''Telford's Change'' is a 1979 BBC television series by Brian Clark which stars

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. The theme music was composed and played by jazz composer

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Barkworth plays a bank manager, Mark Telford, who takes a backward step in his career in order to retreat from the

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. He relinquishes his job in international banking and becomes a local branch manager in Dover. Telford's wife Laura (played by

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) and son Peter ( Michael Maloney) remain in London.

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plays Tim Hart, Laura's theatrical colleague who is keen to have an affair with her, and with whom she does have a brief liaison. In order to win back his wife, Telford gives up the Dover job and returns to international banking. The series was created and sold to the BBC by Barkworth himself and a group of colleagues (including

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) through a company called Astramead.Times Obituaries: Peter Barkworth
/ref> ''Telford's Change'' consisted of only one series of ten episodes.

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* 1970s British drama television series 1979 British television series debuts 1979 British television series endings BBC television dramas English-language television shows {{BBC-tv-prog-stub