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The Beiderbecke Tapes

6.6
1 season
2 episodes
Ended
Comedy
Drama

Plot Summary

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.

First Aired:December 13, 1987
Last Aired:December 20, 1987
Episode Runtime:1h 30m
Networks:
ITV1
Created By:
Alan Plater

Cast & Characters

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Seasons (1)

Miniseries

Miniseries

2 episodes

Aired: 1987

When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into schoolteacher Trevor Chaplin's hands, he and colleague Jill Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

Production

Yorkshire Television