Screenplay: Jane Baker
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jane Baker. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Space: 1999 (TV Series)
1975 · Series · 48 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerry Anderson · Sylvia Anderson · Charles Crichton · Ray Austin
Cast Martin Landau · Barbara Bain · Nick Tate · Zienia Merton
Plot In the year 1999, Moonbase Alpha, nestled in the Lunar crater Plato, is a scientific research colony and watchdog over silos of atomic waste from Earth stored on the Moon's...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
1969 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Hill
Cast Robert Ryan · Chuck Connors · Nanette Newman · Luciana Paluzzi
Plot Some survivors of a drowning ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city, where they may be trapped for the rest...
5.2
231 votes
5.2
231 votes
Night of the Big Heat
1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast Christopher Lee · Patrick Allen · Peter Cushing · Jane Merrow
Plot While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties. The boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on...
5.0
233 votes
5.0
233 votes
Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids (TV)
1986 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Chris Clough
Cast Colin Baker · Bonnie Langford · Michael Jayston · Lynda Bellingham
Plot The distraught Doctor gives the court his evidence for the defence. He chooses an incident from his own future, in which he and his companion Mel arrive on the space...
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Doctor Who: Time and the Rani (TV)
1987 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andrew Morgan
Cast Sylvester McCoy · Bonnie Langford · Kate O'Mara · Mark Greenstreet
Plot The Rani has taken control of the planet Lakertya and forced the peaceful Lakertyans to build a rocket silo-cum-laboratory base into a cliff face. She is aided by the Tetraps,...
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The Break
1962 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast Tony Britton · William Lucas · Eddie Byrne · Robert Urquhart
Plot A dangerous prisoner, Jacko Thomas, overpowers his police guard and jumps from a speeding train in the Dartmoor countryside. In the ensuing fight Jacko kills the guard and makes his...
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Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani (TV)
1985 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sarah Hellings
Cast Colin Baker · Nicola Bryant · Anthony Ainley · Kate O'Mara
Plot The TARDIS arrives in Killingworth in 19th Century England, where the Master is plotting to kill some of the key figures of the industrial revolution. Also present is the Rani,...
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The Third Alibi
1961 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast Laurence Payne · Patricia Dainton · Jane Griffiths · Edward Underdown
Plot A composer stuck in a middle-class marriage finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he...
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The Painted Smile
1962 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast Liz Fraser · Kenneth Griffith · Peter Reynolds · Tony Wickert
Plot Jo Lake and Mark Davies, working the "outraged husband" racket, fall foul of the sinister Kleinie. Jo, all for quitting, is persuaded by Mark to find one more victim before...
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