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- Season 1 overviewSep 30-Dec 12, 197911 episodesSeason 1 episodes1. 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.
- 4. An Uncertain Circle Oct 21, 1979
- Marion Cutler asks Eddie to trace her boyfriend, Nick Forrest, who has disappeared from the coastal caravan park where he was staying, though Steve the owner denies all knowledge of Forrest. Eddie learns that Forrest was both a pilot and photographer and had chartered a plane to take aerial photos of the coast, sending the negatives to Marion. The concentration is on ... Read all
- 5. Listen to Me Oct 28, 1979
- Adamant that her husband Harry was wrongly jailed for killing a shop assistant during a jeweller's shop robbery, Mel Shepherd threatens to jump from Radio West's roof unless Eddie finds the real murderer. Eddie approaches the arresting officer who points him towards a variety of other likely suspects. Ultimately he comes to discover that the victim was not shot in line with a robbery but was killed for a wholly different motive.—don @ minifie-1
- 6. Nine Tenths of the Law Nov 4, 1979
- Both the grandfather and mother of an abducted child ask for Eddie's help in finding her; guest Harry H. Corbett.
- 7. The Link-Up Nov 11, 1979
- 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, was unaccountably wealthy when he drowned. Eddie traces Craig's belongings to his ex-employer Jimmy Colefax, who is sailing round the world and whose wife Val is providing a daily link-up w... Read all
- 8. Stamp Duty Nov 18, 1979
- 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 Andy Stapleton witnesses everything but is spotted by the heavies and goes on the run, having told Eddie. Knowing Andy's reputation as a liar when they were psychiatric patients together, Eddie... Read all
- 9. Find the Lady Dec 2, 1979
- 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, Malcolm Kenrick. Mole is persistent despite a beach photographer showing Eddie a recent picture of Chrissie and the lady herself. When Mole is killed, apparently the victim of a drug overdose, Eddie sees that he stumbled on something Kenrick wished to keep quiet and that he was right in his accusation.—don @ minifie-1
- 10. The Partnership Dec 9, 1979
- Sonia, the Radio West receptionist, is concerned for her friend, travel agent Jenny Kelson, whom she sees apparently being threatened by a young man. Eddie photographs and follows him, leading to a remote country house owned by a couple of dog breeders. Eddie discovers that they are burglars, tipped off by Jenny as to when householders will be on holiday and their hom... Read all
- 11. I'm a Believer Dec 12, 1979
- 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 twenty-first birthday, asks Eddie to investigate. Maddy will hear nothing said against the group but Eddie suspects a racket and digs into their background, meeting the apparently sincere cult founder Stephen Steele. However... Read all
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
