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
Performance (UK TV series) Branagh, Elizabeth McGovern, Jeremy Irons, Judi Dench, Hugh Grant, Alec Guinness, Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Ian Holm, Bill Nighy, John Gielgud, and Juliet Stevenson. Performance (UK TV series) Performance is a UK television anthology series produced by Simon Curtis for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Twenty-six episodes aired on the BBC from 1991–98, almost all of which were productions of classic and contemporary plays, including "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov, "A Doll's House" and "Hedda Gabbler" by Henrik Ibsen, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" by Luigi Pirandello, "King Lear" by William Shakespeare, and "The Deep Blue Sea" by