Norman Baker
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Baker (disambiguation)for other, similarly-named pages.
Former British Army major Norman Baker (PROSE: The Scales of Injustice) was head of security at the Wenley Moor nuclear research facility.
One source named him as Barker. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters)
Biography
According to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Baker had to resign from the Army after a bad — but unidentified — slip-up and had been trying to make up for it ever since.
Whilst in the Wenley Moor cave system, Baker saw a Silurian and fired upon it. A dinosaur then attacked him and he was wounded. Baker was rescued and taken to the research facility's sick bay, but was unwilling to sit back and wanted to get into the action.
Baker refused to listen to the Third Doctor's advice and attacked the Silurians. They later captured him and infected him with a deadly virus to spread among humanity. He eventually succumbed to the disease, collapsing and dying outside Wenley Hospital just as the Doctor and the Brigadier arrived in Bessie.
The Doctor saw that Baker's face was covered in lesions while a doctor came rushing out to see what had happened. The Brigadier pulled out his revolver to prevent the hospital staff from touching Baker and spreading the plague, warning them this was an alien disease they could not cure, which left UNIT with the task of quarantining the body. (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians)
Behind the scenes
- In Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of Doctor Who and the Silurians, Major Baker is renamed "Barker".
- Baker's first name is never given on-screen or in the novelisation, being revealed as Norman only in the novel The Scales of Injustice.
