He was one of the most positive people I ever knew, and we’ll dearly miss him.”
#BILL DAILY TV#
In recent years, we had hoped to have Bill be a part of The Bob Newhart Show tributes at the TV Academy, but by then he was no longer traveling. “Whenever we were having trouble with a script on the show, we’d have Bill make an appearance. “I called him our bullpen man,” Newhart said in a statement released Friday night. “I asked him once, ‘Where’d you come up with that silly walk?’ He said, ‘What are you talking about?’ I said, ‘The way you lope into the room like a giraffe.’ He said, ‘That’s my walk.'” “Bill was totally unaware of how he came off,” writer-producer Tom Patchett told THR in an oral history of the show. A divorced pilot, Howard suffered from a constant case of jet lag and had a habit of barging into the Hartleys’ apartment without knocking. When that didn’t make it to series, the writers tapped Daily to play Howard Borden (named for the milk company), a neighbor of Chicago psychologist Bob (Newhart) and Emily Hartley (Suzanne Pleshette).
The episode was created by writer-producers Lorenzo Music and David Davis as a showcase for him to star in a pilot. In 1972, Daily guest-starred as an incompetent city councilman on a second-season installment of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After appearances on the TV comedies Bewitched and The Farmer’s Daughter, Daily attracted the attention of I Dream of Jeannie creator Sidney Sheldon and landed the role of the goofy Roger Healey, the best friend of another NASA astronaut, Anthony Nelson (Larry Hagman), on the fantasy comedy that starred Barbara Eden as a rather attractive genie.
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