The Blackburn Files Series 1

Fine Time Fontayne stars as pitman-turned-private eye Stephen J Blackburn in this whimsical detective series.Show more

When he’s made redundant from his job at a South Yorkshire pit, Stephen J Blackburn sets out to forge a new career as a private investigator. With his trainee assistant Tracey, he looks into a series of complicated cases ranging from plagiarism to missing persons.

In Series 1, the duo are confronted with Hungarian exiles, a philandering husband, a long-lost brother, a purloined TV script and a time-share cash con.

Series 2 finds them faced with seven stolen sculptures, a ransomed Filofax, a husband who reappears after 30 years and a routine marital case that starts to look like their final investigation.

And in Series 3, Steven and Tracey get digging in the murky world of flowers, crack a pub quiz fraud scam, look into the theft of a ventriloquist’s dummy and track down an Irish labourer - a case which turns out to be far more complex than expected....

Starring Fine Time Fontayne (Coronation Street) as Stephen J Blackburn and Judy Flynn (The Brittas Empire) as Tracey Duggan.

Written by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby
Directed by Dave Sheasby

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18 July-15 August 1989 (Series 1)

Episode 1 00:00
A Case of Making Good

A rich woman receives a mysterious parcel of tenners and the past unfolds like a flower.

Can redundant pitman turned discrete private investigator, Stephen J Blackburn solve the case?

Episode 2 29:29
A Case of Parma Violets

Trailing her own distinctive perfume, Betty Shuttleworth suspects her husband's having an affair...

So she turns to ex-pitman turned private investigator Stephen J Blackburn.

Episode 3 57:55
A Case of Brotherly Love

Private investigator Stephen J Blackburn hunts for the long-lost brother of a Canadian, decades after they were cruelly separated....

Episode 4 1:25:53
A Case of Plagiarism

Ex-pitman turned private investigator Stephen J Blackburn is called in when writer Hartley J Newton is convinced his TV script has been pinched...

Episode 5 1:54:32
A Case of Haddock and Plaice

When an elderly couple face a time-share cash con, it sparks private investigator Stephen J Blackburn's first case abroad.

Starring Fine Time Fontayne and Judy Flynn.

Written by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby.

Stephen J Blackburn …… Finetime Fontayne
Tracey …… Judy Flynn

With:

Gerry Kersey
Lorraine Peters
Norman Mills
Lucia Laratonda
James Tomlinson

Directed for BBC North East by Dave Sheasby

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