There must be more to life than communting into the office every day, year after year, thinks Tom Good (Richard Briers). Determined to do away with all the irritation and tedium of the rat race, he decides to become self-sufficient in this amusing and poignant comedy series.

Barabara, Tom's wife, agrees to his outlandish plan, and without a second thought he packs in his job as a draughtsman designing plastic toys to be given away in ceral boxes.

The first step in their new lifestyle is to dig up the well-laid lawn of their suburban yard and turn it into a vegetable plot. What will the neighbors think? Especially Margo Ledbetter, a complete snob who -- with her bridge classes and amateur dramatics -- likes to keep the right tone in this exclusive neighborhood.

As idyllic as the good life sounds, Tom and Barbara soon find it much harder work than they'd anticipated, but the hilarity still creeps in. Overcoming drought, flood and pestilence they celebrate their first harvest. From then on they take their battle for self-suffciently even further -- spinning wool, rearing chickens, designing a generator to make electricity from animal dung -- well, it all adds to the amusing, rich tapestry of life...

CAST
Richard Briers (as Tom Good)
Felicity Kendal (as Barbara Good)
Penelope Keith (as Margo Leadbetter)
Paul Eddington (as Jerry Leadbetter)
Reginald Marsh as (Sir Andrew)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey
Produced by John Howard Davies