The Beiderbecke Affair
The Beiderbecke Affair
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The Beiderbecke Affair

7.8 / 10
1985
1 season
6 episodes
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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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'.

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

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

    01-01-198555m

    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 Beid...

  • Can Anybody Join In?

    2.Can Anybody Join In?

    13-01-198555m

    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.

  • We Call It the White Economy

    3.We Call It the White Economy

    20-01-198555m

    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...

  • Um... I Know What You're Thinking

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

    27-01-198555m

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

  • That Was a Very Funny Evening

    5.That Was a Very Funny Evening

    03-02-198555m

    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?'.

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

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

    10-02-198555m

    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 f...

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