N176 The Star Beast

Mad Paddington interrupts a tuna madras and Doc is rubbish at keeping a secret* * *The freshly re-generated 14th Doctor travels to London’s Camden Market and instantly bumps into Donna Noble, the one former companion who under no circumstances may be bumped-into. She introduces her daughter, Rose, handily volunteers information about Rose’s career to the stranger before her, and then fails to observe a spaceship crashing into a nearby disused power station. The timings frankly are so perfect, one wonders if this could really all be coincidence.Leaving Donna once more to her fate, Doc commandeers her husband’s taxi cab and heads to the crash site. It transpires that two alien races have just arrived on Earth. One is The Meep, this year’s Disney-branded stuffed-toy of choice for Whovian minors, and the other are the insectoid Wrarth Warriors hunting it. Coincidink alert! While Doc catches up with UNIT at the crash site, it transpires The Meep deployed an escape pod and is now hiding in Rose’s shed. Are all cuddly aliens good, though, or ought one occasionally side with the bugs? Suddenly thrust together into an adventure once again, but not in a way Shaun Temple finds at all threatening, Doc, Donna and now also Rose must save London from being swallowed by the Earth, implement all fifteen of the sonic screwdriver’s snazzy new features, and not implode the former lottery winner’s head in the process.