The Best Episodes Directed By Robert Butler

#1 - The Long Ride

Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/28/1969

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: N/A

#2 - Panic

Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/11/1967

The invaders and Vincent race to capture a wounded alien whose touch brings on freezing death.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Robert Sherman

#3 - Happy Birthday, Adolf

Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/7/1966

The British plan to bomb a strategic German beach on Hitler's birthday, unaware that a major gun emplacement is at the site and the Allied planes will be sitting ducks. Hogan and his crew must figure out how to silence the guns in order for the air raid to be a success.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Laurence Marks

#4 - Kommandant of the Year

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1965

A Secret rocket bomb developed by the Germans is being hidden at Stalag 13. When an Allied scientist is sent to photograph and sabotage the weapon, Hogan and his men plan a distraction — in the form of a bogus "Kommandant of the Year" ceremony for the clueless Colonel Klink.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Laurence Marks

#5 - The Enemy

Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1967

Despite Vincent's warnings, a nurse tries to help an injured alien survivor of a saucer crash.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: John W. Bloch

#6 - The Trial

Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1967

A man seek's Vincent's aid after he is arrested and put on trial for murder after the incineration death of an alien.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: George Eckstein

#7 - The Menagerie (2)

Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1966

Spock's court-martial continues as he attempts to justify his abduction of Pike, the theft of the Enterprise, and his heading for a planet declared forbidden by Starfleet.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Gene Roddenberry

#8 - The Menagerie (1)

Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1966

Spock kidnaps his former captain, the crippled Christopher Pike, and heads for a quarantined planet, putting his career and Kirk's life on the line.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Gene Roddenberry

#9 - The Informer

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1965

At Stalag 13, a German prisoner-of-war camp, Colonel Robert Hogan and his fellow cohorts are a subversive group with many hidden talents. However, a spy has been planted amongst the men by the Germans. And when he learns of the gang's subversive operations, "Hogan's Heroes" must act fast to discredit him.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Richard M. Powell

#10 - Hi Diddle Riddle

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1966

While the Riddler maneuvers Batman into being sued, the Dynamic Duo investigate the supervillain's concurrent scheme.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

#11 - The Penguin's a Jinx

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1966

Bruce Wayne escapes the Penguin's deathtrap and returns to the Batcave. What he doesn't know is that one of the Penguin's clues, an umbrella, has a listening device.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

#12 - Double Shock

Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/1973

A wealthy man is murdered; his twin nephews stand to inherit, but which one committed the crime?

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: William Link

#13 - Publish or Perish

Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/18/1974

A publisher hires a Vietnam vet to kill his star author and thus give himself an alibi before the writer can defect to another publisher.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Peter S. Fischer

#14 - Smack in the Middle

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/1966

The Riddler fashions a mold of the face of the unconscious Robin. He contacts Batman with two more riddles. The Riddler tells Batman if he can solve the riddles, he'll know where Robin is.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

#15 - Instant Freeze

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/1966

Mr. Freeze, thought to have perished, has returned and is seeking revenge on Batman. The villain is committing crimes involving diamonds, or "ice," in one form or another. He freezes Batman and Robin, who look like goners.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Max Hodge

#16 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1985

After an embezzling accountant leaves her penniless, ex-model Maddie Hayes decides to sell the few failing businesses she still owns, among them a detective agency. But private eye David Addison wants to keeps his job, so he persuades a reluctant Maddie to form a partnership. Their first case gives them little to go on: Maddie gets a broken watch from a dying man.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

#17 - Pilot

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1993

Clark Kent becomes embroiled in a story involving Lex Luthor and a plot to sabotage a space launch.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine

#18 - License to Steele

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1982

"License to Steele" is the premiere episode of the television series Remington Steele. This episode introduces and sets all the central elements of the series; the truth about Laura's fictional boss, the mysterious character posing as Steele, the romantic tension, Steele's love of old movies, et cetera.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Michael Gleason

#19 - Tempered Steele

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1982

Laura tackles a case of industrial espionage in a family-owned business while Steele enlists an old pal to help him install a burglar alarm.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Michael Gleason

#20 - Signed, Steeled, & Delivered

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1982

Laura and Steele spend the weekend trying to keep a CIA researcher alive and on time for his wedding.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

#21 - Steele Belted

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1982

A loser asks the agency to help him, but his alibi witness is found dead in Steele's apartment and his lawyer seems more interested in Laura than in the case.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Michael Gleason

#22 - The Late Inspector General

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1965

To prevent Colonel Klink from being transferred to the Russian front, Hogan and his men attempt to convince a visiting Inspector General that the Colonel is a cold, heartless disciplinarian. But their plan backfires when, as a result, Klink is promoted to a post in Berlin!

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Richard M. Powell

#23 - Fine Feathered Finks

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1966

The Penguin plots to manipulate Batman into inadvertently devising capers for him.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

#24 - Rats Like Cheese

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/3/1966

Vince, a temperamental physician at a Gotham City hospital (apparently a takeoff on Ben Casey), saves Batman and Robin. The Dynamic Duo resume their pursuit of Mr. Freeze. Eventually, Batman substitutes himself for Paul Diamonte, a baseball player, Mr. Freeze has kidnapped. Robin, disobeying Batman's orders to stay away, is also captured by the villain. Now, in his headquarters, Mr. Freeze is using his climate controls so that only Batman or Robin will have access to life-giving warmth.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Max Hodge

#25 - The Encounter

Season 5 Episode 31 - Aired 5/1/1964

A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Martin Goldsmith