Trevor Eve
Eddie Shoestring
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- 1. Private Ear 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. Eddie is approached by a man named Willis, who tries to buy ... Read all
- 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
- The wife of an ex-army officer calls Eddie for help at a local prep school where her husband is headmaster.
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.
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.
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- 1979-09-30
- Drama
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Episode list. Shoestring. Top-rated. Sun, Dec 21, 1980. S2.E10. The Dangerous Game. Pete Johnson, a market trader who deals in stolen goods, gives his little son Mike an early Christmas present, an electric racing game, Lunar Race 2000, but it is faulty and blows up, hospitalizing young Mike.
Episode list. Shoestring. Top-rated. Sun, Dec 21, 1980. S2.E10. The Dangerous Game. Pete Johnson, a market trader who deals in stolen goods, gives his little son Mike an early Christmas present, an electric racing game, Lunar Race 2000, but it is faulty and blows up, hospitalizing young Mike.
Oct 25, 2018 · Private detective Eddie Shoestring is asked by Radio West to look into the life of a prostitute who committed suicide in a car belonging to their most popular radio personality after trying desperately to see him at the station.
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with 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 one hour-long episodes.
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with 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 one hour-long episodes.
