Peter Purves

Feb 10, 1939 (86 years old) in Lancashire, England, UK

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.

Known For

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Doctor Who

Morton Dill

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EastEnders

Presenter

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BBC Play of the Month

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Z-Cars

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Harry Hill's TV Burp

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Theatre 625

Private

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The Office

Peter Purves

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B.P. Confidential

Self

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The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years

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Dixon of Dock Green

Brian

Credits

Babble Future

★ NR
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa Future

Self

★ NR
Remembering/Forgetting 'The Savages' 2025

Self

★ NR
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker 2024

Steven Taylor (voice)

★ 8
Talking Doctor Who 2023

Self (archive footage)

★ 5
Tales of the Tardis 2023

Steven Taylor

★ 5
Flight Through Eternity 2022

Self

★ NR
Doctor Who: Galaxy 4 2021

Steven (voice)

★ NR
The Trouble with Chumblies - Making 'Galaxy 4' 2021

Self

★ NR
Behind the Sofa - Season 14 2020

★ NR
The Doctors: The William Hartnell Years 2017

★ NR
The Native Hue of Resolution 2013

Self - Narrator (voice)

★ 10
Remembering Douglas Camfield 2013

★ NR
The End of the Line? 2011

★ NR
Riverside Story 2011

Self

★ NR
Who Peter: Part One - Partners in Time (1963-1989) 2010

★ NR
Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series? 2009

★ NR
Let's Dance for Comic Relief 2009

Self

★ 6.7
The Ties That Bind Us 2008

Steven Taylor (archive footage)

★ NR
That's What I Call Television 2007

Self

★ NR
The Story of Doctor Who 2003

★ NR
Death By... 2003

Self

★ NR
Harry Hill's TV Burp 2002

★ 6.3
The Office 2001

Peter Purves

★ 7.8
Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell 1999

★ NR
B.P. Confidential 1998

Self

★ NR
Myth Makers 32: Peter Purves 1995

Self

★ NR
Ready, Steady, Cook 1994

Self - Guest

★ NR
EastEnders 1985

Presenter

★ 4.1
Surprise, Surprise 1984

Self

★ 5.8
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks 1984

Steven Taylor (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.8
Round Trip to Glasgow 1982

Self

★ NR
Robbie 1979

Narrator

★ 6
Doctor Who: The Savages 1966

Steven Taylor

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: The Gunfighters 1966

Steven Taylor

★ 6
Doctor Who: The Ark 1966

Steven Taylor

★ 6.8
Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve 1966

Steven Taylor

★ 7.5
Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan 1966

Steven Taylor

★ 7.8
Doctor Who: The Myth Makers 1965

Steven Taylor

★ 7.3
BBC Play of the Month 1965

★ 5
Doctor Who: The Time Meddler 1965

Steven Taylor

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: The Chase 1965

Steven Taylor / Morton Dill

★ 6.3
The World of Wooster 1965

★ 5.5
Doctor Who: Lost in Time 1965

Steven

★ NR
Theatre 625 1964

Private

★ 7.2
Doctor Who 1963

Morton Dill

★ 7.9
Z-Cars 1962

★ 7
Blue Peter 1958

Self - Guest

★ 7.2
Dixon of Dock Green 1955

Brian

★ 5.3