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Ernest Albert "Pip" Baker (3 January 1929 – 14 April 2020) and Iris E. E. "Jane" Baker (30 December 1924 – 29 August 2014), professionally known as Pip and Jane Baker, were an
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husband-and-wife team of
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s known mainly for their contributions to the
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series ''
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''. The Bakers scripted or contributed to four serials for the programme in the 1980s: ''
The Mark of the Rani ''The Mark of The Rani'' is the third serial of the 22nd season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on BBC1 on 2 and 9 February 1985. The serial is set in the mining vil ...
'' (1985), ''
The Trial of a Time Lord The twenty-third season of British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', known collectively as ''The Trial of a Time Lord'', aired in weekly episodes from 6 September to 6 December 1986. It contained four adventures: ''The Mysterious ...
'' (1986), Parts 9–12 and 14 (also known as ''
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'' and ''
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''); and ''
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'' (1987). They have also written
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s of these stories, as well as a ''Make Your Own Adventure With Doctor Who'' (''Find Your Fate With Doctor Who'' in the United States)
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titled ''Race Against Time''. Pip and Jane's audio story ''The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind'' featured the return of the Rani and was released in 2000.


Other work

Their play ''A Matter of Balance'' was adapted into the film ''
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'' (1961). They worked on several other films in the 1960s including ''
Night of the Big Heat ''Night of the Big Heat'' is a science fiction novel written in 1959 by John Lymington. It tells the story of an unnamed British island that is experiencing a bizarre and stifling heatwave. Plot summary The main characters are a former noveli ...
'' (1967) and ''
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City ''Captain Nemo and the Underwater City'' is a 1969 British film starring Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman. It features the character Captain Nemo and is inspired by Jules Verne's 1870 novel ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea''. ...
'' (1969). They also wrote four episodes of the TV series ''The Pursuers'' starring
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. From the mid-1970s, they worked more in television, including the six-part children's thriller ''Circus''. They scripted the episode "
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" (1976) for
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's TV series '' Space: 1999'',. In the 1990s, they created and wrote the
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series ''
Watt on Earth ''Watt on Earth'' is a children's television programme that ran for two 12-episode series in 1991 and 1992, shown as part of Children's BBC. It was written by the ''Doctor Who'' writers Pip and Jane Baker. Premise The show centres around the ...
'', the eponymous Watt being an alien who is trapped on Earth.


Deaths

Jane Baker died on 29 August 2014, at the age of 89. Pip Baker died on 14 April 2020, at the age of 91.


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