Dale McRaven, creator of Mork & Mindy and Perfect Strangers, dies aged 83-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

Mork & Mindy, which launched the screen career of Robin Williams, was one of McRaven’s biggest successes (Picture: Disney General Entertainment Con)

Dale McRaven, the writer and producer who created TV sitcoms including Mork & Mindy and Perfect Strangers, as well as writing for the likes of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Partridge Family, has died aged 83.

He died at his home in California on September 5 of complications from lung cancer.

His son David McRaven confirmed the news on Sunday to The Hollywood Reporter.

Working routinely with director and producer Garry Marshall, best known for creating Happy Days and directing Julia Roberts smash hit rom-com Pretty Woman, it was Marshall who gave McRaven his breakthrough gig in the industry by hiring him as a staff writer – alongside Carl Kleinschmidt – for The Joey Bishop Show on NBC in 1964.

They then moved over to The Dick Van Dyke Show the following year after writing for several other comedies like The Odd Couple and Good Morning World.

After writing and producing on iconic show The Partridge Family, starring the likes of Shirley Jones and David Cassidy, McRaven also developed a reputation over time for being a star maker and discovering talent including Cassidy and his co-stars, Robin Williams, Mark Hamill and Gary Busey.

Over the course of his TV career, which he retired from in the mid-1990s, he was Emmy nominated and was nominated twice for a Writers Guild of America award, winning once.

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