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

==Plot==
On his 40th birthday, Tom Good is no longer able to take his job seriously and gives up work as a [[Technical drawing|draughtsman]] for a company that makes plastic toys for breakfast cereal packets. With their house in The Avenue, [[Surbiton]], paid for, he and his wife Barbara adopt a [[Sustainable living|sustainable]], [[simple living|simple]] and nearly [[self-sufficiency|self-sufficient]] lifestyle while staying in their house. They turn their front and back gardens into [[Allotment (gardening)|allotment]]s, growing soft fruit and vegetables. They introduce chickens, pigs ([[Pinky and Perky#Cultural references|Pinky and Perky]]), a [[Domestic goat|goat]] (Geraldine) and a [[rooster|cockerel]] ([[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]). They generate their own electricity with [[methane]] from animal waste, and attempt to make their own clothes. They sell or [[barter]] surplus crops for essentials they cannot make themselves. They cut their monetary requirements to the minimum, with varying success.

Their actions horrify their kindly but conventional neighbours, Margo and Jerry Leadbetter. Margo and Jerry were intended to be minor characters, but their relationship with one another and the Goods became an essential element of the series. Under the influence of the Goods' homemade wine, called "[[pea]]pod [[Burgundy (wine)|burgundy]]" (the strength of which becomes a running joke), their intermingled attractions to one another become apparent.