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The Beiderbecke Connection (1988)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 201 min.
TV show
Story:
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Chapman teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Since their last adventure in ('Beiderbecke Tapes, The (1987) (TV)' ), Jill and Trevor have a child - Firstborn. Big Al asks them to put up a friend of his and, of course, they agree. But when Ivan arrives, they find he speaks no English but thinks that "Bix is cool".
Plot:
police, nanny, bank robber, jazz, school teacher
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 320 min.
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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 beautiful platinum blond", a ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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ironic, light, humorous, sincere
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Teachers is a British television comedy-drama series, created by Tim Loane and originally shown on Channel 4. The series follows a group of secondary school teachers in their daily lives.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 567 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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