Star Beast II (comic story)

Star Beast II was a comic published in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1996. It featured the Fourth Doctor.

	Fourth Doctor
	Fudge, K9
	Beep
	Blackcastle, England, 1995
	Marvel Comics
	Scott Gray
	Gary Gillatt
	Martin Geraghty
	Paul Vyse
	Elitta Fell
	Doctor Who Yearbook 1996
	September 1995
	Comic - 8 pages
Doctor Who Yearbook comic stories
← Previous	Blood Invocation
Next →	Junk-Yard Demon II
Star Beast duology
← Previous	Doctor Who and the Star Beast

You may wish to consult Star Beast (disambiguation) for other, similarly-named pages.

Plot

Beep the Meep is freed on parole after fifteen years of incarceration for his crimes. The Black Sun drive with which he enslaved people has been removed from his ship. Beep returns to Blackcastle, Earth, where he had crashed years before and hidden away a spare drive.

Attempting to go to Unicepter IV for Sharon Davies' wedding, the Fourth Doctor inadvertently ends up in Blackcastle, where he'd first met Sharon and her schoolmate Fudge Higgins. The Doctor's TARDIS has materialised at a cinema, so the Doctor decides to leave K9 in the TARDIS (having noticed a NO PETS sign) and watch a Lassie film.

Beep arrives at the cinema, underneath which his spare Black Star drive is buried. Holding the Doctor at gunpoint, Beep detonates a grenade to expose the buried component. The Doctor escapes from the explosion and runs into the cinema's owner, Colin Higgins — a now grown-up Fudge. The two escape to the projection booth, where the Doctor converts the projector to a black light receiver. Activating it imprisons Beep within the Lassie film which was loaded into the projector.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Fudge Higgins
• Beep
• Zagran
• Scraggs
• Dakon Theka
• Jones
• K9 Mark II

Worldbuilding

• Wrarth Tonight is broadcast on WTV.
• Zagran and Scraggs wear barrister's wigs.
• Beep is treated with White Star therapy to counter the Black Star radiation. It doesn't work.

Notes

• This story is a sequel to the comic story Doctor Who and the Star Beast.
• Zagran, Scraggs, and Dakon Theka are identified by names on their sashes.
  • Judge Scraggs was male in Beep the Meep gets 3000 years. However, Scraggs has a feminine appearance in this story.
• While K9 Mark II is heard, he is never seen during the story.
• Fudge's real first name is revealed — he wears a name-tag on his lapel which reads COLIN HIGGINS.
• The Doctor is wearing the burgundy version of his outfit.

Continuity

• Sharon Davies' wedding on Unicepter IV is mentioned. (COMIC: Dreamers of Death)
• The Doctor had said to Sharon at the end of Dreamers of Death, after she had asked him to come back and visit her on Uniceptor IV some time, "I'll try, Sharon... but you know the TARDIS... If I set the controls for Unicepter, it'll probably put me in Blackcastle!"
• Judge Scraggs sentenced Beep the Meep to 3000 years in prison. (PROSE: Beep the Meep gets 3000 years)