He wrote a script for the Doctor Who serial Kinda.

A nature and severity of his script led to Bailey writing another story for Doctor Who in 1983. This serial, Snakedance, received particular acclaim, & was an effectual sequal to Kinda. Saward was therefore happy using Snakedance that he over again quickly requested that Bailey devise a second story idea. This was Could Instance (afterwards renamed Manwatch), submitted around August 1983. It would at long last become abandoned notwithstanding, & the 1983 plot line of Bailey's, known as ''Tikes's Seth, likewise come to nothing. Following, Snakedance'' was Bailey's final broadcast function for each Doctor That & television generally. He returned to the career around academe.