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- 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 series, between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, featuring a total of 21 episodes. After the second series was broadcast Eve decided not to return to the role, as he "wanted to diversify into theatre roles". Subsequently, the production team began taking popular elements of the series and revising them for a new series, Bergerac, set in Jersey and first shown in 1981. BBC Books published two novels written by Paul Ableman, Shoestring (1979) and Shoestring's Finest Hour (1980). Shoestring was repeated on terrestrial television in January 2002, with 14 of the 21 episodes being shown airing back to back on daytime BBC One. However, due to scheduling, between six and eight minutes of footage was cut from every episode. The first series was originally scheduled to be released on DVD in its entirety by DD Home Entertainment in 2005, but the idea was abandoned because of the high cost of music rights licensing. In 2011 2|Entertain confirmed that it had picked up the rights to release the series on DVD and announced that the first series would be released on 17 October 2011. They announced that all 11 episodes would be uncut except for one minor music replacement, meaning that it would be the first time the series had been seen uncut since UK Gold repeats of the series in the early 1990s. This DVD was later deleted. In June 2017, Network Distribution announced that a DVD box set of both series was planned for release on 16 October 2017 and would contain a book on the series written by Andrew Pixley. (en)
- Eddie Shoestring, detective privato (Shoestring) è una serie televisiva britannica del genere giallo trasmessa in 21 episodi dal 1979 al 1980 per un totale di due stagioni. La serie è stata trasmessa in Italia sulla rete Raiuno. (it)
- Shoestring is een Engelse televisieserie die van 1979 tot en met 1980 in Bristol werd geproduceerd. De rol van de merkwaardige radiodetective Eddie Shoestring werd gespeeld door de acteur Trevor Eve. Shoestring werkte voor Radio West waar hij onderzoeken deed aan de hand van telefoontjes die daar binnenkwamen. Eddie was een ontslagen psychiatrisch patiënt. Omdat Eddie niet met geld kon omgaan was hij meestal blut. (nl)
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- 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- Family man Keith Amery goes camping on the moors alone and sees a helicopter land, but then he falls and hits his head, bringing on amnesia. On the advice of Eddie's old psychiatrist Keith's wife asks Eddie to help Keith to recall events. (en)
- Erica's secretary Lois meets the charming Clive Wright through a dating agency, but he disappears while they are in a restaurant, and the restaurant staff and dating agency workers are equally unhelpful as to whether he even existed. (en)
- 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. (en)
- Out fishing, Don sees a thief rob a young couple of the woman's handbag, but the couple themselves flee and fail to report the theft. Don retrieves the bag and Eddie traces it to Christine Page, who says that she and her married lover Ken Bailey, are being blackmailed. (en)
- While Philip and Diana Hoskens are moving house, the van containing all their furniture is stolen by a shady landlord, Terry Bowen, to furnish a property he is letting to a young couple. (en)
- Eddie assists 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. (en)
- 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. (en)
- Don asks Eddie to locate Jody Brent, a once popular singer whose big hit 'Lazy Daisy' is enjoying a revival on Radio West's easy listening show. Though Miriam, Jody's manager, claims he is in America, Eddie hears that he is living in Wales in seclusion. (en)
- To encourage more human interest stories, Don persuades Eddie to help a watercress farmer, David Mortimer, whose wife Rosemary has disappeared for a second time and is being accused by other villagers of murdering her, to try to locate her. (en)
- Young women are being mugged around the city and the perpetrator, a caller with an Ulster accent, keeps ringing Eddie and taunting him for his inability to catch him. The police are called in but smug inspector Healey is little help. (en)
- A stamp dealer, Joss Hargreaves, collapses and dies while he is being bundled into a car by heavies working for Strickland, a corrupt businessman whom Eddie is trying to expose. (en)
- 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. (en)
- After her debt-ridden husband Tim kills himself, Mary Reynolds asks Eddie's help in discovering why her credit facilities have been stopped when the debt concerned was twelve years earlier and apparently cancelled. (en)
- Mary Phillips asks for Eddie's help after her ex-husband Dennis snatches their little daughter June, a ward of court, with a view to taking her back to Australia with him. (en)
- Pete Johnson, a market trader who deals in stolen goods, gives his little son Mike an early Christmas present, an electric racing game called Lunar Race 2000, but it is faulty and blows up, leading to the boy's admission to hospital. (en)
- 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. (en)
- Retired music hall singer Lettie Ross witnesses a murder in the empty house opposite her flat but, when the police and her daughter are dismissive, she calls in Eddie. (en)
- Call-girl Sarah Marshall kills herself on a beach, after stealing the car belonging to a man she had tried to contact – David Carn, a popular DJ with Bristol radio station Radio West. (en)
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- Eddie Shoestring, detective privato (Shoestring) è una serie televisiva britannica del genere giallo trasmessa in 21 episodi dal 1979 al 1980 per un totale di due stagioni. La serie è stata trasmessa in Italia sulla rete Raiuno. (it)
- Shoestring is een Engelse televisieserie die van 1979 tot en met 1980 in Bristol werd geproduceerd. De rol van de merkwaardige radiodetective Eddie Shoestring werd gespeeld door de acteur Trevor Eve. Shoestring werkte voor Radio West waar hij onderzoeken deed aan de hand van telefoontjes die daar binnenkwamen. Eddie was een ontslagen psychiatrisch patiënt. Omdat Eddie niet met geld kon omgaan was hij meestal blut. (nl)
- 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 series, between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, featuring a total of 21 episodes. After the second series was broadcast Eve decided not to return to the role, as he "wanted to diversify into theatre roles". Subsequently, the production team began taking popular elements of the series and revising them for a new series, Bergerac, set in Jersey and first shown in 1981. BBC Books published two novels written by Paul Ableman, Shoestring (1979) and Shoestring's Finest Hour (1980) (en)
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