Episode guide
Shoestring: Series 1
11 episodes · premiered Sep 30, 1979
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- Episode 1: Private Ear Sep 30, 1979 Private detective Eddie Shoestring is asked by Radio West to look into the life of Sarah Marshall, a prostitute who has committed suicide. She died in a Rolls Royce belonging to David…
- Episode 2: Knock for Knock Oct 7, 1979 Eddie nervously does his first ""Private Ear"" program and tries to locate the drivers of a van who are responsible for killing a young woman's husband in a car accident.
- Episode 3: Higher Ground Oct 14, 1979 Eddie goes to work for Jean, the wife of Major Hansford, a tough prep school headmaster (and retired Army officer) whose small school is being threatened by a series of nasty pranks.
- Episode 4: An Uncertain Circle Oct 21, 1979 Marion Cutler, a social worker, asks Eddie to look for Nick Forrest, one of her charges who has gone missing. Nick is a remarkable fellow who had been living in a hut on the beach. But…
- Episode 5: Listen to Me Oct 28, 1979 Mel Shepherd threatens to throw herself off the roof of the Radio West building unless Eddie investigates her claim of a miscarriage of justice. Her husband Harry was jailed for killing a…
- Episode 6: Nine Tenths of the Law Nov 4, 1979 A distraught woman asks Eddie to find her daughter, who she is sure has been kidnapped by her ex-husband.
- Episode 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…
- Episode 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…
- Episode 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…
- Episode 10: The Partnership Dec 9, 1979 Sonia is concerned for her friend, travel agent Jenny Kelson, whom she sees apparently being threatened by a young man. Eddie follows him, leading to a remote country house owned by a…
- Episode 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 21st birthday, asks Eddie to investigate…