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Shoestring

Shoestring

7,7 /10 (6 Votes)
1979 EN 2 Seasons

Overview

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.

First air date

30/09/1979

Votes

6

Popularity

6.0

THE PRIVATE EAR.

Genres

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

Robert Banks Stewart, Richard Harris

Networks

BBC One

Language

EN

Last air date

1980-12-21

Episodes

21

Episode runtime

50 min

No poster

Specials

1 episodes

Series 1

Series 1

11 episodes • 1979

Series 2

Series 2

10 episodes • 1980

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