To me this series was about lessons in friendship. As often as the Goods did things to, intentionally or unintentionally, drive the Ledbetters crazy, and especially to humiliate Margo, it seems to me the Ledbetters were always there to support the Goods in their harebrained schemes,no matter how foolhardy they thought the Goods. I remember one episode called something like "The Windbreak Affair." The Goods planted an orchard of sorts asking Margo to be sure the windbreak she planned to have installed would not block the sun from their fruit. Margo agreed. A sub plot (in all the episodes I recall) was the Goods'making Margo the butt of their many jokes which she found quite irritating. Due to circumstances beyond Margo's control (the workmen didn't understand Latin)the workmen put the windbreak up in the wrong place, blocking the sun from the precious fruit. The Goods discovered Margos "treachery" and literally transplanted all their fruit. After the Goods moved the fruit Margo discovered the workmen's error and had them correct it. The Goods then confronted Margo accusing her of moving the windbreak, after they had moved their fruit, deliberately and petily because they had made jokes at her expense. Long-suffering Margo explained the correct order of affairs and was vindicated. The Goods joined the Ledbetters for dinner. After an evening of consuming Tom's homemade "under-the-table" wine Margo suggested that they all go to the garden to move the windbreak so that it would finally be placed to the Goods satisfaction. They do and some "valuable" concrete statuary in her music arbor in pulverized by the crashing windbreak. Jerry and the Goods try to look contrite but the inebriated Margo sees the humour in the situation and is at last able to laugh along with her companions. In addition to my memories about this being a programme about friendship it it is also a tribute to what can be done by properly casting, creating quirky but loveable characters and scripting a series.

--Nick's Dad