Release Date

12 Jul, 1979

Runtime

00:25: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

69/10

Synopsis

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

Original Title

Shelley

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Specials

22 Dec, 1980

Series 1

12 Jul, 1979

Series 2

08 May, 1980

Series 3

29 Dec, 1980

Series 4

18 Feb, 1982

Series 5

04 Nov, 1982

Series 6

01 Dec, 1983

The Return of Shelley

11 Oct, 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

17 Oct, 1989

Series 9

24 Sep, 1990

Series 10

28 Jul, 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.

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