We’ve lost many people from the world of Doctor Who recently, but in this issue we’re paying tribute to the late Pip Baker who, along with his wife Jane, wrote scripts for the Sixth and Seventh Doctors. Not everyone admired the Bakers’ occasionally florid dialogue, but it’s undeniable that their work is now seen as emblematic of the era.

I made several visits to their large house in Ruislip, initially to interview them for Doctor Who Magazine in 1993. Pip and Jane dressed in clothes that seemed to belong to a diff erent age, and their home belonged in the same time warp. I remember chatting to them in a room filled with educational games and other mementos of jobs they’d undertaken decades earlier. At one point Jane said, “When we’re working on a programme like The Expert…” – without any acknowledgement that the series in question had finished in 1976.