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.
Returning from a near-five-year hiatus, Hywel Bennett stars once again as James Shelley, the erudite, philosophically inclined idler who elevated work-avoidance to an art form through its initial and massively popular six series run in the early 1980s.
These further series (initially titled The Return Of Shelley) see the graduate...
Hywel Bennett stars as James Shelley: an erudite, highly articulate graduate and bone-idle skiver who spends his days pondering life's philosophical implications whilst dodging the bureaucratic machinery that has the gall to insist that he actually work for a living. At the series' outset he shares a little North London...
A long-running success for ITV lasting for ten series over fourteen years, Shelley features a masterful performance by Hywel Bennett as the bone-idle graduate-philosopher cast adrift on a sea of unemployment.
This set contains the complete sixth series, also featuring Belinda Sinclair as girlfriend Fran, and Garfield Morgan (The Sweeney)...
James Shelley is trying to show willing. Exasperated by his constant procrastination, wife Fran has now given him his marching orders, and there are even the rumblings of divorce proceedings. So Shelley becomes something of a regular at the 'Easy Job' agency in an effort to find tolerable work and...
James Shelley is highly educated and has a PhD in geography. He is also unemployed and has no intention of working. He lives with his girlfriend Fran in a bedsit at the home of Mrs. Hawkins (known as Mrs. H) and the series follows his mis-adventures as he ducks, dodges...
James Shelley is highly educated and has a PhD in geography. He is also unemployed and has no intention of working. He lives with his girlfriend Fran in a bedsit at the home of Mrs. Hawkins (known as Mrs. H) and the series follows his mis-adventures as he ducks, dodges...
James Shelley is highly educated and has a PhD in geography. He is also unemployed and has no intention of working. He lives with his girlfriend Fran in a bedsit at the home of Mrs. Hawkins (known as Mrs. H) and the series follows his mis-adventures as he ducks, dodges...
One of ITV's longest running sitcoms, Shelley spanned three decades, running over an incredibe 10 series from 1979 to 1992. It focuses on the life of the incredibly clever and PhD-holding James Shelley. If he wasn't quite so allergic to anything resembling work, he'd be able to live pretty comfortably!
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