After spending three years at Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Stanley Baxter moved to London in 1959, where he took part in TV revues for BBC and ITV.
He was educated at Hillhead High School in Glasgow which he described as 'built like a fever hospital for the far east and that he was quite convinced there was a perfectly good school out in the far east being used as a fever hospital'.( This on account of the open corridors leading to the classrooms).