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  1. Nov 27, 2018 · Thirty years ago during the late autumn of 1988, Alan Plater’s The Beiderbecke Connection was transmitted on ITV and things weren’t so dark anymore. This was the last of three serials in what could be called The Beiderbecke Trilogy .

  2. In each of the three serials – The Beiderbecke Affair, The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection – Jill and Trevor inadvertently become embroiled in a series of unlikely adventures involving such things as political corruption, nuclear waste dumping and serious fraud. In each serial the plot rambles, moving from one seemingly ...

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  3. The Beiderbecke Connection, the last installment of an eponymous trilogy, falls somewhere in between: at times brilliant, consistently witty and improbably crazy in equal measure, and yet...

  4. All three of Alan Plater's Beiderbecke series are very British, actually very English - and maybe very Yorkshire (or at least North-East English). Most US humour is very different from UK humour. Brits often think there is a lack of subtlety in US humour and Americans often think the same of UK humour.

  5. The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne.

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  6. The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, [1] 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.

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  8. Feb 7, 2009 · Two schoolteachers in a Northern English city — it was shot in Leeds — turn amateur detectives when a set of records by jazz great Bix Beiderbecke go missing. Much witty banter, 40s style, is promised, as well as zany shenanigans and other assorted amusing whatnot.

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