Shirley

Season

1979

USA

5.8

Shirley Miller is a widow with three children. She's struggling to make ends meet and her children aren't happy with their new surroundings, but she has the help of Charlotte, handyman Dutch and a friend who could be something more.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Is This What Dad Really Wanted?

Shirley Miller, a widow with four children, moves her family from New York to Lake Tahoe. Upon arrival they discover their new home is being fumigated.

S1 • E2

Hard Hat

Shirley is met with resentment by her boss and the men working at the construction firm where she has the job of paymaster.

S1 • E3

Son of a Gun

Shirley is unhappy when she learns that son Bill has discovered his father's gun. An intense discussion follows as to why she is uncomfortable with her child having a weapon.

S1 • E4

Things Your Mother Forgot to Tell You

Shirley becomes a substitute in a sex education class.

S1 • E5

The One That Got Away

Bill's haughty mother wants him to leave Shirley and the family and live permanently in Paris.

S1 • E6

Play on Words

A student athlete disrupts substitute teacher Shirley's class and she is angered when the vice-principal insists that she overlook the behavior.

S1 • E8

Twenty Years to Life

Shirley, while substitute teaching, flunks an elite athlete which keeps him benched. Shirley finds out the student's older brother is the vice principal at the school which creates conflict.