The Good Life
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The Good Life (1975)

7.6/ 10

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30 min

Episode

04 Apr 1975

First Aired

Comedy

Tom and Barbara Good escape the rat race and pursue a self-sufficient lifestyle in Surbiton, much to the concern, frustration and sometimes envy of their neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Entitled ‘Good Neighbors’ when shown in the USA.

Keywords

upper class
sitcom
self sufficient
irreverent
lighthearted
casual
witty
empathetic
ridiculous

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Reviews(2)

8.0avg rating
Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

September 27, 2020

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8/10

This show is a product of the 70s. A suburban couple decide to drop out and go back to the land. They will grow their own food, barter or sell what they produce to make their living, whatever they need to do to drop out of the rat race. Their slightly stodgy friends next door remain in the rat r

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 23, 2022

I wonder just how many people in the mid 1970s - anywhere in the world - would have realised just how visionary writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey were with this marvellous tale of a happily married suburban couple who decide to give up their daily grind and revert to a subsistence existence. Richa

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