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.
