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Played by Robert Strange
"The machine was literal, and so it grew the Bogeyman... out of bogeys."
| First Regular Appearance |
| Space Babies |
Created as a monster from children’s nightmares, the Bogeyman is a large and hulking creature but is also slender and ghoulish. It has a roar of 17Hz – a frequency that even gets the Doctor’s hearts pumping with fear – and lurks alone in the lower levels of Babystation Beta. The Bogeyman sheds so much of its slimy skin that it coats the walls and ceilings of its domain.
Though the babies are terrified of the Bogeyman, little do they know they had a hand in its creation. As the Doctor and Ruby learn (much to her disgust) the same parthenogenesis machine that gave birth to the Space Babies also created the Bogeyman - from the nasal discharge (aka bogies) on the babies’ discarded tissues!
Character Bio
Moments after landing inside a dilapidated space station, the Doctor and Ruby are confronted with a dripping, menacing creature that immediately chases them off with a terrifying roar. Unusually, the Doctor finds himself scared stiff. However his realisation that the space station is a parthenogenic baby farm suggests that there is more to meets the eye with this ‘monster’. The sudden introduction of Eric and his fellow Space Babies, manning the space station, raises even more questions...
The Doctor learns that the babies live in fear of, what they call, the ‘Bogeyman’ - the very same creature the Doctor and Ruby met lurking in the corridors of the space station, and sets out to find some answers. Upon meeting Jocelyn Sancerre, the last-remaining adult on the station who now looks after the babies as ‘NAN-E’, they realise that the Bogeyman feels akin to the monster of a children’s story – just as baby Eric decides to face his fears and heroically confront the Bogeyman alone.
The Doctor and Ruby’s rescue mission to save Eric from the Bogeyman is aided by Captain Poppy and her crew, who chase the Bogeyman away with a flamethrower. The chance to investigate the Bogeyman’s lair helps the Doctor discover that the creature was made by the same machine that gave birth to the other children on the station; making it one of a kind. But this discovery is overshadowed by Jocelyn who, in order to protect the babies, tries to jettison the Bogeyman out of an airlock. After a last-minute rescue from the Doctor, the Bogeyman is left in peace to enjoy the confinement of the airlock as the crew of Babystation Beta plots a course for Mondo Caroon, their first ever homeworld.
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Actor information
The Bogeyman was portrayed by creature performer Robert Strange, who also played the role of Wrarth Warrior Sergeant Zogroth in The Star Beast.