Shoestring Season 2

Shoestring Season 2 has quietly become one of the more dependable crime dramas currently available. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 6 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Watch Trevor Eve work — the performance is a masterclass in restraint. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Shoestring Season 2 is worth clearing space for. Shoestring Season 2 treats its mystery as a means, not an end in itself. Season 2 of Shoestring includes 10 episodes. It aired from October 1980 to December 1980. 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 1980. The plot mechanics of Shoestring Season 2 never overwhelm the human cost underneath them. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

If you cannot walk away from a good mystery, Shoestring Season 2 will keep you hooked. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Trevor Eve's performance is the kind that shows up on best-of lists years later. If you have been looking for something to fill the gap left by a recently finished story, this is a reliable answer.

🎬 Shoestring Season 2 — Episode Guide

Room With a View

1980-10-05

Retired music hall singer Lettie Ross witnesses a murder in the empty house opposite her flat, but when police and her daughter are dismissive, she calls in Eddie. His investigations lead to Duke Winsor, a slum landlord who has just purchased the house, and Alan Fuller, another potential buyer - who...

The Teddy Bears' Nightmare

1980-10-12

While out fishing, Don sees a thief rob a young couple of the woman's handbag but the couple themselves flee and fail to report the theft. Don retrieves the bag and Eddie traces it to Christine Page, who eventually admits that she and her married lover, Ken Bailey, are being blackmailed. However, th...

Mocking Bird

1980-10-19

Young women are being mugged around the city and the perpetrator, a caller with an Ulster accent, keeps ringing Eddie and taunting him for his inability to catch him. Police are called in but smug inspector Healey is little help. After Sonia is attacked, Tom, a security guard at the station and form...

The Mayfly Dance

1980-10-26

Don asks Eddie to locate Jody Brent, a once-popular singer whose big hit 'Lazy Daisy' is enjoying a revival on Radio West's easy listening show. Though Miriam, Jody's manager, claims he is in America, Eddie hears that he is living in Wales in seclusion. Mike Frewin, Jody's former bandmate, asks the ...

The Farmer Had a Wife

1980-11-02

To encourage more human interest stories, Don persuades Eddie to help watercress farmer David Mortimer, whose wife Rosemary has disappeared for a second time, and is being accused by other villagers of murdering her, to try and locate her. The trail leads to ex-doctor Knightley in whom she confided ...

Utmost Good Faith

1980-11-09

After her debt-ridden husband Tim has killed himself, Mary Reynolds asks Eddie's help in discovering why her credit facilities have been stopped when the debt concerned was twelve years earlier and apparently cancelled. Eddie discovers that Tim was working on a computer which diagnosed faults in car...

Looking for Mr Wright

1980-11-16

Erica's secretary Lois meets charming Clive Wright through a dating agency but he disappears whilst they are in a restaurant and the staff and dating agency workers are equally unhelpful as to whether he existed.

Another Man's Castle

1980-12-07

Whilst Philip and Diana Hoskens are moving house the van containing all their furniture is stolen by a shady landlord called Terry Bowen to furnish a property he is letting to a young couple. One of them, Cleo, sells the colour television, which brings her into contact with Eddie, who's investigatin...

Where Was I?

1980-12-14

Family man Keith Amery goes camping on the moors alone and sees a helicopter land but falls and hits his head, bringing on amnesia. On the advice of Eddie's old psychiatrist, Keith's wife asks Eddie to help Keith recall events, but with little success. Simultaneously, an Australian girl named Denise...

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The Dangerous Game

1980-12-21

Market trader Pete Johnson deals in stolen goods, gives his young son Mike an early Christmas present, an electric racing game, but it's faulty and blows up, hospitalising the boy. Pete initially lies to hospital staff over the cause of his son's injuries but eventually produces a replacement, which...

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