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Peter Purves slams 'rotten' pay on BBC's Doctor Who: 'They were particularly ungenerous’

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Doctor Who in 1965. Peter was cast as Steven Taylor alongside the late William Hartnell, who starred as the Doctor.The star portrayed Steven in the hit TV series for a year, but claims he got paid “absolute peanuts” for his hard work.Peter admitted in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk: “I played it for a year, I did 46 episodes of Doctor Who back then. “So it was a wonderful thing, rotten money, terrible money, nothing like the kind of money they get today, it was peanuts, absolute peanuts.“The BBC have never been terribly generous, and at that time, they were particularly ungenerous. “Even though I was in a regular series, I was being paid £30 an episode.”Explaining the way salaries were organised at the BBC at the time, Peter.

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