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Russ Mayberry

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Russell Bradley "Russ" Mayberry (22 December 1925 – 27 July 2012; age 86) was a former television director born in Duluth, Minnesota. His credits included the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Code of Honor". Mayberry left the production during filming and was replaced by First Assistant Director Les Landau.

Mayberry directed many episodes of such shows as That Girl, The Brady Bunch, Ironside, Kojak, The Rockford Files, The Equalizer, and In the Heat of the Night. He frequently worked with writer-producer Glen A. Larson, for whom he directed numerous episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, McCloud, The Fall Guy, and Magnum, P.I., as well as a 1971 episode of Alias Smith and Jones (which guest-starred Paul Fix), two episodes of Manimal (including the pilot, which guest-starring Ed Lauter), and the 1982 television movie Rooster (also featuring Ed Lauter). He also directed for I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas, and Miami Vice, among many others.

In addition to his work on episodic television, Mayberry directed a number of made-for-television movies, including two for Walt Disney and NBC in 1978 – The Young Runaways (with cinematography by Charles F. Wheeler) and The Million Dollar Dixie Delivery (starring Brock Peters) – and many for CBS. He even had a few feature films to his credit: The Jesus Trip (1971) and Walt Disney's The Spaceman and King Arthur (aka Unidentified Flying Oddball) (1979). His last directorial credit was an episode of the Prime Time Entertainment Network series Pointman in 1995.

Mayberry died on 27 July 2012 from a brief illness in at Fort Collins Medical Center in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Other Trek connections[]

In his long career, spanning over seventy different television series and made-for-TV movies across three decades, Mayberry worked with many Star Trek alumni. For example, before working with Alan Oppenheimer on three episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man (on which Oppenheimer was a regular), Mayberry directed him in two episodes of That Girl ("Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me?" in 1969 and "Gone-A-Courtin'" in 1970) and a 1971 episode of McCloud entitled "Encounter with Aries", which was written by Peter Allan Fields and also guest-starred Elisha Cook

As the director of thirteen episodes of The Equalizer, Mayberry worked many times with Trek guest actors Robert Lansing and Keith Szarabajka. He also directed the likes of Lori Petty, Saul Rubinek, and Christian Slater on this series; three of the episodes he directed were co-written by Maurice Hurley and one (1986's "Joyride", the episode featuring Slater) was written by Jim Trombetta. Outside of The Next Generation, however, Mayberry worked with only one actor who became a regular cast member on a Star Trek series: Robert Beltran, who played Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager. Mayberry directed Beltran, as well as Trek guest actor Sherman Howard, in a two-part Miami Vice episode called "Freefall", which aired in May 1989.

Among the other projects which teamed him with fellow Trek alumni are:

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