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Released

Thursday, January 10, 2002

Written by

Steve Lyons

Runtime

34 minutes

Synopsis

Beep the Meep is back — and he's found a new channel for his aggression! A brand new series is about to make television history, but can the Doctor prevent his furry foe from turning a docu-drama into a crisis, or will the fluffy-wuffy animals get it in the neck? The first shots in the ratings war have been fired, and the next one is aimed at your head...

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this is a real oddity of a story, but its very fun and meta. big fan of the 18 month hiatus gag


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I was excited to see a story with Beep the Meep in it returning.  I thought they got his voice down well, and I loved the reveal along with that theme song, but the story was a little unsubstantial.  It's just a bunch of television references, like something one might see in the Mojoverse of X-Men fame or even The Long Game and Bad Wolf from Series One.  It's fine, an acceptable enough experience, but not exactly something I found that fun or mind-blowing.


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A fun story with great music, excellent pacing (especially given how short it was!), and intriguing storytelling - very well done indeed! Listening to this just before 8pm (totally unintentionally, I might add), was very fun - it felt like I was racing against the clock along with the Doctor! I also felt like it managed very well without a companion, which is often a worry when the whole Doctor Who format usually relies on a companion, but there didn't feel like there was anything missing from this story - it was brilliant and hilarious all the way through! Such a fun listen, I highly recommend (4.5/5)!


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This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: The Wormery


A fun little short story featuring everyone's favourite psychotic cuddly-toy Beep the Meep! This isn't some sort of deep, thought-provoking story or anything. In fact it's exactly the opposite and that's why I think it's so great. It helps that the Meep's little song is so catchy though.


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