James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
Shelley (Season 2)
Owner Occupiers (Episode 1)
Air date: 1980-05-08
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Expletive Deleted (Episode 2)
Air date: 1980-05-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Tea and Sympathy (Episode 3)
Air date: 1980-05-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Hearth and Home (Episode 4)
Air date: 1980-05-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Fully Furnished (Episode 5)
Air date: 1980-06-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Dearly Beloved (Episode 6)
Air date: 1980-06-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Seasons
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