Peter Tilbury
Director
Shelley (1979)
Series 2
James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
Released July 11, 1979
Episode 25 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: tmdb.sarcasm, tmdb.anti-establishment, tmdb.sitcom, tmdb.unemployed, imdb.sitcom, imdb.layabout, imdb.educated + 18 more, imdb.british-comedy, imdb.sardonic, imdb.political-humor, imdb.unemployment, imdb.left-wing, imdb.landlady, imdb.mother, imdb.anti-establishment, imdb.1970s, imdb.1980s, imdb.girlfriend, imdb.writer, imdb.pregnancy, imdb.job, imdb.sitcom-comedy, imdb.laugh-track, imdb.over-educated-man, imdb.loquacious-man
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Owner Occupiers
Shelley, now in work, looks for somewhere to live with wife-to-be Fran and their impending child.
A visit to the local Bank leads them nowhere to getting a mortgage as they don't have a bank account.
May 8, 1980, midnight
S2E2 - Expletive Deleted
Shelley has to come up with a sales campaign for a new range of Instant Paella.
The stuff proves hard to market as it is virtually tasteless.
May 15, 1980, midnight
S2E3 - Tea and Sympathy
Shelley is working on an ad campaign for striped pyjamas when a crisis interrupts his train of thought.
A fellow lodger, Miss Landis, is so lonely and depressed in the big city she takes an overdose of sleeping pills.
May 22, 1980, midnight
S2E4 - Hearth and Home
Shelley and Fran are in their bed-sit as usual.
She is engrossed in a dog-eared copy of George Orwell's 'Keep The Aspidistra Flying' while he tries to strike up a conversation with her.
May 29, 1980, midnight
S2E5 - Fully Furnished
Shelley wants to buy an old book in a junk shop but the dealer tries to make him think it is worth far more than it really is.
After a protracted debate, the dealer agrees to let him have it for nothing.
June 5, 1980, midnight
S2E6 - Dearly Beloved
Mrs.H and Shelley's mother spend the night at Fran's Dad's palatial house in Shropshire.
Isobel's liberal attitude to life and free use of language clearly embarrass the host.
June 18, 1980, midnight
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 25 min.
Released: July 11, 1979
Last Air Date: Sept. 1, 1992, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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