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Genre
  
Comedy drama

Directed by
  
Alan Bell

First episode date
  
27 November 1988

Number of seasons
  
1

Networks
  
ITV, ITV Yorkshire

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IMDb

Written by
  
Alan Plater

Opening theme
  
“Cryin' All Day”

Final episode date
  
18 December 1988

Number of episodes
  
4

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Starring
  
James Bolam Barbara Flynn Terence Rigby Danny Schiller Dudley Sutton Dominic Jephcott Keith Smith Patrick Drury Judy Brooke Thomas McGlinchey George Costigan Sean Scanlan

Theme music composer
  
Frankie Trumbauer and Chauncey Morehouse

Cast
  
James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Dominic Jephcott, Terence Rigby

Similar
  
The Beiderbecke Affair, Monday Monday, At Home with the Braithwaites, You're Only Young Twice, Auf Wiedersehen - Pet

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. Now with a baby in tow, Jill and Trevor are asked by Big Al to look after a refugee called "Ivan".

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Plot

Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Since their last adventure in The Beiderbecke Tapes, Jill and Trevor have a child - Firstborn. Big Al asks them to put up a friend of his and, of course, they agree. But when Ivan arrives, they find he speaks no English but thinks that "Bix is cool". Meetings with criminals, smuggling people over the border, fighting for the right to education even when it's against the rules. These and other adventures are played out to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke performed by Frank Ricotti with Kenny Baker as featured cornet soloist.

Episodes

  • "Oh Look, It's Average-Sized Trevor Chaplin" - Jill & Trevor have produced Firstborn. They need a babysitter and get a refugee. Head for the border.
  • "Hello Sir, Hello Miss" - The refugee is back from the border. Life goes on. Big Al and Little Norm make other plans. Trevor makes a stand.
  • "Is He the Lodger?" - A face from the past. Criminals in the spare bed. The police take an interest. A day at the seaside.
  • "What Do We Have on Hockey Sticks?" - Rocking the world on its axis. But life goes on for those that hear the music.

    • Filming locations

  • Jill's House- Norfolk Green, Chapel Allerton, Leeds
  • San Quentin High- Foxwood School, Seacroft, Leeds
  • The Bowling Green- The Recreation Ground, Wortley, Leeds
  • The Archer Street Shopping Precinct- The area surrounding the Bond Street Precinct (now Leeds Shopping Plaza), Bond Street and Albion Street, Leeds city centre.
  • Highfield Avenue, Wortley.
  • Parish Church of St Margarets, Horsforth, Leeds.

    • References

    The Beiderbecke Connection Wikipedia
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