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Jay Sandrich has died at the age of 89.\u00a0 Mr. Sandrich was an award-winning director (5 Emmy Awards, 3 Director’s Guild Awards) best known for his work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> and The Cosby Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n Jay Sandrich began his career as an Assistant Director working on I Love Lucy, The Red Skelton Show, The Untouchables, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em> and many others.\u00a0 Once Mr. Sandrich moved into the director’s chair he stayed busy working on The Danny Thomas Show, That Girl, Get Smart, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Here’s Lucy, The Odd Couple,<\/em> and The Bob Newhart Show<\/em> just to name a few.\u00a0 \u00a0Often Mr. Sandrich would be hired to direct multiple episodes.<\/p>\n In 1970, Mr. Sandrich directed the pilot of The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>.\u00a0 He would go on to direct 119 of the show’s 168 episodes!\u00a0 Jay Sandrich also directed episodes of the MTMS<\/em> spin-offs: Rhoda, Phyllis<\/em> and Lou Grant.<\/em> After the MTMS<\/em> ended Mr. Sandrich continued to direct some of the most popular shows on television including: Welcome Back Kotter, WKRP in Cincinnati, Benson<\/em> and Soap<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 1980, Jay Sandrich directed the feature film Seems Like Old Times<\/em> starring Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Charles Grodin.\u00a0 Mr. Sandrich then returned to directing television shows including Night Court<\/em> and The Golden Girls<\/em>. Mr. Sandrich was then chosen as director for The Cosby Show<\/em>.\u00a0 He not only directed the pilot but went on to direct 100 of the 197 episodes made!\u00a0<\/p>\n Jay Sandrich continued to direct television projects that interested him, even adding episodes of The Office<\/em> and Two and a Half Men<\/em> to his resume.\u00a0 Jay Sandrich was named to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2020.<\/p>\n It’s hard to imagine just how many hours I’ve enjoyed of programs directed by Jay Sandrich.\u00a0 He directed some of the funniest episodes of several classic series.\u00a0 That doesn’t happen by accident.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen his lone feature film: Seems Like Old Times<\/em>.\u00a0 You should consider giving it a go.\u00a0 I remember seeing Seems Like Old Times<\/em> when it was first released and really enjoying it.\u00a0 Jay Sandrich knew how to bring out the best in the performers he worked with.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jay Sandrich’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jay Sandrich has died at the age of 89.\u00a0 Mr. Sandrich was an award-winning director (5 Emmy Awards, 3 Director’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,63,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28234,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233\/revisions\/28234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}