The Good Life Complete Series Three   Starring: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington Acorn Media UK RRP: £19.99 AV9773 Certificate: PG Available 19 July 2010

Thirty five years since its original broadcast, The Good Life is being release on DVD courtesy of Acorn Media UK. Starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington this is the comedy series that put organic foods, self-sufficiency and green thinking on the map years before anyone else. In this third series, The swings and roundabouts of relationships with Jerry and Margo continue to swing and go roundabout as Tom and Barbara evolve their “good life” in Suburbia. Windbreaks that break more than wind, pregnant pigs and a bad case of fleas lead to all manner of mishaps and misread intentions; and while Tom experiments in talking to plants, Barbara reaches the end of her tether with a tear in her last posh frock...

When series three was released on DVD the first time around in 2004, the episode The Wind Break was missing. Now, for the first time all seven episodes from the show's third series are finally available to own.

Highlights in this collection include:

A Tug of the Forelock: When Margo and Jerry's cleaner and gardener go on holiday the Goods agree to help them out. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement isn't it? Margo can ignore the housework while Tom and Barbara can earn a few extra pounds in order to help make ends meet. However the Goods hadn't reckoned on how much of a nightmare Margo is when it comes to the tidiness of her house.

I Talk to the Trees: When visiting their allotment the Goods are surprised to hear an old man on the next patch talking to himself. They soon discover that he's actually talking to his plants in the belief that it will help them grow. Tom and Barbara decide to engage in an experiment to see if their plants will grow better if they talk to them nicely.

The Wind-Break: When Margo gets the builders in to erect a large wind-break in her garden the Goods soon charge round to demand that she moves it as it will block the sunlight from their newly planted crops. Margo asks the builders to move the wind-break ignorant of the fact that the Goods, fed up of waiting, have dug up all their produce and moved it to a sunnier part of the garden. Guess where the new location of the wind-break is...

The Last Posh Frock: When Barbara tears her last posh frock it sends her over the edge. She's fed up of Tom being insensitive and not treating her like a woman once in a while.

To be fair all the episodes in this collection are great fun and the writing is still as fresh today as when it was first broadcast almost 35 years ago.

Extras include text based filmographies for all four main cast members and Many Modes of Margo (a picture gallery of Margo's wardrobe).

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Darren Rea