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.

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Bumbling David becomes entangled in his secretary's secretive love life.

Bumbling David becomes entangled in his secretary's secretive love life. Stars George Cole and Percy Edwards. From August 1957.

David Bliss gets entangled in the secretive love life of his secretary. 

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

David Bliss …. George Cole
Ann …. Diana Churchill
Tony ….Colin Gordon
Psyche the Dog …. Percy Edwards
Jennifer …. Eleanor Summerfield
Mr Hood …. Barry K. Barnes
Donald Hood …. Desmond Carrington 

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 Minder.

The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenhoulet.

Producer: Leslie Bridgmont

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1957.

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