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Good Life or Good Neighbors??

People living in the United Kingdom know this program as The Good Life.

This was how the program was released and is the show's original title. However, when it was released in the United States, the title was changed to Good Neighbors. Nothing else was changed and the American release has the same flower, bird, and bee as the English release.

Why the change then? An answer is found in Tim Brooks and Earles Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, 1946-Present (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988) [ISBN 0-345-35610-1]. There was a sitcom called The Good Life starring Larry Hagman, Donna Mills, David Wayne, Hermione Baddeley, and Danny Goldman ran from September 1971 to January 1972 on the NBC network.

While it was not running when the English Good Life came on the air, the name was changed so as not to be confused with this earlier American show.

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