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The Beiderbecke Affair

The Beiderbecke Affair

The Beiderbecke Affair

★ 7.9•1985•1 Seasons•ANIME

ComedyDrama

Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. Trevor tries to buy some jazz records but this leads to meeting a 'dazzlingly beautiful platinum blond'.

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Top Cast

James Bolam

James Bolam

Trevor Chaplin

Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn

Jill Swinburne

Terence Rigby

Terence Rigby

Big Al

Dudley Sutton

Dudley Sutton

Mr. Carter

Dominic Jephcott

Dominic Jephcott

DS Hobson

K

Keith Smith

Mr Wheeler

Episodes

Season:

What I Don't Understand Is This...

1. What I Don't Understand Is This...

Jazz-loving, woodship teacher Trevor Chaplin and his girlfriend Jill are on the trail of a saleswoman who mistakenly delivered a set of records that were supposed to be by Bix Beiderbecke.

Aired: 1/1/1985

Can Anybody Join In?

2. Can Anybody Join In?

Jill is detained by the police, Trevor goes in pursuit of a platinum blonde, Big Al reveals some of his secrets, and Sergeant Hobson tries to make sense of it all.

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Aired: 1/13/1985

We Call It the White Economy

3. We Call It the White Economy

Trevor has succeeded in finding the music he's been looking for and Jill's campaign is reaching fever pitch. But who is the mysterious supergrass and the woman 'with a past'? Will the truth ever be revealed to Hobson?

Aired: 1/20/1985

Um... I Know What You're Thinking

4. Um... I Know What You're Thinking

Trevor is at the apex of an emotional triangle, Hobson is in trouble, and Jill is taken out to dinner.

Aired: 1/27/1985

That Was a Very Funny Evening

5. That Was a Very Funny Evening

Jill and Trevor have an emotional crisis, Hobson has a policing crisis, and Big Al has a storage crisis. But the question on everybody's mind is: 'Who is McAllister?'.

Aired: 2/3/1985

We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...

6. We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...

Somehow, a bizarre twist of fate plunges the couple into a mystery involving bureaucracy and death threats. All is revealed: will Hobson find fame and glory, will Trevor and Jill find true happiness, and will Mr Carter ever really understand his two colleagues?

Aired: 2/10/1985