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Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own radio show on the local radio station, Radio West. The programme ran between September 30, 1979 and December 21, 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac.
The episode "Utmost Good Faith" with the outdoor swimming pool was filmed on location at Severn Beach Blue Lagoon Swimming Pool.
[edit] Episode list
| Episode |
Title |
Writer |
Director |
Guest stars |
[edit] Series 1
(BBC1, September 30 to June 4, 1979)
|
| 1 |
Private Ear |
Robert Banks Stewart |
Douglas Camfield |
William Russell. Stacy Dorning, Kenneth Gilbert, Sean Arnold |
| 2 |
Knock For Knock |
Bob Baker |
Roger Tucker |
Dominic Guard, Shirley Anne Field |
| 3 |
Higher Ground |
Dave Humphries |
Marek Kanievska |
Glyn Houston, Anna Cropper |
| 4 |
An Uncertain Circle |
Robert Bennett |
Mike Vardy |
John Hartley, Anna Nygh |
| 5 |
Listen To Me |
Terence Feely |
Peter Smith |
Roger Sloman, Sandy Ratcliff, Brian Croucher, Tony Caunter, Patrick Malahide |
| 6 |
Nine Tenths of the Law |
Peter Miller |
Marek Kanievska |
Harry H. Corbett, Nell Campbell, Geraldine James |
| 7 |
The Link-Up |
Peter King |
Douglas Camfield |
Janet Key, John Gregg, John Woodnutt, Sylvia Coleridge |
| 8 |
Stamp Duty |
John Kruse |
Martyn Friend |
David Ashton, Diana Davies |
| 9 |
Find The Lady |
Philip Martin, Sarah Leigh |
Marek Kanievska |
Christopher Biggins, Toyah Willcox, Diana Weston, Gary Holton, Peter Dean, Lynda Bellingham, Brian Capron |
| 10 |
The Partnership |
Michael Armstrong |
Paul Ciappessoni |
Michelle Newell, Kevin Whately |
| 11 |
I’m A Believer |
Jim Hawkins |
Mike Vardy |
Claire Walker, Jeananne Crowley, Preston Lockwood |
[edit] Series 2
(BBC1, October 5 to December 21, 1980)
|
| 1 |
Room With A View |
Robert Bennett |
Henry Herbert |
Michael Culver, Madoline Thomas, Bridget Brice, Oscar James, Christopher Benjamin |
| 2 |
The Teddy Bears’ Nightmare |
Leslie Darbon |
Martin Campbell |
Dave King, Charlotte Cornwell |
| 3 |
Mocking Bird |
William Hood |
Ben Bolt |
Frederick Jaeger, John J. Carney, David Sibley |
| 4 |
The Mayfly Dance |
Bill Craig |
Henry Herbert |
Michael Gothard, Michael Craig, Ann Bell, Lance Percival |
| 5 |
The Farmer Had A Wife |
William Hood |
Paul Ciappessoni |
Ronald Hines, Gary Watson, Pam St. Clement |
| 6 |
Utmost Good Faith |
Andrew Payne |
Marek Kanievska |
Michael O’Hagan, Derek Martin |
| 7 |
Looking For Mr. Wright |
Robert Bennett |
Laurence Moody |
Diana Dors, Caroline Blakiston, Avril Elgar |
| 8 |
Another Man’s Castle |
Dave Humphries |
Douglas Camfield |
John Forgeham, Dean Harris |
| 9 |
Where Was I? |
Peter Miller |
Jeremy Summers |
Philip Bond, Colin Jeavons, Ralph Arliss |
| 10 |
The Dangerous Game |
Chris Boucher |
Ben Bolt |
Michael Elphick, Celia Imrie, Maurice Colbourne, Burt Kwouk |
[edit] DVD release?
Shoestring was scheduled to be released on DVD (Region 2, UK) by DD Home Entertainment in 2005 but was abandoned due to the high cost of music rights licensing (the series being set at a radio station). Afternoon repeats on BBC1 in 2002 were highly edited, sometimes cut by up to five minutes or more in length, to bring the episodes down to a standard duration and remove material unsuitable for daytime transmission. It seems highly unlikely that Shoestring will ever be made commercially available in its original, unedited form.
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