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.
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Air Date: 1979-09-30
Private detective Eddie Shoestring is asked by Radio West to look into the life of Sarah Marshall, a prostitute who h...
Air Date: 1979-10-07
Eddie nervously does his first ""Private Ear"" program and tries to locate the drivers of a van who are responsible f...
Air Date: 1979-10-14
Eddie goes to work for Jean, the wife of Major Hansford, a tough prep school headmaster (and retired Army officer) wh...
Air Date: 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...
Air Date: 1979-10-28
Mel Shepherd threatens to throw herself off the roof of the Radio West building unless Eddie investigates her claim o...
Air Date: 1979-11-04
A distraught woman asks Eddie to find her daughter, who she is sure has been kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Air Date: 1979-11-11
After Molly Tasker, director of a local women's refuge, accuses Radio West of ignoring domestic violence, Eddie inves...
Air Date: 1979-11-18
Stamp dealer Joss Hargreaves collapses and dies whilst being bundled into a car by heavies working for Strickland, a ...
Air Date: 1979-12-02
Rock singer Toola asks Eddie to dissuade her sacked bass player Mole from his belief that his beauty queen girlfriend...
Air Date: 1979-12-09
Sonia is concerned for her friend, travel agent Jenny Kelson, whom she sees apparently being threatened by a young ma...
Air Date: 1979-12-12
When Maddy Hopkins joins religious cult, The Starshiners, her anxious mother, convinced that the group is out to get ...