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Significant, nostalgic, touching, funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2005

I think this opened the eyes of many a housewife (and their families) back in the seventies. Wendy Craig plays Ria, the woman who almost, but not quite, has an affair, despite having a loving family. It's an interesting situation.
Today, Butterflies is a refreshing antidote to the loud, coarse sitcoms that pass for comedy on TV these days. It is instead reflective, philosophical, intelligent.
As much drama as comedy, it is also often very touching and real.
What it would have been without Wendy Craig in the role of Ria is hard to say, but I doubt anybody could imagine it done better. She can express so much with a wry smile or a raised eyebrow. Her memorable ineptitude in all things culinary is a constant source of amusement, but it's never silly, like it so easily could've been.
Also worthy of mention are the rest of the family: gruff Ben the dentist and the youths-in-tight-jeans who strangely (this is never explained) don't seem to have gone to University.
This first series is pretty good. The second is even better. Both DVDs have the same minimal information about the cast and a short interview with Carla Lane. The transfer brings back all the washed-out colour you expected in those days. Perhaps it wasn't our televisions...

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T. L. Knight

Short Changed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2021

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Only two episodes per DVD. The rest was padding. £3 per half hour episode of a dated comedy is a rip off.

George

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2018

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I really enjoyed the program in 1978 and I enjoy just as much now

Diane

Fab

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2015

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Really enjoyed watching this again, fabulous.

kat Bond

70s fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2016

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Good old retro 70s fun-with pathos added in!-Takes me back---!

Heather

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2014

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bought for a friend she is so pleased

paul shove

Butterflies Series 1

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2012

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This is very funny and if you are 60ish or older you can relate to many of the situations. I think anyone would enjoy this humor.

David Millinger

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2018

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Quick delivery and product as stated on website, thanks

The Private One

For collectors and dreamers: Butterflies

Reviewed in Germany on 5 July 2007

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This DVD features the complete season one of BBC's lovely comedy series about a bored, imaginative housewife with an emotionally distant (yet trying) husband and two anarchist sons. Although this probably doesn't sound like much nowadays, its wonderful writing and mixture of romance, drama, wit and humour make it worth watching.

The DVD itself consists of two discs with all 6 episodes of the first season, an "exclusive interview with writer Carla Lane, production notes and filmography". The video quality is okay (4:3), the sound is good enough.
I would like to mention that none of my PC DVD-drives were able to even detect either one of these DVD-discs (I can only assume this is due to some sort of strange copy protection), but my standalone DVD player played it just fine.

For someone who didn't fall in love with this show (like I did), this DVD is clearly overprized (due to the almost non-existant extras, the plain cover, the picture quality, only 6 episodes, et cetera, et cetera), but I sure didn't regret buying it. 10 out of 10 stars for the show, 6 out of 10 for the technical stuff.

Enjoy! :-)

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Joyous

My parents love this series

Reviewed in Canada on 2 October 2021

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Got both seasons of Butterflies for my parents, they enjoyed it years ago and still enjoy it.

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