Philip Purser
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Philip Purser (born 28 August 1925) is a British television critic and novelist.
A contributor to the News Chronicle in the 1950s, he was television critic of The Sunday Telegraph for twenty-six years before being sacked in the mid-1980s by Peregrine Worsthorne, the then editor. Purser has also co-authored three editions of Halliwell's Television Companion (1982, 1986, originally Halliwell's Teleguide 1979) and wrote a TV film The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (Peek-A-Boo) on the wartime erotic entertainer for Thames in 1978. A biography of Dixey (co-authored with Jenny Wilkes) was published in the same year.
In recent years Philip Purser has contributed obituaries to The Guardian. His wife is the crime writer Ann Purser; they have two daughters and one son.
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