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David needs to find a new secretary and finds himself landed with his boss’s niece.

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
Mr Hood …. Barry K Barnes
Gwen Cherrell …. Marcia Hammond
Miss Robertson …. Sheila Manahan

Six series of 118 episodes of A Life of Bliss ran on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Home Service from 1953. It moved to ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV for a run of six episodes in 1969.

Sadly very few episodes survive in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Home Service in January 1959.