David is roped in when his father and Tony decide not to wear fancy dress at a costume ball.

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
Zoe Hunter .... Sheila Sweet
'Psyche' the Dog .... Percy Edwards
Mrs Bliss .... Gladys Young
Mr Bliss .... Carleton Hobbs
Griselda Saltmarsh .... Sheila Manahan
Brinsley Tavistock .... Tony Vickers
Quentin Massingham .... Rolf Lefebvre

The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenhoulet.

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.

Producer: Leslie Bridgmont

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