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The Good Life

  • Serie de TV
  • 1975–1978
  • 28min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
8,0/10
4,4 mil
TU PUNTUACIÓN
Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal in The Good Life (1975)
SitcomComedy

Tom Good deja la carrera de ratas y, con su esposa Barbara, convierte el jardín de su casa en una pequeña propiedad. Sus vecinos, la esnob Margo y su marido convencional Jerry, se sienten of... Leer todoTom Good deja la carrera de ratas y, con su esposa Barbara, convierte el jardín de su casa en una pequeña propiedad. Sus vecinos, la esnob Margo y su marido convencional Jerry, se sienten ofendidos e impresionados de diversas maneras.Tom Good deja la carrera de ratas y, con su esposa Barbara, convierte el jardín de su casa en una pequeña propiedad. Sus vecinos, la esnob Margo y su marido convencional Jerry, se sienten ofendidos e impresionados de diversas maneras.

  • Reparto principal
    • Richard Briers
    • Felicity Kendal
    • Penelope Keith
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    8,0/10
    4,4 mil
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Reparto principal
      • Richard Briers
      • Felicity Kendal
      • Penelope Keith
    • 31Reseñas de usuarios
    • 3Reseñas de críticos
  • Ver la información de la producción en IMDbPro
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    • Ganó 1 premio BAFTA
      • 1 premio y 5 nominaciones en total

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    Richard Briers
    Richard Briers
    • Tom Good
    • 1975–1978
    Felicity Kendal
    Felicity Kendal
    • Barbara Good
    • 1975–1978
    Penelope Keith
    Penelope Keith
    • Margo Leadbetter
    • 1975–1978
    Paul Eddington
    Paul Eddington
    • Jerry Leadbetter
    • 1975–1978
    Reginald Marsh
    • Sir Andrew
    • 1975–1977
    Charmian May
    Charmian May
    • Mrs. Weaver
    • 1976
    Moyra Fraser
    Moyra Fraser
    • Felicity
    • 1975
    Tony Selby
    Tony Selby
    • Sam
    • 1975–1976
    Robert Gillespie
    Robert Gillespie
    • Mr. Carter
    • 1975
    Bruce Bould
    • Guy
    • 1975
    John Quayle
    John Quayle
    • Mr. Coles - Journalist
    • 1975
    Wolfe Morris
    Wolfe Morris
    • Michelangelo Lombardi
    • 1975
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    Ray Mort
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    • 1975
    June Jago
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    • 1975
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    George Innes
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    • 1976
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    • 1976
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    Michael Robbins
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    • 1976
    Timothy Bateson
    Timothy Bateson
    • Arthur Bailey
    • 1976
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    8CinemaSerf

    Great writing and a superb foursome in front of the camera - the BBC at it's best.

    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. Richard Briers and Felicity Kendall are great in the roles of the optimistic and naive "Tom" and his stoic and determined wife "Barbara" as they scrap, save, cannibalise, economise and basically do just about anything to avoid needing/earning/spending money - not an easy task. For me, the best parts come from their loyal and wealthy neighbours "Jerry" (Paul Eddington) and "Margo" (Penelope Keith). The former, the long suffering husband to the loving but terribly snobbish wife who looks down with a mix of disbelief and disdain on the newly self-sufficient folks next door. It features hilarious scenarios that take the most basic of themes - heating oil, vegetable patches, making your own clothes or cheese or wine and turns them into genuine laugh out loud comedy. It is simple and hugely effective, the humour working on many levels as the underpinning principles of love, loyalty and obstinacy marry well with sheer bloody mindedness and, on occasion, downright stupidity - but not just from the same side of their garden fence each time. It probably helps, as with the contemporaneous "Fawlty Towers" series that there was a very limited run. It clearly has an environmentalist aspect to the narrative, but it not delivered in the preachy, puritanical fashion that is so often the style used now - it successfully uses humour as a conduit for a message that is both potent and, frequently, laugh out loud. The writers don't flog the heart out of the joke, and the characters are given plenty of space to develop and shine. Great stuff well worth a watch.
    pmov

    Well Thank You Very Much, Jerry!

    Neither as acerbic as FAWLTY TOWERS or ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS or as radical as THE YOUNG ONES, THE GOOD LIFE remains cosily stuck in a middle-class time-warp but happens to be blessed with terrific scripts (by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde) and extremely strong characters, played to perfection by the four principle actors. Originally airing 1975-1978, the series managed to maintain a very high standard despite a slight air of exhaustion that crept into the fourth final series. It was decided to quit while they were ahead, at the peak of the series popularity, with a final episode filmed in front of the Queen.

    The basic set-up concerns Tom and Barbara Good (Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal) who decide to opt-out of the rat race and try self-sufficiency in Surbiton. On this slender premise hung all kinds of imaginative plots farmyard animals (and their excretory processes), generators, rotary cultivators (and contraptions of all kinds) as well as political machinations in the local music society headed up by the formidable Miss Mountshaft (often referred to, but never seen).

    As the series progressed, the plots tended to depend upon situations guaranteed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Goods social-climbing fully paid-up member of the white middle-classes neighbour Margo Leadbetter (played marvellously by Penelope Keith). Margo's husband, Jerry (Paul Eddington) maintains just the right amount of total resigned bemusement throughout.

    Stand-out episodes include 'The Windbreak War' (a feud erupts over the positioning of Margo's windbreak), 'A Tug Of The Forelock' (Tom and Barbara go into domestic service...for Margo), 'Silly...But It's Fun' (the Christmas 1977 episode in which Harrods fail to deliver Margo's Christmas), 'Mutiny' (in which Margo plays Maria in the local music society's production of The Sound Of Music) and 'The Thing In The Cellar' (Tom installs a methane generator which runs on something that comes out of pigs).

    It's easy to forget the critical approval and the public appreciation the series gained during it's initial tenure, along with the fame that greeted the actors (especially Penelope Keith who memorably appeared on the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show, the ultimate accolade at the time).

    THE GOOD LIFE easily ranks up with the best TV comedies ever produced but, unfortunately, it is not remembered with quite the same fondness as DAD'S ARMY, STEPTOE & SON or the magnificent FAWLTY TOWERS. What is needed is some repeats to correct this shameful oversight.
    9Sylviastel

    Another Classic Britcom! 4 C.B.E.'s!

    When I heard of Good Neighbors, I didn't think much of it. Then when they began airing it after Waiting for God on WLIW Long Island last year. I became enchanted by a star cast, Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, and the late Paul Eddington. Paul, Richard, and Felicity have been honoured with a C.B.E.(Commander of the British Empire). Richard and Penelope also received the O.B.E.(Officer of the British Empire) and now have C.B.E.'s as well. It's so amusing to watch these four talented actors at work. Richard and Felicity's roles as Tom and Barbara Good are wnderfully portrayed with such charm. Felicity has such a wonderful musing face to watch on screen. You can't take your eyes off her. No wonder Richard Briers is one of Kenneth Branagh's favorite actors. He is simply likable. Paul and Penelope's Margot play their neighbors who prefer offices and modern technology to Tom and Barbara's new lifestyle of pigs and crops. You wouldn't know it if you knew that Penelope actually is an avid gardener herself and lives in Surrey from her performance as the socialite, Margot Ledbetter. Good Neighbours actually had a command performance for the Royal Family who were big fans of the show. No wonder, it's a great show.
    jonathandoe_se7en

    Those where the days!

    In the seventies, television was good, and The Good Life (1975-1978) is no exception. It's a dry, pleasant and warm British situation comedy about an everyday man who decides on his 40th birthday to quit his job and become self-sufficient. The reason this comedy works better than most is down to its brilliant casting, all of the actors have such a believable chemistry. From Tom and Barbara Good (the fantastic Richard Briers and the lovely Felicity Kendall) to Jerry and Margot Ledbetter (the equally great coupling of Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith). The characters are so likeable, you can't help but warn to this show, it's funny, inoffensive and most of all happy, the kind of show that will lift you're spirits and put a smile on you're face. (Incidentally for a show that is so happy, the final episode is actually quite depressing and emotional a bit of a downer. But that aside you can still watch all the other episodes). This is great comedy with great actors that adds up to a true television classic...
    Spondonman

    The Sexy Dungaree And Wellington Boot Show

    I've always liked this BBC sitcom from the '70's, it was never uproariously funny in the same way as its channel contemporary Fawlty Towers was, but it was always pleasantly funny and always delivered. It was a genuine attempt to extract humour from a serious human decision, that of quitting the rat race and becoming self-sufficient in Surbiton. How the Good's managed it was the subject of about 30 half hour episodes, with a definite tapering off in story quality towards the end. They'd all proved their point: it could be seen to be possible and successful and once achieved could only repeat like the seasons of the year.

    "Plough your own furrow" broadcast 4.4.75: This is where 40 year old Tom, with Barbara's considered support quits his job and they become self-sufficient. To celebrate their decision they dance around the goldfish pond at 3 in the morning much to their next door neighbours Jerry & Margot's disgust.

    Tom, Jerry and Margot were all splendidly portrayed by Briers, Eddington and Keith, but as has been repeatedly pointed out in previous comments, it was Felicity Kendal who brought something extra to the shows. She provided a downbeat and downplayed realistic attitude that was at the time and still is completely beguiling and refreshing to watch. Those who couldn't get into it sure missed something! Sitcom was perhaps rather beneath her talents, and I always thought of Briers as a farceur, but they gelled together well in their opposition to the world.

    8/10

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    • Curiosidades
      The last episode, "When I'm 65" was the second comeback special (by popular demand) and was recorded in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. After the recording the cast and leading members of the crew were presented to the royal party.
    • Pifias
      In a previous episode ("The Pagan Rite") Barbara was furious when she thought Tom had taken freelance work to help pay their bills, saying that their efforts in self-sufficiency should be all or nothing. But in "A Tug of the Forelock" she is the one who suggests they take on temporary work to afford petrol for their new vehicle. But the operative word here is, "temporary". Tom explains to Jerry that this was not a "permanent state" and therefore not a breach of self-sufficiency. This principle was first presented by Tom in "The Pagan Rite" where he explains taking "one job for one purpose" is an acceptable exception.
    • Citas

      Margo: [reading from a card] "The Ooh-Aah bird is so-called because it lays square eggs." I don't understand that.

    • Créditos adicionales
      The closing credits listed the actors' names but not the corresponding names of the characters that they played.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Los jóvenes: Sick (1984)
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      • 4 de abril de 1975 (Reino Unido)
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