Rent Shoestring: Series 2 (1980)
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- Synopsis:
- Trevor Eve stars as radio "Private Ear" Eddie Shoestring in the massively successful BBC drama series. Co-created by Robert Banks Stewart, 'Shoestring' also stars Michael Medwin as Eddie's long-suffering boss Don Satchley; Liz Crowther as station receptionist Sonia; and Doran Godwin as Eddie's landlady, on-off lover and occasional assistant Erica. Poison phone-ins and threats to a disc jockey lead Radio West to hire private investigator Eddie Shoestring - who discovers it may be a longer-running job than he first thought!
- Actors:
- Trevor Eve, Michael Medwin, Doran Godwin, Liz Crowther, Madoline Thomas, Michael Culver, Bridget Brice, Oscar James, David Beale, Maggie Riley, Alexander Davion, Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Ward, Jeanna L'Esty, Osmund Bullock, Kika Mirylees, Rod Beacham, Geoffrey Bateman, Michael Sadler, David Auker
- Directors:
- Henry Herbert, Martin Campbell, Ben Bolt, Paul Ciappessoni, Marek Kanievska, Laurence Moody, Douglas Camfield, Jeremy Summers
- Producers:
- Robert Banks Stewart
- Voiced By:
- Roy Spencer, Declan Mulholland, Bill Horsley
- Creators:
- Robert Banks Stewart, Richard Harris
- Writers:
- Robert Banks Stewart, Richard Harris, Robert Bennett, Leslie Darbon, William Hood, Bill Craig, Andrew Payne, Dave Humphries, Peter Miller, Chris Boucher
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries
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Reviews (1) of Shoestring: Series 2
A Great TV Drama from 1980 - refreshingly honest and non-pc - Shoestring: Series 2 review by PV
I remember watching this series as a child, I think on Sunday evenings - it is that sort of gentle detective drama (like Hamish Macbeth or Heartbeat or Wild at Heart) where nothing really BAD happens - no serial killers or victims on the slab. Just mild investigations via the nifty though perhaps rather unbelievable conceit of a radio station 'private ear'.
Some scenes are hilariously dated - anything with computers for a start. Technology always ages a film or TV drama. Some great non-pc lines which I won't repeat here but which would never gest past the censor these days - which makes Shoestring all the more watchable. It is 40 years old., but refreshingly honest drama - which says a lot for the state of UK TV drama today really. There is no pc preachiness here or issues being forced down viewers' throats and the drama is all the better for it.
Only 2 series of Shoestring which is a shame. Great to see lots of actors who later turn up in Eastenders or The Bill in here. Celia Imrie is in it, and Pam St Clement (Pat from Eastenders) features in the same episode as a very young Daniel Day-Lewis. And more...
Eddie Shoetstring gets away with so much in this - which would never happen in real life as he seems to breaks the law as standard. Gets beaten up in almost every episode too it seems, yet survives.
They don;'t make em like this any more. I enjoyed both series of Shoestring, despite the creaks. It's made me want to rediscover other TV drama from the 80s and 70s actually.
Odd though as this is set and made in 1980 and they are all wearing flares!
Fun to hear some pop music of the day on the Radio West hitlist too!