The Blackburn Files Series 3

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

Episode 1 00:00
A Case of Winners and Losers

Private-eye Steven J Blackburn is still trailing his assistant behind him, but she’s rapidly catching up.

At the allotments, a mucky war of the flowers has broken out.

Episode 2 29:37
A Case of Hard Times

When a pub quiz jackpot is consistently won by the same contestant, the landlord’s convinced trickery is involved so calls in Blackburn to crack the scam.

But general knowledge isn’t really Stephen’s strength and anyway, is it really a question of fraud?

Episode 3 59:08
A Case of Drowning Sorrows

Stephen visits his Auntie Eileen in a retirement home, where the theft of a ventriloquist’s dummy soon has him treading the boards of memory lane.

Episode 4 1:28:41
A Case of Happy Endings

Setting out to track down a missing person, private-eye Steven J Blackburn finds something more…

Starring Finetime Fontayne.

The final case for ex-pitman turned investigator Steven J Blackburn and his government scheme-funded assistant Tracey.

Written by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby

Stephen J Blackburn …… Finetime Fontayne
Tracey Duggan …… Judy Flynn
Frank Ellis …… John Branwell
Maggie …… Ann Rye.

Director: Dave Sheasby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993.

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