Happiness (2001)

Name: Happiness
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Paul Whitehouse, Mark Heap, Clive Russell, Fiona Allen, Johnny Vegas

Comedy

Danny Spencer is a voice artist who is recently bereaved and having a mid-life crisis. As he continues to voice a kung fu bear he must also deal with his friends, including a high school friend, an old flame, two lazy unemployed no hopers, a 50 something who acts like a 20-year-old and two dance music loving students who work with Danny at the voice studio. But none of this compares to the constant stress of turning 40 and remembering your youth.

IMDb rating: 7.3 (162 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2001)

7.33 avg 6 episodes 7.3 → 7.4 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Personality Crisis	7.3	14
2	I'm Doing It for Me	7.6	10
3	Chained to an Idiot	7.2	9
4	Desperate Dan	7.3	13
5	Celebration	7.2	11
6	Forty	7.4	11