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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’ & ‘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…

Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95

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TKRyer

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

ininewcrow

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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.

Date

Episode

Title

05-23

DSC 5x09

"Lagrange Point"

05-30

DSC 5x10

"Life, Itself"

07-01

PRO S2

Index

10-24

LD 5x01

TBA

10-24

LD 5x02

TBA

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’ &amp; ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95

Robert Butler Dies: TV Director For ‘Batman,’ ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Hill Street Blues’ & ‘Moonlighting’ Pilots Was 95