Shelley

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Shelley

1979- 1992

10 Seasons

69 Episodes

7.7(11 votes)

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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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