{"id":16973,"date":"2022-06-15T17:28:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1663169"},"modified":"2022-06-15T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:43:10","slug":"doctor-who-is-beep-the-meep-david-tennants-new-nemesis","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-who-is-beep-the-meep-david-tennants-new-nemesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who: Is Beep the Meep David Tennant\u2019s new nemesis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Steve O’Brien\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 15 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Until the last few weeks, Beep the Meep was a name known only to the most hardcore of Doctor Who<\/a> fans. A character first witnessed in the pages of the nascent Doctor Who Weekly in 1980, he w\u200b\u200bas, at first glance anyway, a furry, eyelash-fluttering ball of heart-melting cuteness.<\/p>\n

It was only later in that story \u2013 penned by the writing duo that created Judge Dredd, Pat Mills and John Wagner (and drawn, fact fans, by future Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons) \u2013 that we discovered that Beep wasn\u2019t quite the adorable saucer-eyed critter that we thought he was, instead being a merciless, gun-toting killer on the run from the Wrarth Warriors.<\/p>\n

So why are we suddenly talking about Beep the Meep and that strip, \u2018The Star Beast\u2019, all these years later? Well, it\u2019s because something looking very like it has been recently spotted in Cardiff, leading to fevered talk that the currently lensing David Tennant episode (or episodes) may be some kind of adaptation of that comic strip classic.<\/p>

What gives some weight to this theory is that aliens that look somewhat like the Wrarth Warriors (a sort of biologically constructed police force bred specifically to deal with the dreaded Meeps) have been papped<\/a> clomping down a residential road in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

In the original story, Beep crash lands on Earth and is befriended by two school kids, Sharon and Fudge, before the Doctor, in the shape of Tom Baker, turns up. Could this Russell T Davies-penned episode be substituting Sharon and Fudge for the Noble clan and could it be David Tennant\u2019s Doctor who will be facing off against this homicidal furball?<\/p>\n

This, of course, is all highly speculative. Nothing\u2019s been confirmed by Bad Wolf or the Beeb, and the presence of UNIT troops and various armoured vehicles suggest that, even if that **is** Beep the Meep and those **are** Wrarth Warriors, this isn\u2019t likely to be a panel by panel, speech bubble by speech bubble adaptation (UNIT wasn\u2019t anywhere to be seen in the original \u2018Star Beast\u2019).<\/p>\n