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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790756332 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790756331 Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC Warner Release Date: July 19, 2000 Running Time: 83 minutes Sales Rank: 29233 Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Description: Episodes: Backs to the Wall, The Wind-break War, Silly, But It's Fun. The self-sufficient Goods and the conspicuously consuming Leadbetters pursue two diametrically opposed approaches to the good life as next door neighbors in a posh London suburb.
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Rating: - One of the best of the Britcoms
Though showing it's age in many ways (especially Margo's fashions), this is still one of the best of the Britcoms. The entire series still delights and can many episodes send me into fits of laughter regardless of the number of times they've been viewed. This tape contains my all time favorite, Silly But It's Fun, the Christmas episode, which I watch every holiday. A comedic classic!
Rating: - An excellent Britcom!
Good Neighbors (or The Good Life as it was known in the UK) is the story of Tom and Barbara Good, a middle-aged couple in the 1970s who decide to escape the rat race by living a life of complete self-sufficiency. They exchange their car for a cultivator, and turn their garden into a full-fledged (if rather small) farm. Their good friends and neighbors, the social climbing Gerry and Margot Leadbetter (played by Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith!) sometimes provide support, and other times disapproval. Through it all, the antics of the two mismatched set of neighbors produces laughs and good times ... Read More
Rating: - Best Britcom series ever!
I know there were lots more episodes made than what's available on video, when in the world are they going to release them? I know there's lots of people out there wondering the same thing. So how about it Amazon.com if anyone can bring us aficionados more "Good Neighbors" I know it's you. Thanks.
Rating: - "The Good's are the Best!!!"
This is a collection I must have! And I plan to start today! Even though I have not yet purchased the first volume of this series I already know I will charish them forever!
I recorded the original series way back in 1984 from the PBS showings and have enjoyed them ever since. Though the recordings are showing their age, classics like this are timeless and do not grow old, they just get better!
Felicity Kendal does not seem to grow old either, she just gets better! I wonder why?
Rating: - Wish We Did Comdedy As Well As...
as the British. "Spin City" was the closest America came to this genre(Yes, Prime Minister). "The Good Neighbors" (first bradcast as "The Good Life" on BBC) was (and is) the funniest sitcom I have ever experienced. It's a little dated (clothing, etc...); but, the characters are believeable, as is the concept (being self sufficient in a HIGH class London suburb.
