Shirley's World

Season

1971

UK

5.7

Shirley Logan (Shirley MacLaine) is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer, and Dennis Croft (John Gregson) her London-based editor.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Berkeley Club Caper

Photographer Shirley Logan arrives in London to begin her assignment at World Illustrated magazine where she goes head to head with the publication's skeptical editor, Dennis Croft. Shirley's first assignment takes her to the Berkeley Club, a time-honored men's-only social club whose blatant sexism leads her to stage a women's revolt through its hallowed halls.

S1 • E2

Thou Shalt Not Be Found Out

Shirley discovers her subject (a famous film star) marriage is in trouble and uses her tricks of the trade to try and fix it.

S1 • E3

The Defective Defector

S1 • E4

The Lovers

Photographing a looming arranged marriage, Shirley finds all is not what it seems.

S1 • E5

The Islanders

S1 • E6

The Colonel

A crusty colonel finds he has an unlikely ally in the form of Shirley in his plight to save his local countryside from the construction of an oil refinery.

S1 • E7

To Dream the Improbable Dream

Genius may be under your feet as you step on the fabled remains of a pavement artist's pictures. Masterpieces? Perhaps. But Shirley's efforts to sponsor an eccentric, itinerant painter proves that patronage of the arts has its problems.

S1 • E8

A Hell of an Engineer

S1 • E9

The Reunion

Shirley is in the vicinity of a daring jewel heist and becomes a suspect, but then Inspector Vaughan stumbles across an old adversary from his younger days who was also in the area.