The Beiderbecke Tapes

Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Then they meet John the barman who died but is much better now. John gives them a tape, which leads to their meeting Dave the wimp, and which results in their harassment by government security forces. At the same time, the defrocked bank manager across the road denounces them to the headmaster of the school. They find out about The People's Front for the Liberation of West Yorkshire. Jill goes to see The Oldest Suffragette in Town. The man with no name called Peterson comes to see them. Later, six men in grey suits search the house. Trevor and Jill had been backmailed by Mr Wheeler into joining the school trip to Amsterdam, but they are delayed and never catch up with the students. In Amsterdam, Trevor and Jill meet The Honourable Order of Elks who are "looking for a bit of action". They help Jill and Trevor to escape, but they are finally sent home. The tapes are revealed as just a charade invented by shady government forces as part of a disinformation campaign.

• Trevor Chaplin – James Bolam
• Jill Swinburne – Barbara Flynn
• Mr Carter – Dudley Sutton
• Mr Peterson – Malcolm Storry
• Mr Wheeler – Keith Smith
• Sylvia – Beryl Reid
• Mr Pitt – Robert Longden
• John the Barman – David Battley
• Charlie the Gravedigger – Peter Martin
• Tracy – John Alderson
• Leo – Don Fellows
• Harry – Peter Carlisle
• Sam Bentley – Victor Maddern
• Pronk – Bill Wallis
• Yvonne Fairweather – Judy Brooke
• Tour Guide – Marlous Fluitsma
• Bella Atkinson – Maggie Jones
• Dave the Wimp – Christopher Wilkinson
• Man Opposite – Dave Leslie
• Minister at Funeral – Geoff Oldham
• Man at Funeral – Alan Starkey
• Carstairs – Timothy Carlton
• First Grey Guardian (uncredited) – Philip Wilde