The Good Life
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1975 - 1978
- 30 episodes (4 series)
After Tom Good becomes disillusioned with his life, he packs in his job and he and his wife attempt to live a completely self-sufficient life in suburbia. Stars Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington.
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Comfort classic: The Good Life
A show that gently sends up the English middle class is built on a sharp script and consummate acting.
Matthew Bell, Royal Television Society, 4th February 2021Beyond Spitting Image - more BritBox comedies available
Classic satirical comedy Spitting Image has just been revived for a new generation on BritBox. This is BritBox's first original commission, but there are also plenty of classic comedies available on the streaming service, which also features some of the best shows that have aired on the BBC, C4 and ITV over the years.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th October 2020The Good Life to become a stage show
Classic sitcom The Good Life is to be made into a new stage show, with Katherine Parkinson playing Barbara.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2020Poll reveals the best sitcom Christmas specials
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Fawlty Towers has come out top of a list of the greatest British sitcoms, as compiled by Radio Times magazine.
British Comedy Guide, 9th April 2019The top 10 British sitcoms of the 70s
The 1970s is rightly lauded as the golden age of British sitcom.
Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, 1st December 2018Extract: The Authorised Biography Of Richard Briers
Too smug, selfish and middle class: why Richard Briers hated himself in The Good Life.
James Hogg, Daily Mail, 23rd September 2018Good Life is to be recreated for TV experiment
Cameras will follow families as they attempt to live off their own land, avoiding packaging and ever-rising supermarket prices.
Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 26th April 2018Ordinary homes for showbiz fans on sale
There have been multiple opportunities to move into a house that has been populated by fictional characters ranging from The Young Ones to multitudes of spotted dogs. Also includes the Peep Show flat, the home of the Brockmans in Outnumbered and Alan Partridge's Linton Travel Tavern.
Bethan Bell, BBC News, 27th September 2016The sitcoms we'd like to see come back on the TV
As some of our most classic comedies are revived for one-off specials - Hancock's Half Hour, Steptoe and Son and Are You Being Served? among them, our brilliant writers explain which sitcoms they'd like to see brought back and why...
Paul Routledge, Polly Hudson, Amber Graafland, Jessica Boulton, Dave Kidd, Sara Wallis and Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 9th August 2016