Butterfly Collectors

{{Short description|1999 television film}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2014}}

{{Infobox television

| genre = Thriller, crime drama

| director = Jean Stewart

| writer = Paul Abbott

| starring = Pete Postlethwaite
Jamie Draven
Rachel Davies
Alison Newman
Crissy Rock
Thomas Aston
Ruth Harrop
Ben Crompton

| composer = Philip Appleby
Jocelyn Pook

| producer = Hilary Bevan Jones

| executive_producer = Simon Lewis
Susan Hogg

| num_series = 1

| num_episodes = 2

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| runtime = 198 minutes (including adverts)

| location = Manchester, England, UK

| company = Granada Television

| network = ITV

| first_aired = {{Start date|1999|04|19|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1999|04|20|df=y}}

}}

Butterfly Collectors is a two part ITV miniseries. It was broadcast between 19 April and 20 April 1999. A two-part psychological thriller about a disillusioned policeman who develops an unlikely friendship with two teenagers arrested for murder.{{cite news|last=Andrew Billen|title=Pete's obviously not the villain he appears to be in his films ... so why is he strangling me?|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/70136152.html?dids=70136152:70136152&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+20%2C+1999&author=Andrew+Billen&pub=Sunday+Herald&desc=Pete%27s+obviously+not+the+villain+he+appears+to+be+in+his+films+...+so+why+is+he+strangling+me%3F&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630040806/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/70136152.html?dids=70136152:70136152&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+20,+1999&author=Andrew+Billen&pub=Sunday+Herald&desc=Pete's+obviously+not+the+villain+he+appears+to+be+in+his+films+...+so+why+is+he+strangling+me%3F&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 June 2013|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=Sunday Herald|date=20 June 1999}}{{cite news|last=John Millar|title=Oh; for Pete's sake|newspaper=The Herald|date=10 June 1999}} Butterfly Collectors was written by Paul Abbott, who has also written for many other television serials including Shameless, Clocking Off and Children's Ward. The drama stars British actor Pete Postlethwaite, who is supported by actress and comedian Crissy Rock.{{cite book|last=Tracy Stevens|title=International Television & Video Almanac|publisher=Quigley Publishing Company, 2002|page=490}}

In 2008, it was released on Region 1 DVD,[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Butterfly-Collectors-Region-Import-NTSC/dp/B000UL8UUG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365956165&sr=8-1&keywords=butterfly+collectors Butterfly Collectors on Amazon] on 4 September 2017, it was released by Strawberry Media on Region 2 DVD.[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Butterfly-Collectors-DVD-Pete-Postlethwaite/dp/B073LBYDHH/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1536529562&sr=1-1&keywords=butterfly+collectors Butterfly Collectors on Amazon.co.uk]