GNR has just heard the sad news that Pip Baker, (husband of Jane Baker) who wrote several Doctor Who stories in the 1980’s has passed away in hospital at the age of 91.  GNR would like to pass on our prayers and condolences to his family at this sad time.

Philip and Jane Baker, professionally known as Pip and Jane Baker, were an English husband-and-wife team of television writers known mainly for their contributions to the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.

The Bakers scripted or contributed to four serials for the programme in the 1980s: The Mark of the Rani (1985),  The Trial of a Time Lord (1986), Parts 9–12 and 14 (also known as Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe); and Time and the Rani (1987). They have also written novelisations of these stories, as well as a Make Your Own Adventure With Doctor Who (Find Your Fate With Doctor Who in the United States) gamebook 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.

Prior to Doctor Who, they scripted the episode “A Matter of Balance” (1976) for Gerry Anderson’s TV series Space: 1999, as well as the films Night of the Big Heat (1967) and Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969). In the 1990s, they created and wrote the CBBC series Watt on Earth, the eponymous Watt being an alien who is trapped on Earth.

Jane Baker died on 8 September 2014. She was survived by Pip.

❤️sad loss of a marvellous man & writer .his wonderful legacy lives on ❤️

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