Phil asks David to help him with his ex-girlfriend, who is stymying his love-life.

George Cole stars in Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about bashful, bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss.

David Bliss …. George Cole
Anne Fellows …. Diana Churchill
Tony Fellows …. Colin Gordon
Phil Bender …. Donald Sinden
Zoe Hunter …. Sheila Sweet
‘Psyche’ the Dog …. Percy Edwards
Estelle Livingstone …. Maxine Audley
Wanda Goddard …. Virginia Winter

Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the BBC Home Service from 1953. It moved to BBC TV for a run of six episodes in 1969.

Sadly very few episodes survive in the BBC archive, including the first seven starring David Tomlinson. His replacement George Cole went to to star in the St Trinian's films and later as dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minde

Producer: Leslie Bridgmont

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1959. Show less