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TV : Comedy : DVD quality : English
Created and written by Carla Lane, whose other series included the highly regarded Bread and The Liver Birds, the weekly half-hour British sitcom Butterflies starred Wendy Craig as Ria Parkinson, an outwardly normal housewife undergoing a rather profound middle-aged crisis. Married to a dentist named Ben (Geoffrey Palmer) who spent his off-hours collecting butterflies, and the mother of two indolent teenaged boys, Russell (Andrew Hall) and Adam (Nicholas Parkhurst), Ria could not help but feel that something was lacking in her life. Thus it was almost inevitable that Ria entertained thoughts of straying from her marital vows in the company of Leonard Dutton (Bruce Montague), a wealthy businessman whom she had met by accident during one of her rare forays outside her home. For his part, Leonard was enchanted by Ria, but he was reluctant to give his own wife a divorce. For four years, Ria and Leonard periodically ducked away to enjoy an entirely chaste relationship, with Ria forever torn between kicking over the traces and dashing off to a life of thrills and chance, and remaining the dutiful wife and mother she'd been all her life. Also in the cast was Michael Ripper, a fixture of British horror films, here atypically cast as Leonard's cynical chauffeur, Thomas, and veteran comedienne Joyce Windsor as the Parkinsons' neurotic cleaning lady, Ruby. Debuting November 10, 1978, on BBC-2, the 28-episode Butterflies ran until October 19, 1983. In 1979

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