
Shelley
1979-07-12 · 25 min / episode · ★ 7.8
James Shelley, an educated, sardonic, permanently unemployed "professional freelance layabout," has many battles with authority, the tax-man, his landlady, and his girlfriend Fran.
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- Peter Tilbury
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Josephine Tewson
Samantha Beckinsale
Garfield Morgan
Warren Clarke
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