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.
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Aaron Brown, Network, 6th December 2019The Return of Shelley (Thames) by Andy Hamilton offers some real writing, Hywel Bennett and charmingly curly and inconsequential conjectures on answering machines, selling grandmothers and why wildebeest keep swimming across rivers and drowning instead of taking over all the jobs and forming long queues at the post office. It also offers an excellent supply of off-the-peg ammunition to use on tiny, daily tyrants.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 12th October 1988Hywel Bennett, as Shelley, arrives like a baby elephant through a paper hoop. A smaller actor might have done a smoother job on that first speech. But he seems to make the set bulge a bit and does add weight to the series, which itself has more substance than some.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 13th July 1979