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 1The Early Birds

A feast of self-sufficiency fun. Barbara and Tom find it almost impossible to catch the early worm as their early rising disturbs their neighbours the Leadbetters.

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Episode 2The Happy Event

The 70s sitcom that put self-sufficiency in the spotlight and sparked a rush to replace flowerbeds with vegetable patches. Tom and Barbara are blessed with piglets.

Tug of the Forelock: Episode Image
Episode 3Tug of the Forelock

Classic sitcom fun. A truly memorable episode as the Goods' cash-flow crisis coincides with Margo and Jerry's need to find temporary replacement domestics.

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Episode 4I Talk to the Trees

Margo and Jerry are furious when Tom starts playing music to the trees, especially as Margo is staging a coup for the presidency of the Music Society.

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Episode 5The Windbreak War

Surbiton's nets are twitching as war breaks out between the Goods and the Leadbetters. It's over Margo's new windbreak which darkens the Good's fruit patch.

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Episode 6Whose Fleas Are These?

The superb 1970s self-sufficiency comedy. Tom and Barbara try to keep their fleas to themselves. God forbid that they should spread next door - oh no!

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Episode 7The Last Posh Frock

Superb sitcom. Barbara tries to remain a woman, despite her work-worn hands and a ruined dress. Tom, of course, can't see what the problem is - just like a man!

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