morddwyd

As you know, Briers starred in "The Marriage Lines" with Prunella Scales - she of Fawlty Towers fame - and they remained very close friends for the rest of his life. Richard was godfather to Prunella's children, and they lived very close to each other.

Prunella is on record as saying that Briers was one of the nicest men she knew, and right to the end she visited him regularly, to make sure he was OK.

He wasn't so close to Felicity Kendal ('The good life') however, describing her as a 'somewhat strange' person. In fact, Briers didn't much enjoy his 'Good life' character; he said he found him incredibly irritating.

Well Richard Briers made many people happy and The Good Life Comedy brought many smiles laughs on peoples faces however young or old. He was a good man and brought joy to many on the tv screen.

"a case for bringing out some of the better shows again."

What were better shows at the time 30 years ago aren't necessarily better now, or what a modern audience would watch at prime time on a prime channel. I used to (and still do) like watching The Sweeney and The Professionals, when they were new, they were gritty and cutting edge drama, now when I watch them I see corny parodies much like The Avengers, which pretended to be nothing else than a corny parody.

Currently you can watch David Attenborough's huge Life On Earth series from the early '80s on iPlayer that seemed to last forever at that time. It was very ground breaking in it's day for it's photography techniques and the depth at which the subject was covered. After wading through the first 2 1/2 programmes, I decided that it's too bloody boring to watch all the way through again!

I just cherry pick my viewing now with the use of iPlayers and HD recording and the like.

I would expect that to be particularly true with 'The Good Life'. Many of the 'weird' things done by Tom are the sort of things we take for granted today.