Which actor from 1979 to 1984 played the role of James Shelley in the TV comedy series Shelley?
Shelley (TV series) 20 November 2017. Shelley (TV series) Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992. Starred Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, originally 28 years old and a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment 'freelance layabout' with a doctoral degree. In the original run, Belinda Sinclair played Shelley's girlfriend Fran, and Josephine Tewson appeared regularly as his landlady, Edna Hawkins. The series was created by Peter Tilbury who also wrote the first three series. The scripts for subsequent episodes were by
Barbara Shelley very first "Danger Man" episode, 'View From A Villa' (1960), plus a subsequent episode that season, 'The Traitor' (also 1960); The Saint (TV series) (1962), two episodes of "12 O'Clock High" (1965 and 1966); "The Avengers" episodes 'Dragonsfield' (1961) and 'From Venus With Love' (1967); the TV miniseries "Prince Regent" (1979); "The Borgias" (1981); the "Blake's 7" episode 'Stardrive' (1981); and the "Doctor Who" serial "Planet of Fire" (1984). In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Shelley about her career at Hammer Films for his BBC documentary series "A History of Horror". Barbara Shelley Barbara Shelley (born Barbara T.