Episode guide
Shoestring: Series 2
10 episodes · premiered Oct 5, 1980
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- Episode 1: Room With a View Oct 5, 1980 Retired music hall singer Lettie Ross witnesses a murder in the empty house opposite her flat, but when police and her daughter are dismissive, she calls in Eddie. His investigations lead…
- Episode 2: The Teddy Bears' Nightmare Oct 12, 1980 While 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…
- Episode 3: Mocking Bird Oct 19, 1980 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. Police are called in…
- Episode 4: The Mayfly Dance Oct 26, 1980 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…
- Episode 5: The Farmer Had a Wife Nov 2, 1980 To encourage more human interest stories, Don persuades Eddie to help watercress farmer David Mortimer, whose wife Rosemary has disappeared for a second time, and is being accused by other…
- Episode 6: Utmost Good Faith Nov 9, 1980 After her debt-ridden husband Tim has killed himself, Mary Reynolds asks Eddie's help in discovering why her credit facilities have been stopped when the debt concerned was twelve years…
- Episode 7: Looking for Mr Wright Nov 16, 1980 Erica's secretary Lois meets charming Clive Wright through a dating agency but he disappears whilst they are in a restaurant and the staff and dating agency workers are equally unhelpful…
- Episode 8: Another Man's Castle Dec 7, 1980 Whilst Philip and Diana Hoskens are moving house the van containing all their furniture is stolen by a shady landlord called Terry Bowen to furnish a property he is letting to a young…
- Episode 9: Where Was I? Dec 14, 1980 Family man Keith Amery goes camping on the moors alone and sees a helicopter land but falls and hits his head, bringing on amnesia. On the advice of Eddie's old psychiatrist, Keith's wife…
- Episode 10: The Dangerous Game Dec 21, 1980 Market trader Pete Johnson deals in stolen goods, gives his young son Mike an early Christmas present, an electric racing game, but it's faulty and blows up, hospitalising the boy. Pete…