This short-lived CBS comedy series featured Who’s The Boss? star Judith Light as divorcee Sara Campbell, who is considered America’s foremost authority on country living. She hails from Queens, lives in Manhattan and has a TV series called The Simple Life, where she displays her knowledge of life in the country – Unfortunately, it is set in a studio.
When Sara feels she needs to be more authentic, she gives up her condo in Manhattan and moves to a genuine farm in upstate New York with her daughter, Fredericka – called Freddi (Ashlee Levitch) – who hates being “in the middle of nowhere,” and her mother, Muriel (Florence Stanley), who feels Sara will never be able to survive in the country and will soon return to the city.
Stories followed Sara as she turned her home into a TV studio and reported on the simple life from her new simple life.
Other regular characters included Sara’s muscular but country-dumb farm foreman, Luke (Brett Cullen); his deceased sister’s children, 9-year-old Charlotte (Eliza Dean) and 13-year-old Will (Ross Malinger), who he is raising; Sara’s stuffy British producer, Greg (James Patrick Stuart), who calls Luke “Jethro”; Greg’s assistant, Melanie (Sara Rue) and crew members Jeff (Jeff Blumenkrantz) and Nick (Vasili Bogazianos).
Sara Campbell
Judith Light Freddi Campbell
Ashlee Levitch Muriel Lipschitz
Florence Stanley Greg Champlain
James Patrick Stuart Melanie
Sara Rue Luke Barton
Brett Cullen Charlotte Barton
Eliza Dean Will Barton
Ross Malinger Jeff
Jeff Blumenkrantz Nick
Vasili Bogazianos
