Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer were the stars of which TV sit-com, which ran from 1978 to 1982?
Wendy Craig Wendy Craig Anne Gwendolyn Craig (born 20 June 1934), known professionally as Wendy Craig, is an English actress who is best known for her appearances in the sitcoms "Not in Front of the Children", "Butterflies", "...And Mother Makes Three" and "...And Mother Makes Five". She played the role of Matron in the TV series "The Royal" (2003–11). Craig was born in Sacriston, County Durham the daughter of farmer George Craig and his wife Anne (née Lindsay). She attended Durham High School for Girls, initially as a day pupil and later as a boarder, which she revisited on 13 October 2007
Butterflies (TV series) show stars Wendy Craig as frustrated 'stay at home' housewife, Ria Parkinson and Geoffrey Palmer as her reserved dentist husband, Ben, who is also an amateur lepidopterist. Ria's early dialogue in the first series suggests her age as early 40s, whereas her husband, Ben, quotes himself to be "the wrong side of 45". Ben is a typically traditional, conservative white-collar professional, ill at ease with his sons' lack of work-ethic and carefree post-punk attitudes (the series starts in 1978) whilst remaining unaware of his wife's impending mid-life crisis. They have been married for 19 years and are depicted as having