Working often with Garry Marshall, he also wrote for 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' and 'The Partridge Family' and created two other series, 'Angie' and 'The Texas Wheelers.'
, from Miller-Boyett Productions and Lorimar Television, debuted in March 1986 and starred Mark Linn-Baker and Bronson Pinchot as mismatched cousins — one an American, the other from the fictional island of Mypos — who live together in a Chicago apartment.
Amid creative differences, McRaven stepped away from daily production of the series after a couple years but continued to send in script notes as He retired from show business in the mid-1990s, then took up photography and digital art. The fifth of six children, Dale Keith McRaven was born on March 5, 1939, on a farm near Pulaski, Illinois. He was raised in Chicago and Phoenix before he came to Hollywood in 1957 and sold his first script to Steve Allen.
In 1964, he was hired by Marshall and paired with Carl Kleinschmidt as a staff writer on the fourth and last season of NBC’sThe Dick Van Dyke Show