Butterflies

1978–1983

ComedyRomance馃嚞馃嚙 English馃嚞馃嚙 United Kingdom
IMDb
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Seasons

Season 1

  • E1 When Ria Met Leonard 1978-11-10 路 30m
  • E2 Breaking the Silence 1978-11-17 路 30m
  • E3 Thinking About a Job 1978-11-24 路 30m
  • E4 How About Lunch? 1978-12-01 路 30m
  • E5 The Lovers 1978-12-08 路 30m
  • E6 He'll Have to Go 1978-12-15 路 30m

Season 2

  • E1 Leaving 1979-10-26 路 30m
  • E2 Fox Hunting 1979-11-02 路 30m
  • E3 Worrying 1979-11-12 路 30m
  • E4 A Dog's Life 1979-11-19 路 30m
  • E5 Keeping Fit 1979-11-26 路 30m
  • E6 An Attractive Visitor 1979-12-03 路 30m
  • E7 Lunch with Leonard 1979-12-10 路 30m
  • E8 Christmas with the Parkinsons 1979-12-22 路 30m

Season 3

  • E1 An Empty Cage 1980-09-09 路 30m Adam has a job as a long-distance lorry driver. He has to take a load of timber to London, deliver it and pick up another load to drive to Scotland. Russell goes with him for the ride. Ben comments on how peaceful the house is without the boys, but Ria finds the silence unnerving, like an empty cage. Leonard rings - his wife has gone away again, and he'll meet Ria in the park the next day. In the meantime, Ben takes her to London. A radio newsflash announces long delays on the road to London after a lorry carrying timber shed its load.
  • E2 Ruby's Crisis 1980-09-16 路 30m Ruby, the housekeeper, starts shoplifting. Ria helps her cure the habit.
  • E3 Pregnancy 1980-09-23 路 30m As Leonard celebrates getting his licence back, Ria struggles to emulate a television cook's recipe. The boys come in, and Russell announces that his girlfriend Jeanie is pregnant, so they are getting married. Ben takes the news well, and a meeting is organised with Jeanie and her parents, though only she turns up, gives Ben a note for Russell and leaves. The family assume she is not pregnant after all. In fact, she wants the baby but not marriage.
  • E4 Problems, Problems 1980-09-30 路 30m Adam gets the sack. Ria accidentally plays a taped conversation between Russell and Jeannie, which confirms Jeannie's pregnancy. Ria becomes preoccupied with her sons' troubles and makes mistakes whilst out shopping. Leonard crashes his car and rehires Thomas - he smiles to himself as he takes a photo of Ria out of his desk drawer. Ria tries to get the boys to confide in her, but with little success. She then tells her troubles to Ben, but he's taken sleeping pills and is sound asleep.
  • E5 Happy Birthday, Ria 1980-10-07 路 30m It's Ria's birthday, and Ben takes her to London, dropping her off and arranging to meet her later. Leonard follows her to London and books a room next to Ria's in the hotel, which flusters her. She agrees to an afternoon of sightseeing with him, but will go no further. He looks wistfully on as she eventually greets Ben.
  • E6 Gimme Shelter 1980-11-14 路 30m Whilst the boys build a fallout shelter - which annoys Ben when he falls in the hole - Ria meets up with an old friend, Kathleen, an American on her third marriage, and she is no more faithful to this husband than the others. She is amazed that Ria and Leonard have not had sex and asks Ria to pretend to her husband Tony that they have been together whilst she is with her lover. Tony turns up and catches Ria off guard - she is hesitant, and when Kathleen returns, she argues with her, unaware that Adam is listening. He finds out about Leonard but is happy to keep his mother's secret, and when Leonard rings, he answers and hands the phone to Ria.
  • E7 Parting 1980-11-21 路 30m Ben is off to a conference in the South of France and Leonard is off to New York. They both want Ria to see them off at six in the morning. Fortunately an airport strike comes to her aid. Ben sets out by car and Ria goes to Leonard's flat after his flight is postponed. After several interruptions she finally stays the night. Next day the boys tell her she looks good and happy but she wells up as she sees Leonard's plane fly overhead.

Season 4

  • E1 Back from New York 1983-09-07 路 30m
  • E2 Amanda 1983-09-14 路 30m
  • E3 Pot 1983-09-21 路 30m
  • E4 Cleaning Windows 1983-09-28 路 30m
  • E5 Calling 1983-10-05 路 30m
  • E6 Breaking Up 1983-10-12 路 30m
  • E7 Loose Ends 1983-10-19 路 30m
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