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
John Alderton of a comeback in the 2003 film, "Calendar Girls". Then, in 2004 he played a role in the BBC series of Anthony Trollope's "He Knew He Was Right". Also in 2004, Alderton starred in the first series of ITV 1's "Doc Martin" in an episode entitled "Of All The Harbours in All The Towns" as sailor John Slater, a friend and former lover of Aunt Joan. He played Christopher Casby in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit". Alderton married actress Jill Browne in 1964 but they later divorced. In 1969, he married actress Pauline Collins and they