The Good Life (Uk TV series)

The Good Life is a British comedy series. Netherlands and Flanders In this series is also known under the title back to nature. The series ran between 1975 and 1978 on theBBC and was broadcast in the Netherlands by Vara . The series is written by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde. ==Story[ Edit] == The comedy revolves around the couple Tom (Richard Briers) and Barbara Good (Felicity Kendal) that live in the town of Surbiton . Tom is forty and realizes that his life otherwise. What is the use of plastic toy for many years designs as lure for boxes with cereal? Tom decides to quit his job as a mechanical designer and choose a simpleand self-sufficient life. His wife Barbara supports him. Since the House is paid off, there are no concerns about the mortgage, but there must be food on the table. So Tom and Barbara grow their own fruit and vegetables in the garden of their home, love animals, and make their own tools. They even try to manufacture their own clothes. Tom is very resourceful, although not always convenient, but he fails to win in to electricity from methane.

Despite the fact that they try to virtually nothing to buy, is the couple regularly in financial problems. All the activities of the Goods to be able to go back to nature, also have their effect on the neighbors, Jerry and Margo Leadbetter. Tom and Barbara are friends with the neighbors, but switched to the natural life requires a lot from the Leadbetters. In particular, the snobbish Margo is regularly at odds with Tom once again if that is working on a new effort to eliminate the city life. Jerry has the less difficult, all he wants to do not with Tom and Barbara Exchange. He suffers more under the predominant Margo that allows him to lie on the bank hardly with a flut booklet. ==Production[ Edit] == "The Good life" was written specifically with Briers in mind for the role of Tom Good. Briers had already appeared in other tv productions in England and was very popular for his starring role in "Marriage lines" which also starred Prunella Scales . The rest of the casting was still open. Peter Bowles as initial was selected for the role of Jerry Leadbetter. However, he declined because he was stuck to another production. Later he would still play in the upcoming Penelope Keith's To the manor born. Latter was cast as Margo and Jerry together with Paul Eddington, the neighbourhoods of the Goods. Initially, the role of the Leadbetters smaller, but soon saw the writing duo that the confrontation between the conventional Leadbetters and the hippie-like Goods better plots for operation.

The series was filmed in Northwood, a suburb of London. The House of Tom and Barbara was again after the film completed in the old state after all animals and vegetable gardens were again removed. The whole ' livestock ' consisted of chicken, the Rooster Lenin, the pigs Pinky and Perky, and the goat Geraldine. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Richard Briers: Tom Good
 * Felicity Kendal: Barbara Good
 * Penelope Keith: Margo Leadbetter
 * Paul Eddington: Jeremy Leadbetter