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* ThemeTuneCameo: The first few seconds of the theme song play at the beginning of a weather report in "Stamp Duty."
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* ThemeTuneCameo: The first few seconds of the theme song play are used as a Radio West jingle, played at the beginning of a weather report in "Stamp Duty."things like news reports.
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* CharacterTics: Eddie doodles when he's nervous or concentrating. He also rubs his fingers together and plays with anything he happens to be holding, including his tie.
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* CharacterTics: Eddie doodles when he's nervous or concentrating. He also rubs his fingers together together, wrings his hands, and plays with anything he happens to be holding, including his tie.
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* ScamReligion: The Starshiners from "I'm a Believer" buy run-down houses, renovate them for free, and sell them. Their founder tells them that the money will go towards spreading the religion, when it's actually being spent on his mansion.
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* FriendsWithBenefits: Eddie and his landlady, Erica Bayliss.
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* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Inverted in "The Partnership." A butcher asks Eddie if he's "that man on the radio." Eddie answers, "You mean that guy with the funny name? Can't stand him."
* CharacterTics: Eddie doodles when he's nervous or concentrating. He also rubs his fingers together and plays with anything he happens to be holding, including his tie.
* CharacterTics: Eddie doodles when he's nervous or concentrating. He also rubs his fingers together and plays with anything he happens to be holding, including his tie.
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* FollowThatCar: Eddie does this in "The Partnership." The driver says, "Where do you think you are, Series/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco?" He goes along with it, although he complains the whole time.
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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: In "Stamp Duty," Eddie's acquaintance from the psychiatric ward calls the station, saying he witnessed a murder. Eddie doesn't believe him, since he's a pathological liar who makes up a different crime every week, even though he's telling the truth this time.
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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: CryingWolf: In "Stamp Duty," Eddie's acquaintance from the psychiatric ward calls the station, saying he witnessed a murder. Eddie doesn't believe him, since he's a pathological liar who makes up a different crime every week, even though he's telling the truth this time.
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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: In "Stamp Duty," Eddie's acquaintance from the psychiatric ward calls the station, saying he witnessed a murder. Eddie doesn't believe him, since he's a pathological liar who makes up a different crime every week, even though he's telling the truth this time.
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* AscendedFanboy: Eddie read massive amounts of detective fiction during his stay in the mental hospital.
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* DrinkOrder: Eddie goes into a punk club and orders orange juice.
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* AccidentalKidnapping: In "Stamp Duty," two henchmen kidnap Eddie, thinking he witnessed one of their crimes. When they realize they have the wrong man, they force him to drink whiskey, then dump him onto a motorway, where he staggers around drunkenly dodging cars.
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* RomanAClef: In-universe example. Eddie changes everyone's names in his weekly broadcasts, although the details he provides are sometimes still enough to get him in trouble with lawyers.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: The first few seconds of the theme song play at the beginning of a weather report in "Stamp Duty."
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* TapOnTheHead: In "Nine Tenths of the Law," a girl climbs a tree and drops a vase on Eddie's head, knocking him out long enough for her father to steal his car keys.
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* TapOnTheHead: In "Nine Tenths of the Law," a girl climbs a tree and drops a vase flowerpot on Eddie's head, knocking him out long enough for her father to steal his car keys.
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* TapOnTheHead: In "Nine Tenths of the Law," a girl climbs a tree and drops a vase on Eddie's head, knocking him out long enough for her father to steal his car keys.
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* MustacheVandalism: In "Listen to Me," Eddie hears that a rapist and murderer had a mustache and glasses. He draws a mustache and glasses onto a police sketch in the newspaper to help identify the man.
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* MustacheVandalism: In "Listen to Me," Eddie hears that a rapist and murderer had a mustache and glasses. He draws a mustache and glasses onto a police sketch in the newspaper to help identify the man.newspaper.
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* CryIntoChest: A woman sobs into Eddie's chest after he tells her that her husband has been exonerated of murder.
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* ShirtlessScene: Eddie gets one in "An Uncertain Circle" while he's being treated for burns.
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* MustacheVandalism: In "Listen to Me," Eddie hears that a rapist and murderer had a mustache and glasses. He draws a mustache and glasses onto a police sketch in the newspaper to help identify the man.
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* BritishBrevity: The show ran for two series and only 21 episodes.
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* AmoralAfrikaner: Jan Poesma from "An Uncertain Circle" is the leader of an international heroin ring.
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* ManOnFire: In "An Uncertain Circle," Eddie is trapped in a burning beach house. With his clothes on fire, he escapes through a window, runs across the beach, and jumps into the ocean.
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* AndStarring: "Starring Trevor Eve with Michael Medwin, Doran Godwin, Liz Crowther."
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* BadassLongcoat: Eddie's boss, Don Satchley, tries to invoke this trope by having him pose in a trench coat and hat for publicity photos.
--> '''Eddie''': No hat. It doesn't even fit!\\
'''Don''': Yes, the hat. It's the Literature/SamSpade image!
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'''Don''': Yes, the hat. It's the Literature/SamSpade image!
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* CityWithNoName: The city where the show takes place is never named, although it was filmed in Bristol.
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* CityWithNoName: The city where the show takes place is never named, although it was filmed in Bristol.Bristol, but the city is never mentioned by name.
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* CityWithNoName: The city where the show takes place is never named, although it was filmed in Bristol.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The show was filmed in Bristol, although the city is never named.
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''Shoestring'' was a British DetectiveDrama, set in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, that ran for 21 episodes in 1979 and 1980.
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''Shoestring'' was a British DetectiveDrama, set in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, DetectiveDrama that ran for 21 episodes in 1979 and 1980.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The show was filmed in Bristol, although the city is never named.
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!!''Shoestring'' features contains examples of:
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Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve) is a former computer programmer who became a private detective after suffering a nervous breakdown. After investigating a potential scandal involving the then-fictional Radio West, Eddie is offered a job as the station's "private ear," presenting a weekly radio show and investigating cases for his callers free of charge.
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Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve) is a former computer programmer who became a private detective after suffering a nervous breakdown. After investigating a potential scandal involving the then-fictional Radio West, Eddie is offered a job as the station's "private ear," presenting a weekly radio show and investigating cases for his callers free of charge.
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* TheXOfY: Eddie's show is called "The Private Ear of Eddie Shoestring."
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* PerformanceAnxiety: Eddie has an attack of nerves on his first day. He stammers through much of his first broadcast, and even giggles at one point.
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* TalkingInYourSleep: In "Knock for Knock," a woman can't remember anything about the car accident that widowed her, until she's put under anesthesia at the dentist's office, when she starts muttering about what she saw during the accident.
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* FreakOut: Eddie "blew a fuse," smashed a computer with a hammer, and spent some time in a mental institution before he took up detective work.
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''Shoestring'' was a British detective show, set in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, that ran for 21 episodes in 1979 and 1980.
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''Shoestring'' was a British detective show, DetectiveDrama, set in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, that ran for 21 episodes in 1979 and 1980.
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''Shoestring'' was a British detective show, set in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, that ran for 21 episodes in 1979 and 1980.
Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve) is a former computer programmer who became a private detective after suffering a nervous breakdown. After investigating a potential scandal involving the then-fictional Radio West, Eddie is offered a job as the station's "private ear," presenting a weekly radio show and investigating cases for his callers free of charge.
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Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve) is a former computer programmer who became a private detective after suffering a nervous breakdown. After investigating a potential scandal involving the then-fictional Radio West, Eddie is offered a job as the station's "private ear," presenting a weekly radio show and investigating cases for his callers free of charge.
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