Butterflies (TV Series 1978–1983) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error 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... See full summary » Stars: The thought of cooking for Christmas frightens Ria though she is cheered to meet Leonard again, though they have a row. Back home this preys on her mind and she burns the pizza and freaks out at the ... 8.1 The boys have the opportunity to buy a window cleaning business but Ria is still depressed and goes to church for guidance. When she comes out she finds Leonard has put his diary in her car. She ... 7.9 Six months have elapsed and Ria meets Leonard in the park. They hug, he says he loves her and wants to carry on with her. Meanwhile Ben is having lunch with a widowed friend Amanda. She seems to ...

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See full summary » Stars: Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan The series followed the wavering relationship between two ex-lovers, Penny Warrender, a secretary for an advertising firm, and Vincent Pinner, an ex ice cream salesman turned turf ... See full summary » Stars: Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis, Sylvia Kay Wolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting London, a self proclaimed Urban Guerilla who aspires to be like his hero Che Guevara. Leading a small group called the Tooting Popular ... See full summary » Stars: Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Hilda Braid The perils of "escaping the rat race" and dropping out of society - to start a farm in Surbiton (and to drive Margo nuts). Stars: Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith A rather naive, middle-class man is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff. Stars: James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli Comic goings on in this series set in an English holiday camp called Maplins.

The title comes from the camp's greeting, which the staff are meant to say with enthusiasm but all too often ... See full summary » Stars: Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II. Stars: Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Donald Hewlett The Liverpool-based Boswell family are experts at exploiting the system to get by in life. Despite the fact that none of the Boswells are officially employed, they manage to live a fairly ... See full summary » Stars: Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris Jacko is a house painter who "appreciates" women, he sees the best in each one of them and they in turn, like him. Will he find true love ? Will he settle down as he gets older ? Stars: Karl Howman, Mike Walling, Jackie Lye Bless This House centres on life in Birch Avenue, Putney, where travelling stationery salesman Sid Abbott (Sidney James) and his wife Jean (Diana Coupland) live with their teenagers: Mike (...

See full summary » Stars: Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson Now a qualified chef, Robin from "Man About the House" (1973) sets up home with his girlfriend, and a business with his girlfriend's father. Stars: Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton Edit Storyline 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. Written by Dave Smith <dave@stat.colostate.edu> 10 November 1978 (UK) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia At the beginning of the first series, Ben is said to be 48 years old; Geoffrey Palmer was actually 51 at that time. Ria's age is not specifically mentioned, but she worries about having looked like 50 - ten years before she should; Wendy Craig was 44.

Leonard has a birthday in the first series and turns 45; Bruce Montague was 39. See more » Quotes (Vancouver, Canada) – See all my reviews Even 20-odd years after the fact (and with it's late-70s sexual revolutionism looking humorously dated these days), Carla Lane's 'Butterflies' remains one of the freshest and funniest sitcoms Britain ever produced. The story itself is relentlessly simple -- a stifled housewife's yearning for more in her life is complicated by a distantly ironic husband, two sex-crazed still-at-home sons, and the romantic attention of a wealthy playboy whose desire revs up the more undesirable she feels. But it's not the plot that makes 'Butterflies' great so much as it is the opportunity that that plot gives Lane to explore Ria Parkinson's world as it slowly collapses around her, and it's impossible not to see a little bit of oneself in the sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-sobering struggles of Lane's memorable characters as they attempt to survive the small anguishes of day-to-day life. Smart writing and great performances all around.

A few years back, 'Butterflies' would show up in late-night rotation on PBS in the states and Canada; if it does again, catch it. 18 of 20 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Geoffrey Palmer: TV Shows Starring Geoffrey Palmer (9 Items) G Options B Comments & Embed 1 Absolute Power Stephen Fry, Geoffrey Palmer, John Bird Absolute Power is a British comedy series, set in the offices of Prentiss McCabe, a fictional public relations company in London, run by Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe. It started in 2000 on BBC ; 2 As Time Goes By Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker As Time Goes By is a British romantic sitcom that aired on BBC One from 1992 to 2002, with reunion specials in 2005.

Starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, it follows the relationship between two ; 3 Blackadder Goes Forth Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry Blackadder Goes Forth is the fourth and final series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC One. The series ; Bulldog Breed Amanda Barrie, Peter Butterworth, Geoffrey Palmer 6 Butterflies Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst Butterflies was a British sitcom series written by Carla Lane broadcast on BBC2 from 1978–83. The situation is the day-to-day life of the Parkinson family in a bittersweet style. There are both ; Chateau Monty Geoffrey Palmer 8 Executive Stress Penelope Keith, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Bowles Executive Stress is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1986 to 1988. Produced by Thames Television, it first aired on 20 October 1986.

After three series, the last episode aired on 27 December ; 9 Fairly Secret Army James Cosmo, Liz Fraser, Geoffrey Palmer Fairly Secret Army is a British sitcom which ran to thirteen episodes over two series between 1984 and 1986. Though not a direct spin-off from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, the lead character, ; 10 Grumpy Old Men Elliott Gould Grumpy Old Men is a conversational-style British television series, first shown in October 2003 on BBC Two. The first run of four programmes was repeated several times before a second series, also of ; 11 He Knew He Was Right Bill Nighy, Laura Fraser, Anna Massey He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was Right. It was directed by Tom Vaughan. ; 12 Hot Metal Richard Wilson, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer Hot Metal is a London Weekend Television sitcom about the British Newspaper industry broadcast between 1986 and 1988.

In the show, The Daily Crucible, the dullest newspaper in Fleet Street, is ; 13 Mr. Men and Little Miss Geoffrey Palmer, Arnold Stang, Gordon Peters Mr Men and Little Miss aired in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United Kingdom, the program was fully animated, and the characters were voiced by British voice actors Geoffrey ; 14 The Army Game William Hartnell, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw The Army Game is a British sitcom that broadcast on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white, it is about National Service conscription to the post-war British Army. It was created by Sid Colin. ; 15 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Leonard Rossiter, Geoffrey Palmer, Sue Nicholls The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels that developed into a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role.

Both the books and television series were written by David ; The Joe Baker Show Geoffrey Palmer, Gerald Harper 17 The Last Song Geoffrey Palmer, Caroline Blakiston 18 The Legacy of Reginald Perrin Patricia Hodge, Geoffrey Palmer, Sue Nicholls 19 The Long Walk to Finchley Andrea Riseborough, Geoffrey Palmer, Samuel West Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley, subtitled in the initial credits How Maggie Might Have Done It, is a 2008 BBC Four television drama based on the early political career of the young ; 20 The Savages Victoria Hamilton, Geoffrey Palmer, Marcus Brigstocke The Savages is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 2001. Starring Geoffrey Palmer and comedian Marcus Brigstocke, it was written by Simon Nye, the writer of Men Behaving Badly. The Savages ; 21 Travellers' Century Geoffrey Palmer Travellers' Century is a 2008 BBC Television documentary series presented by Benedict Allen that profiles the lives of three influential 20th century British travel writers.

; 22 Whoops Apocalypse John Cleese, Rik Mayall, Richard Griffiths Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 television sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film ; Classic sitcom Butterflies set to take flight once more - with Carla Lane and Wendy Craig both on board | Daily Mail Online Classic sitcom Butterflies set to take flight once more - with Carla Lane and Wendy Craig both on board comments It was a staple part of British viewing in the early 1980s as viewers were captivated by the 'will they, won't they' saga of Ria and Leonard. But now it has emerged that classic sitcom Butterflies could be set to take flight once more in one last hurrah by the writer and actors. Writer Carla Lane and actress Wendy Craig have both admitted they would be keen to film a final chapter in the lives of the Parkinsons.

Butterflies: The classic sitcom starring (from left) Andrew Hall, Geoffrey Palmer, Wendy Craig and Nicholas Lyndhurst, is set for a comeback The bitter-sweet BBC2 sitcom followed the life of frustrated housewife Ria as she contemplated adultery with her friend Leonard. In the series she struggled with the demands of her family with husband Ben and their two sons and yearned to escape her drudgery of her life. The show, which starred Geoffrey Palmer as the husband and Nicholas Lyndhurst who played the youngest son Adam, ran between 1978 and 1983 and used the Dolly Parton song Love Is Like A Butterfly as its theme song. Comedy gold: The sitcom told of frustrated housewife Ria as she struggled with the demands and drudgery of family life with husband Ben Many fans of the show had given up on wondering whether there would ever be another episode to see what happened to the characters. But there is now optimism that a return can be organised after key players Miss Lane and Miss Craig gave the idea their approval.

RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Miss Craig, now 75, who also starred in The Nanny, said: 'I would love to find out what happened to Ria 25 years on. 'It would be great to get back together with Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst and the others. But I am not sure Carla Lane is interested.' The writer: Carla Lane, who also penned Bread and The Liver Birds, has agreed to one last foray into the lives of the Parkinson family But it has been revealed that acclaimed writer Miss Lane, 71, would also back one last foray into the lives of the Parkinson family. The writer said: 'I always loved Butterflies and I have an idea for how Ria and (her husband) Ben might have changed over the years.' She added: 'The last time I went into the BBC comedy department it was full of giggling girls and cleavage. 'But Michael Grade (outgoing ITV chief) always adored my work. I am ready to get back into writing TV comedy. 'I don't think the viewers are very pleased with what they're getting these days.' Carla Lane was also behind hit sitcoms Bread and The Liver Birds.

The name of the series came from the hobby of dentist husband Ben who was a butterfly collector. It also featured fantasy and dream sequences to show the inner thoughts of Ria. When the show aired it regularly topped BBC2's most-watched programmes list and led to an ill-fated US version. In 2001's Children in Need there was a ten-minute sketch with Ria having just celebrated her 60th birthday showing little had changed. This would be the latest iconic sitcom to be revamped in recent years. Indeed Wendy Craig recently appeared in the BBC1 remake of Reggie Perrin, which starred Martin Clunes. BFI Screenonline: The Sitcom Family The Sitcom Family Half a century of social change played for laughs The 'sit' in 'sitcom' stands for 'situation', but you could be forgiven for thinking it stands for 'sitting room', since the situation in so many TV sitcoms has been a family home. Like radio before it, television brought entertainment into the domestic space. And while one task the new medium set itself was bringing the outside world into our homes, its position in the corner of our living rooms meant it was perfectly placed to act as a mirror to our domestic lives.

The early television schedules responded to this challenge awkwardly, although the mode of address, in line with radio's, was from the start carefully pitched to a domestic audience (slightly, but not excessively, informal). But as TV began to enter more homes following the 1952 Coronation, so the programming grew to reflect more closely the domestic space, not least in comedy. It is to radio, too, that we can trace the ancestry of the British TV sitcom. Hancock's Half-Hour (BBC, 1956-) - the escapades of a frustrated, single man - is often cited as the first such programme to cross the divide from radio to television. But in fact, it was beaten to the screen by more than a year by a family sitcom, Life With the Lyons (BBC, 1955-56; ITV 1957-60), which had been entertaining radio audiences since 1950 and already spawned two feature films. Unusually, the Lyons were a real-life family - Americans Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels had settled in London during the war and appeared together in popular radio show Hi Gang!.

On radio and screen alike, the Lyons (completed by children Barbara and Richard) acted out a succession of humorous events largely exaggerated from their own experiences, but they were never less than a warm and loving family, as, generally, were their working-class equivalents, the more boisterous The Larkins (ITV, 1958-64). But the functional, happy and loving family was more the exception than the rule in subsequent TV sitcoms. The template for the warring sitcom family was established as early as 1962 with the birth of Steptoe and Son (BBC, 1962-74), which showcased the perpetual conflict of father-and-son 'rag and bone men' Albert ( Wilfrid Brambell ) and Harold Steptoe ( Harry H. Corbett ). The ambitious dreamer Harold's ceaseless - and ceaselessly thwarted - attempts to escape his shifty, manipulative father's clutches and make his way in the world made for hilarious and poignant comedy. If the rivalry between the elder and younger Steptoes could be brutal, there was at least a sense, underneath the bickering, that the two both loved and (above all) needed each other.

By contrast, the Garnetts, the family at the centre of Till Death Us Do Part (BBC, 1966-75), rarely showed much sign of mutual affection. Patriarch Alf Garnett ( Warren Mitchell ) was a monstrous bigot, a deluded everyman whose every pronouncement dripped with ignorant prejudice. His despairing adult daughter and her 'randy Scouse git' husband fought valiantly, if hopelessly, to expose the fallacies and inconsistencies in Alf's beliefs, while his put-upon wife, invariably dismissed as a 'silly moo', struggled to keep up. History has remembered the controversy generated by Alf's forcefully expressed racist views, but the Garnetts' relentless civil war was arguably the series' more innovative feature. Both the Steptoes and the Garnetts broke ground in representing working-class families on television, in tune with the new on-screen visibility of the working class following the 'new wave' of British films in the late 1950s and early 60s - though neither could be considered a complimentary portrait.

But as the genre developed, British sitcom more typically represented middle-class families, as with the newlyweds of Marriage Lines (BBC, 1978-83). The sitcom was by now something of a barometer of social change. Craig was the harassed housewife in a string of middle-class sitcoms: Not in Front of the Children (ITV, 1967-70), was soon followed by ...And Mother Makes Three (ITV, 1971-73), and its sequel, ...And Mother Makes Five (ITV, 1974-76), in which she played a widowed, then remarried, mother. Bigger than both was Butterflies , in which Ria stood for a generation of married women questioning their burden in the light of the growing feminist movement. The series charted Ria's frustrations with her emotionally distant husband Ben ( Geoffrey Palmer ) and two wayward sons, her many domestic failures - typified by her 'experimental' cooking - and her hesitant steps to independence happiness with amorous businessman Leonard. Ultimately, however, family always came first.

This was the age of adolescent rebellion, and Sid Abbott ( Sid James ) in The Good Life (BBC, 1975-77). The Goods' decision to drop out of the rat race and become self-sufficient may have been interpreted as a declaration of war against suburban conformity, but they were seldom at war with each other for long. The titular pair of Terry and June (BBC, 1979-87) were altogether more conformist, and much of the comedy emerged from Terry's ( Terry Scott ) frequently desperate attempts to impress his social peers to the exasperation of the long-suffering June ( June Whitfield ). Terry and June was a particular target for the rising 'alternative comedy' generation, which emerged in the early 1980s with the express objective of putting to the torch such cosy bourgeois comedy. The first alternative sitcom, The Young Ones (BBC, 1982-84) presented a grotesque facsimile of the sitcom family, radically recast as brattish students in a squalid flatshare.

You have to squint to see it, but the unsavoury quartet were a kind of parallel universe take on the template of Butterflies (BBC, 1984-87), the retired Meldrews - saintly Margaret ( Annette Crosbie ) and her permanently outraged husband Victor ( Richard Wilson One Foot in the Grave (BBC, 1990-2000), and 's über-snob Hyacinth Bucket and embarrassing relatives in Keeping Up Appearances (BBC, 1990-95).

Better examples of a 'post-alternative' school of sitcom family were to be found in the alarmingly dysfunctional Nesbitts, presided over by drunken philosopher Rab C Nesbitt (BBC, 1989-99) - the only sitcom family whose arguments regularly turned violent - and in Jennifer Saunders' own Absolutely Fabulous (BBC, 1992-2003), in which Saunders' decadent, selfish Edina was a perpetual worry to and burden on her daughter and her mother (the latter played by Terry and June But more successful than all of these was Only Fools and Horses (BBC, 1981-96). The all-male Trotters - Del Boy ( David Jason ) (later replaced by Uncle Albert ( Buster Merryfield )) - resembled an updated Albert and Harold Steptoe, with their low-status business (a Peckham market stall) and ever-faltering hopes of social advancement. But while the trio frequently fell into disputes over the collapse of yet another hair-brained moneymaking scheme, there was no doubting the strength of their familial bonds.

Just as tight-knit and downtrodden were the Boswells of Bread (BBC, 1987-91), who responded to the challenges of Thatcher-era economics in their own way, but always together, presided over by forceful matriarch Ma ( Jean Boht ). Family has been at the centre of each of Britain's small number of black and Asian sitcoms, from The Fosters (ITV, 1976-77) on, although whether this reflects a greater attachment to family among black and Asian Britons is open to question. Still, with intergenerational conflict already offering such enduring comic potential, the very different experiences and outlooks of parents born overseas and their British-born children were presumably too rich in possibility for writers to resist. Much of the comedy in Tandoori Nights (Channel 4, 1989-94) stemmed from just these sorts of differences and misunderstandings. ITV's earlier No Problem! (1983-85), however, took an unusual approach, focusing on the struggles of the five kids of the Powell family to get along with life and each other after their parents have retired to Jamaica.

More unusual still was The Kumars at Number 42 (BBC, 2001-03), in which Sanjeev Bhaskar 's budding chat show host contends with constant humiliating interruptions from his ever-present elders and betters. Sitcom innovation has been a feature of the 1990s and 2000s, as in the fusion of sitcom and 'mockumentary' that was The Office (BBC, 2001-03). But the conventional family sitcom has survived in the form of 2point4 Children (BBC, 1991-99) and My Family (BBC, 2000-), both of which returned to the time-honoured image of the bickering middle-class family. Less conventional was The Royle Family (BBC, 1998-2000), which, like The Office , jettisoned the studio laughter, but also allowed the humour to emerge from the working-class Royles' casual banter more than from elaborately concocted situations.

This approach, coupled with an unobtrusive style more redolent of documentary, suggested a more 'truthful' representation of the interactions of an ordinary family, no more united or divided than any other, and certainly no less loving. Another approach to realism was taken by the more recent Outnumbered (BBC, 2007-), in which semi-improvised performances from the three child actors supported the overall impression of the difficulties faced by middle-class parents Pete and Sue Brockman in attempting to control their unpredictable offspring. Throughout its more than fifty-year history, TV sitcom has offered us a bewildering variety of families, reflecting the changing shape of the family. Sitcoms have given us families both middle- and working-class (and, occasionally, aristocratic), extended families, nuclear families, childless families, single-parent families, families that are broken and families that ought to be - and found something to laugh about in all of them. On the way they have shown us something about society's - and our own - attitudes to the great but always fraught institution of the family.

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8.3 a list of 30 titles created 10 Feb 2011 a list of 30 titles created 23 May 2011 a list of 38 titles created 01 Sep 2011 a list of 25 titles created 18 Feb 2012 a list of 38 titles created 5 months ago Title: Good Neighbors (1975–1978) 8.1/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 1 win & 5 nominations. See more awards » Photos Audrey fforbes-Hamilton is sad when her husband dies but is shocked when she realises that she has to leave Grantleigh Manor where her family has lived forever. The new owner is Richard De ... See full summary » Stars: Penelope Keith, Peter Bowles, Angela Thorne 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...

See full summary » Stars: Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Bruce Montague Martin is a committee man. He has numerous schemes and committees organised around the neighbourhood. He is so obsessive about every detail of everything he does he is driving his long ... See full summary » Stars: Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan A rather naive, middle-class man is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff. Stars: James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Christopher Strauli The series followed the wavering relationship between two ex-lovers, Penny Warrender, a secretary for an advertising firm, and Vincent Pinner, an ex ice cream salesman turned turf ... See full summary » Stars: Paul Nicholas, Jan Francis, Sylvia Kay Comic goings on in this series set in an English holiday camp called Maplins. The title comes from the camp's greeting, which the staff are meant to say with enthusiasm but all too often ...

See full summary » Stars: Paul Shane, Ruth Madoc, Jeffrey Holland Wolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting London, a self proclaimed Urban Guerilla who aspires to be like his hero Che Guevara. Leading a small group called the Tooting Popular ... See full summary » Stars: Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Hilda Braid BBC Television comedy detailing the fortunes of Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and fakes his own ... See full summary » Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Pauline Yates, John Barron Jacko is a house painter who "appreciates" women, he sees the best in each one of them and they in turn, like him. Will he find true love ? Will he settle down as he gets older ? Stars: Karl Howman, Mike Walling, Jackie Lye The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store. Stars: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton The Korean War and a long lost letter separate the lives of young lovers Jean and Lionel, whose paths cross again by happenstance.

Stars: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker A working-class Cockney bigot with a biased and expirienced opinion of everything shares them bluntly and almost carelessly. Stars: Warren Mitchell, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs Edit Storyline Tom and Barbara Good's dream is to live completely self-sufficiently. This means, among other things, raising their own vegetables and animals for food. Trouble is, they live in the suburbs. Their very conservative neighbors, the Leadbetters, look on, horrified, at this bold experiment. Written by George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net> 4 April 1975 (UK) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia The last episode, "When I'm 65" was the second comeback special (by popular demand) and was recorded in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip . After the recording the cast and leading members of the crew were presented to the royal party. See more » Quotes Jerry : I was just telephoning to find out if I can have my car today. Oh, Tuesday. [Margo grabs the phone from Jerry] Margo : What do you mean Tuesday?

[to Jerry] Margo : Be quiet! [on telephone] Margo : I don't care if the spare parts come from Mars. Go and collect them. "A bottle-neck in the lube bay." What does that mean in English? Well, say lubrication, then. Margo : [to Jerry] Be quiet, Jerry. [on telephone] See more » Crazy Credits The closing credits listed the actors' names but not the corresponding names of the characters that they played. See more » Connections (Birmingham, England) – See all my reviews The Good Life has been repeated many many times on the BBC ever since it first aired back in the mid to late 70s and for good reason too. Back then Britain was going through years and years of industrial strikes culminating in 78/79 with the so-called "Winter Of Discontent" when National Strikes crippled the country. During the 70s there were many situations when most of the country had its power cut off for nights on end by striking energy workers. Thus millions of families would be cast in darkness huddled round candles, talking or trying to read under the gloom.

It also gave thought to our total independence on eletricity and the power it provides us at the simple flick of a switch. And so The Good Life came to light (bad pun I know). However, the writers decided not to make a comedy about people suffering darkness at the hands of militants and strikers. Instead they decided on taking a typical middle-class couple into the realms of voluntary self-sufficiency. So enter, Tom & Barbara, our selfless & willing guinea pigs who decide the rat race and huge bills is not a world for them. And for the next 4 years we seem them struggle & succeed in their attempts at going their own self-sufficiency way at the bemusements of their neighbours. This kind of environmentalism was a relatively new concept to British audiences in the 70s and perhaps underlined why the show was such a great & enduring success. But it also raised lots of questions both for us the viewing audience and Tom & Barbara themselves. Generating electricity is no easy thing as Tom found out when the Electricity Board finally cut their power for not paying their bills.

Both Tom & Barbara had to adapt really quickly and get used to the idea that nothing was going to happen any more by simply clicking on a light switch, opening a fridge or turning on a tv. All these creature comforts we take so much for granted are all gone for Tom & his wife. And trying to build his own little power generator in his celler using the effluent of his pigs to create some form of electricity not only makes for a great episode but also shows us how much hard work & self sacrifice is involved by going the Green Route. Two major questions that surfaced during the show involved the keeping of animals in Tom's back garden and the hard work, noise, odours etc that this creates and the problems it causes to the neighbours; the difficult matter of having to kill their own chickens bare handed rather than simply going to the shops and buying frozen foods killed by other people. Interestingly the Goods (Tom & Barbara) were childless which was probably intended by the writers otherwise the show could have suffered if children were involved. As time went on some of the episodes looked very "samey" from earlier episodes and the laughs were becoming just a little desperate. So to learn that the series would finally end in 1978 was the right choice.

Its always best to finish on top than try to stretch a joke too far. Even though the topicality of the show was popular at the time, I don't think it set a trend with the British in reality. Self-sufficiency was good & funny providing someone else did it, but for the majority of the population it was just too damned hard to even contemplate. ****/***** 18 of 21 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Nicholas Lyndhurst: TV Shows Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst -8 Items- List Photo: Freebase /Fair use Z G Options B Comments & Embed 1 After You've Gone Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie, Ryan Sampson After You've Gone was a British comedy that aired on BBC One from 12 January 2007 to 21 December 2008. Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, Celia Imrie, Dani Harmer and Ryan Sampson, After You've Gone was ; 2 Butterflies Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Palmer, Nicholas Lyndhurst Butterflies was a British sitcom series written by Carla Lane broadcast on BBC2 from 1978–83.

The situation is the day-to-day life of the Parkinson family in a bittersweet style. There are both ; 3 David Copperfield Ian McKellen, Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Smith David Copperfield is a two-part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, adapted by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day and the second on ; 4 Going Straight Ronnie Barker, Patricia Brake, Richard Beckinsale Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had ; 5 Goodnight Sweetheart Michelle Holmes, Nicholas Lyndhurst, David Ryall Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999. It stars Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life after ; 6 Only Fools and Horses David Jason, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Paul Barber Only Fools and Horses is a British television situation comedy created and written by John Sullivan.

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The programme follows the life of ; 10 The Two of Us Helen Hunt, Peter Cook, Mimi Kennedy The Two of Us is an American comedy series starring Peter Cook and Mimi Kennedy which was broadcast from 1981 to 1982. It was produced by CBS as a US remake of the British LWT sitcom Two's Company. ; The Cotswolds on Film - TV Home » The Cotswolds on Film - TV The Cotswolds on Film - TV The Cotswolds, with all its natural beauty and charm, has not just proved a rich location for dozens of feature films, but the area has also been used for a wide range of television programmes for years. Theses have ranged from period costume dramas, sitcoms, soap operas and children's programmes. Even its animals have got in on the act! So forget the Radio Times...enjoy our Cotswolds television guide instead. Programme makers have found the Cotswolds and its surrounding towns the perfect place to film period dramas. Cheltenham featured as a location for the award-winning television adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, which was first broadcast in 1995.

The six-episode, adapted by Andrew Davies, starred Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet, but it will be remembered by many a female viewer for the scene in which Colin Firth, as Mr Darcy, emerged from a swim in a lake. Parts of the drama were filmed at Cheltenham Town Hall in Imperial Square and in Oxford Parade. Another TV adaptation of a popular Jane Austen novel which hit the screens in 1995 was Persuasion, which was also partially filmed in the Cotswolds, at Barnsley Park, near Cirencester, which became Kellynch Hall. The TV-film starred Amanda Root as protagonist Anne Elliot and Ciarán Hinds as Captain Frederick Wentworth. Jane Austen novels must be suited to the Cotswolds as both Sudeley Castle, situated just outside Winchcombe, and Stanway House, a few miles up the road, were used as locations for the 1996 TV adaptation of Emma, based on Austen's novel of the same name, starring Kate Beckinsale. Sudeley was used for exterior shots of Donwell Abbey, while Stanway House was used for interior filming.

Other locations in or near the Cotswolds were the picturesque village of Lacock in Wiltshire and Broughton Castle, near Banbury. Sudeley Castle had previously been used for the filming of the 1994 TV mini series Martin Chuzzlewit, based on the novel by Charles Dickens. A top notch cast included Paul Scofield, John Mills, Pete Postlethwaite, Joan Sims and Julia Sawalha. Sudeley was used as Martin Chuzzlewit's library at Temple, while other nearby locations included the historic Fleece Inn at Bretforton, near Evesham, which became the Blue Dragon Inn; Honington Hall, near Shipston-on-Stour; and Gloucester Docks. Stanway House was one of several locations in the Cotswolds used for the filming of the 1999 TV drama The Wyvern Mysteries starring Derek Jacobi. Based on a novel by 19th Century writer J S Le Fanu, it is the story of a young girl brought up by the man responsible for her father's death. She falls in love with his eldest son. Filming also took place in Northleach and Guiting Power.

Stanway House also provided the setting for the 1994 TV drama serial The Buccaneers, based on Edith Wharton's unfinished novel about an anarchic group of adventuring, free-spirited young women who, snubbed by New York's elite, take aristocratic Victorian England by storm. Owlpen Manor, the famous Tudor manor house near the lovely Cotswold village of Uley, has been used as the location for a number of feature films, game shows and documentaries in recent years. Filming took place at the manor for The Other Boleyn Girl, also released in 2008, starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. TV programmes filmed at Owlpen Manor over the years include Most Haunted (2004); What the Tudors did for us; Countryfile; Watercolour Challenge; and various antiques, cookery, gardening, travel, and art programmes.

Owlpen Manor also appears as Bramscote Court in the BBC's period drama adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (2008), starring Gemma Arterton, and it was by no means the only place in Gloucestershire to provide a location for the BBC's first-ever adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. Other locations included Chavenage House, near Tetbury; Dyrham Park; Marshfield; Owlpen Manor, near Uley; Sudeley Castle, near Winchcombe; and Newark Park, Ozleworth. The four-hour drama, which saw Arterton taking the lead as Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections, also featured Ruth Jones, of Gavin & Stacey fame. Castle Combe, the pretty Wiltshire village that has proved a popular setting for several major movies, has also attracted television film crews. In 1989, a TV episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot: "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was filmed in the village.

The Stirrup Cup pub in the Cotswold village of Bisley was used in the filming of a scene for a 1989 episode of the ITV series Forever Green, which starred Pauline Collins and John Alderton as a couple adapting to life in the country. The House of Eliot, a TV series broadcast by the BBC between 1991 and 1994, was partly filmed in Cheltenham and in the Painswick and Tetbury areas. The series starred Stella Gonet and Louise Lombard as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and eventually their own haute couture fashion house. It was created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins, who had previously devised Upstairs, Downstairs. Cheltenham locations used for filming included Pittville Pump Rooms, Pittville Park and Regent Street, while Painswick House and Chavenage House, near Tetbury were among the other locations used. The Queen's Hotel in Cheltenham, was used for exterior and foyer shots in scenes for the Second World War serial Jenny's War (1985).

The serial was about a mother who searches for her son Peter, who was shot down over Germany, and who she believes is still alive. lt starred Nigel Hawthorne, Cheltenham-born Robert Hardy, Christopher Cazenove and Hugh Grant. The hotel in Cheltenham's Promenade underwent a startling transformation, becoming the Hotel Das Konigen, Leipzig, circa 1941. When filming began and locals saw swastikas, Stormtroopers and Nazi vehicles around the hotel, it literally brought traffic to a standstill and created chaos in the town centre. The Cotswolds will forever be associated with the author Laurie Lee and, in particular, his novel Cider with Rosie which described his childhood in the village of Slad, near Stroud, in the period soon after the First World War. In 1998, a television adaptation of Cider with Rosie, featuring Juliet Stevenson as Laurie Lee's mother Annie, used the Cotswold villages of Sapperton and Avening as locations, as well as Lee's home town of Stroud, along with film studios in Cheltenham.

In 1998, Cheltenham provided the setting for much of the action for a BBC drama series Vanity Fair. Philip Glenister, Nathaniel Parker and Natasha Little were among the stars who could be seen filming at locations such as Cheltenham's Pittville Pump Room, Oxford Street, Priory Terrace (as London's fashionable Fulham) and Cheltenham Town Hall (for the grand ball in Brussels), as well as Gloucester Docks which became the Port of Madras. In 1999, the beautiful scenery of the Cotswolds provided the backdrop to Forgotten, a TV adaptation of a modern psychological thriller about a woman's obsession in finding the man who killed her child 20 years earlier. The drama starred Amanda Burton and Paul McGann. A number of pretty Cotswold villages featured as locations in the award-winning 1998 TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel Our Mutual Friend. The mini-series starred a number of household names including Stephen McGann, Keeley Hawes, Anna Friel and Timothy Spall. Among the period locations used were the neighbouring villages of Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter, near Bourton-on-the-Water, and Eastleach, near Burford.

Woodchester Mansion, the unfinished 19th Century Gothic revival mansion house near Stroud, has featured in a number of TV productions. Hidden in a secluded Cotswold valley, the Grade 1 listed mansion was mysteriously abandoned mid-construction in 1873. In 1982 a programme in the BBC wildlife series Naturewatch, starring Julian Pettifer, was filmed in Woodchester Park. Woodchester Mansion has also become a regular haunt for ghost hunters. The TV programme Most Haunted Live featured the house in 2003, and again in 2005. The building has also featured on the ghost hunting show Hauntings and in an episode of Ghost Hunters International. In 2003, several scenes from an episode of ITV's Magick Eve concerning the Gothic subculture were filmed within the house along with a performance by the UK Goth band Cauda Pavonis. The mansion played a starring role in the 2006 BBC production of Dracula, featuring David Suchet, when it was used as Dracula's dilapidated castle. Another popular Gloucestershire location for TV and film crews is the 12th Century Berkeley Castle, on the southern edge of the Cotswolds.

Movies such as The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson have been filmed at the castle, along with TV dramas such as Robin of Sherwood and documentaries such as Princes in Waiting, Great Country Houses and Dead Famous. In May 2014, camera crews were at Berkeley Castle to film a TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s historical novel Wolf Hall. Set in the 1500s, it is a fictionalised account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in the court of Henry VIII and is due to be screened on BBC Two in 2015. The six-part drama features Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis, star of the hit TV series Homeland, as Henry VIII. Stanway House, Chastleton House, Gloucester Cathedral, Berkeley Castle and Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire were also used as period locations for Wolf Hall. In 1998, the British TV series Berkeley Square was broadcast, having been filmed at various locations including two homes in the Cotswolds that have proved particularly popular with film-makers.

Set in 1902, the story focuses on three young women from very different backgrounds who are employed as nannies by wealthy families living on London's exclusive Berkeley Square. Chavenage House, near Tetbury, and Stanway House, near Winchcombe, provided perfect locations for the 10-episode serial. The following year, 1999, saw the release of another period TV drama serial featuring an all-star cast that had also been partially shot in the Cotswolds. Wives and Daughters focuses on Molly Gibson, the only daughter of the town doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The BBC's four-part serial featured Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson, Keeley Hawes, Rosamund Pike, Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton and Ian Carmichael. Two locations in South Gloucestershire were among those used for filming the drama - Dyrham Park, a baroque mansion in an ancient deer park, and the small market town of Marshfield.

The Bull Hotel in Fairford temporarily became the Griffin Hotel while shops in the pretty Cotswold town were converted with period displays for the filming of the 1987 TV period drama Wreath of Roses. This adaptation of Elizabeth Taylor's disturbing novel saw Trevor Eve play a mentally unbalanced young poser, who draws the reluctant Joanna McCallum into a doomed relationship. The Cotswold town of Tetbury provided the location for all external filming for the 1990s TV sitcom Grace and Favour, while primary filming was at nearby Chavenage House. The show was a spin-off from the hugely popular sitcom set in a department store Are You Being Served? which had ended in 1985. Creators Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft reunited many of the staff of the defunct Grace Brothers - including Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, John Inman and Wendy Richard - to run a rural hotel. Twelve episodes of Grace and Favour were broadcast from January 1992 to February 1993. Chavenage, the historic Elizabethan manor, is perhaps the Cotswolds location that has been used for filming more television and big screen productions than any other.

Pretty much unaltered for the last 400 years, Chavenage is probably best known as Candleford Manor in the popular TV series Larkrise to Candleford. The manor house is also well known as being haunted and provided the setting for a host of spooky productions such as the Christmas TV ghost story The Ghost of Greville Lodge (2000) starring George Cole and Prunella Scales, and the 2006 TV film Dracula featuring Marc Warren and David Suchet. Broadway Tower, the second highest point in the Cotswolds, has been featured in a number of television series including Interceptor, Sherlock Holmes and The Gemini Factor. Just a few miles from Broadway, the picturesque village of Stanton was another location used for filming a 1993 episode of the ITV series Sherlock Holmes series starring the late Jeremy Brett. For a number of years in the 1980s, the motel used in the TV soap Crossroads was The Golden Valley Hotel in Cheltenham. The popular soap, which ran on and off on ITV from 1964-2003, was set in a fictional motel in the Midlands, and became a byword for cheap production values.

Despite this, the series regularly attracted huge audiences during this time, with ratings as high as 15 million viewers. After the in-story destruction of the motel by fire, the revamped motel was filmed from 1982 for a few years at Cheltenham's Golden Valley Hotel (now the Thistle Hotel Cheltenham) which was felt to be the perfect location for the Crossroads Motel. The hit TV sitcom Butterflies, written by Carla Lane and broadcast on BBC2 from 1978-83, was largely filmed in Cheltenham. The show starred Wendy Craig as frustrated 'stay at home' housewife Ria Parkinson and Geoffrey Palmer as her reserved dentist husband, Ben. Their youngest son, Adam, was played by a youthful Nicholas Lyndhurst. Many of the exterior scenes were filmed in Cheltenham, including the High Street, Montpellier and Hatherley Park. Exterior shots for the Parkinson house were filmed at 30 Bournside Road in Up Hatherley, Cheltenham. Other Cheltenham locations featured included Pittville Park, Imperial Gardens, High Street, The Promenade and Montpellier.

Cheltenham was also chosen as the location to film many exterior shots for the classic 1970s sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. The programme, which developed into a sitcom out of the novels by David Nobbs, starred Leonard Rossiter in the title role. If followed the antics of Reggie Perrin, a middle-aged middle manager, who was driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts. Cheltenham's historic clothing store The Famous featured in the BBC sitcom Next of Kin, starring Penelope Keith, William Gaunt and Ann Gosling, which ran from 1995-1997. Several Cheltenham locations are used in the filming of the dark British comedy about a couple who become legal guardians of their three grandchildren whose parents are both killed in a car crash. The main house was in Tivoli Road, while St James' Primary School in Merestones Road, Cheltenham, and Beechwood Place in the High Street are also used. The Famous store, which traded at 208 High Street for 126 years before relocating in 2013, also features in the show.

Three Up, Two Down, the British sitcom starring Michael Elphick and Angela Thorne as stubborn widows, included scenes filmed in Cheltenham. Elphick played Sam, a Cockney, while Thorne played Cheltenham-bred Daphne who had not forgiven her daughter for marrying Nick, a 'common' photographer. Both Sam and Daphne are widowed, and stubborn. The show ran for 25 episodes from 1985 to 1989, with the final episode simply entitled Cheltenham. In 1988, Ronnie Barker's final TV series before he retired to Chipping Norton - the adventures of a short-sighted removal man - was filmed in Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham. Clarence, which was written by the legendary comedian under the pseudonym Bob Ferris, saw Barker play alongside Jane Travers (Josephine Tewson) in six half-hour episodes. The Oxfordshire village of Bampton, a few miles south of Witney, is the location for the village scenes in Julian Fellowes' hugely popular TV drama Downton Abbey. St Mary's Church in Bampton has hosted a number of dramatic 'Downton' events.

Various cottages in the village have also been used as pubs, shops and the post office, while the old Grammar School building has served as 'Downton Hospital'. Another of the most popular TV shows of recent years - the BBC series Sherlock - has been filmed at locations in Gloucestershire. In 2014, the New Year's Day episode involved stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in a crucial scene that had been shot at The Daffodil restaurant in Cheltenham over two days the previous April. Staff at The Daffodil acted in the background as Sherlock (Cumberbatch) was reunited with Dr John Watson (Freeman) after the previous series had seen Sherlock seemingly plunge to his death from a London rooftop. The final episode of the 2014 series of Sherlock featured the futuristic Swinhay House, near North Nibley, a couple of miles from Wotton-under-Edge. The spiral-designed house is the home of Sir David McMurtry, founder of the engineering firm Renishaw plc. The dramatic finale to the Sherlock episode saw the detective polish off fictional newspaper magnate Charles Magnussen at a stunning modern-day mansion.

Father Brown, the popular TV mystery drama set in the 1950s, is based in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford but uses a number of Cotswold locations for filming. The show, which began airing on BBC One in 2013, stars Mark Williams as the eponymous crime-solving Roman Catholic priest. The parish church and vicarage of St Peter and St Paul in Blockley have been widely utilised, while filming has also taken place in Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, Kemerton, Ilmington, Sudeley Castle and at Winchcombe railway station on the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Brum, a little yellow car that was the star of a BBC children's TV programme, has his regular home at the Cotswold Motoring Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water. In each episode of the show, Brum starts his day in the museum, then sneaks out to visit the "Big Town" (Birmingham) to find adventure, before returning home to the museum.

The TV programme, narrated by Toyah Wilcox and Tom Wright, ran for 78 10-minute episodes, which were broadcast between 1991 and 2002. The 'super hero' model car used in the show is kept on display at the Cotswold Motoring Museum when not in use. One of the Cotswolds' best known faces on television is that of Adam Henson who, when he is not running the Cotswold Farm Park, is helping to present the BBC's popular Sunday evening programme Countryfile. Adam's father Joe Henson opened the farm park at Bemborough Farm, near Guiting Power, in 1971 when Adam was a small boy. In 1999, Henson junior took charge. Adam, who was born in 1966, broke into television work in 2001 when he gained a presenting position on Countryfile. Since this time he has worked on programmes such as Countryfile Summer Diaries and Inside Out. Due to his extensive farming knowledge, he has also worked on BBC Radio 4’s On Your Farm and Farming Today, and co-presented Lambing Live with Kate Humble.

He now has a wider presenting portfolio, which has included BBC's Gardener's World Live in 2010 and in 2013 he starred alongside Nigel Slater on BBC's Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen. The Henson family has a strong pedigree when it comes to appearing on TV. Adam's farmer father Joe Henson presented a countryside TV programme with Angela Rippon and Phil Drabble; while his actor uncle Nicky Henson has appeared in films and TV programmes including Fawlty Towers and Inspector Morse. Adam's grandfather Leslie Henson was a music hall and musical comedy comedian and actor. The Cotswold Farm Park has also provided animals for various productions, including the 1995 historical movie Braveheart starring Mel Gibson, Emma (1996) and TV shows including Time Team and David Attenborough's natural history programmes. It seems that the beautiful Cotswolds will continue to be a popular place to film television programmes of all descriptions. February 2015 saw the UK premiere of The Casual Vacancy, a TV mini-series based on the novel of the same title by J. K. Rowling. The stellar cast includes Julia McKenzie, Rory Kinnear, Keeley Hawes and Michael Gambon.

The plot centres on Pagford, a seemingly idyllic English village, but behind its pretty façade, is a town at war. Filming for the mini-series, which was also shown in the USA, took place in a number of Cotswold locations including Painswick, Northleach, Minchinhampton and Stroud.

Question: Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer were the stars of which TV sit-com, which ran from 1978 to 1982?
Answer: 'BUTTERFLIES'