The Beiderbecke Affair [SEP] original network
The Beiderbecke Affair
The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, 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. "The Beiderbecke Affair" has a similar style to "Get Lost!", wherein Neville Keaton (Alun Armstrong) and Judy Threadgold (Bridget Turner) played in an ensemble cast. Although "The Beiderbecke Affair" was intended as a
to become "The Beiderbecke Affair".
Production "The Beiderbecke Affair".
The central characters Plater created for "The Beiderbecke Affair" – Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne – were virtually identical to that of Neville Keaton and Judy Threadgold from "Get Lost!". Both were teachers of woodwork and English respectively and Trevor was a fan of football and jazz music (especially Bix Beiderbecke) and Jill was an environmental activist just like Neville and Judy. Since Neville's surname had been Keaton, Plater named his new male character