James Bolam
Trevor Chaplin
Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1985
The Beiderbecke Affair
Miniseries
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. Trevor tries to buy some jazz records but this leads to meeting a 'dazzlingly beautiful platinum blond'.
Episodes
Each episode has its own detail page.
Episode 155 min1985-01-01
What I Don't Understand Is This...
Jazz-loving, woodship teacher Trevor Chaplin and his girlfriend Jill are on the trail of a saleswoman who mistakenly delivered a set of records that were supposed to be by Bix Beiderbecke.
Episode 255 min1985-01-13
Can Anybody Join In?
Jill is detained by the police, Trevor goes in pursuit of a platinum blonde, Big Al reveals some of his secrets, and Sergeant Hobson tries to make sense of it all.
Episode 355 min1985-01-20
We Call It the White Economy
Trevor has succeeded in finding the music he's been looking for and Jill's campaign is reaching fever pitch. But who is the mysterious supergrass and the woman 'with a past'? Will the truth ever be revealed to Hobson?
Episode 455 min1985-01-27
Um... I Know What You're Thinking
Trevor is at the apex of an emotional triangle, Hobson is in trouble, and Jill is taken out to dinner.
Episode 555 min1985-02-03
That Was a Very Funny Evening
Jill and Trevor have an emotional crisis, Hobson has a policing crisis, and Big Al has a storage crisis. But the question on everybody's mind is: 'Who is McAllister?'.
Episode 655 min1985-02-10
We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...
Somehow, a bizarre twist of fate plunges the couple into a mystery involving bureaucracy and death threats. All is revealed: will Hobson find fame and glory, will Trevor and Jill find true happiness, and will Mr Carter ever really understand his two colleagues?