The Beiderbecke Affair — Miniseries
Jan 01, 1985Trevor 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'.
1. What I Don't Understand Is This...
Jan 01, 1985Jazz-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.
55m
2. Can Anybody Join In?
Jan 13, 1985Jill 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.
55m
3. We Call It the White Economy
Jan 20, 1985Trevor 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?
55m
4. Um... I Know What You're Thinking
Jan 27, 1985Trevor is at the apex of an emotional triangle, Hobson is in trouble, and Jill is taken out to dinner.
55m
5. That Was a Very Funny Evening
Feb 03, 1985Jill 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?'.
55m
6. We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...
Feb 10, 1985Somehow, 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?
55m