TV-PG
1978    30mComedy, Romance
7.07.2
Ria, a happily married suburban housewife, reaches the age where she feels as if life is passing her by. Being taken for granted by her butterfly collecting dentist husband doesn't help. So, when the opportunity for an affair comes up she tries to decide whether she loves her husband enough to be faithful to him.

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4 Seasons

  • Season 1
    Season 16 Episodes
  • Season 2
    Season 28 Episodes
  • Season 3
    Season 37 Episodes
  • Season 4
    Season 47 Episodes
  • Specials
    Specials2 Episodes
  • Wendy CraigRia Parkinson
  • Geoffrey PalmerBen Parkinson
  • Nicholas LyndhurstAdam Parkinson
  • Andrew HallRussell Parkinson
  • Bruce MontagueLeonard Dunn
  • Michael RipperThomas
  • Brian Murphy
  • Patrick McAlinney
  • Cindy Oswin
  • Milton Johns
  • Myfanwy Talog
  • Angela Browne
  • Gail Grainger
  • Mandie FletcherDirector
  • Sydney LotterbyDirector
  • Carla LaneWriter
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    ርልዪረJune 14, 2025
    The program is for adults. Don't be fooled when I say this. It is not smutty or dirty in anyway. It is a thoughtful program that is touching and quite sad at times. One feels oneself sighing a lot as one watches it. I really enjoyed this program. It had such a sadness about it and captured the boredom that so many folks like Ria had suppressed for years. Her children were suitably hopeless creatures. The signature tune captured the mood of the program perfectly. If only the sitcoms of today matched the level of enterprise of this show. If only writers, directors, producers etc KNEW of this program, perhaps we would not get so much garbage on TV today. Wendy Craig and the rest of the cast were excellent, but this is to be expected since they are all professionals.

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