The Ratings War is a Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions

Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...

 audio drama based on the long-running British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

. It was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine

Doctor Who Magazine

Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

 issue 313 along with the first episode of the Eighth Doctor

Eighth Doctor

The Eighth Doctor is the eighth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Paul McGann...

 audio play Invaders from Mars

Invaders from Mars (Doctor Who audio)

Invaders from Mars is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

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Plot

Beep the Meep

Beep the Meep

Beep the Meep is a fictional alien who appeared in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The cute and cuddly appearance of Beep the Meep — a round, furry biped with large, expressive eyes and long ears — belies...

 has a new docudrama

Docudrama

In film, television programming and staged theatre, docudrama is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....

, but can the Sixth Doctor

Sixth Doctor

The Sixth Doctor is the sixth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Colin Baker...

 stop the fur from flying?

Cast

• The Doctor
  Doctor (Doctor Who)
  The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and has also featured in two cinema feature films, a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips connected to the series....
  
   — Colin Baker
  Colin Baker
  Colin Baker is a British actor who is known for playing Paul Merroney in The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and as the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.- Background:Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to...
  
  
• Beep the Meep
  Beep the Meep
  Beep the Meep is a fictional alien who appeared in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The cute and cuddly appearance of Beep the Meep — a round, furry biped with large, expressive eyes and long ears — belies...
  
   — Toby Longworth
  Toby Longworth
  Toby Longworth is a British actor who has appeared on film, radio and television. He is originally from Somerset, where he attended King Edward's School, Bath...
  
  
• Roger Lowell — Robert Jezek
  Robert Jezek
  Robert Jezek is a Canadian film and television actor based in the United Kingdom.-Career:He is known for playing companion Frobisher in a range of Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions and based on the BBC television series Doctor Who...
  
  
• Robbie McHale — Alistair Lock
• Lucy — Jane Goddard

Continuity

Beep the Meep is a character from the Doctor Who Magazine

Doctor Who Magazine

Doctor Who Magazine is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

 comics. He appeared against the Fourth Doctor

Fourth Doctor

The Fourth Doctor is the fourth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC British television science-fiction series Doctor Who....

in The Star Beast and The Star Beast II. The events of the second story are referenced in this play.