The actor Bruce Montague, who has died of cancer aged 83, will be best remembered by TV viewers for his role in Butterflies as the divorced business executive Leonard Dunn in a “will they, won’t they?” relationship with Ria Parkinson, played by Wendy Craig.
The sitcom’s writer, Carla Lane, described Butterflies as a “situation tragedy”. In her 40s and going through a mid-life crisis, Craig’s stay-at-home wife feels unappreciated and bored with her dull dentist husband, Ben (played by Geoffrey Palmer), whose hobby is collecting butterflies.
