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Wendy Craig stars as Ria, a suburban housewife frustrated with mundane family life, craving some escape from the drudgery. As hard as she tries she has never mastered the domestic arts and her well-meant efforts in the kitchen result in spectacular disaster. Husband Ben and layabout sons Russell and Adam live in fear of mealtimes as unidentified creations need coaxing from the pan and the words egg custard induce panic. Desperate for some excitement in her life, could a chance meeting with the charming and wealthy Leonard be the answer she is looking for?
Written by Carla Lane, Butterflies ran from 1978 to 1983 and is one of the BBC's most successful sitcoms.
Boxset features all 4 series - 28 episodes on 5 discs.
A perfect gift for Mother's Day
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Ria, a happily married suburban housewife, reaches the age where she feels as if life is passing her by. Being taken for granted by her butterfly collecting dentist husband doesn't help. So, when the opportunity for an affair comes up she tries to decide whether she loves her husband enough to be faithful to him. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, ...Butterflies - Complete Collection - 5-DVD Box Set ( Butter flies )
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm delighted that this classic comedy series,"Butterflies" is coming out on DVD again as the orginal DVDs are very hard to find and the prices have been really steep.
Wendy Craig is excellent as bored housewife Ria,married to the nice but dull,dentist Ben(Geoffrey Palmer)who is constantly at war with his two layabouts Sons,the moody Adam played by a young Nicholas Lyndhurst and the handsome,more open Russell(Andrew Hall)
Ria's mundane existance is changed forever when she meets the handsome Leonard(Bruce Montague)and much of the show involves Leonard pursuing Ria,in one particularly funny encounter,he excuses her of never going anywhere without her shopping bag,leading Ria to empty the contents of her bag into Leonard's car and publicly execute her shopping bag!
Carla Lane's wriitng has never been so mature and well developed,Leonard's chauffer Thomas(Michael Ripper)is a joy with his habit of quoting poetry and the dead pan cleaning lady,Ruby(Joyce Windsor)with her usual opening line,"Its peeing down outside".
In the fourth and final series,there is a darker edge to the comedy/drama,all the usual jokes about Ria's bad cooking are still there but you get Ria saying to Ben and the boys,yes laugh but why am I acting like this?
Ben begins to suspect all is not well too and this level of depth is rare in a sitcom and is why I love the show so much as well as an excellent cast.
I don't know if the 2000 Butterflies one off is included on the DVD set,I do hope so,can't wait for March,to buy this great show!
Wendy Craig is excellent as bored housewife Ria,married to the nice but dull,dentist Ben(Geoffrey Palmer)who is constantly at war with his two layabouts Sons,the moody Adam played by a young Nicholas Lyndhurst and the handsome,more open Russell(Andrew Hall)
Ria's mundane existance is changed forever when she meets the handsome Leonard(Bruce Montague)and much of the show involves Leonard pursuing Ria,in one particularly funny encounter,he excuses her of never going anywhere without her shopping bag,leading Ria to empty the contents of her bag into Leonard's car and publicly execute her shopping bag!
Carla Lane's wriitng has never been so mature and well developed,Leonard's chauffer Thomas(Michael Ripper)is a joy with his habit of quoting poetry and the dead pan cleaning lady,Ruby(Joyce Windsor)with her usual opening line,"Its peeing down outside".
In the fourth and final series,there is a darker edge to the comedy/drama,all the usual jokes about Ria's bad cooking are still there but you get Ria saying to Ben and the boys,yes laugh but why am I acting like this?
Ben begins to suspect all is not well too and this level of depth is rare in a sitcom and is why I love the show so much as well as an excellent cast.
I don't know if the 2000 Butterflies one off is included on the DVD set,I do hope so,can't wait for March,to buy this great show!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This wonderful DVD set has all of the original episodes of this classic series. It is a comedy. It has some good comedy moments and a truly great atmosphere.
After 19 years of marriage Ria Parkinson feels that her role in life is already over. Her two wayward sons, Russell and Adam (Nicholas Lyndhurst) have grown up and now have lives of their own. And her dentist husband, Ben, a manic-depressive is too wrapped up in his work and his hobby of Butterfly collecting to spend time with her.
Ria falls into a midlife crisis. This is made worse by the feeling that the only role left to her is one that she was never any good at anyway. That role is to cook. She really isn't very good at preparing a meal and the culinary disasters are a major source of humour in the show.
One day she meets recently divorced Leonard Dunn, a smooth, wealthy businessman. He fancies her and longs for a relationship with her. For Ria he is an innocent escape. He is that little sparkle of something different in her life. A mild hint of danger that could rock her mundane role in life.
Their friendship never comes to anything more than words.
The whole show has great moments of melancholy. Is the grass greener on the other side? What is life really about? What is important?
There are great characters in this series including Ruby the family housekeeper who is often bemused by what goes on in the Parkinson household, and Thomas the chauffeur in Leonard's Life
Ria's feelings of isolation. Loneliness and redundancy are issues that anybody can relate to even to day. The show works just as well over thirty years after its conception.
The picture, sound and presentation are all very good and this is a delightful release of a classic British comedy.
After 19 years of marriage Ria Parkinson feels that her role in life is already over. Her two wayward sons, Russell and Adam (Nicholas Lyndhurst) have grown up and now have lives of their own. And her dentist husband, Ben, a manic-depressive is too wrapped up in his work and his hobby of Butterfly collecting to spend time with her.
Ria falls into a midlife crisis. This is made worse by the feeling that the only role left to her is one that she was never any good at anyway. That role is to cook. She really isn't very good at preparing a meal and the culinary disasters are a major source of humour in the show.
One day she meets recently divorced Leonard Dunn, a smooth, wealthy businessman. He fancies her and longs for a relationship with her. For Ria he is an innocent escape. He is that little sparkle of something different in her life. A mild hint of danger that could rock her mundane role in life.
Their friendship never comes to anything more than words.
The whole show has great moments of melancholy. Is the grass greener on the other side? What is life really about? What is important?
There are great characters in this series including Ruby the family housekeeper who is often bemused by what goes on in the Parkinson household, and Thomas the chauffeur in Leonard's Life
Ria's feelings of isolation. Loneliness and redundancy are issues that anybody can relate to even to day. The show works just as well over thirty years after its conception.
The picture, sound and presentation are all very good and this is a delightful release of a classic British comedy.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
What can one say about this but a lovely great comdey series and well pleased it's on DVD to love and enjoy, sit back and laugh your head off.just buy it!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Wife's present.
It's a 'girlie' sitcom, written by Carla Lane. There are laughs in it which is more than can be said for her subsequent efforts. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Andrew Clayton
fanfunkytastic
Im now aged 37,I remember some of the episodes of butterflies on tv,but not all of them this dvd boxset is fab, itwas great to catch up on the ones that i missed, or just forgot... Read more
Published 7 months ago by RETRO CHIC
Old Memories
I saw Butterflies when it first came on the television. I can honestly say that I enjoyed looking at this box set. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Panda
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