Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992.

Shelley: Created by Peter Tilbury. With Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Garfield Morgan. James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the …

After nearly five years away teaching in the Middle East, Shelley flies back into the UK. He's shocked to find a new world of high rent, yuppies, and wine bars--but Shelley is still Shelley--ready wit, work-shy behaviour, and all.

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Intellectually-talkative (but terminal layabout) James Shelley and his writer girlfriend Fran are desperate to move out of their present shared accommodation into a home of their own. Their search for the perfect pad isn't easy, but circumstances conspire to lead them to the unlikely bedsit haven of sharp-tongued landlady Mrs Hawkins.

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Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992. Starred Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, originally 28 years old and a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment 'freelance layabout' with a doctoral degree.

Shelley. TV sitcom; ITV1; 1979 - 1992; 71 episodes (10 series) Highly intelligent but inherently lazy, Shelley is one of life's constant philosophers, never quite achieving a stable life. Stars Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson, Garfield Morgan, Caroline Langrishe and more.

Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992. Starred Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, originally 28 years old and a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment 'freelance layabout' with a doctoral degree.

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