[1] Spence has written for many television shows including Not the Nine O'Clock News, Crackerjack and Rosemary & Thyme.
In the early-1970s, Peter married into the Taylor family who owned and ran Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park in Somerset.
This provided him with a fund of anecdotes which he compiled into a book entitled "some of our best friends are animals".
A few years later in the mid 1970s he created To the Manor Born, and after a radio pilot was made, the series aired on television from 1979 to 1981.
Spence has also written for radio, including 'Weekending’; ‘The News Huddlines’; 'The Roy Castle Show and Windsor Davies Presents.