Shoestring Season 1

If you want a crime drama that treats its mystery as more than a puzzle, Shoestring Season 1 is available on streaming right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. With 6 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Watch Trevor Eve work — the performance is a masterclass in restraint. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Shoestring Season 1 is worth clearing space for. The plotting in Shoestring Season 1 is tight enough that the twists feel earned rather than assembled. Season 1 of Shoestring includes 11 episodes. It aired from September 1979 to December 1979. This season stars Trevor Eve, Doran Godwin and Liz Crowther. Trevor Eve and Doran Godwin lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1979. Shoestring Season 1 is at its best in the quiet scenes between the plot beats, where the character work actually happens. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

For anyone who wants their crime drama to earn its twists, Shoestring Season 1 delivers. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Watch Trevor Eve work — it is a masterclass in the genre. Few crime dramas earn their twists this consistently.

🎬 Shoestring Season 1 — Episode Guide

Private Ear

1979-09-30

Private detective Eddie Shoestring is asked by Radio West to look into the life of Sarah Marshall, a prostitute who has committed suicide. She died in a Rolls Royce belonging to David Carn, the station's most popular disc jockey, immediately after she had desperately tried to see him, and Radio West...

Knock for Knock

1979-10-07

Eddie nervously does his first ""Private Ear"" program and tries to locate the drivers of a van who are responsible for killing a young woman's husband in a car accident.

Higher Ground

1979-10-14

Eddie goes to work for Jean, the wife of Major Hansford, a tough prep school headmaster (and retired Army officer) whose small school is being threatened by a series of nasty pranks.

An Uncertain Circle

1979-10-21

Marion Cutler, a social worker, asks Eddie to look for Nick Forrest, one of her charges who has gone missing. Nick is a remarkable fellow who had been living in a hut on the beach. But Steve, the owner of the hut, tells Eddie he's never heard of him. The mystery begins to centre on some aerial photo...

Listen to Me

1979-10-28

Mel Shepherd threatens to throw herself off the roof of the Radio West building unless Eddie investigates her claim of a miscarriage of justice. Her husband Harry was jailed for killing a shop assistant while robbing a local jeweller's shop — but did he do it?

Nine Tenths of the Law

1979-11-04

A distraught woman asks Eddie to find her daughter, who she is sure has been kidnapped by her ex-husband.

The Link-Up

1979-11-11

After Molly Tasker, director of a local women's refuge, accuses Radio West of ignoring domestic violence, Eddie investigates why the late Jackie Craig, whose wife is in the hostel, was unaccountably wealthy when he drowned. Eddie traces Craig's belongings to his ex-employer Jimmy Colefax, who is sai...

Stamp Duty

1979-11-18

Stamp dealer Joss Hargreaves collapses and dies whilst being bundled into a car by heavies working for Strickland, a corrupt businessman whom Eddie is trying to expose. Milkman Andy Stapleton witnesses everything but is spotted and goes on the run, having told Eddie. Knowing Andy's reputation as a l...

Find the Lady

1979-12-02

Rock singer Toola asks Eddie to dissuade her sacked bass player Mole from his belief that his beauty queen girlfriend Chrissie was killed out of jealousy by the band's manager, Malcolm Kenrick. Mole is persistent despite a beach photographer showing Eddie a recent picture of Chrissie and the lady he...

E10

The Partnership

1979-12-09

Sonia is concerned for her friend, travel agent Jenny Kelson, whom she sees apparently being threatened by a young man. Eddie follows him, leading to a remote country house owned by a couple of dog breeders, where he discovers that they're burglars, tipped off by Jenny as to when householders will b...

E11

I'm a Believer

1979-12-12

When Maddy Hopkins joins religious cult, The Starshiners, her anxious mother, convinced that the group is out to get her trust fund money from her 21st birthday, asks Eddie to investigate. Maddy will hear nothing against the group but Eddie suspects a racket and meets the apparently sincere cult fou...

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