Shoestring - Private Ear - S01 E01 

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 !) 😃

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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.

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

and sean arnold here.

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 ❤

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 remember watching that yes, great series Julie 👍

Yea I remember it played by David Yip 📺

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?

I never heard of it What’s the name

@@Webbgurl2000 the Chinese detective.

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Yep!

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.

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

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

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

Eddie Shoestring, The Old Fox and Yes Minister.

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

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.

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

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

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

Yeah old Albert Bootlace

Some of it, yeah.

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

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@@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. :)

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

Yes - a real gent. Sadly missed.

RIP Sean, sadly passed in 2020

No way

I much prefer shoestring than Bergerac

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

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

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

@@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 .

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

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

James Wade And the sharks at Morecambe Bay.

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.

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

What's different about a Shoestring suit?

John snapped the lead in his pencil when she took her clothes off :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uBOeeq6_UQY.html

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

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It was '79/80

@@katewolfspirit6722 Ah haaa , not tooo embarrassing , I was 14 .

@@adzdahlman9724 I was 6 and 7 when this first got shown. I know the acting isn't top notch but after watching subsequent repeats in later years (on YT, I don't watch any TV) I think I really like Shoestrings character's edginess and intensity. And of course, Trevor Eve is really quite attractive in a strange 70s way 😎😋

@@katewolfspirit6722 Yeah , my mum and sister fancied him . Agreed the character, his , character , is pretty cool , BUT,,, looking back , the storylines and general acting are / is , dreadful . The more I think about that era , and I don't wish to dwell on it , the more similar horrors come to mind ,, The Professionals , The New Avengers , dear lord...

@@adzdahlman9724 Yeah, add Minder to that. Lots of storylines where they are in strip clubs and end up with a different 'bird' every episode. Different times.