Shelley (1979–1983)

Name: Shelley
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1979-07-12
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Garfield Morgan

TV Series | 30 min | Comedy

Episode Guide

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

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Cast & Crew

Top Series Cast

Hywel Bennett

James Shelley

(39 episodes, 1979-1984)
Belinda Sinclair

Fran

(29 episodes, 1979-1984)
Josephine Tewson

Mrs. Hawkins

(23 episodes, 1979-1982)

Creator:

Peter Tilbury

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Awards

2 nominations.

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User Reviews

18 April 2020 | evans-15475

| Disappointing rewatch

This was must watch enjoyable tv as a teenager,but rewatching this year was a big disappointment a lot of talking which every half hour feels like an hour,also everyone remembers this being about a job shy layabout actually from the 2nd series on he's desperately looking for a job, the biggest laugh I got was realising the main complaints about tories destroying the jobs schools and nhs are the same as comedians are making now 40 years later with nuclear war being replaced with brexit

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Trivia

The first series, broadcast in Summer 1979, comprised of just four episodes although seven were made. The final three episodes were not shown due to an ITV technician's strike and instead where shown at the beginning of series two in 1980.