Pip and Jane Baker

Who is Pip and Jane Baker?

"Pip" and Jane Baker are English television writers known mainly for their contributions to the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who.

A husband-and-wife writing duo, the Bakers scripted four serials for the programme in the 1980s: The Mark of the Rani, The Trial of a Time Lord, Parts 9–12 and 14; and Time and the Rani. They have also written novelisations of these stories, as well as a Make Your Own Adventure With Doctor Who gamebook titled Race Against Time.

Prior to Doctor Who, they scripted the episode "A Matter of Balance" for Gerry Anderson's TV series Space: 1999, as well as the film Captain Nemo and the Underwater City. In the 1990s, they created and wrote the CBBC series Watt on Earth, the eponymous Watt being an alien who is trapped on Earth.