A Life of Bliss

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George Cole stars as bashful, bumbling bachelor, David Alexander Bliss.

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

A Life of Bliss: Battle of the Sexes

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Feathers fly when David gets caught up in a row between his parents.

Feathers fly when David gets caught up in a row between his parents. Stars George Cole. From March 1959.

Feathers fly when bachelor David Bliss gets caught up in a row between his parents.

Godfrey Harrison's sitcom about shy, bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss starring George Cole.

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 

Beginning in 1953, it ran for six series of 118 episodes concluding in 1969 - but few survive in the BBC archive. (A TV series was made in 1969). For the first seven episodes, David Tomlinson played David, but the rest starred the future star of The St Trinian's films - destined to find great fame as the dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's ‘Minder’ - George Cole.

Producer: Leslie Bridgmont

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1959.

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