They introduce chickens, pigs ( Pinky and Perky), a goat (Geraldine) and a cockerel ( Lenin). They turn their front and back gardens into allotments, growing soft fruit and vegetables. With their house in The Avenue, Surbiton paid for, he and his wife Barbara adopt a sustainable, simple and nearly self-sufficient lifestyle while staying in their house. On his 40th birthday, Tom Good is no longer able to take his job seriously and gives up work as a draughtsman for a company that makes plastic toys for breakfast cereal packets. Moyra Fraser – Felicity, Sir's wife (series 1).Paul Eddington – Jeremy "Jerry" Leadbetter.Penelope Keith – Margo Leadbetter (née Sturgess).The opening theme was composed by Burt Rhodes. The grounds of the Goods' house were returned to their original state after the filming of each series' inserts, and all livestock removed at the end of each day's filming. The producers searched extensively for a suitable pair of houses, eventually chancing on Kewferry Road, Northwood.
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Outdoor filming took place in the northern Greater London suburb of Northwood, although the series was set in Surbiton, south-western Greater London. Esmonde and Larbey chose Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith after seeing them on stage together in The Norman Conquests. (He later starred opposite Penelope Keith in To the Manor Born.) Hannah Gordon was considered for the role of Barbara but was ruled out, having recently played a similar role in the BBC sitcom My Wife Next Door. Peter Bowles was originally cast to play Jerry but was unavailable. The conflict between the neighbours, balanced with an increasingly close friendship, creates comic tension as that friendship is tried to its limits. Their story has the Goods' decision to pursue self-sufficiency conflicting sharply with the habits of the Leadbetters, who live next door. Larbey and Esmonde were inspired by Larbey's 40th birthday, which seemed to them a milestone in most people's lives.
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John Esmonde and Bob Larbey wrote The Good Life for Richard Briers, the only cast member who was well known before the series was broadcast. In 2004, it came 9th in Britain's Best Sitcom. Opening with the midlife crisis of Tom Good, a 40-year-old plastics designer, it relates the joys and setbacks he and his wife Barbara experience when they attempt to escape a modern " rat race" lifestyle by "becoming totally self-sufficient" in their suburban house in Surbiton. It ran from 4 April 1975 to 10 June 1978 on BBC 1 and was written by Bob Larbey and John Esmonde. The Good Life is a British sitcom, produced by BBC television.