Oh wow. Just hearing the opening theme tune made me tear up! Could picture myself as a youngster curled up on the sofa next to my mum and dad watching our fav programme. Sniff sniff. A lifetime ago and so innocent to the madness we now live in.

@seansmith445

Жыл бұрын

Now we live in the twilight zone and no signs of coming out of the madness any time soon 😞

The Good Life was a excellent brilliant program

Jerry and Margo really are great friends to have. They don't agree with the Goodes way of life but they do everything they can to support them 😊

@alangranville7502

Жыл бұрын

Yes Jamie. The thing about all 4 of them is they are so very likeable, even lovable. Even Margo with her silly snobbery is so very human,.

@RepentingMan

2 ай бұрын

Most people remember Paul Eddington for this show and Yes, Prime Minister. But I remember before those shows he was in Special Branch with George Sewell (deceased) and Patrick Mower who is now in Emmerdale.

When I'm feeling low, or anxious (as most of us are during this pandemic) I watch this series. It's like comfort food for the brain.

@jaymcd8577

3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@peterhagan8454

3 жыл бұрын

that is exactly right a drop of re assurance in and stormy sea i d say

@peterhagan8454

3 жыл бұрын

i so get that its my go to spot

@angusmeigh5141

3 жыл бұрын

Some people have opted for self sufficiency in real life! Look up Tinkers Bubble eco village on here KZread for example!

@nickycotton6137

3 жыл бұрын

Can't fault that/Saw Felicity Kendal on Graham Norton (feeling down in the dumps) & was reminded of this, had a Google & plenty to enjoy..👍

This has always been a comfort series for me too. It’s a good reminder to simplify life , and be grateful. Even if you don’t want to simplify as much as they have, it feels good to imagine that you could succeed even in the most basic circumstances. 😀

Penelope Keith was awarded Dame of the British Empire in 2014, and very rightly so. Although her characters were aloof and middle-upper class, her acting always appealed to me, as a working class....Her Majesty and her decision to make Penelope a DBE was superb ❤

@skapunkno1

9 ай бұрын

I hated Margo when I was a kid but now I'm older I realise what an amazing and brilliantly acted character she is.

I'm only in my mid 30's and I feel quite lucky that, between my elder brothers, of various ages, and my parents, I saw comedies from as old as the 50s to the late 90s and 2000s (when I was growing up). Some of the 70s ones were just brilliant. I loved The Good Life. And Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em and Last Of The Summer Wine were great too. Though it's hard to think of Last Of The Summer Wine as a 70s series when it went on for so many decades!

Wonderful comedy from the 70s ...and the writing and acting was done with a lovely warmth and honesty,..the 1970s had some really great comedies, ....sadly modern telly is so boring by comparison.....this decade was a golden era in sitcoms

@nickycotton6137

3 жыл бұрын

Aye + Terry & June or Only Fools & Horses, but they're obv' 1980's+. Best ended with 'One Foot In The Grave' however as you say the 70's ftw. This has such a homely feeling + great music.

@johnfrancis2215

7 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more, I have DVD boxed sets of this and many other situation comedies from the 70s 80s and 90s, and I never watch live television nowadays. Its drivel

@JulieRushworth

4 ай бұрын

Two doors down, Early Doors, Still Game are good

What a gem, they just don’t make tv like this anymore

I watched this when it was broadcast here in Australia in the 1970s and it had a profound effect on my way of viewing life. In my 20s my partner and I grew most of our own vegetables and herbs and we kept ducks and chickens (only for the eggs). Kids, work, terrible climate etc slowed us down but we still grow a lot of vegetables. We used to brew our own beer and cider but the latter was HORRIBLE. You’d get through one and start a second bottle and feel deathly. We hope to emigrate to the UK in a couple of years time and will start up the self sufficiency again.

@wayforward6928

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck and I hope that it all goes well for you 😊

@mindrolling24

2 жыл бұрын

@@wayforward6928 Thank you 🌸

@sandrakenney567

6 ай бұрын

@mindrolling24.Id eat your grown vegetables but as for your home made beer ill give that a miss 😮😫😣😖😩🤢🤢🤮.🤣

@mindrolling24

6 ай бұрын

@@sandrakenney567 That’s a wise decision. The cider was even worse: a migraine in a bottle.

The best of the best of British comedy. It was clean AND funny as all get out!!! Thank you, Mark Lammin!!

I just discovered this show on audio through my local library. I'm on my second run through of the entire series. I guessed that someone had posted at least some of it on KZread and I wasn't wrong! Love seeing these shows I had only heard before. Penelope Keith narrates some of the visual elements so it's easy to follow along. She sounds different enough that you never confuse her with Margot. What a wonderful treat this show is. So glad I found it!

@Grania52

Жыл бұрын

I have this on audio, too. Great to listen to while I'm puttering around the kitchen or laundry room. I love Penelope Keith's narration, so much so that I purchased all the "Agatha Raisin" cozy murder mysteries by M.C. Beaton which Keith narrates so well.

Still, no one gives due credit to the Jerry, who works endlessly in the rejected awful job and financially supports both households.

@thadtuiol1717

5 ай бұрын

That was a microcosm of the 1970s in the UK

Such a pity the lower bit is missing 😔 I liked the series and my mother absolutely adored it. I'm enjoying revisiting it 💖

The good life was inspired to make life better for everyone feel better a truly inspiring sitcom to make people pull up their socks and realise life has its ups and downs

🎉absolutely loved this show

OMG. I watch this show in Canada when it ran. It was awesome. Love Felicity in Rosemary and Thyme.

Our favorite tv show called Good Neighbors here in the States. We watched religiously and I’m reminded of the last episode. She had to work and I’d been crestfallen, swearing I wouldn’t watch it without her, even though she said it was fine, I felt it was betraying her. I did and was in tears but couldn’t stop watching. One of the worst things I regret 40 some odd years later. One of the best, most heartwarming series ever. Enjoy. Ta

Same here , was my absolute favourite 🙂😉, my bro in -law use to call the wife and i and say - hi there peasants? We both loved the goods and we wanted to be just like them . The days when tv was great and fun. 🙂👍

Love this series, especially Felicity! She makes it a success!’ Ms Charlie, Texas,USA

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

Thank you VERY much, Jerry.

just recently heard of this in a documentary on Pen Keith couple of days ago - the vibe of this is so good and comforting - wow never heard of it before this.

Penelope Keith has such a pretty face

@barnyboysdad

Жыл бұрын

😊 and a lovely set of hooters❤

Felicity was just delicous .

Margo scrubs up well!

Felicity is a good looking woman.

The Good life, although funny, with a married couple make the most of self sufficiently. I wish so many more of us could try it. Forget about the shopping center's. Get your hands muddy, and be proud of what you've achieved. As long as you have each other, you can't go wrong.

@jaydee9124

4 жыл бұрын

@Madeleine Grayson they were a bit self righteous and definitely used Margo and Jerry for some of the things they couldn't afford like good booze but I still enjoy watching the shows.

@Kimmy-pw8tm

3 жыл бұрын

Did you know, the four main characters got along so well, it made their series such a magnet.

@Scale_RC_and_Slotcars

2 жыл бұрын

Very rarely works in real life !

I always liked how she had such patients for him.

Margo and Jerry are so much more fun than the po-faced Goods

mmmmm Felicity Kendal - remember when the Young Ones would swoon over her - they werent the only ones!!

Margo has helped them in emergencies over and again. They should have let her be in the photo shoot.

@Aaron-co2jb

4 жыл бұрын

I mean after all its just a photo

They don't make 'em like that anymore.

ITS SO BLOODY NICE!

I used to really like this show as a kid!

Life is all memory 💙💚

So sedate comedy innocent

O M GGEEEESUS 😂THUS US WHERE I FET MY THRIFTINESS FROM. 🎉❤

I’d of loved to live next door to them 😊

I would go along with Vivian from The Young Ones, " They're so bloody NICE"

Love the fact that the flowers centre is not very round 😃

Get swept away in nostalgia not realizing alot of other human souls just like us

You were wise to choose this video as your one and only upload. Thank you! 🙂

Thank you for the idea Tom and Barbara. It works!!!!

Fantastic comedy

Thanks Mark!

Good comedy

I do love finding shows like this on KZread. Of course the only downside is that you inevitably find at the sour commenter posting stuff like: "Telly these days is rubbish,", "Back when TV was good,", "couldn't make this nowadays,", "The PC brigade/woke have ruined everything....etc...etc". The irony is that such views completely ignore the fact that TV throughout the decades is liberally peppered with comedy to suit all tastes...even today. And comedies like this were often dismissed, during their day, as being 'mundane' or 'middle of the road'.

@petermills2061

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds exactly like ' Terry & June' !

The good life was indeed "The good Life"y comparison with 2023

The 'perfect couple'.. Just as Jerry & Margot are + the same for Fawlty Towers. Sometimes gutted they didn't do more episodes, but then again that might spoil it a bit as these/the 4 series of this never tire.

Jerry would never receive a boat as his commission from small traders

The journalist played the priest on Only When I Laugh.

Barbara said "trousis" Huh? Schwing!!

Obtaining goods by false pretences I think would be the charge.

I feel like I'm sat too close to the telly.

Is this only half the screen size?

You don't, Creosote Chicken Houses, it is not correct.!

And plus they have people commenting on it tonight who weren't even born at the time

Where can I get the mugs from 18:17?

"Point at the Pigs"... vegetarian self sufficiency nitemare.....

They really don't make them like they used to,do they??..Honestly it's better than all the crap they put on now instead of all these reality programmes & 💩💩..I love the older stand up comedy & the roasts,people knew how to take a joke,the world's gone pc mad😅😅it really has.. Let's all just get on,when we don't agree let's meet in the middle,let's agree to disagree & let's just get on in life,money comes & goes,but our loved ones don't..sorry to ramble on,but let's just enjoy life,life can be hard enough without people making harder,so let's just be there for one another no matter what.. Sending love & hugs,to anyone needing that bit of reassurance then know you are only human,don't put so much pressure on yourself,be kind to your self & give yourself love & time to heal,just take each day as it comes..please take care & stay safe 🙏🏻💜✌🏼☮🌠🤘🏻🌱🌹🐝🐞🙏🏻💜✌🏼☮🌠🤘🏻🌱🌹🐝🌹..

2:48 Margot is FIT.

I think Vyvyan from The Young Ones said it best...

14:03- Page 3 of The Sun, by any chance?

Hiya, can anyone tell me which is the episode where Barbera knitted that Mad, weird sized green jumper for Tom? I have searched and searched but can't find it. I want to send it to my cousin who has moved from the city to the countryside and has embraced it xx

@josephinemccauley5436

Жыл бұрын

or any episode where Barbera knitted something, I want to sent it to my cousin in-law

@Grania52

Жыл бұрын

It's called, "Suit Yourself" Series 4 episode 5. She weaves a suit for Tom in that one. In "Silly, But It's Fun", the Christmas special, she weaves oversized jumpers for Jerry and Margo. Also series 4 (I believe)

@josephinemccauley5436

Жыл бұрын

@@Grania52 You're obviously a fan lol. Thank you so much. x

Where's the bottom half?? 🤔😂

Why was the bottom half of the picture chopped off?

@anonUK

2 жыл бұрын

Copyright detection

Abject poverty in Surbiton?

Where's the bottom?

Hi

16:9 doesnt really fly for 4:3/3:2

Pity about the framing

@robinwatson4282

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's what happens when 4:3 gets 'cinematized', eh? Too many key elements in the frame and/or so many camera pans/movement to maintain everything in-frame, or in some cases, no excuse other than just really bad cropping. I understand the desire to reframe in 16:9, but some material is best left in its original aspect.

@Scale_RC_and_Slotcars

2 жыл бұрын

@@robinwatson4282 it's cropped to avoid copyright claim and removal!

How can we get KZread to cope with the 4:3 ratio

AKA Good Neighbors (in the US anyway)

nothing wrong with a little moan its the british way written in the passport i thinks

People say 70s uk comedy is a bit corny,however the comedy served up these days 2022,is really awful and not really funny at all.

Half an upload.

@JulieRushworth

4 ай бұрын

You give it a try eh!

Felicity treacle Kendall and Richard, sugar-flavoured snot Briars. What do they do now, chocolate bloody button ads that's what.

@dionlindsay2

9 ай бұрын

Rubbish. Richard Briars has been dead for 10 years.

Not sit coms Matilda : comedy half hours.

@silverapples75

3 жыл бұрын

Sitcom

margot is superhot

@JulieRushworth

4 ай бұрын

What year are you living in?

Omg wth. Y post such bad quality vids

@Scale_RC_and_Slotcars

2 жыл бұрын

You tube does not post videos.... You tube members post videos. it is cropped to avoid copyright claim and removal 🤦🏻‍♂️

@2_thumbs_up_baby

7 ай бұрын

​@@Scale_RC_and_Slotcars i know users post the videos. But others seem to post clear versions. I do appreciate being able to see them at all but it they aren't worth watching like this in my opinion.

Childless couples are always good to laugh at 🤣

@cruisepaige

2 жыл бұрын

“Child free”

@Jamie_Pritchard

Жыл бұрын

@@cruisepaige Much better term! I can't imagine anything worse than being tethered to a parasite for 18 years 😖

@JulieRushworth

4 ай бұрын

​@Jamie_Pritchard my grown up child is a delight

@cityzens634

4 ай бұрын

@@Jamie_Pritchard If only your parents thought the same

@Jamie_Pritchard

4 ай бұрын

@@cityzens634 Oh, a personal attack. How rare and edgy for the internet 😯

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