Bob Baker

Writing

Bob Baker

Born 1939-07-26 · Bristol, England

Bob Baker (born in Bristol, England on 26 July 1939) is a British television and film writer. His most famous contributions have been as the author of four scripts for the Wallace and Gromit films The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and A Matter of Loaf and Death (in which a character is named after him).

Acting credits

Machinegunner poster
6.0

A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.

Machinegunner

1976

A Matter of Time poster
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A retrospective documentary looking at Graham Williams' three-year tenure as Doctor Who producer.

A Matter of Time

2007

Into the Unknown poster
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A look at the complex production of the Doctor Who story Underworld, with particular emphasis on the difficulties in achieving the bluescreen virtual studio sets.

Into the Unknown

2010

Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention

2010

Defining Shadows poster
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The cast and crew look back at the making of The Armageddon Factor.

Defining Shadows

2007

K9 Unleashed poster
8.0

Documentary looking at the Doctor's robot dog, K9, which appeared in the Doctor Who series between 1977 and 1981. The documentary includes interviews with cast and crew, as well as a showreel for a K9 TV series that has yet to be made.

K9 Unleashed

2000

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who poster
8.0

A special 50-minute documentary that looks at the making of The Hand of Fear, and also examines the special relationship between the Doctor and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith.

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

2006

Built for War: The Sontaran Story poster
7.0

The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some of the actors and production team involved. This specially produced documentary includes contributions from Terrance Dicks, Elisabeth Sladen, Anthony Read, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bob Baker, Eric Saward and Stuart Fell.

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

2006

The Omega Factor poster
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Writers and actors look at the character and motivation of the renegade Time Lord, Omega.

The Omega Factor

2007

Axon Stations! poster
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The cast and crew look back at the making of The Claws of Axos.

Axon Stations!

2012

Behind the camera

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit poster
7.1

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005

A Close Shave poster
7.6

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

A Close Shave

1996

The Wrong Trousers poster
7.8

Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal.

The Wrong Trousers

1993

Machinegunner poster
6.0

A 'machinegunner' (West Country slang for a debt-collector) turns amateur sleuth, but finds himself in hot water with local criminals.

Machinegunner

1976

No artwork available
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Mr. Fisher is invited to a TV studio following the filming of his family's encounter with a bailiff. However, there are problems with the footage.

Item

1974

Doctor Who: The Mutants poster
7.2

The Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo on a mission to deliver a sealed message pod to an unknown party aboard a Skybase orbiting the planet Solos in the 30th century. They are caught quickly in a power struggle between the cruel Marshal of Solos and the young Solonian Ky over the future of Solos - a future that hinges on the contents of the message.

Doctor Who: The Mutants

1972

Doctor Who: Underworld poster
5.3

On the edge of the universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a Minyan ship on an epic quest to find their race banks... but their people have encountered the Time Lords before...

Doctor Who: Underworld

1978

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor poster
5.5

The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos. The Fourth Doctor discovers that a sinister entity is manipulating events and the cost of obtaining the final segment may be more personal than he imagined.

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

1979

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos poster
6.8

A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

1971

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden poster
6.3

A freak accident leaves two dangerously unstable spacecraft locked together, and a horde of monsters unleashed on their passengers.

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

1979

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear poster
7.6

When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

1976

Succubus poster
9.0

A family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery into a swimming pool. However, soon they find out that, in ancient times, pagan rituals took place there involving the sacrifice of young virgins. When an evil entity starts luring young boy Mark into killing himself in order to become the next sacrificial offering, something must be done to save him. Written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin who wrote many episodes of Dr. Who.

Succubus

1987

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors poster
7.4

Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...

Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

1973

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy poster
7.2

A three-man rocket crew are nearly done with their mission to Titan Base until a course change puts the rocket in the path of a strange cloud in space. By the time they arrive, they have come under the control of a sentient virus which threatens the galaxy. When the TARDIS picks up an emergency message, it flies into the cloud, infecting the Doctor. To save himself and others, he must undertake a dangerous journey.

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

1977

The Jazz Detective poster
7.0

Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a local reporter he sets out to clear his name and find the real killer.

The Jazz Detective

1992

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment poster
6.1

Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in preparation of a full-scale Sontaran invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Styre and save the world?

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

1975