Trevor Eve
Eddie Shoestring
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- 1. Private Ear Sep 30, 1979
- A dead prostitute leads former computer programmer Eddie Shoestring to a duel career as disc jockey and private eye.
- 2. Knock for Knock Oct 7, 1979
- Eddie is now Radio West's 'Private Ear', accepting sleuthing work for listeners. His first client is Claire Stevens, whose husband was killed in a hit and run by drivers of a white van. A tip-off leads Eddie to a duo of young fraudsters who go 'on the knock', buying antique furniture from gullible elderly people at less than the real value. After an encounter with a g... Read all
- 3. Higher Ground Oct 14, 1979
- Higher Ground, a boarding school run by strict ex-Army major Hansford and his wife Jean, is being plagued by sadistic, sick stunts but Hansford refuses to call in the police, so Jean employs Eddie. Hansford, however, is wholly uncooperative. Jean tells Eddie that Hansford has a son, Rodney, by his first wife Betty. Betty committed suicide and Rodney was recently disch... Read all
21 December 1980. ( 1980-12-21) Shoestring is a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the West of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring the down-at-heel private detective Eddie Shoestring ( Trevor Eve ), who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station. Broadcast on BBC1, the programme lasted for two ...
Shoestring: Created by Robert Banks Stewart, Richard Harris. With Trevor Eve, Michael Medwin, Doran Godwin, Liz Crowther. Lighthearted detective series set in the West Country, about radio-phone-in detective Eddie Shoestring.
- (447)
- 1979-09-30
- Drama
- 50
The first series of the Bristol-based private detective drama. Series 1 homepage. Private Ear. 1 / 2 Eddie Shoestring, a private detective, is hired by a radio station to investigate threats.
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Jun 28, 2012 · Thu 28 Jun 2012 11.45 EDT. H ow the memory plays tricks. When Eddie Shoestring made his debut as a private investigator in the autumn of 1979, he was must-watch TV. Shoestring was Radio West's ...
- John Crace
Sun, Sep 30, 1979. Call-girl Sarah Marshall kills herself on a beach, after stealing the car belonging to a man she had tried to contact, David Carn, popular DJ with Bristol radio station Radio West. Station boss Don Satchley asks private detective Eddie Shoestring to investigate any incriminating links between Carn and Sarah.
Shoestring is a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the West of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring the down-at-heel private detective Eddie Shoestring, who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station. Broadcast on BBC1, the programme lasted for two series, between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, featuring a total of 21 episodes. After ...
Sun, Dec 14, 1980. Family man Keith Amery goes camping on the moors alone and sees a helicopter land but falls and hits his head, bringing on amnesia. On the advice of Eddie's old psychiatrist, Keith's wife asks Eddie to help Keith recall events, but with little success.
