Peter Davison
Peter Davison (born Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett; 13 April 1951) is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He became famous as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. His subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice, and Albert Campion in Campion. He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective, and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.773 |
| Birthday | 1951-04-13 |
| Place of Birth | Streatham, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett, |
1997
Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
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2007
Dangerous Liaisons
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Dangerous Liaisons
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
8.4/18
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
2012
The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who
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The Timey-Wimey of Doctor Who
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The Destinations of Doctor Who
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2013
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
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Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
1994
Black Beauty
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Black Beauty
2012
The Women of Doctor Who
10/1
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2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
1998
Wuthering Heights
6.8/28
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Wuthering Heights
2003
Too Good to Be True
3/2
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Too Good to Be True
1998
Dear Nobody
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Dear Nobody
1995
The Devil of Winterborne
8.3/3
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1981
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
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1993
The Airzone Solution
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2021
End of Term
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1993
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time
2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
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Talking Doctor Who
5/3
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1985
Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding
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Myth Makers 5: Janet Fielding
1986
Who's Who
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2001
The Home Whovian
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The Home Whovian
2015
Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
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Longleat '83: The Lost Footage
2013
Doctor Who at the Proms
8/1
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2024
Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
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Happy Mills: The Search for Agent Thorny
2013
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
8.2/750
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2018
Doctor Who: Jovanka Airlines
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2023
Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
5.7/3
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Blood Actually: A Murder, They Hope Mystery
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes II
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The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes III
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The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes
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1. The Main Event - What are PanoptiCons like to organise? What do the fans think of them? What do the stars think of the fans? All this, and there’s...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes
1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes V
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1990
The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
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4. The JNT Years - Peter Davison and Colin Baker’s portrayals of the Doctor conceded with one of the most controversial periods of the programme’s hi...
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The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1986
The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
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The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1994
The Zero Imperative
7/4
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The Zero Imperative
1984
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
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A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote, where Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. Among her...
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Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1996
Ghosts of Winterborne
6/6
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Ghosts of Winterborne
1992
A Very Polish Practice
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Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in Po...
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A Very Polish Practice
2022
Peter Davison: Uncut!
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Unedited interviews from in front and behind the camera with the fifth Doctor, Peter Davison and Mark Strickson - his companion, Turlough.
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Peter Davison: Uncut!
2020
The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years
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This is the definitive set of interviews with the team who brought the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who to life!
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The Doctors: The Peter Davison Years
2012
Tales of Television Centre
8/1
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Tales of Television Centre
1984
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
9.6/5
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Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
2009
Micro Men
7.3/25
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Micro Men
1993
Harnessing Peacocks
4.5/2
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Harnessing Peacocks
2015
Gypsy
7.8/13
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1992
Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years
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A documentary which, as the name suggests, is about the early years of the Daleks. Presented by Peter Davison, it contains many interviews and clips p...
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Doctor Who: Daleks - The Early Years
1994
Mole's Christmas
4.75/4
Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets.
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Mole's Christmas
2005
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
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Documentary lead-in to the premiere episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Features cast interviews, behind the scenes footage, and a look at the...
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Doctor Who: A New Dimension
2007
Doctor Who: Time Crash
7.7/97
After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations.
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Doctor Who: Time Crash
1998
The Stalker's Apprentice
4/4
When an absorbing new manuscript finds its way across his desk, Marcus Walwyn (Gideon Turner), an impressionable young publisher, befriends the book's...
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The Stalker's Apprentice
1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
7.8/6
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Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1982
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
8/3
The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of Castrovalva is not all it seems, as the Master wi...
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Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1982
Doctor Who: The Visitation
7/2
In 17th century England, the Doctor and itinerant thespian Richard Mace uncover a plot by a crew of criminal Terileptils to wipe out humanity.
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Doctor Who: The Visitation
1982
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
7/2
The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to a case of mistaken identity. The travellers accept...
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Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
5/2
The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the l...
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Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982
Doctor Who: Kinda
7.5/2
The TARDIS lands on the idyllic jungle world of Deva Loka, which is being surveyed for possible Earth colonisation. Deva Loka is already home to a rac...
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Doctor Who: Kinda
1983
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
8.5/3
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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
4/2
The Doctor and his companions arrive at a medieval joust and are surprised to be greeted warmly by King John, who calls them his demons. But when a yo...
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Doctor Who: The King's Demons
1982
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
7/2
While investigating a vanishing Concorde at Heathrow Airport, the Doctor and his companions are thrown millions of years back in time, when a mysterio...
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Doctor Who: Time-Flight
1983
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
6/1
A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a...
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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983
Doctor Who: Snakedance
4.3/3
Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There, the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanh...
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Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983
Doctor Who: Terminus
7.2/2
The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner after Turlough, still under the Black Guardian's influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa mee...
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Doctor Who: Terminus
1983
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
8/2
An Edwardian yacht in deep space races around the planets. There is a double agent in the TARDIS crew. The White Guardian warns the Fifth Doctor of gr...
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Doctor Who: Enlightenment
1984
Doctor Who: The Awakening
4.7/3
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Doctor Who: The Awakening
1984
Doctor Who: Frontios
8/4
"Frontios buries its own dead", or so the saying goes. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are forced into landing on the remote planet of Frontios, a huma...
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Doctor Who: Frontios
1984
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
4.5/2
The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive on Sea Base 4, a nuclear warhead station under the sea that has some very nasty neighbours.
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Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1999
Parting Shots
6.1/10
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he...
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Parting Shots
1982
Doctor Who: Earthshock
8.1/7
The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. It is a battle not everyone will survive...
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Doctor Who: Earthshock
1981
Doctor Who: Logopolis
6.5/4
After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the pla...
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Doctor Who: Logopolis
1994
Stranger than Fiction
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Gary Russell of Marvel Comics' Doctor Who Magazine investigates the world of BBV. In a relatively short space of time and with relatively small amoun...
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Stranger than Fiction
1995
The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
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More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its var...
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The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
2018
Patrick
6.7/248
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
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Patrick
2011
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
8/2
Go behind the scenes of Dr Who as never before - and discover the 'lost tales' of the show! Doctors David Tennant, Paul McGann, Peter Davison and Sylv...
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Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2018
You, Me and Him
5.7/38
Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbou...
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You, Me and Him
1983
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
7.8/15
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle...
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Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1995
The Adventures of Mole
6/1
Mole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and thrills of the riverbank in the company of his new found fr...
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The Adventures of Mole
2021
Dream Horse
6.984/124
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience,...
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Dream Horse
2018
Peter Davison in Conversation
0/0
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Peter Davison in Conversation
1999
Adventures in Space and Time
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A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2.
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Adventures in Space and Time
2008
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
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Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniversary, including the production and transmission...
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2015
Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe
0/0
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Doctor Who: The Television Centre of the Universe
2003
The Story of Doctor Who
0/0
Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series.
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The Story of Doctor Who
2014
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
8.1/7
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Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2001
Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
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Longleat '83: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
2019
Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
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This well researched and insightful documentary about producer John Nathan-Turner looks at his career with a special emphasis on his time at Doctor Wh...
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Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner
2013
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
5/2
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Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2018
The Muppets Take The O2
9.5/2
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The Muppets Take The O2
2008
Trials and Tribulations
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A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sackin...
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Trials and Tribulations
1994
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
2/1
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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1999
The Kidnappers
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Doctor Who spoof by Mark Gatiss and David Walliams.
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The Kidnappers
1996
The Adventures of Toad
0/0
Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countryside in his new motor car getting into all sorts of t...
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The Adventures of Toad
2018
Say My Name
7/5
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Say My Name
2003
Tricia
10/1
Davies discovers a link between three separate investigations - an armed robbery at a job centre, the disappearance of a pensioner and a routine house...
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Tricia
2004
Christine
6/1
Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.
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Christine
2004
The Long Bank Holiday
8/1
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The Long Bank Holiday
2024
Kiss Me, Kate
0/0
Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the S...
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Kiss Me, Kate
2024
Doctor Who at the Proms
10/2
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