The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

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The Good Life

Classic sitcom about a pair of diverse couples living next door to each other

Classic sitcom about a middle-class couple who decide to turn their home into a self-sufficient farm, starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington

The Good Life: Series 1: Episode 4: Pig's Lib

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Episode 4: Pig's Lib

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Pig's Lib

BBC One - The Good Life, Series 1, Pig's Lib

Margo is horrified when she hears of Tom and Barbara's decision to keep pigs.

Seventies sitcom about a couple who decide to become self-sufficient. Margo is horrified when she hears of Tom and Barbara's decision to keep pigs in the garden.

The Goods' garden is now well under way and Tom is managing to barter reasonably successfully. Margo is horrified when she hears of Tom and Barbara's decision to keep pigs in the garden and enlists the help of the local residents' association in an effort to scupper the plan.

The Good Life: Series 1

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Tom Good and his wife leave the rat race and try to become self-sufficient.

Fed up with making a living designing plastic toys to be given away in cereal boxes, Tom Good decides to pack in the rat race and become self-sufficient.

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