Shelley Complete Series 1 to 10 Very Very Rare

Shelley was a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 1979 to 1992, with occasional hiatuses. Hywel Bennett starred as James Shelley, a sardonic, 28-year-old, anti-establishment undergraduate and career income tax dodger. Belinda Sinclair played Shelley's girlfriend Frances, and Josephine Tewson appeared regularly as his landlady, Edna Hawkins. The series was created by Peter Tilbury who also wrote the first three series. Writing duties for subsequent episodes were handed over to Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (both of whom would later go on to write the hugely successful Drop the Dead Donkey for Channel 4), with other episodes written by Barry Pilton, Colin Bostock-Smith, Bernard McKenna and David Firth. All 71 episodes were produced and directed by Anthony Parker. Series seven was titled on screen The Return of Shelley, again starring Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, and was broadcast in 1988. This time round, Shelley is (still) separated from Frances, and lives on his own, doing his best to avoid obtaining gainful employment. The series begins with Shelley returning to the UK from Saudi Arabia, where he had taught English for a few years, only to find that his calls to his old friends are now screened by answer phones and that yuppieness has taken root in his old neighbourhood. Subsequent series returned to the on-screen title of Shelley. For the final two series, we see Shelley sharing a house with Ted Bishop played by David Ryall. 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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Series 1

Moving In 
The Nelson Touch 
Gainfully Employed 
The Distaff Side
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Series 2

Elders And Betters 
May The Best Man Win 
Nowt So Queer 
Owner Occupiers 
Expletive Deleted 
Tea And Sympathy 
Hearth And Home 
Fully Furnished 
Dearly Beloved 

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Series 3

Christmas With Shelley (Special)
Of Mice And Men 
Signing On 
Nor Iron Bars A Cage 
Foreign Affairs 
Universal Trust 
Dry Rot 
You Have To Laugh
 
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Series 4

Unkindest Cuts 
A Drop Of The Pink Stuff 
No News Is Good 
Credit Where Credit's Due 
Mortal Coils 
Slaughterhouse Sling
 
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Series 5

On The Road To Damascus 
Brave New World 
Shelley vs Shelley 
Noises Off 
Tubes Help You Breed Less Easily 
When The Chip Hits The Fan
 
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Series 6

Dry Dreams 
It Nearly Always Happens To Somebody Else 
Of Cabbages And Kings 
The Party 
Owed To The Electrician
Brief Encounter
 
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Series 7

The Return Of Shelley 
In God We Trust
Emergency Ward 9 
One Of Those Nights
Why Me? 
The Big S
 
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Series 8

The Artful Lodger 
Shelley Washes Whiter 
A Happy Event 
Born Freeish 
Day Of The Reptile 
For Whom The Bell Tolls 
The Gospel According To Shelley
Wages Of Virtue 
It's Only A Game 
Killer Driller 
Cold Turkey 
A Problem Aired 
Help!
 
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Series 9

A Trial Period 
A Question Of Attitude 
Golden Oldies 
The Bug
Second Best Man 
Brainstrain 
Forward to the Past (Special A Shelley New Year)
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Series 10

The Deep End 
Come Fly With Me 
Love Is
A Little Learning 
Happy Birthday R.I.P. 
Accountants And Zulus 
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Genre: Sitcom
Year: 1979-92
No.series  10 
No.episodes 71 

CAST
Hywel Bennett as James Shelley
Belinda Sinclair as Frances Smith/Shelley
Josephine Tewson as Edna Hawkins
Frederick Jaeger as Gordon Smith
Sylvia Kay as Isobel Shelley
Warren Clarke as Paul England
Garfield Morgan as Desmond
Caroline Langrishe as Carol
Andrew Castell as Graham
Stephen Hoye as Phil
David Ryall as Ted Bishop
James Grout as George

GUEST STARS

Kenneth Cope 
Gillian Taylforth 
Leslie Ash
Max Wall

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