Tag Archives: Peter Purves

Jon Pertwee stars in The Ambassadors of Death

The Ambassadors of Death

Heading to DVD on October 1st 2012 is the remastered release of the Season 7 classic The Ambassadors of Death, starring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. Utilising advances in technology…

The Doctor and friends tackle The Daleks' Master Plan

021 The Daleks’ Master Plan

1965-66 epic The Daleks’ Masterplan seldom fails to be hounded by contentiousness among Who fans. Is it the longest story ever, or does that honour go to four-stories-in-one Trial of…

Vicki is tempted by love but not history in The Myth Makers

020 The Myth Makers

Following on from an unprecedented Doctor-free Dalek adventure, the Audience Research Report for The Myth Makers serial indicates that when it was first broadcast in October 1965, many found the…

Beware the Drahvin in Doctor Who classic Galaxy 4!

018 Galaxy 4

The Doctor finds himself caught up in the struggle between two shipwrecked and ideologically different alien space crews on a planet facing imminent disintegration (presumably somewhere in a galaxy numbered…

Peter Butterworth and William Hartnell in The Time Meddler

017 The Time Meddler

And so it begins. Gallifrey begins to emerge into the Doctor Who mythos, ready to take it’s grand place alongside other significant Who staples. At last the noble race of…

The Daleks Are Back! Doctor Who 016 The Chase Reviewed

016 The Chase

Serial number 16, The Chase – also known as serial R – marks the second end of an era for the original run of Doctor Who. After almost two years…

Peter Purves played Steven Taylor and went on to present Blue Peter from 1967-1978

See a Television Legend in Panto!

Funny how time flies fast isn’t it? It’s probably fastest of all for a Time Lord, but for us mere mortals it still goes by at an astonishing rate. It…