Oh, The Good Life... full of fun seems to be the ideal. Mm, The Good Life... lets you hide all the sadness you feel. Yessir, I'm the first human in history to do that joke about Tony Bennett and '70s sitcom, The Good Life. Good thing too because The Good Life is celebrating a birthday! For the first time ever, the first series is coming to DVD to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the show.

Acorn Media have produced the digitally re-mastered release of one of the greatest British TV comedy classics.

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.

And a nod to swinging.

The Good Life will be released throughout 2010 for the first time ever in series order. The first release, The Good Life Complete Series One, comes as a fantastic two-disc set, on 29th March 2010.

On his 40th birthday Tom Good (Briers) decides he's had enough of the daily grind, he packs in his job and convinces his wife Barbara (Kendal) that they should become self-sufficient.

Overnight they convert their suburban garden into a farm for organic living, complete with crops, pigs and chickens and homemade beer, much to the disapproval of their snooty neighbour Margo (Keith) and her henpecked husband Jerry (Eddington).

Created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the programme ran for four series from 1975-1978. Its popularity has rarely waned and it was voted ninth best sitcom of all time in a BBC poll.