The Good Life

Series One

Episode 01 Plough Your Own Furrow
Originally transmitted on 4th April 1975

Tom Good hits his 40th birthday with a midlife crisis. He talks his wife Barbara into having a go at a self-sufficient lifestyle and promptly resigns from his job and sets about turning their Surbiton home into a mini farm.

Episode 02 Say Little Hen ...
Originally transmitted on 11th April 1975

Tom and Barbara set about the task of stocking their smallholding with livestock.

Episode 03 The Weaker Sex?
Originally transmitted on 18th April 1975

Tom manages to buy an old cast iron range from a rag and bone man and leaves Barbara to scrub all the rust off.

Episode 04 Pig's Lib
Originally transmitted on 25th April 1975

Tom and Barbara get themselves a pig much to Margo's disgust. Margo decides that they have gone too far and when the pig escapes into her garden she makes them send it to the abattoir.

Episode 05 The Thing in the Cellar
Originally transmitted on 2nd May 1975

Tom uses his skills to build an electricity generator in the cellar which is powered solely by manure.

Episode 06 The Pagan Rite
Originally transmitted on 9th May 1975

Tom finds himself in hot water with Barbara when he agrees to take a paying job behind her back.

Episode 07 Backs to the Wall
Originally transmitted on 16th May 1975

Tom finds himself laid out with a bad back just as they are set to harvest a years worth of vegetables. Barbara has to try and harvest everything on her own before it rots in the ground.

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