Shelley
Plot Summary
James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
Cast & Characters
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Seasons (11)
Series 1
7 episodes
Aired: 1979
Series 2
6 episodes
Aired: 1980
Series 3
7 episodes
Aired: 1980
Series 4
6 episodes
Aired: 1982
Series 5
6 episodes
Aired: 1982
Series 6
6 episodes
Aired: 1983
The Return of Shelley
6 episodes
Aired: 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.
Series 8
13 episodes
Aired: 1989
Series 9
6 episodes
Aired: 1990
Series 10
6 episodes
Aired: 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.