The Best Episodes of The Good Life Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.0/10(110 votes)

   #1 - Just My Bill

   S2:E112/5/1975

   The Goods are faced with paying their rates bill (local property tax). They try to sell their harvest surplus to raise money, but it proves more difficult than Tom imagines.

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   7.7/10(114 votes)

   #2 - The Guru of Surbiton

   S2:E212/12/1975

   The Goods take in a student couple for a week, to help them with the work on the smallholding. The couple rapidly become infatuated with the Goods and their way of life. When they decide to buy the other house next door, to start a commune with similar aims, Margo becomes incensed.

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   7.8/10(101 votes)

   #3 - Mr. Fix-It

   S2:E312/19/1975

   A journalist writes a freelance article on the Goods and their way of life. Margo tries to muscle in to promote her forthcoming amateur dramatics production. Jerry obtains quantities of free merchandise for the Goods, on the grounds that the article is to appear in a national Sunday newspaper.

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   8.1/10(105 votes)

   #4 - The Day Peace Broke Out

   S2:E41/2/1976

   Leeks start to go missing from the front garden, and Tom initially suspects Margo. When he discovers the real culprit, he takes the law into his own hands, but ends up in deeper trouble than the thief.

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   8.2/10(103 votes)

   #5 - Mutiny

   S2:E51/9/1976

   Jerry refuses to put up a foreign businessman visiting the company, as it would interfere with Margo's performances as Maria in a local amateur production of The Sound of Music, and he is consequently sacked. The Goods try to get him reinstated.

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   8.0/10(106 votes)

   #6 - Home Sweet Home

   S2:E61/16/1976

   A boar-walker visits the Goods' remaining pig, and recommends they move to a larger smallholding that he knows is for sale. Neither Tom nor Barbara can think of a good reason not to go, but neither really wants to.

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   8.2/10(97 votes)

   #7 - Going to Pot?

   S2:E71/23/1976

   Tom's inability to repair the roof decides the Goods on joining evening classes in practical subjects, Barbara taking pottery and Tom taking weaving. Both do badly and decide to swap subjects. Tom achieves outstanding results, resulting in the temptation to go commercial.

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