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Shelley: Season 3
December 29, 1980
8 Episodes
~30 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
8
1
Of Mice and Men
Dec 29, 1980
30 min
Shelley and Fran are spending the night in their new house, which is undergoing renovation. Fran hears something scuttling inside in a bin liner. Shelley admits he forgot to throw the bag out. Their debate on whether to dispose of the rodent mutates into a heated discussion on his job.
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2
Signing On
Jan 5, 1981
30 min
The day of reckoning arrives and Shelley goes to his local DHSS office to sign on for the dole.
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3
Nor Iron Bars a Cage
Jan 12, 1981
30 min
Shelley, once more with bags of time on his hands, is attempting to put up kitchen shelves, when he is interrupted by Paul 'Bunter' Englund ( Warren Clarke ), the best man at his recent wedding. Bunter is in a state of high anxiety. The police are after him.
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4
Foreign Affairs
Jan 19, 1981
30 min
Having blown his latest job interview through telling the truth ( that he hates work in all its forms ), Shelley decides to try lying his way into a top job at the Foreign Office. The panel are a sinister bunch, headed by Grace Lissier ( Gaye Brown ), a cross between 'Millicent Fritton' of St.Trinians and 'Rosa Klebb' of SMERSH.
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5
Universal Trust
Jan 26, 1981
30 min
Shelley is having a quiet cup of tea and reading a paper in Arthur's café, when a tramp ( Nicholas Le Prevost ) sits down and mutters: "What is life?". Rather than tell the guy, Derek Nayland, to sling his hook, Jim engages him in a heated discussion about life, the universe and everything.
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6
Dry Rot
Feb 2, 1981
30 min
Shelley is attempting to do all the rewiring in his and Fran's new home, while she, heavily pregnant, watches him. His monologue about his woodwork teacher - 'Mr.Smiley' - is cut short when Mrs.H. shows up, and starts complaining about the Moroccans who have moved into her boarding house. Then salesman Mr.Croft tries to persuade Shelley he has Dry Rot under the stairs...
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7
You Have to Laugh
Feb 9, 1981
30 min
The third season of 'Shelley' ends with the birth of his and Fran's daughter, whom they christen 'Emma' ( named after Hywel Bennett's real-life daughter ). Fran insists on her husband being present at the birth.
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Christmas with Shelley
Dec 22, 1980
30 min
Shelley and Fran have decided to celebrate several days early, before they are overwhelmed by parentage. After a big dinner, they ( along with Mrs.H ) sit around a table, looking thoroughly bloated and miserable. Shelley is alarmed because he put ten sixpences in the Xmas pudding and so far they have only accounted for eight.
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