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Season guide

Shoestring: Season 1

11 episodes Premiered Sep 30, 1979
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

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 Da

S1·E2 Core

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.

S1·E3 Core

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 prank

S1·E4 Core

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.

S1·E5 Core

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 ki

S1·E6 Core

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.

S1·E7 Core

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,

S1·E8 Mytharc

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 And

S1·E9 Core

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, Mal

S1·E10 Mytharc

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 b

S1·E11 Mytharc

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 inve

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