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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

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  • What I Don't Understand Is This...
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    What I Don't Understand Is This...

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1985

    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.

    Director: David Reynolds

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • Can Anybody Join In?
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    Can Anybody Join In?

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1985

    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.

    Director: David Reynolds

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • We Call It the White Economy
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    We Call It the White Economy

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/1985

    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?

    Director: Frank W. Smith

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • Um... I Know What You're Thinking
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    Um... I Know What You're Thinking

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/1985

    Trevor is at the apex of an emotional triangle, Hobson is in trouble, and Jill is taken out to dinner.

    Director: Frank W. Smith

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • That Was a Very Funny Evening
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    That Was a Very Funny Evening

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1985

    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?'.

    Director: David Reynolds

    Writer: Alan Plater

  • We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...
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    We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only...

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/10/1985

    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?

    Director: David Reynolds

    Writer: Alan Plater