Peter John Purves is an English television presenter and actor, best known for presenting the children's television programme Blue Peter for 11 years during the 1960s and 1970s. He is also known for presenting the BBC's Darts broadcasts, the Kick Start series and BBC coverage of the Crufts dog shows, and also for an early acting role in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.
Purves in 2010
Purves in 1976, while coving the White City Rebels for Blue Peter
Purves at The Television and Movie Store in Norwich in March 2009
Blue Peter is a British children's television entertainment programme created by John Hunter Blair. It is the longest-running children's TV show in the world, having been broadcast since October 1958. It was broadcast primarily from BBC Television Centre in London until September 2011, when the programme moved to dock10 studios at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester. It is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel on Fridays at 5 pm. The show is also repeated on Saturdays at 11:30 am, Sundays at 9:00 am and a BSL version is shown on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm.
The specially painted Blue Peter British Airways Boeing 757 landing at London Heathrow Airport
The former Blue Peter garden at BBC Television Centre in 2008
Blue Peter III, an RNLI D class lifeboat, one of 25 lifeboats funded by the programme, now part of the Royal National Lifeboat Collection on display at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham
