TV series / 1979

Shelley

Name: Shelley
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1979-07-12
Cast: Josephine Tewson, Samantha Beckinsale, Garfield Morgan, Warren Clarke, Hywel Bennett

Comedy

★ 7.7/10Audience rating

James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.

The story

James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.

The seasons

Season 1 Series 1 1979 · 7 episodes Season details

July 12, 1979

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Season 2 Series 2 1980 · 6 episodes Season details

May 8, 1980

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Season 3 Series 3 1980 · 7 episodes Season details

Dec. 29, 1980

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Season 4 Series 4 1982 · 6 episodes Season details

Feb. 18, 1982

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Season 5 Series 5 1982 · 6 episodes Season details

Nov. 4, 1982

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Season 6 Series 6 1983 · 6 episodes Season details

Dec. 1, 1983

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Season 7 The Return of Shelley 1988 · 6 episodes Season details

Oct. 11, 1988

Shelley is (still) separated from Fran, and lives on his own, doing his best to avoid obtaining gainful employment.

The series begins with Shelley returning to the UK from Kuwait after teaching English for several years, only to find that his calls to his old friends are now screened by answering machines and that yuppieness has taken root in his old neighbourhood.

Season 8 Series 8 1989 · 13 episodes Season details

Oct. 17, 1989

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Season 9 Series 9 1990 · 6 episodes Season details

Sept. 24, 1990

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Season 10 Series 10 1992 · 6 episodes Season details

July 28, 1992

Shelley is now a lodger with Ted Bishop. Ted's house is the only one left in his street, the other residences having been demolished to make way for a leisure centre. Shelley moves in as lodger to help Ted with his fight against the developers who want to demolish the house Ted has lived in his whole life.

Special episodes