THE STUDIO DIDN’T WANT DOUG AND CARRIE TO HAVE KIDS.ĭavid Bickel, one of the show’s executive producers, told Futon Critic that Sony didn’t like the idea of them having kids. For the 10th anniversary of the show’s finale, here are 10 fun facts about the sitcom. And, in a bit of symmetry, between 19 Ray Romano played Ray Barone on four episodes of The King of Queens. NBC passed on the pilot, then CBS picked it up.' A couple of months after The King of Queens debuted, James reappeared on Raymond, this time as Doug Heffernan. 'David Litt and I created the character of Doug for that pilot. 'When I created The King of Queens in 1997, it wasn’t even for CBS, it was for NBC,' co-creator Michael J. In 1996, Kevin James made his first appearance on Everybody Loves Raymond as a character named Kevin. For nine seasons, the CBS sitcom was a hit, especially because of Doug’s bickering dynamics with wife Carrie (Leah Remini), his cousin Danny (played by James’s older brother, Gary Valentine), and his live-in father-in-law, Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller). From Septemto May 14, 2007, Kevin James played Everyman Doug Heffernan, an International Parcel Service (IPS) delivery driver living in, you guessed it, Queens, New York.
