The Good Life

19754 seriesEntertainment / Comedy
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A milestone birthday convinces Tom Good to make a change. He talks his wife, Barbara, into giving up the so-called rat race and joining him in a life of simplicity and self-sufficiency. They convert their suburban home into a farm, planting crops in the back garden and bringing in pigs and chickens (including a rooster they name Lenin). The new use of their property comes as something of a shock to their very proper neighbours, Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. A social climber of the first order, Margo can't bear having chickens roaming the back garden. She'll have to put up with it, though, since Tom, despite his desire for self-sufficiency, can't bring himself to kill the chickens.

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Episode 1When I'm 65

A special episode of the much-loved sitcom, recorded in the presence of the Queen. When Margo and Jerry take out another annuity, Tom considers a pension of parsnips.

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Episode 1Plough Your Own Furrow

First episode of the much-loved seventies sitcom about a couple who decide to become self-sufficient. Tom decides that commuting is no life for a thinking man.

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Episode 2Say Little Hen ...

Margo and Jerry are slightly perturbed when the Goods start to introduce livestock to Surbiton, but worse is to follow when Tom paints the greenhouse pink!

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Episode 3The Weaker Sex?

Classic laughs in the much-loved sitcom. Tom leaves poor Barbara to get an old range into condition for usage, while he messes around in the garden. Typical!

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Episode 4Pig's Lib

Comic complications abound in the self-sufficiency sitcom. Margo is horrified when one of Tom and Barbara's pigs breaks into her garden, prompting a visit to the abattoir.

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Episode 5The Thing in the Cellar

Much-loved sitcom that made a sex symbol of Felicity Kendal. Tom builds a generator fuelled by pig dung and has call for it after a fishing trip.

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Episode 6Pagan Rite

Tom gets the chance to earn some extra money behind Barbara's back. But he doesn't want to use it to pay boring old bills - but then a furious Barbara finds out.

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Episode 7Backs to the Wall

Tom and Barbara receive some unexpected help when harvest time comes around and Tom sprains his back. Tune in to see Margo dressed for horticultural action!

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