Will there be an “Everybody Loves Raymond” curse, such as “Seinfeld” alumni faced for many years?

Brad Garrett hopes not. After the proposed “ELR” spinoff featuring his character, Robert, fell through, Garrett is back this fall with the domestic sitcom “‘Til Death.”

“Til Death” has a very simple concept. It looks at marriage through the eyes of both a newlywed couple and a pair that have been together for years. Needless to say, the two couples see things differently.

Garrett plays Eddie Stark and Joely Fisher (“Desperate Housewives”) portrays his wife Joy, who are closing in on day 9,000 together. They’re comfortable with each other, but more than a little jaded about the concept of marriage. Theirs is a relationship about staying together “so you have someone to drive you to the hospital for your operations,” as Eddie so eloquently puts it.

The yin to the Starks’ yang are their new next-door neighbors, newlyweds Steph and Jeff Woodcock, played by Kat Foster and Eddie Kaye Thomas, who are still passionate and idealistic after being married for a matter of weeks.

Eddie, a history teacher at the local high school, also finds out that Jeff is the school’s new vice principal. He feels free to dispense his hard-won knowledge to Jeff, who’s a little too naive for his own good.

So far, Eddie is a promising role for Emmy winner Garrett, one that eventually may allow him to do the eye bulging and foghorn ranting he did so well on “ELR.” In the early going, the women of “Til Death” and Jeff are purely support as underdeveloped stereotypes, but hopefully they’ll grow in time.

“Til Death” is an amusing trifle with potential. But is that enough to allow it to survive opposite “Survivor,” “My Name is Earl,” “Smallville” and buzz-gathering newbie “Ugly Betty”?