Glad the mistake worked out well...Shoestring is a personal favourite of mine. I bought Spender of the 'net too, and enjoyed it.
'Find the Lady' is the Toyah episode I think...I've bought a set of the DVDs from the internet and this episode is cut, coming in at between 47 and 48 minutes as I remember. I also have this episode on the WH Smith VHS cassette released in the early nineties and it runs to just over 50 minutes on that. The cuts are mostly minor stuff , but some episodes are worse affected. 'Private Ear' lost quite a bit of establishing story for instance. 'Uncertain Circle' lost a bit of the more violent scenes...maybe because the Beeb were broadcasting them in the early afternoon...some episodes lost a bit of the banter between Eddie and Erica...good fun, but not always vital to the plot.
I have VHS versions of most episodes taped from UK Gold (as was), again in the early nineties, and I suspect these are only trimmed a touch where the adverts were inserted...one day I'll dig 'em out and transfer them to DVD myself. The picture wasn't all that good though, and occasionally reverted to black and white.
I agree with you though - the versions available on the internet are good..and certainly better than nothing...the episodes currently being shown on the Alibi channel are the trimmed versions too. It seems unlikely that Shoestring will ever get a 'proper' release due to the much discussed and rather annoying issue of music rights.
AndyG
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