Baker, Pip
Entry updated 30 March 2026. Tagged: Author, TV.
Working name of UK playwright, scriptwriter and author Philip Baker (1929-2020), almost always in collaboration with his wife, Jane Baker; their first work of genre interest was collaboration on the script for the film Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) directed by James Hill, followed by a script for one 1976 episode of Space: 1999 (1975-1977). Other relevant work included four 1980s Doctor Who Television scripts, which were then novelized as Doctor Who: Mark of the Rani (1986) with Jane Baker, Doctor Who: Time and the Rani (1987) with Jane Baker, Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids (1987) with Jane Baker, and Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe (1988) with Jane Baker. They also co-wrote the Gamebook Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who: Race Against Time (1986; vt Find Your Fate: Doctor Who #6: Race Against Time 1986). They created and wrote the CBBC (Children's BBC) Watt on Earth (1991-1992), that ran to two 12-episode series about the Alien Shapeshifter Watt who is hiding on Earth from an inimical pursuer; this was novelized by the Bakers as Watt on Earth (1991). In 2000, Pip and Jane Baker wrote the script for the BBC Doctor Who Audio Adventure in Time & Space: The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind. [JC/DRL]
Philip Baker
born UK: 3 January 1929
died UK: 14 April 2020
works
series
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: Mark of the Rani (London: W H Allen, 1986) with Jane Baker [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/Andrew Skilleter]
- Doctor Who: Time and the Rani (London: W H Allen, 1987) with Jane Baker [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/photograph by Chris Capstick]
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids (London: W H Allen, 1987) with Jane Baker [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/Tony Masero]
- Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord: The Ultimate Foe (London: W H Allen, 1988) with Jane Baker [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/Alistair Pearson]
- Make Your Own Adventure with Doctor Who: Race Against Time (London: Severn Books, 1986) with Jane Baker [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/Gail Bennett]
- Find Your Fate: Doctor Who #6: Race Against Time (New York: Ballantine Books, 1986) with Jane Baker [tie: vt of above: Doctor Who: pb/Romas Kukalis as Romas]
individual titles
- Watt on Earth (London: BBC, 1991) with Jane Baker [tie to the CBBC series: pb/]
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