The Beiderbecke Affair
1985 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · ITV1
Comedy, Drama
TMDB 7.9 · 9 votes
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'.
Episodes
- S01E01What I Don't Understand Is This...1985-01-0155m
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.
- S01E02Can Anybody Join In?1985-01-1355m
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.
- S01E03We Call It the White Economy1985-01-2055m
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?
- S01E04Um... I Know What You're Thinking1985-01-2755m
Trevor is at the apex of an emotional triangle, Hobson is in trouble, and Jill is taken out to dinner.
- S01E05That Was a Very Funny Evening1985-02-0355m
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?'.
- S01E06We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...1985-02-1055m
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?
