# The Blackburn Files: The Complete Series 1-3

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- Authors: [Ian McMillan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcmillan), [Dave Sheasby](https://www.bookquiver.com/dave-sheasby), [Martyn Wiley](https://www.bookquiver.com/martyn-wiley)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2019-12-19

## Description

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

## Editions

### The Blackburn Files: The Complete Series 1-3

- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 20 min
- ISBN: 978-17-8753-820-7
- Published: 2019-12-19
- Language: en_GB