 At the Apollo, May 1976, played four parts in Ayckbourn's "Confusions".During the 1980s and 1990s, Alderton had few roles.He narrated the children's original animated series "Little Miss" in 1983 (with his wife Pauline Collins) and, from 1987 to 1994, narrated and voiced all the characters in the original series of "Fireman Sam".