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The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)

The Beiderbecke Affair poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
PG
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

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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