Editing The Good Life (1975 TV series) (section)

==After ''The Good Life''==
After the success of ''The Good Life'', the four main cast members were given their own vehicles, commissioned by the then head of comedy and producer of ''The Good Life'', [[John Howard Davies]].<ref name="Celebration"/> Immediately after the series ended, Larbey and Esmonde created ''The Other One'' for Richard Briers, co-starring Michael Gambon. It was a seven-part sitcom that aired on BBC1 in the autumn of 1977, running concurrently with ''The Good Life Christmas Special – Silly, but it's fun''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a710b7cd045f4557938c1e00e09366f0|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=11 November 1977 }}</ref> A second series of six episodes aired in early 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5e8270844d89438c8c30aa2c68b4c7e4|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=23 February 1979 }}</ref> Keith starred alongside Peter Bowles in ''[[To the Manor Born]]'', which began in September 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8b9534cc792b476a975903c3045e2497|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=30 September 1979 }}</ref> Eddington joined [[Nigel Hawthorne]] and [[Derek Fowlds]] in ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and its sequel ''[[Yes Prime Minister]]''. Kendal, who had become something of a sex symbol, went on to join [[Elspet Gray]] in ''[[Solo (TV series)|Solo]]'' and [[Jane Asher]] in ''[[The Mistress (TV series)|The Mistress]]''. Briers later starred alongside [[Penelope Wilton]] and [[Peter Egan]] in the sitcom ''[[Ever Decreasing Circles]]'', again written by Larbey and Esmonde, in which Briers' character was the polar opposite of Tom Good. In 1992, Kendal and Eddington reunited in the [[Channel Four]] adaptation of [[Mary Wesley]]'s ''[[The Camomile Lawn]]''.

In 2003, the BBC broadcast the [[mockumentary]] ''Life Beyond the Box: Margo Leadbetter'', describing Margo's life since the series had finished, although the original actors appear only in archive footage. In 2007, Briers and Kendal were reunited on [[ITV1]] series ''That's What I Call Television'' in a mockup of the Goods' kitchen.

===In popular culture===
''The Good Life'' features in an episode of ''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]]'' titled "[[Sick (Young Ones episode)|Sick]]" where Vyvyan (played by [[Adrian Edmondson]]) rips apart the title page after the first 10 seconds of the opening credits of this show while criticising it, saying, "It's so bloody nice! Felicity 'Treacle' Kendal and Richard 'Sugar-Flavoured Snot' Briers! What do they do now?! Chocolate bloody button ads, that's what! They're nothing but a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a lovable middle-class eccentric. And I hate them!"<ref name="Observer 3 March 2013">{{cite news | title= Grieve for The Good Life? Not this Young One |url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/03/the-good-life-the-young-ones| last= Logan | first= Brian | date= 3 March 2013| work= [[The Observer]] |publisher= [[Guardian Media Group]]| access-date= 30 April 2018 }}</ref>

[[Giles Coren]] and [[Sue Perkins]] worked together on a four-episode series ''Giles and Sue Live the Good Life'', broadcast to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the original series. In the series, they recreated an attempt by two city-dwellers to adjust to country life, in ways such as raising their own barnyard animals, creating their own Christmas decorations and knitting their own clothing.

In late 2020, a podcast celebrating sitcoms of the 1970s – ''The Sitcom Archive Deep Dive Overdrive'' — was launched. The weekly show examines and celebrates every episode ever made of ''The Good Life'' made throughout its first series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.saddo.club/|title=Sitcom Archive Deep Dive Overdrive (SADDO) podcast|date=8 September 2020|access-date=8 September 2020|website=Sitcom Archive Deep Dive Overdrive (SADDO)}}</ref>

Some have connected the increasing popularity of [[hobby farm]]s to the success of TV shows like ''The Good Life''.<ref name=NIGHTMARE>{{cite news|title=Lifestyle block a nightmare for some|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=10705954|access-date=17 February 2011|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|date=13 February 2011}}</ref>