Bob Baker, the co-writer of a number of basic Doctor Who serials together with his writing companion Dave Martin, in addition to a co-writer for the beloved world of Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit, has died.

As reported by Baker’s Twitter account for information about his iconic Doctor Who co-creation, the author was 82. Alongside Martin—who Baker started working with within the Nineteen Sixties on stage performs and TV sequence like Z Cars—Baker is answerable for co-writing eight tales over 9 seasons of the present within the ‘70s for both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker’s incarnations of the Doctor. Martin and Baker’s oeuvre included beloved tales like “The Claws of Axos” or Doctor Who’s first-ever anniversary particular, “The Three Doctors,” and Fourth Doctor tales reminiscent of “The Sontaran Experiment,” “The Hand of Fear”—Elisabeth Sladen’s final common look as iconic companion Sarah Jane Smith—and “The Armageddon Factor.”

But maybe most well-known of all is “The Invisible Enemy,” which launched the robotic canine Okay-9. Originally meant to be a one-off look, Okay-9 was as a substitute entrusted to the Fourth Doctor on the finish of the story and have become an everyday companion alongside Leela and Romana. After exiting the present 4 years later, Baker’s legacy in Okay-9 would proceed with Okay-9 and Company, a deliberate spinoff with Sladen that didn’t make it previous the unique pilot, and naturally, Okay-9’s transient return to Doctor Who’s post-2005 period with the episode “School Reunion.” The character additionally had common appearances in Sladen’s children-focused BBC spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures, till her passing in 2011. Baker would return to Okay-9 as a personality individually with the robotic canine’s personal self-titled present in 2009 and was purportedly planning to put in writing a brand new sequence and film that includes his canine creation earlier than his dying.

Outside of his contributions to Doctor Who, Baker can be best-known because the co-writer of a number of of Aardman Animation’s Wallace & Gromit tales. Baker labored on authentic shorts The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, in addition to the 2008 particular A Matter of Loaf and Death (with sequence creator and director Nick Park), and wrote the script for the duo’s 2006 film spinoff, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Baker is survived by his spouse Marie, in addition to his kids and grandchildren—our ideas exit to his household on this unhappy time.

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