There's a moment towards the end of the latest Doctor Who trailer where returning companion Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) prods the eye of what she assumes to be a stuffed toy and it squeals and leaps to life. Meet Beep the Meep - the cutest little guy in all of Doctor Who. He's never been seen on TV screens before, but for long-term fans he's a very familiar face. Indeed, perhaps the biggest revelation of the new trailer was that the first of this year's episodes is a direct adaptation of a comics story first published in 1980.
Doctor Who and the Star Beast is one of the most beloved Doctor Who comics of all time, and it has an impressive creative team behind it. Although we've no idea how faithful to the original the TV version will be, we'll put a big old spoiler warning here, just in case. Don't read on unless you want to know exactly who Beep is and what he's doing on planet Earth…
