Created by Chesney and Wolfe for Sheila Hancock, The Bed-Sit Girl aired for two series.

Hancock played Sheila Ross, a typist who lives in a bedsit and wishes for more in life.

[3][4] Not entirely happy with her life, Sheila dreams of more and would like a more glamorous job like her neighbour, Dilys, who is an air hostess.

[7] Derek Nimmo's character David was revived by Chesney and Wolfe in their later sitcom Sorry I'm Single (1967).

[8] In Sorry I'm Single Nimmo played David, a mature student who shares digs in Hampstead with three women.