Butterflies is a British sitcom series that was broadcast on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983. The show stars Wendy Craig as Ria Parkinson, a frustrated’stay-at-home’ housewife. The Adagio in G minor attributed to Tomaso Albinoni was used as interlude music in most of the episodes.
About Butterflies (TV series) in brief
Butterflies is a British sitcom series written by Carla Lane that was broadcast on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983. The show stars Wendy Craig as Ria Parkinson, a frustrated’stay-at-home’ housewife. Geoffrey Palmer as her reserved and hard-working dentist husband, Ben, who is also an amateur lepidopterist. Bruce Montague plays Ria’s friend Leonard, a successful businessman aged 44, whose wife has recently left him; he, like Ria, is approaching a mid-life crisis. The Adagio in G minor attributed to Tomaso Albinoni was used as interlude music in most of the episodes where Ria is reflecting on her dilemma, and walking through a park on her own.
The Butterflies theme song, \”Love Is Like a Butterfly\”, is a 1974 single written and originally recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. Unlike most of Lane’s sitcoms, Butterflies is not set in Liverpool, but in prosperous town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Many of the scenes were filmed there, including the High Street, Montpellier and Hatherley Park, and the exterior shots for the Parkinson house were filmed at 30 Bournside Road, Up Up Hatherly. The series was written by Lane for BBC2, and produced by BBC Radio 4.
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