Pip and Jane Baker
{{short description|British television writer duo}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Pip and Jane Baker
| image = Pip and Jane Baker.jpg
| caption = The Bakers being interviewed on Open Air in 1986
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 30 December 1924 (Jane)
3 January 1929 (Pip)
| death_date = 29 August 2014 (aged 89) (Jane)
14 April 2020 (aged 91) (Pip)
| nationality = British
| occupation = {{Nowrap|Television writers and screenwriters}}
|years_active = 1961{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1381204/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Third Alibi, The (1961)|website=screenonline.org.uk}}–2000
| known_for = Doctor Who and Watt on Earth
}}
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 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),{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/markrani/detail.shtml|title=BBC – Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide – The Mark of the Rani – Details|website=www.bbc.co.uk}} The Trial of a Time Lord (1986), Parts 9–12 and 14 (also known as Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe respectively); 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.{{IMDb name|id=0048836|name=Pip Baker}}{{IMDb name|id=0048547|name=Jane Baker}}
Other work
Their play A Moment of Blindness was adapted into the film The Third Alibi (1961).{{Cite web |title=The Third Alibi |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150054191 |access-date=24 February 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} They worked on several other films in the 1960s including Night of the Big Heat (1967){{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062037/fullcredits|title=Island of the Burning Damned (1967) – IMDb|via=www.imdb.com}} and Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969). They also wrote four episodes of the TV series The Pursuers starring Louis Hayward.
From the mid-1970s, they worked more in television, including the six-part children's thriller Circus. They scripted the episode "A Matter of Balance" (1976) for Gerry Anderson's TV series Space: 1999.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0706310/ |title=A Matter of Balance|via=www.imdb.com}}
In the 1990s, they created and wrote the CBBC series Watt on Earth, the eponymous Watt being an alien who is trapped on Earth.
Deaths
Jane Baker died on 29 August 2014, at the age of 89.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a595637/doctor-who-writer-jane-baker-dies-colin-baker-reveals.html|title=Doctor Who writer Jane Baker dies, Colin Baker reveals|last=Taylor|first=Frances|work=Digital Spy|publisher=Hearst Corporation|date=10 September 2014|accessdate=10 September 2014|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002219/http://www.digitalspy.com.au/british-tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a595637/doctor-who-writer-jane-baker-dies-colin-baker-reveals.html|archivedate=11 September 2014}}[http://www.contactmusic.com/story/colin-baker-pays-tribute-as-doctor-who-writer-dies_4364255 Death of Jane Baker], contactmusic.com; accessed 19 September 2014. Pip Baker died on 14 April 2020, at the age of 91.{{cite news |title=Pip Baker 1928–2020 |url=https://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/04/pip-baker-died-2020.html |access-date=25 February 2022 |publisher=Doctor Who News}}
References
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20121223205953/http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/authors/bake/bakers.htm On Target: Biography of Pip and Jane Baker]
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Category:20th-century English non-fiction writers
Category:English children's writers
Category:English science fiction writers
Category:English screenwriters