Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95
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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…
  • Sdnimm543@slrpnk.netEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    He did the Cage and The Menagerie. I liked his episodes on Columbo (double shock and publish or perish).

      • TKRyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        Those two episodes still gave us the character of Christopher Pike which gave us Strange New Worlds so I will mourn this man.

        • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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          8 months ago

          What a strange night … just wrapped up season 2 of discovery and I loved how they intertwined the stories from The Original Series to Discovery.

          It’s amazing to think that the work these people created over 50 years ago has had such a lasting impact.

          What an amazing legacy.