The World of Eddie Weary

Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of Eddie Weary a sympathetic downatheel shabby Northern workingclass private detective in a TV show Except Conway is actually a complete idiot in reallife stuck up pretentious and selfish the constant focus of tabloid interest for his bad usually drunken behaviour But then he discovers he gets truckloads of mail from fans who think he really is Eddie Weary asking for his help so he decides to help them with the aid of his assistant Birdie