Robert Butler on Insight TV | Insight powered by Paulist Productions

Описание: Robert Butler is an Emmy Award-winning television director and he has directed for multiple shows including HILL STREET BLUES, THE WALTONS, GUNSMOKE, N.Y.P.D, STAR TREK and many others. While jumping between different shows, Butler directed four INSIGHT episodes. Butler discusses his experiences as a director, working with Fr. Kieser, and the episodes he directed.

Insight episodes directed by Robert Butler:

#171 "The Oleander Years" (1967)
#187 "A Small Statistic" (1967)
#349 "Killer" (1972)
#435 "The Needle's Eye" (1981)


ABOUT US
Insight is an American religious-themed weekly anthology series that aired in syndication from October 1960 to 1983. Produced by Paulist Productions in Los Angeles, the series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love. Insight was an anthology series, using an eclectic set of story telling forms including comedy, melodrama, and fantasy to explore moral dilemmas. The series was created by Fr. Ellwood E. "Bud" Kieser, the founder of Paulist Productions.

The anthology format and the religious nature of the program attracted a wide variety of actors, including Ed Asner, Jack Albertson, Beau Bridges, Carol Burnett, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Patty Duke, Ann Jillian, Cicely Tyson, James Doohan, Jack Klugman, Walter Matthau, Bob Newhart, Bill Bixby, John Ritter, Mark Hamill, Laura Dern, Barbara Hersey, Flip Wilson, and Martin Sheen.