
Another comedy also has this name.
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1979 - 1992
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 71 (10 series)
- Creator
- Peter Tilbury
- Starring
- Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair and Josephine Tewson
- Writer
- Peter Tilbury
James Shelley is highly educated and has a PhD in geography; he's bright, will philosophise for hours, and can turn his mind to almost anything. He is also unemployed and has no intention of working.
Living with his girlfriend Fran in a bedsit at the home of Mrs. Hawkins (known as Mrs. H), the series follows his misadventures as he ducks, dodges and tries as hard as possible not to be caught up in Thatcher's Britain - or at very least, just to continue to avoid working.
- Production company
- Also known as
- The Return Of Shelley (Series 7 - 9)
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Thursday 12th July 1979 on ITV at 9:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Tuesday 1st September 1992 on ITV at 8:30pm
- Last repeat
- Saturday 10th August 2019 at 2:00am on Forces TV