Peter Purves

Peter Purves (born on 10 February 1939 in New Longton, Lancashire, England) played the First Doctor's companion Steven Taylor from The Chase to The Savages. He also had a small comic role in The Chase as American tourist Morton Dill.

Purves had originally planned to go into teaching, but instead began acting with the Repertory Company. He first became well-known to television audiences in the mid-1960s as Steven Taylor in Doctor Who.

After leaving Doctor Who, Purves became a regular presenter on the children's magazine programme, Blue Peter. He was one of the longest-serving, lasting from 1967 to 1978. For much of that time, he co-presented with John Noakes and Valerie Singleton and was so closely associated with the programme, especially as the sensible one, that he found the image difficult to shake off afterwards. His subsequent career has mainly been as a presenter, frequently for major dog shows such as. He was also host of the long-running BBC TV motorbike trials series Kick Start.

He has made cameo appearances as himself in episodes of programmes such as the soap opera EastEnders and the hugely popular sitcom.

Purves now lives in the Suffolk village of. In recent years, Purves has reprised the role of Steven for a number of Big Finish Productions audio dramas, and has also provided the voice of the First Doctor for several of these productions.

Purves is depicted in the 2013 docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time by an uncredited actor in one scene recreating the press photocall announcing Jackie Lane's casting in the series.

Doctor Who

 * "Flight Through Eternity" as Morton Dill
 * "The Planet of Decision"
 * The Time Meddler
 * Galaxy 4
 * The Myth Makers
 * The Daleks' Master Plan
 * The Massacre
 * The Ark
 * The Celestial Toymaker
 * The Gunfighters
 * The Savages

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories

 * Mother Russia
 * The Suffering
 * The Perpetual Bond
 * The Cold Equations
 * Tales from the Vault
 * The First Wave
 * The Five Companions
 * The Anachronauts
 * Return of the Rocket Men
 * Upstairs
 * The Light at the End
 * The War To End All Wars
 * The Bounty of Ceres
 * An Ordinary Life
 * Flywheel Revolution
 * The Founding Fathers
 * The Locked Room
 * The Secret History
 * Etheria
 * This Sporting Life
 * The Ravelli Conspiracy
 * The Sontarans
 * Across the Darkened City
 * O Tannenbaum

Audiobooks

 * Daleks: Mission to the Unknown
 * Daleks: The Mutation of Time
 * The Massacre
 * The Time Meddler
 * The Sons of Grekk
 * The Ark
 * Peril in Mechanistria

Documentary

 * Myth Makers: William Hartnell
 * The Story of Doctor Who
 * Girls! Girls! Girls!
 * Dennis Spooner: Wanna Write a Television Series?
 * The End of the Line?
 * Riverside Story
 * Tomorrow's Times
 * Doctor Who in America
 * The Doctors Revisited - The First Doctor
 * Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

Other

 * Children in Need 1985