# Help me ID this Britcom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256 "2003-04-17T05:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/1 "2003-04-17T05:24:29Z")
Back in the mid-eighties my local PBS station used to broadcast a British sitcom which I loved and sort of got addicted to at the time, but can’t for the life of me remember the names and such. The details are thus: Via clothes and stuff I’m pegging it as taking place in the mid 70’s. The main charactor is a bored, eccentric, middleclass housewife (that sure narrows it down, huh?). She’s tall and lanky and sort of severe-looking and had blonde hair in that mushroomy looking style Peggy Fleming made so popular. She’s married to a dentist who’s idea of good music is Gregarian chants. She has two grown boys – Adam and Rupert I think. The whole theme of the series was that she almost, but not quite, has an affair with a lonely rich man whom she connects with on a mental level – it’s actually not as tawdry as it sounds, and I recall it was kind of charming. Any guesses? ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/2 "2003-04-17T05:28:42Z")
Butterflies ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/3 "2003-04-17T05:28:53Z")
Also: a running gag was the main charactor was a really bad cook. ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/4 "2003-04-17T05:38:57Z")
Yeah, its called BUTTERFLIES ! LOL those sequential posts huh … ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/5 "2003-04-17T05:43:27Z")
Umm, I think that should be simultaneous, rather than sequential 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/6 "2003-04-17T05:52:25Z")
Yep. That’s it alright! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/7 "2003-04-17T10:37:30Z")
Starred Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer, with an early role for Nicholas Lyndhurst as the younger son. The last thing that Carla Lane wrote that was even remotely funny. And the theme song was written by Dolly Parton. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/8 "2003-04-17T11:16:13Z")
Carla Lane used to be remotely funny? Cite? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-britcom/169256/9 "2003-04-17T13:05:05Z")
Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicoloured moods of love Are like its satin wings… Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly A rare and gentle thing…