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The Beiderbecke Affair
Number Six Started conversation Dec 4, 2003
I've just taken delivery this morning of a 4-CD box set of one of the finest television series known to man, and have happily spent most of the evening watching the first three episodes.
The upshot is that I feel pretty nice about myself, have a strong urge to behave like James Bolam, and have remembered what Master B must have been talking about when he mentioned the Huddersfield/Halifax Beiderbecke Connection.
Now, why don't they make telly like this any more? I suppose there's more money in dross like Pap Idol...
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 5, 2003
The Beiderbecke Affair - for some reason I never watched it... well, I saw a few episodes. Odd really, since it had Barbara Flynn in it 
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Number Six Posted Dec 5, 2003
It's going really cheap at <./>www.splashdvd.com</.> 
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Dinnerlady [The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom]William Blake. Top lad:) Posted Dec 5, 2003
I remember being really excited about watching it when I was a kid, as the school the main characters taught at in the series was filmed at Abbey Grange, which was down the road from my school, Lawnswood, in Leeds, and for some reason I thought I'd see people I knew in each episode.
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Mu Beta Posted Dec 5, 2003
As Number Six knows, the books are even better than the original series. If you ever get your chance to get your hands on them, do so. They are, sadly, out of print right now. 
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Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") Posted Dec 5, 2003
One of the many things that I owe my parents for is making me watch the videos. I may have to procure the DVD. Big Al and Little Norm are great? What's the policeman's name again?
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GreyDesk Posted Dec 5, 2003
I don't think I've ever heard of this show. When was it on the telly?
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Mu Beta Posted Dec 5, 2003
The policeman was Sergeant Hobson, later to become Inspector Hobson. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Dec 7, 2003
Err, late 80s early 90s GD. Although it's been repeated since. There's a sequel, the Beiderbecke Connection. It really is a cracker.
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Mu Beta Posted Dec 7, 2003
**puts on Beiderbecke 
hat**
Actually, it was a trilogy, with the Beiderbecke Tapes occupying the middle position.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Dec 7, 2003
Yes indeed, forgot one. I claim as my excuse
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Dec 13, 2003
Better than saying the dog ate my copy.
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The Beiderbecke Affair
- 1: Number Six (Dec 4, 2003)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Dec 5, 2003)
- 3: Number Six (Dec 5, 2003)
- 4: Dinnerlady [The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom]William Blake. Top lad:) (Dec 5, 2003)
- 5: Mu Beta (Dec 5, 2003)
- 6: Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") (Dec 5, 2003)
- 7: GreyDesk (Dec 5, 2003)
- 8: Mu Beta (Dec 5, 2003)
- 9: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Dec 7, 2003)
- 10: Mu Beta (Dec 7, 2003)
- 11: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Dec 7, 2003)
- 12: Number Six (Dec 9, 2003)
- 13: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Dec 13, 2003)
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