Editorial Product Review:Description:Episodes: Backs to the Wall, The Wind-break War, Silly, But It's Fun. The self-sufficient Goods and the conspicuously consuming Leadbetters pursue two diametrically opposed approaches to the good life as next door neighbors in a posh London suburb.
Editorial Product Review: :This third collection of episodes from the long-running, delightful British sitcom set in London's suburbs contains some of the series' best episodes. Originally telecast in the 1970s, Good Neighbors stars Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal as Tom and Barbara Good, an upper-middle-class couple who relinquishes their consumerist ways for a self-sufficient, back-to- the-earth (read: impoverished) philosophy. Turning their cozy suburban home into a tightly managed farm--crops, animals, the whole bit--they also continually have to work out class politics with ...
Editorial Product Review: :This third collection of episodes from the long-running, delightful British sitcom set in London's suburbs contains some of the series' best episodes. Originally telecast in the 1970s, Good Neighbors stars Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal as Tom and Barbara Good, an upper-middle-class couple who relinquishes their consumerist ways for a self-sufficient, back-to- the-earth (read: impoverished) philosophy. Turning their cozy suburban home into a tightly managed farm--crops, animals, the whole bit--they also continually have to work out class politics with ...
Editorial Product Review: :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 ...
Editorial Product Review: :In 'Decalogue VII' ('Thou Shalt Not Steal'), Krzysztof Kieslowski turns the commandment into the devastating story of the theft of a mother's love and the emotional wounds left in its wake. Majka, a willowy young woman devastated by sadness, kidnaps her young sister Ania to set things straight in her charade of a life. The girl is in fact her daughter, raised by Majka's mother Ewa to avoid scandal, but Ewa has jealously hoarded the affection of the little ...
Editorial Product Review: :As the weather turns colder, Audrey and Richard's relationship begins to warm up in these episodes from the second season of To the Manor Born. As the displaced lady of Grantleigh Manor, Audrey Forbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) embodies the British upper-class sense of social propriety with remarks such as, 'If somebody's died and you haven't read about it, it can be very embarrassing when you meet them at a party the following week.' Peter Bowles plays up Richard's well-meaning haplessness ...
Editorial Product Review: :As the weather turns colder, Audrey and Richard's relationship begins to warm up in these episodes from the second season of To the Manor Born. As the displaced lady of Grantleigh Manor, Audrey Forbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) embodies the British upper-class sense of social propriety with remarks such as, 'If somebody's died and you haven't read about it, it can be very embarrassing when you meet them at a party the following week.' Peter Bowles plays up Richard's well-meaning haplessness ...
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