The Good Life

1975 - 1977 TV-PG 28m 8

Tom Good quits the rat race, and with wife Barbara turns the garden of their Surbiton house into a smallholding. Their neighbours, snobbish Margo Leadbetter and her conventional husband Jerry, feel variously amused, offended and impressed.

Tom and Barbara Good's dream is to live completely self-sufficiently. This means, among other things, raising their own vegetables and animals for food. Trouble is, they live in the suburbs. Their very conservative neighbors, the Leadbetters, look on, horrified, at this bold experiment.

The Good Life background

Episodes:

Episode 2 Say Little Hen...

2. Say Little Hen...

Aired: Apr 11, 1975

Tom and Barbara have secured a flock of chickens; the behavior of the rooster...

Episode 3 The Weaker Sex?

3. The Weaker Sex?

Aired: Apr 18, 1975

Tom and Barbara's plans progress as the first of their plants begin to take r...

Episode 4 Pig's Lib

4. Pig's Lib

Aired: Apr 25, 1975

Tom and Margo's simmering disagreement festers to the point that Margo calls ...

Episode 6 The Pagan Rite

6. The Pagan Rite

Aired: May 9, 1975

Tom's former employer, instructs Jerry to invite the Good's to a dinner party...

Episode 7 Backs to the Wall

7. Backs to the Wall

Aired: May 16, 1975

The Leadbetters go on holidays just as twin disasters of Tom injuring his bac...

Watch Now

Streaming in:

United States flag

Info about The Good Life

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy