The Fenn Street Gang 1971 "Please Sir!" film), David Barry, Peter Denyer and Liz Gebhardt. Leon Vitali replaced Malcolm McFee as Peter Craven during the first series, although Malcolm took this role back for the second and third series. Peter Denyer (Dennis Dunstable) and Liz Gebhardt (Maureen Bullock) were absent from the third (and final) series. John Alderton (Mr Hedges, their form-master when they starred in "Please Sir!") guest-appeared in 3 episodes of the first series of "The Fenn Street Gang" and the first two episodes from the final series of "Please Sir!", which ran alongside "The Fenn Street Gang" in transmission dates. Richard
Terry Alderton the Sky One reality television series "The Match". In 1999, Alderton was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. Later that year, television producer Johnny Finch himself attempted to launch his own BBC TV show dedicated to video games titled "Bleeding Thumbs". The series would have run between 1999 and 2000, and had hoped to emulate the success of the 1990s Channel 4 show "GamesMaster", for which Finch was part of the production team as well as being a co-commentator. Two pilots were created hosted by Dermot O'Leary and Kate Thornton, and then Alderton accompanying Thornton; the commissioning editor decommissioned the