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.

You may be looking for his in-universe counterpart.

Bob Baker poses with K9 Mark I and Mark 2.

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.

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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.