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 undergraduate and career income tax dodger. Belinda Sinclair played Shelley's girlfriend Frances, and Josephine Tewson appeared regularly as his landlady, Edna Hawkins.