Stories Television Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials 60th Anniversary Specials Episode: 1 2 3 The Star Beast 24 images Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 15 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 26 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Saturday, November 25, 2023 Written by Pat Mills, Dave Gibbons, Russell T Davies Directed by Rachel Talalay Runtime 57 minutes Story Type Anniversary Special, New TARDIS interior, Special Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Amnesia, Cloister Bell, Consequences, Deadlock Seal, Flashbacks, LGBTQA+, Mind Control, Spaceship, TARDIS is damaged, The Doctor Falls Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Doctor-Donna Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Psychic Paper, Sonic Screwdriver Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England, London UK Viewers 7.61 million Appreciation Index 84.3 Synopsis The Doctor is caught in a fight to the death as a spaceship crash-lands in London. But as the battle wreaks havoc, destiny is converging on the Doctor’s old friend, Donna. Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Fourteenth Doctor David Tennant Donna Noble Catherine Tate Beep the Meep Rose Noble Sylvia Noble Jacqueline King Shaun Temple Shirley Anne Bingham First Appearance UNIT Wrath Warriors Show All Characters (9) How to watch The Star Beast: Watch on iPlayer Watch on Disney+ Doctor Who Unleashed BTS on YouTube Video Commentary DVD 60th Anniversary Specials Blu-Ray 60th Anniversary Specials [Steelbook] Blu-Ray 60th Anniversary Specials Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 15 reviews 18 March 2025 · 124 words Review by ImpossibleGirl Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! It was a good start to the specials and the villain was amazing. Loved the Doctor and Donna. They have a nice back and forth and the comedy is just right. Her family is great too. Rose is an interesting character and can’t wait to see more of her. Beep the Meep is cute and took me by surprise when he’s revealed as the villain. The scene when the Doctor has to make a choice between opening up the memories in Donna which will kill her or not was powerful. You could feel the emotion and when he did do it and Donna getting angry at him was great. The ending was good and I love the cliffhanger. The TARDIS was amazing. ImpossibleGirl View profile Like Liked 1 7 March 2025 · 65 words Review by Guardax Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! There's a few weird problems with this story that leave you scratching your head, but the Tennant/Donna reunion is just a ton of fun. The Meep's switch to villainy is excellent too, I enjoyed watching the swerve. The scene of Sylvia asking Donna if she's doing okay talking to Rose is excellent. A bit uneven, but it got RTD2 off in the right direction. Guardax View profile Like Liked 1 25 February 2025 · 13 words Review by ThePlumPudding 1 People need to stop paying attention to the two iffy lines in this ThePlumPudding View profile Like Liked 1 16 January 2025 · 143 words Review by Bostao42 1 Apesar de em varios quesitos falhar The Star Beast ainda é um retorno de forma para uma serie que durante anos ficou presa na mediocridade. O Russel sabe capturar aquela magia e entusiasmo em tudo q ele faz. E isso é sentido nas performances da Catherine Tate e do David Tennent. Um nivel imesuravel de carisma vindo de todos os lados. E para fechar com chave de ouro, a serie finalmente volta a não parecer horrivelmente feia e mal filmada. Anos de uma fotografia esteria e cinza fazem você esquecer o quão bom é ter cor injetada de volta ao show. Infelizmente o episodio peca alem desses aspectos. Com um especial tão facinado pelo retorno da Donna e do Tennent como o Doutor, o perssonagem da rose, central a historia é jogada de lado, criando um episodio um tanto como vazio em alguns aspectos. Bostao42 View profile Like Liked 1 17 August 2024 · 39 words Review by captainjackenoch 1 I LOVE Rose, I really liked the Meep, DoctorDonna is always a treat, but you couldn't pay me to care about UNIT in RTD2's era. Too much exposition. Overall, it's cute! Pretty good! Not a strong opener, though. captainjackenoch View profile Like Liked 1 Show All Reviews (15) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating975 members 3.40 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating675 votes 3.66 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1454 Favourited 108 Reviewed 15 Saved 5 Skipped 1 Related Stories Doctor Who S4 • Episode 13 Journey’s End Rating: 4.05 Story Skipped Television Reviews(3) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Series 4 Set of Stories: Doctor Who (2005-2022) Set of Stories: Tenth Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Other adaptations of this story: We define an adaptation as a recreation of a similar story but on a different medium or with different characters. 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A Time Lord and a human, and we travelled the stars together. — Fourteenth Doctor, The Star Beast Show All Quotes (26) Open in new window Transcript + Script [Prologue] (Split between the Doctor somewhere, Donna in her kitchen, and the closing scenes of Journey's End.) DOCTOR: Once upon a time… Once upon a Time Lord, I had a best friend, and her name was Donna Noble. A Time Lord and a human, and we travelled the stars together.DONNA: Sometimes I have dreams about impossible things. I dream of creatures and adventures and faraway skies. But none of it's true.DOCTOR: Donna saved the entire universe by taking the power of the Time Lords into her mind, at a terrible cost.DONNA: Binary, binary, binary, binary…DOCTOR: She had to forget everything she ever knew.DOCTOR: Goodbye.DONNA: No. No, no…DOCTOR: She had to forget me.DONNA: Please, no. No! No!DOCTOR: Because if Donna ever remembers me, she will die.DONNA: And now I've got a nice life, with a nice fella and a nice house, and the most beautiful daughter in the world. But I just think something's missing.DOCTOR: I can never see Donna again.DONNA: Now the days are drawing in, I keep having more and more dreams. Like something's getting closer.DOCTOR: But now this face has come back. Why?DONNA: It's like a storm in the air, about to break.DOCTOR: I think the story hasn't ended yet. [Camden Lock] (The TARDIS materialises just along from Cyberdog clothing store, the Doctor steps out and saunters away to the market, where someone is carrying a huge pile of boxes.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)
