No thread on this so I start one. RIP one of the best directors ever lived.Butt and Sullivan a great partnership! I miss him do you??
RIP Ray Butt
I can't say I miss him...but he was involved in the making of my favourite sitcom (and others). So, RIP Ray!
I do. They worked with each other for years here is the link.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/000001199/comedy_director_ray_butt_dies_only_fools/
Rip Peace Ray Butt Your Up There Now With John Sullivan Buster Merryfield Lenord Pearce Kenneth Macdonald and many more cast and whom worked with him.
Sorry to hear this news. I feel that they were in a different league from anyone else in their era. And the late 70s and 80s, while patchy, weren't too bad.
Undoubtedly they were a bridge between the Galtons and Simpsons and.......well what?
There have been a lot of very good things ever since but to chime broadly with the times, the key need in sitcoms is surely to emote.
I remember he was quite critical of the episodes made after he left. He said once he even thought the 1996 trilogy looked "tired".