Starring Sid James and Diana Coupland, it was created by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, but mainly written by other hands including Dave Freeman and Carla Lane.

Bless This House centres on life in Howard Road, New Malden, where travelling stationery salesman Sid Abbott[1] and his wife Jean live with their teenagers: Mike is fresh from art college and more pre-occupied with protests than finding a job; and trendy schoolgirl Sally.

At the time of James's death, plans were in place for a seventh and eighth series of the show and a second feature film.

Ironically, James had told his co-star Diana Coupland, "it's such fun and so successful, we'll still be working on Bless This House till one of us kicks the bucket.

The first-ever set to appear on Region 2 in the UK was a DVD featuring the first colour episodes of the series from distribution company, Clear Vision.

While it still starred Diana Coupland and Sid James as the Abbotts, Robin Askwith, who had previously appeared in the TV series, played Mike instead of TV series regular Robin Stewart due to the latter being unable to find time to appear in the film, having already been booked for the summer season on Bournemouth Pier.