Carla Lane
Director
Butterflies (1978)
Specials
Ria Parkinson is a bored housewife and mother. She spends her time daydreaming, and meets regularly with wealthy businessman Leonard to relieve the monotony. Husband Ben, a dentist and avid butterfly collector is oblivious to it all, and her unemployed grown up sons, who both live at home also have other things on their minds, especially girlfriends.
Released Nov. 10, 1978
Episode 30 min
10+
Keywords: tmdb.adultery, tmdb.housewife, tmdb.family, tmdb.dentist, tmdb.sitcom, tmdb.bored-housewife, tmdb.butterfly-collector + 8 more, imdb.animal-in-title, imdb.insect-in-title, imdb.unrequited-love, imdb.affair, imdb.sitcom, imdb.sitcom-comedy, imdb.laugh-track, tmdb.affair
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Children in Need Special
Having reached 60, Ria wonders what life would have been like, if she had done things differently.
Nov. 17, 2000, midnight
S0E2 - A Conversation With Carla Lane (29th May 2002)
Writer Carla lane talks about her memories of Butterflies.
BBC Two
30 min/ep
840 min
Nov. 10, 1978
Oct. 19, 1983, midnight
Ended
TV-PG / 10+
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