Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American producer Sheldon Leonard; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her editor. Immediately after the ABC broadcasts ended, the seventeen-episode series was aired in its entirety on ITV in the United Kingdom.
Episode 1
Shirley arrives in London, tilts at a tradition and causes an uproar when she leads a feminine march on members of a very austere men-only club.
Episode 2
Shirley uses her own devious methods to patch up a famous film star's broken marriage.
Episode 3
Shirley has an encounter with a romantic Russian -- but dare she help a defector? There's a surprise in store for her, though!
Episode 4
Shirley unravels an 'arranged' marriage for a couple who don't love each other. But the best laid plans are apt to go awry!
Episode 5
It's yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum -- except that in this case the rum is illicit whiskey - when Shirley gets into the buccaneering spirit on a Scottish island.
Episode 6
A struggle to save the countryside from the invasion of a new oil refinery sees Shirley involved in the battle for human rights.
Episode 7
Genius may be under your feet as you step on the faded remains of a street artist's pictures. Masterpieces? Perhaps. But Shirley's efforts to sponsor a pavement painter prove that patronage of the arts has its problems.
Episode 8
Shirley starts out to shoot pictures of a Japanese temple but ends up down on the farm. On the way, she saves a cab driver from herself and sets his wife on the way to an engineering degree.
Episode 9
Shirley is suspected of being a thief after a visit to a jewelery show...
Episode 10
Getting tow for one, Shirley manages to help both a fading pop star and a London cabbie.
Episode 11
Shirley takes it upon herself to reorganize the business and personal affairs of a rather reluctant tycoon.
Episode 12
Shirley starts out in a Kabuki theatre, winds up as an entertainer in a run-down Geisha house and saves a touring British honeymooner from going completely 'native'.
Episode 13
A Hong Kong fisherman gets the money to fix his fishing boat, while Shirley lands a scoop, loses her camera and wins some champagne.
Episode 14
And auto rally has more than thrills and spills when Shirley navigates for Dennis!
Episode 15
Shirley goes dancing and picks up a nasty case of blackmail at the docks of Hong Kong.
Episode 16
It's back to the days when knights were bold, as Shirley becomes a queen for a day -- but she soon discovers that medieval merrymaking isn't that much fun!
Episode 17
When a former movie heart-throb vanishes from the screen, Shirley become a red-nosed clown.
