Episode
The Good Life: Plough Your Own Furrow
Overview
After he has celebrated his 40th birthday Tom decides that he is unhappy with his life style so he packs his job in, farms his large garden and becomes self sufficient.
Details
- Series
- The Good Life
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 1975-04-04
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Plough Your Own Furrow is Episode 1 in Season 1 of The Good Life. It aired on 1975-04-04. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 3: The Weaker Sex?
Tom buys an old-fashioned range for their kitchen from a passing rag-and-bone man, but Barbara becomes irate when she ends up doing most of the hard work to get it ready for use, while he tries to make a system for scaring the birds off their crops.
Episode 4: Pig's Lib
The Goods continue their bartering with local suppliers, but Barbara has a misunderstanding while negotiating with the window-cleaner. They then add a pair of pigs in a sty to their back garden, at which Margo is so appalled she brings in the chairman of the local residents' association to persuade them out of it, but is unsuccessful. However, when one escapes into the Leadbetter's garden, she can only be mollified by getting rid of it.
Episode 5: The Thing in the Cellar
Tom puts the finishing touches to their own electricity generator in the cellar, which runs on their animals' waste. He then goes fishing with Jerry, and decides to store the surplus in the freezer, until the generator plays up...
Episode 6: The Pagan Rite
In order to pay for a treat for Barbara, Tom takes a short contract from his old firm, and tries to keep it a secret from her - but his plan is foiled when he fails to account for Margo's nosiness.
Episode 7: Backs to the Wall
While starting the harvest, Tom injures his back digging,and since Margo and Jerry are on holiday Barbara is left to look after the farm all on her own. A storm then adds to their problems by turning their garden into a mud bath.