High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Butterflies is a situation comedy written by Carla Lane broadcast on BBC2 from 1978 to 1983. The situation is the day-to-day life of the Parkinson family in a bitter-sweet style. There are both traditional comedy sources (Ria's cooking, family squabbles) and more unusual sources such as Ria's relationship with her soulmate the outwardly successful Leonard. Ria is still in love with her husband, Ben, and has raised two potentially fine sons, yet finds herself dissatisfied and in need of something more. Throughout the series Ria is searching for that "something more" and finds some solace in her unconventional friendship with Leonard. As Ms. Lane put it, "I wanted to write a comedy about a woman contemplating adultery."