Editorial: Straight from the horse's mouth But amid a long, long list of appearances, it is with The Good Life that Mr Briers' name will be forever most closely linked. The sitcom about Tom and Barbara Good's suburban self-sufficiency was a huge hit when it was aired in the mid-1970s and has been re-run any number of times since. Now, with horse meat turning up in beef burgers and the scandal spreading right across Europe, the fantasy of a city life replete with grow-your-own veg and garden-reared chickens (and pigs and goats) is more appealing than ever.