Robert Butler RIP

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Director of "The Cage" and other TV pilot episodes has passed away at age 95.

Robert Butler Dead: 'Remington Steele' Co-Creator Was 95 (variety.com)

 

[Lord Garth]

RIP

 

[Spock's Barber]

He did an outstanding job on The Cage.

RIP. Now he’s free to roam the stars…

 

[Grant]

Now the writer, director and every speaking actor from the first pilot has passed.
The only episode where that is the case.

 

[Poltargyst]

He did an outstanding job on The Cage.

RIP. Now he’s free to roam the stars…

"Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension."
--Grig, The Last Starfighter

 

[Phaser Two]

Aw, RIP. I'm not the biggest fan of "The Cage" but his direction was outstanding. I didn't know he co-created Remington Steele. That was an underrated show.

 

[Ronald Held]

RIP!

 

[Firebird]

RIP Mr. Butler!

What's weird for me is that I was talking about one of his lesser directing efforts just the day before his passing - the pilot for Black Bart, a very awful TV adaption of Blazing Saddles.

 

[Qonundrum]

RIP, to a director who was forward thinking in direction a pilot that too was forward-thinking as it feels far more like TNG than TOS (and for all the right reasons)... may he journey well...

 

[Esteban]

If you haven't seen this series of videos of his, it is a brilliant lens on the history of 60s-80s TV. ST, obviously, but his work on Hogan's and Hill Street especially are fascinating.

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[Tallguy]

I didn't know he co-created Remington Steele. That was an underrated show.

I didn't know that either. And that was absolutely a favorite of mine. And then I revisited it a year or two ago and I still loved it!

 

[Captain Parker]

RIP