{"id":5409,"date":"2013-08-01T08:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T07:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2013-08-02T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:29:12","slug":"ray-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/ray-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Butt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: right; margin:5px 0 5px 5px;\">\n<amp-auto-ads type=\"adsense\"\r\n              data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\">\r\n<\/amp-auto-ads>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ray Butt the original producer of Only Fools And Horses has sadly died.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the first five series of our favourite sitcom Only Fools and Horses Ray Butt died at the age of 78. He will be remembered as the director of Carla Lane&#8217;s, The Liver Birds, Happy Ever After and long running sitcom Terry &amp; June. He is also credited for work on Spike Milligan&#8217;s Q5, Last Of The Summer Wine and Seconds Out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5431\" alt=\"Ray Butt with David Jason\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ray-but.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ray-but.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ray-but-530x324.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p><div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ofah2-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5593259115\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>He also directed a number of episodes of David Croft&#8217;s It Ain&#8217;t Half Hot Mum, and three series of Are You Being Served?.<\/p>\n<p>Before Only Fools And Horses, Ray Butt established a working relationship with the sitcom favourite&#8217;s writer, John Sullivan, on his earlier series, Citizen Smith, directing 23 of the programme&#8217;s 30 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Butt died on Friday 12th July 2013, and is survived by his partner, Jo Blyth, and a daughter from a previous marriage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5410\" alt=\"Ray Butt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Rray-Butt.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Rray-Butt.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Rray-Butt-530x368.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/ray-butt\/\"><img width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ray-but-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ray Butt with David Jason\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Ray Butt the original producer of Only Fools And Horses has sadly died. Director of the first five series of our favourite sitcom Only Fools and Horses Ray Butt died at the age of 78. He will be remembered as the director of Carla Lane&#8217;s, The Liver Birds, Happy Ever After and long running sitcom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53,67,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-only-fools-and-horses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ray Butt - Only Fools and Horses producer sadly died<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ray Butt - Only Fools and Horses producer sadly died age 78 on Friday 12th July 2013\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/ray-butt\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ray Butt - 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