Ian McMillan

Dave Sheasby

Martyn Wiley

Fine Time Fontayne

Judy Flynn

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The BBC Radio 4 Crime Drama

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 
 
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 18 July-15 August 1989 (Series 1), 20 June-11 July 1991 (Series 2), 18 March-8 April 1993 (Series 3) 
 
Cast 
 
Stephen J Blackburn……………………Fine Time Fontayne 
Tracey Duggan……………………Judy Flynn 
Mam……………………Rita May 
Dad……………………John Branwell

The Blackburn Files: The Complete Series 1-3

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