Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ and ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95
Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ and ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95
deadline.com Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95
Robert Butler, a television director for the pilot shows for Star Trek, Batman, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting, has died. He was 95. Butler’s family announced that the Emmy award-winning…
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He did the Cage and The Menagerie. I liked his episodes on Columbo (double shock and publish or perish).
8 0 ReplyThe bulk of "The Menagerie" was Marc Daniels, but obviously the footage from "The Cage" was Butler's.
4 0 ReplyThose two episodes still gave us the character of Christopher Pike which gave us Strange New Worlds so I will mourn this man.
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