If memory serves after fifty plus years he was the first actor I cast for The Tomorrow People. In truth he was the first actor I cast in anything. I was very new and did not feel comfortable with the traditional audition set up, sitting behind a desk while hopefuls are paraded in front of you. It seems to demeaning, like saying "I am important and you are not." 

Peter was playing Peter Pan at a theatre in Manchester, England, just up the road from Granada Television where I was working as a Director and his agent suggested I should see him. We had lunch, Peter, me, and David Bowie with whom I was doing something at the time.  

He was such a nice kid it was impossible not to like him. I don't remember ever having any problems with him and like everyone involved with The Tomorrow People I grew very fond of him. It was impossible not to. One bad memory. When Peter turned fifteen he got himself a moped. Management at Thames worried that he might have an accident. So it was up to me to tell him he was not allowed to ride it. I felt awful about it. Poor kid. He was so happy to be independently mobile. Then he grew and they started to say he needed to be replaced with a younger kid. I felt that rather than drop him I would prefer to cancel The Tomorrow People. One reason that didn't happen is that Peter came to know of the anguish I was in, and his concern was not for himself but for the show and I think for me. He came to me and said that it would be wrong to cancel The Tomorrow People. He was too old for the role. He was leaving and I should not feel bad about it. What a great kid. Yes I did feel a bit like a father to him. 

Roger Price