When was mork and mindy

But at other times he displays a born-yesterday ignorance of basic living skills, such as not knowing that you're supposed to sit on your bottom not your head, mistaking an animal or an inanimate object for sentient being, or being completely unfamiliar with an everyday object common to all human civilizations since ancient times.

Quotes [repeated line] Mork : Nanu-Nanu! Crazy credits Starting in season 2, the "o" in the word "Mork" in the title is an Orkan egg ship. Alternate versions When airing on Pluto TV, every episode has been edited to cut out parts of them, presumably, to make room for more advertising.

User reviews 32 Review. Top review. Absolutely wonderful TV show. I first saw Mork and Mindy when I was about five and thought it was the funniest thing on earth. I would even sit on my head like Mork did and I had some of the Mork toys too. So it's obvious I would grab this DVD box set as soon as it came out. And is Mork and Mindy as good today as it was back then? Of course! Robin Williams is just completely crazy as Mork from Ork , an alien sent to Earth to investigate our strange customs and report back telepathically to Orson, his boss.

Mindy is the girl he meets who gives him a home in her attic, much to the annoyance of her cynical dad. And, trust me, you can clearly see that Robin Williams often gives up the script to manically ad-lib his own madness while Pam Dawber runs after him, desperately trying to keep the show under control. It's so cool in certain moments when they're close together during a manic moment and she's looking into his eyes in amazement, petrified at what he's about to do next.

He would also go crazy off-stage in an effort to distract Dawber when she had a scene on her own. Supporting characters are also cool. Mr Bickley, Mindy's dad and grandma, Eugene and the outrageous Exidor all grab as much attention as they can whenever Williams isn't going mental. Plus Fonzie is the first episode a flashback to Mork's first ever appearance in Happy Days.

Which is annoying seeing as how this time I would have liked to have seen stuff. But I'm just glad to have it. The show is presented in 1. And for a 27 year old show it looks great with very little in the way of print damage or grain. The sound is plain old mono but it's fine for what it is.

You MUST buy. CuriosityKilledShawn Jan 22, Mork also said "kay-o" in place of okay. This series was Robin Williams' first major acting break. It became famous for Williams' use of his manic improvisational comedic talent. Williams would make up so many jokes during filming that the scripts eventually had specific gaps where Williams was allowed to perform freely.

In many scenes, Pam Dawber had to bite her lip to avoid laughing and ruining the filming. The series was hugely popular in its first season.

The show even garnered higher ratings than the show that spawned it, Happy Days 4. This was done in conjunction with what is known in the industry as counterprogramming, a technique in which a successful show is moved opposite a ratings hit on another network. The second season saw an attempt to seek younger viewers. The characters of Fred, Cora and Eugene were effectively dropped, though Fred and Cora would both appear briefly in later episodes, including Fred's returning with a bride.

It was explained on the show that Fred was sent off to tour as a conductor with an orchestra , and he took Cora with him on the road. Eugene was never mentioned again. New cast members and a disco -like version of the first season's gentle theme tune were added. Also added as regulars were their grumpy neighbor Mr.

Bickley who ironically worked as a verse writer for a greeting-card company portrayed by Tom Poston , introduced in one episode of the first season , and, introduced a few episodes into the second season's run, Nelson Flavor Jim Staahl , Mindy's snooty cousin who ran for city council.

The show's main focus was no longer on Mork's slapstick attempts to adjust to the new world he was in, but began to focus on the relationship between Mork and Mindy on a romantic level. The network execs also were rumored to have tried to get Pam Dawber to add "jiggle" by wearing padded bras and more revealing clothes. She refused, and Robin Williams supported her decision.

It was quickly moved back to its previous timeslot but the ratings never fully recovered. Several efforts were made to return to the core of the series. For the third season, Mindy's father and grandmother were brought back and added along with Jean and Remo. The show itself acknowledged this desperate attempt to fix its previous meddling, with the third season's hour-long opener aptly titled "Putting The Ork Back in Mork". Other supporting cast additions included two kids from the day-care center Mork worked at: the intellectual Lola and the gluttonous Stephanie.

Possible replacements for the character of Eugene. When this idea failed to improve ratings, many wilder ideas were tried to attempt to capitalize on Williams' comedic talents. In the fourth season, Mork and Mindy were married.

Jonathan Winters , one of Williams' idols, was brought in as their child, Mearth. Due to the different Orkan physiology , Mork laid an egg, which grew and hatched into the much older Winters. It had been previously explained that Orkans aged "backwards", thus explaining Mearth's appearance and that of his teacher, Miss Geezba portrayed by then year-old actress Louanne.

Other attempts included the use of special guest stars. In a two-part second-season episode, Raquel Welch appeared as Captain Nirvana of the Necrotons, an alien species of beautiful women that were enemies of the Orkans. There was even an episode where Mork meets Robin Williams. However, due to the continuing ratings slide, Mork and Mindy was canceled after its fourth season, on May 27, Fonzie tells him that people make up stories about UFOs because their lives are "humdrum.

He freezes everyone with his finger except Richie and says he was sent to Earth to find a "humdrum" human to take back to Ork. The cast and crew had misgivings and several actors either quit or turned down the role of Mork. It was at that point that the showrunners held an open call for comics in an attempt to fill the role.

What was at first a nearly universally hated idea among the Happy Days cast and crew, became magic in the hands of Williams as showrunners shaped and recreated the character based on his performance in rehearsals. The premise of the show was simple. It aired from to