Star Beast II (comic story)

{{Infobox Comic |comic name= Star Beast II |image= |series= Doctor Who Yearbook -
Fourth Doctor comic stories |number= |doctor= Fourth Doctor |companions= |enemy= Beep |year= Wrarth Galaxy and Blackcastle, England, UK, Earth, 1995 |editor= Scott Gray |writer= Gary Gillatt |artist= Martin Geraghty |colourist= Paul Vyse |lettering= Elitta Fell |publication title= [[Doctor Who Yearbook 1996 |publication dates= September 1995 |publisher= Marvel Comics |format= Comic - 8 pages |previous story= It's Only a Dream |next story= Junkyard Demon II }}

Summary

Beep the Meep is freed on parole after 15 years of incarceration for his crimes. The Black Star 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 TARDIS has materialised at a cinema, so the Doctor decides to leave K9 in the TARDIS 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, Mr. Higgins - a now grown-up Fudge. The two escape to the projection booth, whereupon 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
- is wearing the burgundy version of his outfit
K9 Mark II
- stays in the TARDIS
Fudge Higgins
- has grown up and owns a multiplex cinema
Beep
Zagran, a Wrarth Warrior
Scrages
Theka, a Lord of Althrace
Jones
two Wrarth Warrior prison warders

Notes

This story is a sequel to DWM: The Star Beast.

References

K9 tells the Doctor that the year is 1995.

Continuity

Sharon Davies' wedding on Unicepter IV is mentioned. (DWM: Dreamers of Death)

Timeline

This story takes place after DWM: Dreamers of Death
This story takes place before DWM: The Life Bringer