
1988
4 Episodes
60 min

James Bolam
Trevor Chaplin

Barbara Flynn
Jill Swinburne

Terence Rigby
Big Al

Danny Schiller
Little Norm

Dudley Sutton
Mr Carter

Keith Smith
Wheeler

Dominic Jephcott
DI Hobson

George Costigan
Ben

Sean Scanlan
Joe

Patrick Drury
Ivan

Judy Brooke
Yvonne Fairweather

Dave Leslie
Man Opposite

Gaynor Kitchen
Sharon

Darren Bennet
Gary

Thomas McGlinchey
Firstborn
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".