The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)
- Genre
- comedy television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two schoolteachers in Yorkshire get drawn into a mystery involving stolen money and a missing man. They team up with an oddball group of friends to sort out the strange events.
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What happens
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 in British television since the 1960s included the four-part mini series Get Lost! for ITV in 1981. The Beiderbecke Affair has a similar style to Get Lost!, wherein Neville Keaton (Alun Armstrong) and Judy Threadgold (Bridget Turner) 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 (1987) and The Beiderbecke Connection (1988). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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A J Wentworth, BA (1982)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.