The Beiderbecke Tapes

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ComedyDrama
Creator:Alan Plater

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

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StatusEnded
First AiredDecember 13, 1987
Last AiredDecember 20, 1987
Episode Runtime1sa 30dk
Seasons1
Episodes2
TypeMiniseries
Origin CountryUnited Kingdom
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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Yorkshire Television

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ITV1
Part 2
Last Episode

S1 E212/20/1987

Part 2

Trevor and Jill go on a trip to Amsterdam with their class from "San Quentin High" - but the class has decamped. Trevor and Jill meet "The Honourable Order of Elks" who are "looking for a bit of action". Jill & Trevor find their action in Edinburgh. The gray men get attacked by a bagpipe band but Jill & Trevor have to go home where they find that the jazz tape with no jazz wasn't all it seemed.

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The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987)