Shoestring

Shoestring

1979 2 Seasons ⭐ 7.667
Crime Drama

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

Seasons

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1. Private Ear

1979-09-30

Private detective Eddie Shoestring is asked by Radio West to look into the life of Sarah Marshall, a prostitute who has committed suicide. She died in a Rolls Royce belonging to D…

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2. Knock for Knock

1979-10-07

Eddie nervously does his first ""Private Ear"" program and tries to locate the drivers of a van who are responsible for killing a young woman's husband in a car accident.

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3. Higher Ground

1979-10-14

Eddie goes to work for Jean, the wife of Major Hansford, a tough prep school headmaster (and retired Army officer) whose small school is being threatened by a series of nasty pran…

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4. An Uncertain Circle

1979-10-21

Marion Cutler, a social worker, asks Eddie to look for Nick Forrest, one of her charges who has gone missing. Nick is a remarkable fellow who had been living in a hut on the beach…

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5. Listen to Me

1979-10-28

Mel Shepherd threatens to throw herself off the roof of the Radio West building unless Eddie investigates her claim of a miscarriage of justice. Her husband Harry was jailed for k…

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6. Nine Tenths of the Law

1979-11-04

A distraught woman asks Eddie to find her daughter, who she is sure has been kidnapped by her ex-husband.

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7. The Link-Up

1979-11-11

After Molly Tasker, director of a local women's refuge, accuses Radio West of ignoring domestic violence, Eddie investigates why the late Jackie Craig, whose wife is in the hostel…

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8. Stamp Duty

1979-11-18

Stamp dealer Joss Hargreaves collapses and dies whilst being bundled into a car by heavies working for Strickland, a corrupt businessman whom Eddie is trying to expose. Milkman An…

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9. Find the Lady

1979-12-02

Rock singer Toola asks Eddie to dissuade her sacked bass player Mole from his belief that his beauty queen girlfriend Chrissie was killed out of jealousy by the band's manager, Ma…

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10. The Partnership

1979-12-09

Sonia is concerned for her friend, travel agent Jenny Kelson, whom she sees apparently being threatened by a young man. Eddie follows him, leading to a remote country house owned …

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11. I'm a Believer

1979-12-12

When Maddy Hopkins joins religious cult, The Starshiners, her anxious mother, convinced that the group is out to get her trust fund money from her 21st birthday, asks Eddie to inv…

Top Cast

Trevor Eve
Trevor Eve
Doran Godwin
Doran Godwin
Liz Crowther
Liz Crowther
Michael Medwin
Michael Medwin

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