Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0086162000522 Format: NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: February 02, 1999 Studio: 20th Century Fox Sales Rank: 46863
Amazon.com: This third collection of episodes from the long-running, delightful British sitcom set in London's suburbs contains some of the series' best episodes. Originally telecast in the 1970s, Good Neighbors stars Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal as Tom and Barbara Good, an upper-middle-class couple who relinquishes their consumerist ways for a self-sufficient, back-to- the-earth (read: impoverished) philosophy. Turning their cozy suburban home into a tightly managed farm--crops, animals, the whole bit--they also continually have to work out class politics with their best friends and neighbors, the well-to-do Jerry (Paul Eddington) and Margot (Penelope Keith) Ledbetter. Volume 3 contains the episode "Going to Pot," in which the Goods come close to abandoning their self-sufficiency ethic when Tom proves a profitable craftsman at the potter's wheel. Also on hand are "The Happy Event," in which the birth of new livestock is wonderful news for the Goods but a sore point with the Ledbetters, and "The Last Posh Frock," featuring Barbara at the end of her rope when her last nice dress gets torn. As always, the true engine of these shows is the outstanding chemistry among four fine comic actors. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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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. A comedic classic!
Rating: - Excellent British comedy
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. ... Read More
Rating: - The Golden Age of the BBC
When I first saw the Good Life (the British name) in the 1970s as an impressionable kid, I immediately loved it. Everybody was so nice and civilized unlike the glue-sniffing, head-butting ruffians at my local Scottish comprehensive school. I was so charmed that I almost wanted to become English, middle-class, and 'awfully nice.' I also developed a raging crush on Felicity Kendall.
This series was a product of the golden age of British TV when the BBC was more like a giant artists' collective ... Read More
Rating: - Leadbetters & Goods are more than good! They're GREAT!
I saw this series when it came to US TV some years ago (thank you, forever, PBS). I loved it then. I love it now. I've got the whole collection, finally.
Stars: Tom & Barbara Good, played by Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal - whom I worship, and Margo & Jerry Leadbetter, played by Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington.
I also saw Felicity Kendal in a PBS replay of the BBC Shakespeare series with her starring as Viola in "Twelfth Night" and was so impressed that I named a daughter ... Read More
Rating: - Another wonderful entry in the Good Neighbors set
The set offers three more episodes from the classic mid-70's British sitcom, originally titled "The Good Life" and renamed "Good Neighbors" for distribution in the United States. In these episodes Tom and Barbara Good continue their quest for agrarian self-sufficiency in the London suburb of Surbiton to the continued bemusement of their upper middle-class neighbors, Jerry and Margo Ledbetter. As with the previous two volumes, the episodes in this set are random selections from the original series, missing ... Read More
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