Shoestring

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own 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, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life. The episode "Utmost Good Faith" with the outdoor swimming pool was filmed on location at Severn Beach Blue Lagoon Swimming Pool. Eddie Shoestring is a computer expert who suffers a nervous breakdown. (In those days, computers were large bulky machines with tape running endlessly and creating considerable noise; in one episode Shoestring visits such a computer room and finds it hard to maintain a steady grip.) After a period of convalescence he decides to...