Doctor had much of a chance to stop the Daleks. When Sharon Davies was discovered to have stowed away on the Spacehog, Joe put her into the life pod while there was still time to escape — and then unexpectedly pushed Babe into the pod after Sharon. Before Joe could ram the Dalek battlecraft, the Doctor froze it in one moment in space and time forever, causing the Spacehog to miss it as it seemed to just disappear — leaving Joe astounded. He later picked up Babe and Sharon. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom)
