I was an over-enthusiastic teenager when I joined the BBC in summer 1979. One night, after watching the recording of Nightmare of Eden, I left Television Centre in torrential rain without an umbrella. I grabbed what I thought was a piece of scrap hardboard from the scenery dock corridor. The commissionaire waved me on, laughing, as I braved the downpour with this piece of hardboard held above my head. Only when I got home did I discover I’d procured the ‘POWER UNIT’ sign from Nightmare. Little did I know that 18 years later I would begin both a friendship and business partnership with that serial’s writer. It was a relationship that would last a quarter of a century.
Bob Baker was reinvigorated by my belief in K9 as a solo concept.