Bob Baker

Bob Baker (26 July 1939^[1]–3 November 2021^[2]) was a Doctor Who writer who often wrote with Dave Martin. Baker and Martin are best remembered for creating K9, a character he partially owned the rights to. He made use of these rights in authorising the creation of the K9 TV series.

Bob Baker wrote The Essential Book of K9 along with Paul M Tams.

Until his passing in 2021, he was the last surviving writer to write for the Pertwee era of Doctor Who.

Career

Beyond the world of Doctor Who, Baker's greatest success is as a writer for Aardman Animations' Wallace and Gromit series. He co-wrote the short films The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and A Matter of Loaf and Death with animator Nick Park, and was one of four credited writers on the feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; he received a BAFTA for The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and another for A Matter of Loaf and Death.

A Close Shave features a robotic dog as its antagonist.

Credits

Television

Doctor Who

• The Claws of Axos (with Dave Martin)
• The Mutants (with Dave Martin)
• The Three Doctors (with Dave Martin)
• The Sontaran Experiment (with Dave Martin)
• The Hand of Fear (with Dave Martin)
• The Invisible Enemy (with Dave Martin)
• Underworld (with Dave Martin)
• The Armageddon Factor (with Dave Martin)
• Nightmare of Eden

K9

• Mind Snap (with Paul Tams)
• Angel of the North

Short stories

The Essential Book of K9

• One Man and His Dog
• Peaceniks
• Interstitials
• Stranger on the Train

Megabytes

• The Gift Givers
• The Nine Moon Race
• The Time Thief
• The Proclaimer

Comics

Cutaway Comics

• Eldrad Must Live!

Audio

The Lost Stories

• Deathworld (with Dave Martin, adapted by John Dorney)

Miscellaneous

Contributions to the mythos

Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Bob Baker script include:

• Omega
• K9
• Black Guardian

Documentary appearances

• Axon Stations!
• Mutt Mad
• Happy Birthday to Who
• Built for War
• Like Nothing on Earth
• Changing Time
• Dreams and Fantasy
• A Matter of Time
• Defining Shadows
• The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to Douglas Adams (released posthumously)
• In Conversation (released posthumously)
• Going Solo
• The Omega Factor

Audio commentary

• The Mutants
• The Sontaran Experiment
• The Hand of Fear
• The Invisible Enemy
• Underworld
• Nightmare of Eden

External links

• Bob Baker at the Internet Movie Database

Footnotes