Good Life

Having gathered their harvest, Tom and Barbara need to try and sell their produce. Jerry tells him that it won’t be that easy, but Tom replies that he’s already agreed to sell it to a restaurant called The Runcible Spoon. However, the restaurant owner isn’t so obliging when he realises the Goods can only supply them once.

Margo and Jerry return from Amsterdam to discover that Tom and Barbara have two earnest University students called Guy (Bruce Bould) and Ruth (Irene Richard) staying for the week to help out in the garden; and when the house next to the Goods goes up for the sale, Guy, whose father owns "most" of Staffordshire, wants to buy it and turn it into a commune.

On a wet autumn evening, Margo comes round and tells Tom he is wanted on the phone by a Mr Coles, who turns out to be a freelance journalist. After he does an article on the Goods and their way of life, and informs Margo that he’s sold it to The Observer, Jerry manages to get them lots of free goods by letting local shops use their name in advertising.

Tom discovers that eight leeks have been stolen from his front garden, and soon he stays up all night to catch the thief, who he then shoots with an air gun. The thief then takes Tom to court for common assault, and when Tom refuses to be bound over he’s sent to prison for 28 days to reconsider. Later, the thief, who is called Harry Bennett, comes round to apologise. Guest starring James Cossins.

While playing golf with Andrew, Jerry agrees to put up a Dutch businessman for the weekend, but when he gets home is reminded that Margo is playing the lead role of Maria in The Sound of Music. When he tells Sir he can’t put the Dutch man up, he is sacked.

Margo is delighted with the new neighbours, Mr and Mrs Weaver, but when she comes to tell Tom and Barbara the good news, she is horrified to be told that a boar is coming round to "serve" Pinky. The boar’s owner, Mr May, tells them that there is a farm near where he lives that would be perfect for them, so the Goods decide to move.

Tom and Barbara decide to enrol in evening classes, they both do house maintenance, and Tom does weaving while Margo joins Barbara doing pottery. Before they even attend a class, Jerry buys Margo a "studio" to do her pottery as an early birthday present. But after her first class, she leaves the evening class, and Tom and Barbara swap evening classes after failing at their own. Soon Tom uses Margo’s studio when Mrs Weaver likes his pottery and commissions him to make her some.