Shoestring - Looking For Mr Wright Episode

[seanflynn76]

I was wondering if someone in this forum, could possibly help me? I'm putting together a televison-o-graphy for my new Website honouring the career of Diana Dors, and I'm looking for a synopsis of the episode of Shoestring she appeared in. I've tried looking everywhere for details but to no avail, put if someone could help I much appreciate it. The episode is entitled "Looking For Mr Wright", and it's original transmission date date was 16th Novemeber 1980.

[mrs_emma_peel]

Shoestring … Looking For Mr Wright

First broadcast BBC1 16th November, 1980 … 9.25-10-15pm.

Special Guest Star … Diana Dors as Maggie



Lois, a legal secretary, enlists the help of a dating agency to meet a potential partner. Clive, her

date, disappears during a meal at a restaurant, having been chased by two men from a dinner

party headed by fairground owner Maggie (Diana Dors).



When Lois' work is substandard at the office, Erica asks what is wrong, and duly enlists Eddie

to find Clive. The dating agency puts up a brick wall, and the restaurant can offer no leads.

Eddie realises that Clive must have been there, and made his escape through the bathroom

window. This has obviously been replaced recently, as the putty around the frame is soft.



A girl who works at the restaurant tells Eddie that there was another party at the restaurant that

night, and that there was a brief scuffle in the men's washroom. Bribing the waiter, Eddie finds

out that this was true, and is told about Maggie.



At the fairground, Maggie's sons and the boisterous owner of the family business deny all

knowledge of Clive. Eddie, meanwhile, manages to win a goldfish and a coconut….



Denny and Elvis, Maggie's sons, burgle the dating agency and take all the files relating to Clive.

Eddie is accused of being the thief, and has 24 hours to prove that he did not take the files. An

unexpected lead is provided when Eddie remembers about the flower which Clive gave Lois.

Although withered, it is still in its presentation box and visiting the flower shop at which it was

purchased, Eddie discovers that Clive's surname is Wright.



Eddie is also able to discover Clive's address. Visiting the block of flats where Wright lives,

Eddie is warded off by an unfriendly caretaker, but makes his way into the building when the

front office is empty, only to be knocked unconscious by Denny and Elvis, who have been

searching Wright's room.



Recovering at Erica's, Eddie realises that further information about Clive can be found on the

files of other people whom he has dated in the past. Visiting the dating agency during

lunchtime, when the owner is out, Eddie poses as a computer technician who has come to

service the firm's printer. Using the computer to glean more information about Wright's previous

dates, Eddie visits a woman who dated him before Lois.



He learns that Clive Wright worked abroad, and the woman is able to give him the name of the

missing man's company, which provides Eddie with a current address. This leads Eddie to

Wright's place of hiding, a hotel. Maggie and her sons, having been told by the caretaker, whom

they threatened, where Wright is now staying, have taken him before Eddie can arrive.



Driving to the fairground, Eddie finds that Maggie has let Clive Wright go, but secretly told her

workers to beat him up. Wright had a brief relationship with her daughter, who committed

suicide after he left her.



Trying to stop the beating, Eddie is held back, until one of Maggie's son's calls the punishment

off, yelling that Maggie killed her own daughter by denying her a life of her own. She fell in love

with the first man she met - the unreliable Wright - and killed herself out of loneliness when he

left her. Maggie storms off and Wright thanks Eddie, who tells him in turn that he should pass

his gratitude on to Lois. When Wright says that he has no idea what Lois has to do with recent

events, Eddie leaves in disgust, having to tell the legal secretary that she won't be seeing any

more of her elusive date.



Synopsis written by Nick Stewart

A celebration of BBC1’s cult classic Shoestring series … with extensive information including episode synopsis, reviews and pictures …

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Hope this helps. Best of luck, Sean, with the Diana Dors web-site

Emma

[GoggleboxUK]

I was just looking for something to watch so I'll watch it and write one for you....







Contains spoilers:



Written by Robert Bennett, Looking for Mr Wright is the seventh episode from the second series of Shoestring.



Eddie is called in to investigate the disappearance of a man halfway through a first date by the lady he left behind.



Diana Dors plays Maggie Devlin, the matriarch of a family clan of carnies. She is described in the show as "Rich as hell and tough as old boots." When Shoestring starts asking questions about the family Maggie's boys seek him out first. His conversation with Maggie has her reacting cagily but sharp edged.



Maggie is annoyed when her boys catch Eddie snooping and knock him unconscious and it is revealed that Maggie's daughter was lost and there is an implication that Mr Wright (Richard Kay) was involved. Soon enough, Maggie tells her boys to work him over. Eddie rushes to the rescue only to find himself and Mr Wright on the receiving end of a beating. The fight is stopped by Maggie's son Denny (Martin Fisk) who doesn't agree with his mother about Wright being the reason his sister committed suicide. Denny tells his mother that she was to blame for forcing the girl to be just like her. Maggie is stunned into silence and walks away.



Eddie has the unenviable task of explaining to his client that, despite her efforts, Mr Wright has left the country and they won't be sharing a second date.



Milton Johns also appears briefly in this episode.

[seanflynn76]

Wow!!!! thank you so much, I really appreciate this, and also the for the image of Dors, GoogleboxUK!! Many thanks again....