The Beiderbecke Affair
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The Beiderbecke Affair

★ 7.9/10 TMDB Premiered 1985-01-01 1 season 6 eps

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'.

Last Episode Aired 1985-02-10
S1E6 — 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?

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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
Keith Smith
Mr Wheeler
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