Shoestring: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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