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The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)
The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits to British Television since the 1960s included the preceding 4 part mini series Get Lost! for ITV in 1981. The Beiderbecke Affair has a similar style to Get Lost!, where Neville Keaton and Judy Threadgold played in an ensemble cast. Although The Beiderbecke Affair was intended as a sequel to Get Lost!, Alun Armstrong proved to be unavailable and the premise was reworked. It is the first part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy with the two sequel series being The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection.
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Release Date:
Sun, Jan 06, 1985
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 55
Country: GB
Language: En
Runtime: 55
James Bolam
Trevor Chaplin
Barbara Flynn
Jill Swinburne
Terence Rigby
Big Al
Dudley Sutton
Mr. Carter
Dominic Jephcott
Det. Sgt. Hobson
Colin Blakely
Chief Supt. Forrest
Danny Schiller
Little Norm
Keith Smith
Mr. Wheeler
George Malpas
Lol
Ian Bleasdale
Rev. Booth
Keith Marsh
Harry
James Grout
Mr. McAllister
Robert Longden
Mr. Pitt
Alison Skilbeck
Helen
Sue Jenkins
Janey
Sean Scanlan
DC Joe
Stephen Tomlin
DC Ben
Deborah Langley
Akela
Martin Pitman
Simon, Cub Scout
Bernard Atha
Returning Officer
Jason Lumsden
Bradley
Season 1:
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.
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.
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 Det Sgt Hobson?
Trevor is at the apex of an emotional triangle, Sergeant Hobson is in trouble, and Jill is taken out to dinner.
Jill and Trevor have an emotional crisis, Sergeant Hobson has a policing crisis, and Big Al has a storage crisis. But the question on everybody's mind is: 'Who is McAllister?'.
Somehow, a bizarre twist of fate plunges the couple into a mystery involving bureaucracy and death threats. All is revealed in this final episode: will Hobson find fame and glory, will Trevor and Jill find true happiness, and will Mr Carter ever really understand his two teaching colleagues?
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