Biography
Pip Baker (born Ernest Alexander Baker) was an English television and film writer, best known for his work as half of the husband-and-wife team Pip and Jane Baker. He contributed scripts to the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who (1963) in the 1980s, including The Mark of the Rani (1985), parts of The Trial of a Time Lord (1986, also known as Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe), and Time and the Rani (1987). The pair also wrote novelisations of these stories and the audio drama The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind (2000).
Earlier in their career, the Bakers wrote episodes of series including The Pursuers (1961–62) and Space: 1999 (1975), as well as films such as Night of the Big Heat (1967) and Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969). In the 1990s they created and wrote the CBBC children's series Watt on Earth (1991–92). Baker died on 14 April 2020.
