It's nuts there were only 21 episodes made, I loved this when I was a kid and watching it again now it's aged really well. TV shows then had a gritty realism to them that shows lack now.

@user-xs1yx9tc9m

5 ай бұрын

I was about 10/11 years old when this came out. I didn't like it at that time because he was a private eye that wasn't a tough guy and didn't do any fighting. ( I suppose that was the idea !) 😃

@user-kg7ed1gb4i

4 ай бұрын

yes i have just said the same!@@user-xs1yx9tc9m

Loved the show but the closing music reminds me of not doing my homework and dreading the next day at the school I loathed

@actualbennett2245

2 жыл бұрын

I get that with Follyfoot. Great series in many ways, but that Sunday teatime in the early '70s meant the dreaded school prison the next morning was looming.

@jenniferjones188

24 күн бұрын

I felt like that too. Loved Shoestring Sunday night. Then dad said come on school in the morning get to bed. Hated school.

Trevor Eve was a massive talent and should have been in more tv productions.

I am from America and I stopped watching Network TV probably 6 or 7 years ago. All the shows have an agenda. I watch TV to escape, to enjoy a good story line, good acting and especially no agenda. I discovered British Crime Dramas and comedy’s. It opened up a whole new world of TV. I recently subscribed to Brit Box since a lot of the programming is copyrighted and just a few episodes are available on KZread. Found this show about 6 months ago. Great program!

I remember at school we were fans and to prove it we wore our tie knots as low as possible- around the knees as I recall. 😅

Silly what you remember nearly 45 years later. Sunday nights at 9pm, a man investigating things while working for Radio West and wore a skinny tie......

Can anyone remember the Chinese Detective? That was on TV about the same time of shoestring.

@Roscoe.P.Coldchain

2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching that yes, great series Julie 👍

@williamjhughes9460

2 жыл бұрын

Yea I remember it played by David Yip 📺

@racheladkins6060

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but I was a school kid, so had to go to bed at 9pm or earlier when. I was younger. Innocent days, they’ve all gone. We could be children, and free to be children. Not like these daze?

@Webbgurl2000

Жыл бұрын

I never heard of it What’s the name

@davidsmith5523

Жыл бұрын

@@Webbgurl2000 the Chinese detective.

I was addicted to this as teenager when it was first shown a shame Trevor Eve decided he didn’t want to continue as it was a hit show and got big ratings. It was reworked by the producers into Bergerac with John Nettles

@GavTatu

2 жыл бұрын

and sean arnold here.

@quantumsneak1773

Жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you for info. I was looking for bergerac, I'm born 77, only remember the theme music. This is great tho. Hope you are having a great life. From Leicester With love ❤

@samanthahughes7783

4 ай бұрын

Bergerac was great - I LOVED his car - but it wasn’t as good as this. I only looked up and started to watch it again because I’ve been watching ‘waking the dead’ on bbc iPlayer, and seeing Trevor Eve reminded me of this series.

I never liked this, but my wife is delighted to see it again after all these years. She was enduring her first marriage at the time and Trevor Eve was her fantasy husband! Fortunately, she found me in 1987 - with my Miami Vice style suits and moussed nightmare hair - and Shoestring and hubby No 1 became things of the past for her.

Fun fact: The Taxi Driver Laurie is played by Patrick Durkin who is more widely know as the drunk who passes out during the drinking contest in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Thanks for the upload ! Watching Shoestring after three decades. Never forgot the theme all these years.

Loved Shoestring. Think it was on Sunday night's before dreaded school on Monday's. Also watched All creatures great and small on Saturday nights both on the BBC.

@trimphoner

Жыл бұрын

" Mondays

@user-kg7ed1gb4i

4 ай бұрын

Yep!

This developed into an excellent series - alternative stories; all well written, with strong actors. Yes, Shoestring was short-lived as a TV series (Trevor Eve wanting to move on), and that's why it's become something of a rare cult. Great shows!

Loved this program as a kid,great to see it again,thank you guys,

Trevor Eve as Hughie Green Was fantastic,Should have got an Oscar for that performance. Brilliant.

@ajs41

3 жыл бұрын

Did you like him in Waking The Dead? That's where I first heard about him. I've just noticed they've put every edition of Waking The Dead on BBC iPlayer and I'm going to watch them again.

Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is in one episode as a DJ. Memorable theme tune, always brings back fear of school in the morning.

Thanks for the upload. I'd forgotten how easy and natural Eve was in this show. Also, the ep is quite the Doctor Who cast and crew jamboree. 🙂

I used to love 'Bootlace' LOL

@rhonaconnor2509

2 ай бұрын

Yeah old Albert Bootlace

My God!! Such a marvelous trip down memory lane....😊

Thanks from India. It is also telecast on indian TV. My childhood memories.

@domoreilly5147

4 жыл бұрын

I love to know in India and the UK in 1980 we were both watching this, loving it and forming our childhood memories. Small world.

@abhroy

4 жыл бұрын

1986 . Thursday 8PM -- was time for Shoestring in India :) Target , Old Fox were also aired at that same slot :)

@kavithaamberkardayanand5004

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks from India. Even my childhood memories. I used to search on google and youtube . Today I am happy to watch this series.

@ambarnag

3 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this as a kid too :-) I was seven years old!

@girishsavant2302

3 жыл бұрын

Eddie Shoestring, The Old Fox and Yes Minister.

Having @ duvet day and accidentally started watching out of nostalgia, kept watching because it was really good.

We used to have a chemistry teacher at school we called shoestring!! Watching this again brings the memories flooding back.

@j.b.9260

2 жыл бұрын

My uncle tells me that they called the PE teacher "Shoestring".

I watched the series when I was a kid 1979-80. I live in Sweden. Good program.

Loved this as a young teenager. REmemeber it well .

enjoyed Shoestring as a kid, great to see it here, cheers so much for posting it, really enjoyed reading all the comments too, best wishes👍👍

We lost both Michael Medwin and Sean Arnold in 2020. RIP

Why in the world would kids be watching this with parents??? Says a great deal about present day problems.

Thanks for putting this up. Love 'Shoestring'.

If you have never seen " Trevor Eve " as Hughie Green, It was made by Channel 4. Then you don't know what good acting is. You really believe he is the man. Absolutely Brilliant.

Thank you for the upload. Remember watching this episode as a 13/14 yr old on Kuwait TV in 80/81. Was a different detective series compared to Starsky&Hutch,Rockford Files that were on TV then.

I grew up in Bristol and watched this as a kid - I'm guessing it was the late 'seventies? I recall my parents would laugh at the crazily contrived, 'scenic routes' Shoestring took to get from A-B, taking in all the best Bristol sights (Clifton Suspension Bridge was a regular feature), even though they could not possibly have featured on the real journey!

@GavTatu

2 жыл бұрын

lol, we had the same for bergerac, go down one road, come out somewhere completely different !

@keungkau9215

2 жыл бұрын

@@GavTatu I think that's the same for every other tv series I have seen filmed in Bristol the continuity is terrible!

@GavTatu

2 жыл бұрын

@@keungkau9215 lol, i guess its about tv, not reality !

Kate Bush on the radio at 51:08 first album, the kick inside. well neard stuff, but it was the first for me ever purchased age 10.

When this was first aired in the late 1970s I was not interested in it at all even though I was living in Bristol at the time. Now i am enjoying the nostalgia and living far away. Trevor Eve honed his acting skills on this series. Great Stuff!

Trevor eve is one of the best actors in these excellent films I’m addicted to them)) Very well put together I must say!! He was well ahead of himself and that’s why he did so well in his career great and professional actor)) Can’t believe how young he was when doing these films )) God bless ya all

Fantastic thank you so much for this..keep them coming...loved Shoestring

This one is particularly good

I remember my dad watching this in Canada.

That was great, many thanks for posting.

R.I.P. Michael Medwin

@AnnabelleJARankin

3 жыл бұрын

Yes - a real gent. Sadly missed.

My schoolmate and I saw some of this filmed in Bristol.

Thanks, I was looking for this series just yesterday. Another good one by him is Bergerac starring Nettles.

Thanks for posting. I had completely forgotten about this TV series

Thank you for posting this series

Long live the radio ♡

I remember the Chinese detective ,it was around 1981 where as shoestring was 1979-1980 ,David yip was the Chinese detective

I just love this series I really miss it on TV when it arrived it was worth every single penny of TV licence fee George Fenton's theme is just GREAT thanks for the good memories!

Any show that starts with a Morris Marina must be a classic. Thanks for post - I was 21 at the time and can't believe I was alive in such a primitive looking era (music was great though)

@actualbennett2245

2 жыл бұрын

Some of it, yeah.

@ewaf88

2 жыл бұрын

@@actualbennett2245 Ok I concede that - Disco Duck - wasn't great :)

@williamdean3636

2 жыл бұрын

X

@actualbennett2245

2 жыл бұрын

@@ewaf88 Nor was Rockabilly Rebel, One Day At A Time, Figaro, Some Girls Will... I suppose we apply a rose coloured filter to the past at times. :)

@ewaf88

2 жыл бұрын

@@actualbennett2245 There was generally more good than bad - but the bad was indeed really bad.

Had forgotten about this series. Thank you for posting it. 😀

The Taxi driver was the bloke having the drinking contest with Marion Ravenwood in Raiders Of The Lost Ark!

Trevor Eve another great actor especially in Waking the Dead

@josephinebennington7247

3 жыл бұрын

Catch him up in The Unforgotten S1. Brilliant, while understated, as ever

As good as I remember it, though I was a little too young to appreciate it 1st time round. Not at all dated really and totally absorbing from start to finish. Thanks so much for the upload.

Ooo, I used to love this.

I really liked this when it was shown on tv here in Finland in the very late 1970's. And I still like to watch it.

This was before Trevor became the shouty shouty boss man in Waking the Dead.

Great show Thanks 🙏 upload Shout out from Oz

Awesome. Thank you.

What an intro…have only recently found this….thanks v much for posting….I am sure there will be many new fans.

I used to get called 'Shoestring' as a lot of folk reckoned I was the spitting image of the character Eddie Shoestring - I think it was just the moustache !

I watched thizz when im 13 its bring back my memory feels great 👍👍👍

Good series and the idea of developing a character who was a " Socially Concerned Radio Personality with " Liberal Sympathies was for the late Seventies at least in the UK " Groundbreaking " !! And I would imagine that Trevor Eve will be forever grateful that this drama " launched His Career!! From Adrian Browne 1965

this series morphed into police drama Bergerac and Sean Arnold (playing villain Tony Hendry above) played his boss Crozier!

@roverboy4244

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Sean, sadly passed in 2020

Loved it.

The taxi driver in the opening scene also played the man who loses the drinking contest to Marian in Raiders Of The Lost Ark!

'Lucky Number' by Lene Lovich at 23:40....followed by The Searchers.

My childhood hero

This is like a British Rockford Files.

I remember my Dad watching this…I think Bergerac was much better though. Interesting to watch all these years later. Thanks for uploading them.

@Driecnk

2 жыл бұрын

No way

@jenniferjones188

24 күн бұрын

I much prefer shoestring than Bergerac

Trevor Eye is still acting and now producing a few programmes and his daughter is also succesful in her own right Alice

Watched shoestring as a child with my parents, never recognised him as the guy in Waking the Dead !

My late wife Yvonne absolutely loved this series ,great supporting actors ie Michael midwinters,oh for these days and no profanity.

This serial was aired on doordarshan way back in 1984..still remember it.. 7/10/19

@abhroy

4 жыл бұрын

Thursday 8PM was the time . But it was 1986 , I think . Target , Old Fox were aired at the same slot .

@sachinsingh-rh6fq

4 жыл бұрын

Target and old fox were aired on dd metro in 1993..

@abhroy

4 жыл бұрын

@@sachinsingh-rh6fq . That was the repeat during the 90s' on Tuesday 11 PM :) Derrick , Old Fox , Farber , Baron von the Terenk , Escape from Sobibor -- all got the Tuesday 11 PM slot . During 1985 - 88 Sunday 10.30 AM to Noon slot was for Star Trek , Cosmos (Carl Sagan) , National Geographic , Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) , UFO . That was way before DD Metro days . Sunday night 9 PM was another English slot -- Street Hawk , Body Line , Great Expectations , Jane Eyre :) So was the Saturday 3 PM slot .

@patrickjm3487

3 жыл бұрын

It’s nice to know we’re all the acting was done and to recognise the very places were it was)) It just takes ya back to the memories of old England and what you were doing etc etc )) God bless you man and your family

Liz Crowther yum yum love her!

@glamdolly30

4 жыл бұрын

Her father Leslie lived in the west country, this show set in Bristol must have been like coming home!

"I'm going round the corner.... for a chinese!" - Trevor Eve 1979

@cotswoldcuckoo775

5 жыл бұрын

James Wade And the sharks at Morecambe Bay.

@actualbennett2245

2 жыл бұрын

I think the first Chinese restaurant opened in England in the '50s or early 60s. They weren't new by the '70s - but it depended on what was in your area. We were knee deep in curry houses round my way, but my wife lived in a town with a Chinese.

@nickwyatt9498

2 жыл бұрын

There were Chinese restaurants in London in the 1920s, and possibly before. Don't know about the rest of England.

1979/80 Only 2 series. 21 episodes. Filmed in Bristol. South West England.

" Private Investigator " Combined with " Socially Conscious Radio Personality and it " Really Worked " In my view !! From Adrian Browne 1965

What a great show I remember the episode were shoestring was in the studio and a midget came and ties shoestrings laces together and he fell over cracked his head on the booth then after he was unconscious he was rogered by a dwarf, never show that episode.

The theme tune sounds abit like the tune for Bergerac. George Fenton wrote both...

Carrie Jones- gorgeous woman- she played Sandra in the Rising Damp film in 1980. 42:00

@philld1201

3 жыл бұрын

John snapped the lead in his pencil when she took her clothes off :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/p3aDx8eqZsK7gbw.html

I hope these will be restored and improved in the future.

This ep includes the urban legend of the dude who orders a call-girl and his daughter shows up. Predictably, it is no longer an urban legend, but something that has happened at least twice.

Was probably the first of the off beat detective type shows which gradually became the norm. Think Trevor Eve was quite shrewd to bow out after two series as the second series wasnt as good as the first. Believe he seriously had to be persuaded even to do a second series..

The original Jabba the Hut driving a taxi!

Stacy Dorning looking Permtastic...

The father of the delightful Alice Eve.

Brian Miller the widower of Liz Sladen appears in this episode as Willis

Just installing adblocker

it aired 30th sept 1979 on british tv till dec 21 1980 trevor eve quit the show so they ended it the first series was recorded feb 23rd till may 8th 1979 the second series june 12th 1980 till september 5th 1980

@dlamiss

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure about your dates for series two filming as we were in Devon for my parents silver wedding anniversary between September 28-October 3rd 1980 and they were filming the penulitmate episode "where was I" around the hotel we were staying. Ironically Trevor Eve and a few members of the cast were staying in the same hotel

Wow, Trevor was so young

OMG at 3:00 that's a Grundig Party Boy ... used to have one.

After watching this, I went out a bought a skinny tie, just like Eddies, I thought I was so grown up

Where can I get a Shoestring suit? I've wanted one since 1979, but can't find one.

@burneggroll

3 жыл бұрын

What's different about a Shoestring suit?

A great series. Probably wouldn't work in the 21st century though

Shoestring, with Trevor Eve. Fridays at nine……..on BBC1…….

It was named Shoestring after the amount of money spent making each episode (£7.55)

Forgive the pun, but this was made on a Shoestring budget, perhaps? Not really for me but thanks for the share, anywho.

Yes, even we watched shoe string on our doordarshan

... we were easily pleased back then

Ono that vant to say this....but would ...yes.....

Stacy Dorning Whatever happened to her after doing the 80s sitcom Keep it in The Family 💖💖💖💖

So far, so STINKO....let's hope it picks up.