Butterflies. Image shows from L to R: Ben Parkinson (Geoffrey Palmer), Ria Parkinson (Wendy Craig)
Butterflies
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1978 - 2000
- 28 episodes (4 series)
Sitcom following dissatisfied housewife Ria Parkinson as she considers embarking on an exciting romantic affair with successful businessman Leonard. Stars Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Bruce Montague, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Andrew Hall and more.
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Carla's decades of comedy
It's a little more than 30 years since Liverpool's most well-known comedy jewel first came to our screens.
It followed the working class Boswell family struggling through the city's high unemployment and poor prospects in the late 1980s, painting a bleak yet concurrently warm and hopeful picture of life in one of Britain's major cities.
Aaron Brown, BBC, 4th May 2016Profile: Butterflies, 1978
Despite it's age, this still stands out as very funny, even today.
British Classic Comedy, 22nd September 2014BBC pitches Butterflies to US market
Corporation dusts down classic sitcoms as part of a BBC Worldwide campaign.
Leigh Holmwood, The Guardian, 2nd October 2009