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Bob Baker

Writing · 1939–2021 · Bristol, England

Biography

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).

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Filmography

2023Tales of the TardisWriter
2012Axon Stations!
2010Wallace & Gromit's World of InventionWriter
2010Into the Unknown
2010Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention
2009K-9Creator
2008A Matter of Loaf and DeathAuthor
2007A Matter of Time
2007Defining Shadows
2007The Omega Factor
2006Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2005Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitScreenplay
2000K9 Unleashed
1996Wallace & Gromit: The Best of Aardman AnimationScenario Writer
1996A Close ShaveWriter
1993The Wrong TrousersWriter
1992The Jazz DetectiveWriter
1987SuccubusWriter
1986Call Me MisterWriter
1981BergeracWriter
1981Into the LabyrinthWriter
1981SmugglerWriter
1979Doctor Who: Nightmare of EdenWriter
1979ShoestringWriter
1979Murder at the WeddingWriter
1979Doctor Who: The Armageddon FactorWriter
1978Scorpion TalesWriter
1978Doctor Who: UnderworldWriter
1977Doctor Who: The Invisible EnemyWriter
1977TargetWriter
1977Cottage to LetWriter
1976Doctor Who: The Hand of FearWriter
1976MachinegunnerScruff
1975SkyWriter
1975Doctor Who: The Sontaran ExperimentWriter
1974ItemWriter
1973Doctor Who: The Three DoctorsWriter
1972Doctor Who: The MutantsWriter
1971Doctor Who: The Claws of AxosWriter
1963Doctor WhoWriter
1962Z-CarsWriter

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