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The Good Life

1975–1978BBC OneComedy

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A couple turning their Surbiton garden into a smallholding, next door to neighbours who would rather they did not.

The Good Life opens with a main title sequence of 32 seconds.

It arrived on BBC One in 1975, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.

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Season 1

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