Born in Brooklyn on Aug. 5, 1936, Davis worked on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as a dialogue supervisor for the CBS show’s third and fourth seasons in 1962-63 and as a script supervisor on the 1963 pilot for CBS’ Gilligan’s Island. He then served as an associate producer on ABC’s O.K. Crackerby!, NBC’s My Mother the Car — co-created by Burns and written by Brooks — CBS’ He & She and NBC-CBS’ Get Smart.
In 1969, he and Music wrote for CBS variety shows hosted by Leslie Uggams and Glen Campbell and for the ABC anthology series Love, American Style before they landed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Davis also shot the title sequences for The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi and did Rhoda’s pivotal New York sequence for the October 1974 episode “Rhoda’s Wedding,” in which Harper raced through Manhattan in her wedding gown.
