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Shelley (TV series)
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Shelley (TV series)
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. In the original run,
Belinda Sinclair
played Shelley's
girlfriend
Fran, and
Josephine Tewson
appeared regularly as his
Landlady
, Edna Hawkins. The series was created by
Peter Tilbury
who also wrote the first three series. The scripts for subsequent episodes were by
Andy Hamilton
and
Guy Jenkin
(both of whom would later go on to write the hugely successful
Drop the Dead Donkey
for Channel 4),
Colin Bostock-Smith
,
David Frith
,
Bernard McKenna
and
Barry Pilton
. All 71 episodes were produced and directed by Anthony Parker.
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