- Actors: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington, Reginald Marsh
- Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
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- Studio: Vid Canada
- Release Date: May 21 2002
- Run Time: 250 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000648WI
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#53,666 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Here are the final seven episodes of the 1970s British comedy series, Good Neighbors (entitled The Good Life in England), a show that brilliantly captures the Zeitgeist of the '70s. The Goods, who quit the rat race for a life of subsistence farming, are next-door neighbors to the Ledbetters, some of the fastest rat-race runners around. At first, Margot and Jerry Ledbetter are horrified to see Tom and Barbara Good turn their tiny yard into a series of animal pens and vegetable gardens. But by the final episodes, the two couples have learned how to tolerate their differences and are the best of friends. There's an endless source of humor in this classic dichotomy of rich versus poor, snooty versus earthy. "Troglodytes!" the Ledbetters slam the Goods. "Gracious livers!" the Goods retaliate. There is also an abundant supply of silly scenes involving the Goods' suburban menagerie. The episode in which their chicken boards a passing bus goes delightfully over the edge. The British have always had a wonderful knack for poking fun at themselves, and this knack reaches a pinnacle in statuesque comedienne Penelope Keith's indelible creation of the character Margot Ledbetter. She's the quintessential status-obsessed snob, so preposterously genteel that she can wring three syllables out of the word "no." Keith's performance, especially, keeps Good Neighbors as fresh and funny as the day it was made. --Laura Mirsky
From the Back Cover
The complete final series and the grand finale special episode of this BBC comedy classic. Just how different can neighbors be and still be neighborly? While the Goods struggle to live off the land without leaving their suburban London home, the snooty Leadbetters struggle with living next door to the down-to-earth Goods. Here are the final seven episodes plus The Royal Command Performance, a special episode filmed before a live audience of special guests that included Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The Queen is shown arriving in the studio and greeting cast and crew members after the taping. Episodes include: Away From It All, The Green Door, Our Speaker Today, The Weaver's Tale, Suit Yourself, Sweet and Sour Charity and Anniversary. DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE: exclusive video interview with series writer and co-creator Bob Larbey, cast and crew bios and episode selection.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Neighbors....good fun!,
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This review is from: Good Neighbors: The Complete Final Series (DVD)
Highly enjoyable British comedy made in the late 70's. The humor is engaging, and if you are a fan of such shows as "Are You Being Served?" no doubt you will enjoy this set. My main gripe is that why in the world did the BBC start DVD distribution with the final installments of the series? Paul Eddington is superb as is the rest of the cast. Enjoy!
1.0 out of 5 stars
A poor transcription of an excellent comedy,
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This review is from: Good Neighbors: The Complete Final Series (DVD)
Acorn Media has done the fans of Good Neighbors (known in the UK as The Good Life) a disservice with their transcription of the final series onto two DVDs. Please bear in mind when reading this review that this is my favorite British comedy, ahead even of Monty Python's Flying Circus.The quality of the pictures is no better than fair. I could tolerate that, because my set of off-the-air VHS tapes has been played so much that the images are almost Impressionist pastels. I was irritated that the bonus material is of such paucity as to be not worth your time; you can find out more about the show and its players from the Internet Moive Database than you can from the DVD. But even this is bearable. What roused my anger was the fact that these brand new disks arrived in their original shrinkwrap but will not play properly. Of the eight episodes provided, only three would play without trouble. Of the remaining five, none would play normally; you get a portion of an episode, and then for unknown reasons the disk starts skipping as if you were fast-forwarding at 16 time normal speed. One episode would not play at all. And in the case of the bonus material, one part plays only in skip mode while the other won't play at all. I have waited a long time for a DVD set of Good Neighbors that could replace my worn-out VHS tapes. It now appears that I will have to wait until BBC America deigns to produce a complete set of DVDs of one of their most popular comedies ever, before I will be able to view Good Neighbors as it originally aired.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the rest,
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This review is from: Good Neighbors: The Complete Final Series (DVD)
I caught this show back in the mid '80's on PBS and have been wearing my videotape copies down to where they are barely watchable anymore. Thank the powers that be that someone finally got around to releasing this series (or part of it, anyway) on DVD. My question is, where's the rest of it? I just emailed the distributor, and they said there are no current plans to release the rest of the series on this format. ???
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