Shoestring (1979)
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Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Trevor Eve
Eddie Shoestring
Michael Medwin
Don Satchley
Doran Godwin
Erica Bayliss
Liz Crowther
Sonia
Robert Banks Stewart
Writer
Richard Harris
Writer
Colin Maitland
Sound Engineer / Studio Engineer / Studio Assistant
Jeanna L'Esty
Liz
Julian Littman
Vincent Dinsdale / DJ / Dinsdale
Julian Littman
Vincent Dinsdale / DJ / Dinsdale
Stewart Bevan
DJ / Paul / Presenter
Douglas Camfield
Director
Laurence Moody
Director
Martin Campbell
Director
Jeremy Summers
Director
Peter Smith
Director
Roger Tucker
Director
Philip Martin
Writer
Chris Boucher
Writer
Bob Baker
Writer
Terence Feely
Writer
Daniel Day-Lewis
DJ
Alan David
Dr. Ben Fischer
Declan Mulholland
Colin Jeavons
Lance Percival
Lee Richards
Geraldine James
Roger Sloman
Stacy Dorning
Antony Carrick
Christopher Biggins
Jack May
Michael Culver
Sylvia Coleridge
Lynda Bellingham
Christopher Guard
John Bardon
John Woodnutt
Debbie Arnold
James Murray
Donald Sumpter
Frederick Jaeger
Dominic Guard
Sean Arnold
Glyn Houston
Jeffrey Segal
Albert Moses
Pavel Douglas
Gary Watson
Ronald Hines
Michael Gothard
Edward Kelsey
Sharman Macdonald
John Gregg
Barbara Angell
Terence Budd
Paula Jacobs
Milton Johns
Arthur Hewlett
Toyah Willcox
Rebel Penfold-Russell
Eric Richard
Mollie Maureen
Brian Capron
Rachel Bell
Patrick Westwood
Avril Elgar
Gillian McCutcheon
Anthony May
Mark Drewry
Ralph Arliss
Julia Watson
Malcolm Terris
Tony Caunter
Michael Elphick
Danny Schiller
Michelle Newell
Roger Walker
Dave King
Peter Blake
Karl Johnson
Derek Martin
Patrick Malahide
Pam St. Clement
Harry Fielder
David Beames
Tony Haygarth
Diana Dors
Charlotte Cornwell
Michael Craig
Phyllis Logan
Kika Mirylees
John Forgeham
William Russell
Caroline Blakiston
Peter Dean
Nicholas Donnelly
Maurice Colbourne
Anna Nygh
Arthur Lovegrove
John Scott Martin
Lloyd Lamble
Stanley Lebor
Philip Bond
Preston Lockwood
Terence Edmond
Alan Cox
Gay Hamilton
Peter Cartwright
Gary Holton
Walter Sparrow
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Shoestring is a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the West of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring the down-at-heel private detective Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve), who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station. Broadcast on BBC1, the programme lasted for two series, between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, featuring a total of 21 episodes. After the second series was broadcast Eve decided not to return to the role, as he "wanted to diversify into theatre roles". Subsequently, the production team began taking popular elements of the series and revising them for a new series, Bergerac, set in Jersey and first shown in 1981. BBC Books published two novels written by Paul Ableman, Shoestring (1979) and Shoestring's Finest Hour (1980).
Shoestring was repeated on terrestrial television in January 2002, with 14 of the 21 episodes being shown airing back to back on daytime BBC One. However, due to scheduling, between six and eight minutes of footage was cut from every episode.
The first series was originally scheduled to be released on DVD in its entirety by DD Home Entertainment in 2005, but the idea was abandoned because of the high cost of music rights licensing. In 2011 2|Entertain confirmed that it had picked up the rights to release the series on DVD and announced that the first series would be released on 17 October 2011. They announced that all 11 episodes would be uncut except for one minor music replacement, meaning that it would be the first time the series had been seen uncut since UK Gold repeats of the series in the early 1990s. This DVD was later deleted.
In June 2017, Network Distribution announced that a DVD box set of both series was planned for release on 16 October 2017 and would contain a book on the series written by Andrew Pixley.