Baker's End (audio series)

Baker's End was an audio series released by Bafflegab Productions. It acted as a continuation of The Nest Cottage Chronicles, but with a fictionalised version of Tom Baker in the place of the Fourth Doctor. The real Baker and Katy Manning co-starred in the series alongside Susan Jameson, with Tom Baker later being replaced by Colin Baker.

Connections to the DWU
Despite its remit of providing the real Tom Baker with a series unrelated to his more notorious character (the Fourth Doctor), the series actually had several legal and thematic links to the Doctor Who universe.

In particular, Baker's End was a conceptual continuation of Magrs' Fourth Doctor audio series The Nest Cottage Chronicles, which had always been considered by its author to depict a version of the Fourth Doctor transcendent of television continuity. In Baker's End, the Fourth Doctor becomes "Tom Baker", taking on many qualities of Baker while also keeping many Doctor-ish elements. Susan Jameson's Mrs Fenella Wibbsey becomes "Mrs Vivienne Frimbly", staying the same character in all but name; Frimbly's history is even indicated to match with Wibbsey's and she is said to have a history of being possessed, a reference to the Nest Cottage Chronicles. Captain reappears as "General Dogsbody". The general setting of Baker's End also continues from the Nest Cottage stories, with Hexford becoming Happenstance Village and Nest Cottage becoming Baker's End; this equivalency is confirmed with Happenstance neighbouring Darkholmes and being located in Sussex. The 2020 short story Mrs Frimbly's Festive Diary emphasized the majority of these equivalencies, drawing further links between Nest Cottage and Baker's End.

After his first death, the resurrected Tom Baker takes the title "King of Cats" and claims to have nine lives. Because of this cat connection, he frequently uses the word "Ungow", a catchphrase of Fester Cat.

The following table notes details of this series' stories which are relevant to this wiki.