Simon Dunn

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Davis Rules

Here’s another great segment from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, again with Johnathan Winters, this time joining the couch with his erstwhile co-star Robin Williams.

Davis Rules was a sitcom created by Danny Jacobson and Norma Safford Vela. It ran for two seasons, the first on ABC and the second on CBS. Here’s the first season titles.

And here’s the second season titles. They obviously did a bit of re-tooling in between.

Here’s a CBS promo for the show, which was double-billed with Brooklyn Bridge.

https://youtu.be/FOuSju4HdHA

And here’s how ABC promo’d the show before the first full season.

https://youtu.be/JmaFU-kpzaQ

Here’s another from later on in the season.

When it moved to CBS, it followed The Royal Family.

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