Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 postgraduate 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 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.