Battle of the Sexes
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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 βMinderβ - George Cole.
Producer: Leslie Bridgmont
First broadcast on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Service in February 1959.
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