Peter Purves
Birthday: 1939-02-10
Place of Birth: Lancashire, England, UK
Biography: Peter John Purves (born 10 February 1939) is an English television presenter and actor. He played Steven Taylor in Doctor Who under the First Doctor, a role he continued to play in audio dramas for Big Finish Productions. He later became a presenter on the BBC children's programme Blue Peter for eleven years. He has continued to make regular television appearances, including coverage of the Crufts dog show.
Movies
Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
The TARDIS lands on a planet on the verge of total annihilation as it drifts too close to the three ...
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B.P. Confidential
Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue ...
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Talking Doctor Who
As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back thro...
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The Native Hue of Resolution
A documentary celebrating 20 years of the work of Kaleidoscope, an organisation devoted to the prese...
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
While the Doctor plays the Trilogic Game, Steven and Dodo are forced to play seemingly childish but ...
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The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years
This is the definitive set of interviews with the team of actors who brought the William Hartnell er...
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Robbie
Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go thro...
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Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
In England, 1066, the Doctor confronts a mysterious Monk who is attempting to change history....
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Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doct...
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Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
The Doctor, Vicki and Steven arrive on an arid planet where they meet the beautiful Drahvins and the...
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Doctor Who: The Chase
The Doctor and his companions are pursued through time and space by the Daleks on the desert planet ...
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Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
In the year 4000, the Daleks conspire to conquer the Solar System. Their scheme involves treachery a...
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Doctor Who: The Ark
The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the ...
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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen out to kill D...
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Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothec...
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Doctor Who: The Savages
The TARDIS has arrived on a far-distant and seemingly idyllic world. Yet the Doctor, Steven and Dodo...
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Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
The travellers arrive in a strange domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, im...
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The Story of Doctor Who
Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series....
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Behind the Sofa - Season 14
New episodes with Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Philip Hinchcliffe, plus companions Sophie Aldred and P...
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Doctor Who: The Savages
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo land on an alien world in this animated reconstruction of a lost 1966 Do...
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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Captured in a time corridor, the Doctor and his companions are forced to land on 20th century Earth,...
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The End of the Line?
Once the nation's favourite, by its third year Doctor Who was in trouble. With changes afoot in the ...
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The Ties That Bind Us
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the s...
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Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series?
A look at writer Dennis Spooner’s work on Doctor Who....
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Remembering Douglas Camfield
The life and work of respected director Douglas Camfield is remembered in this documentary....
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Riverside Story
Matthew Sweet takes actor Peter Purves back to the studio that hosted numerous Doctor Who production...
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Boys! Boys! Boys!
Peter Purves, Frazer Hines and Mark Strickson reminisce about their time as companions to the First,...
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