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MONEY
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4 seasons · 28 episodes total · ~7 per season.
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Butterflies
1978 4 seasons · 28 eps English
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SOLID
★7.2TMDB · 21
Comedy
Synopsis
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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.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
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Cast
Wendy Craig
Ria Parkinson
Geoffrey Palmer
Ben Parkinson
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Adam Parkinson
Andrew Hall
Russell Parkinson
Bruce Montague
Leonard Dunn
Michael Ripper
Thomas
Joyce Windsor
Ruby
Brian Murphy
Created by
Carla Lane
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CRAFT
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Roughly 14 hours end-to-end — 2 full workdays of television.
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ERA
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Aired from 1978 to 1983 — a 5-year run.
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WILD
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TMDB status: "Ended".
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WORLD
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Show type: Scripted.
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AWARDS
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Created by Carla Lane.
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CAST
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Airs on BBC Two.
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The technical file
- Seasons
- 4
- Total episodes
- 28
- Avg episode length
- 30 min
- Premiered
- 1978-11-10
- Last aired
- 1983-10-19
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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