 When Trevor Eve (I) (qv) decided to move from TV back to the  theatre after doing two series of _"Shoestring" (1979)_ (qv), its  creator, Banks Stewart, Robert (qv), was left with lots of  leftover ideas, so he developed a new series about another  rehabilitating detective, this time based in Jersey, which explains  the similarities between Bergerac and Shoestring.