Wendy Craig Remembers… Butterflies

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Wendy Craig looks back on her experiences working on the popular 1970s sitcom Butterflies.

Wendy Craig looks back on her experiences working with Carla Lane and the cast of the much-loved 1970s sitcom Butterflies.

Carla Lane’s Butterflies was one of the best-loved sitcoms of the 1970s, following the life of frustrated housewife Ria, living in a male-dominated household with her husband Ben and two sons, Adam and Russell, and tempted by the potential excitement of an affair with successful businessman Leonard.

Wendy Craig starred as Ria, and here she looks back fondly on her experiences working with Carla Lane and the cast, the response from male viewers to the possibility that Ria might commit adultery, and how she became television’s most notoriously dreadful cook, yet still managed to publish a best-selling cookbook.

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