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Eddie self portrait? (Gray Jolliffe sketch of Trevor Eve)
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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...
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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:
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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.
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Dozens of readers have written to us asking if Eve, the Private Ear of fictional Radio
West, does the sketches himself.
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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.
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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."
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Jolliffe will again be Trevor Eve's pen-pal in the second Shoestring series, which is
already being planned.
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MICHAEL MEDWIN as Don Satchley in "PRIVATE EAR"
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BRIAN MILLER as Willis in "PRIVATE EAR"
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TONY HAYGARTH as Len Tilley in "PRIVATE EAR"
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PATRICK DURKIN as Laurie in "PRIVATE EAR"
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ROBERT WALKER as Alan Bridgeman in "NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW"
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DAVID KING as Strickland in "STAMP DUTY"
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CLAIRE WALKER as Maddy Hopkins in "I'M A BELIEVER"
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OSCAR JAMES as Duke Winsor in "ROOM WITH A VIEW"
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DEBBIE FARRINGTON as Cleo in "ANOTHER MAN'S CASTLE"
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RICHARD KAY as Clive Wright
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in "LOOKING FOR MR WRIGHT"
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