"PRIVATE EAR"
An amusing addition to many episodes was Eddie's perchant towards sketching people, usually suspects,
as he questioned them in the course of his investigations (he describes it to Don as a "bad habit", and
tells Willis that it's therapy, in "PRIVATE EAR"!). Acclaimed and prolific cartoonist GRAY JOLLIFFE
contributed these illustrations...
MICHAEL MEDWIN as Don Satchley in "PRIVATE EAR"
BRIAN MILLER as Willis in "PRIVATE EAR"
TONY HAYGARTH as Len Tilley in "PRIVATE EAR"
PATRICK DURKIN as Laurie in "PRIVATE EAR"
ROBERT WALKER as Alan Bridgeman in "NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW"
DAVID KING as Strickland in "STAMP DUTY"
OSCAR JAMES as Duke Winsor in "ROOM WITH A VIEW"
DEBBIE FARRINGTON as Cleo in "ANOTHER MAN'S CASTLE"
RICHARD KAY as Clive Wright
in "LOOKING FOR MR WRIGHT"
"PRIVATE EAR"
CLAIRE WALKER as Maddy Hopkins in "I'M A BELIEVER"
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The article below, entitled "QUICK ON THE DRAW" and written by TIM EWBANK, appeared in The Sun
on 22 December 1979, the Saturday after Series 1 of Shoestring has finished its run:

For a man who never wears a gun, telly detective Shoestring is really quick on the
draw. As fans of the hit Sunday night series know, Shoestring - played by Trevor Eve -
has his private eye work down to a fine art. He builds up a picture of his cases by
making quick sketches of informants and witnesses.

Dozens of readers have written to us asking if Eve, the Private Ear of fictional Radio
West, does the sketches himself.

The answer is No, although he is a talented artist who spent two years at art college.
The Shoestring sketches are all the work of his hidden right hand man, cartoonist Gray
Jolliffe.

Jolliffe, who is also creative director of an advertising agency, has drawn cartoons for
dozens of magazines. He says: "I have my own style as a cartoonist and I don't really
draw sketches of people. But I think I got better as the series went on."

Jolliffe will again be Trevor Eve's pen-pal in the second Shoestring series, which is
already being planned.
Eddie's sketches
BELOW:
Eddie self portrait? (Gray Jolliffe sketch of Trevor Eve)