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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Garry Marshall, Dale McRaven, and Joe Glauberg

Theme music composed by Perry Botkin, Jr.

NOTE: This series is a semi-spinoff of the series “Happy Days”, as the character of Mork appeared in episode #110 entitled “My Favorite Orkan”

• 001 & 002. Pilot (aka Mork and Mindy Special) – 9/14/1978
  • On the planet Ork, a wise-cracking alien named Mork (Robin Williams) is criticized by his superior Orson (voice of Ralph James) for always joking when Orkans are supposed to be devoid of emotion. He is sent back to Earth where he has previously visited, this time to observe behavior and report back to Orson. He is sent to Earth in an egg-shaped ship and lands in Boulder, Colorado, near the location where a man named Bill (Jeff Harlan) is being too aggressive with his date Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber). She rebuffs him and he takes off in her car. Mork is mistaken for a priest by Mindy because he is wearing his clothes backwards. She takes him back to her apartment where he tells her that he is an alien and she finally believes him after witnessing some his magical feats. She agrees to allow Mork to live there and teach him about Earth if he will teach her about Ork. Mindy introduces Mork to her father Frederick (Conrad Janis), a widower who works at McConnell’s Music with his mother-in-law Cora Hudson (Elizabeth Kerr). Mork lets it slip that he is living with Mindy, but Mindy convinces him that Mork is joking. Mork recounts a past experience on Earth when he paid a second visit to Earth and visited Milwaukee in the late 1950’s and sought advice about dating women from his friend Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzerelli (Henry Winkler), who set him up on disastrous date with Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall). Mindy coaches Mork on using a more normal voice, not sitting on his head, and not drinking with his fingers. Her father visits and catches Mork living there, and when he laments this fact to his friend Deputy Tilwick (Geoffrey Lewis), he confronts Mork to scare him but ends up trying to have him committed, thinking that he is crazy. Mindy comes to the aid of Mork, who drives everyone at the hearing nuts until there is no one left in the room. The judge frees him. Mork reports back to Orson that Earthlings have their own individuality and that he was touched that Mindy and her father came to help him avoid being institutionalized. Jeffrey Jacquet is Eugene. Dick Yarmy is Dr. Litney. Hank Jones is the defense attorney. 12/30/14

• 003. Mork Moves In – 9/21/1978
  • Mindy helps Mork look for a place to live, but has trouble finding a place in Boulder. Her father is livid that Mork has stayed the night once and forbids him living there. Mindy is forced to tell him that Mork is an alien and Mork displays his powers to convince him. He still wants Mindy to get rid of him and it causes a rift between them. Mork would prefer to move out than cause problems, so he heads out and phones Mr. McConnell to tell him. Mork and Mindy drink a ginger ale toast, the carbonation of which causes Mork to become “berzerb” and “Ork-faced.” Mindy hides Mork in the attic when her father comes over, but in his drunken state he roams back downstairs. Her father gives her the ultimatum that either Mork goes, or he won’t speak to her, and not wanting to be bullied, she allows Mork to stay in her attic. Her father softens a bit, but says he is going to spend the night too. Mork later reports to Orson that he is developing feelings for Minday. 1/25/15
• 004. Mork Runs Away – 9/28/1978
  • Mindy’s father agrees to take Mork to a basketball game so that Mindy can go on a much-needed date with her old boyfriend Brad (J.D. Hinton). When Mork comes home early after they are kicked out of the game, he scares off Brad, who thinks that Mindy is a swinger. Mork sees Mindy cry over her dating situation and sheds a tear himself. The next morning Mork has left home and left a note stating he doesn’t want to cause trouble. Mindy goes searching for him and eventually finds him trying to secure lodging with a crazy man named Exidor (Robert Donner) who believes that aliens from Venus will be taking everyone from Earth on a mothership before they destroy the planet. Mork bursts his bubble by telling him that Venutians are tiny people incapable of such feats. Mindy is relieved to find Mork and convinces him to come back home. 1/25/15
• 005. Mork in Love – 10/5/1978
  • Mork goes to see the love story Here Comes the Fleet and starts asking Mindy about love and mating. He soon comes back with his new love Dolly, who turns out to be the mannequin he stole from music store. Meanwhile Fred plans to buy a Cadillac to take to his class reunion, but when Mindy doesn’t get the college scholarship she was expecting, Fred gives her the money that he has saved – which is another example of love for Mork to witness. Mindy shows him the difference between holding hands, hugging, and kissing Dolly versus doing the same to her. Mork gets much stronger feelings after kissing Mindy and thus has to break it off with Dolly. He reports back to Orson that he is not sure that the Orkans did a good thing by giving up their emotions but confesses that love is a very confusing feeling that not even humans understand. 3/14/15
• 006. Mork’s Seduction – 10/12/1978
  • When Mindy goes to a bridal shower by herself, she tells Mork that he should seek out new friends. Mindy later runs into an old friend named Susan Taylor (Morgan Fairchild), who feels that Mindy had stolen her successful boyfriend in high school. Trying to get even with her, she asks Mork out on a date. Mindy refuses the invitation from Mork to go along at first, but when she sees that Susan is trying to make her jealous, she goes along on the first date. Mork goes alone to Susan’s house for dinner for the second date. He ends up running out of her house when he mistakes her candle lighting for the Orkan tickle torture ritual by Volgar. Mindy is sorry that his date went poorly, but admits that she was a little bit jealous. Mork reports this to Orson, who warns him not to get involved with anyone on Earth, while Mork can’t get Mindy off his mind. 3/15/15
• 007. Mork Goes Public – 10/19/1978
  • Mindy is confronted by a reporter named Clint Mullet (Jeff Altman), who is looking for evidence of alien life. Clint befriends Mork, and then proceeds to break into Mindy’s apartment to search for evidence that she is harboring an alien. When Mindy and her father throw him out, he admits that he wants to publish proof of alien life for the American Enquirer magazine and offers Mindy the $25,000 prize money if she exposes the ‘alien’, claiming that he only wants the glory of writing the article. Mindy naturally refuses, but she and her father, who is facing plumbing and record store expenses, discuss how great it would be to have the money. Mork decides to expose himself and give them the money, but his plans are thwarted when both Mindy and her father show up dressed as aliens, thus leading Clint to believe that they are trying are all pulling a hoax for the money. Mindy and her father tell Mork that his friendship is more important than money. 6/3/15
• 008. To Tell the Truth – 11/2/1978
  • Mindy chastises Mork for lying when he plays a practical joke and tells her that the weatherman was wrong about it going to rain, an Orkan form of playing a practical joke called ‘splinking.’ Meanwhile Arnold Wanker (Logan Ramsey), Frederick’s nasty landlord, arranges to have holes dug in front of the music store and turns the heat off in an effort to force them to break their store lease. While visiting the store, Wanker has a heart attack and dies, leaving Mindy and her father to talk in glowing terms about Wanker to his widow Annie (Fay DeWitt). When Mork hears how much they liked him, he brings Wanker back to life. He is every bit as nasty, but then falls in the pit in front of the store and winds up in traction. Mindy teaches Mork the difference between lies and white lies told to spare someone’s feelings. 6/4/15
• 009. Mork the Gullible – 11/9/1978
  • Mork and Mindy have dialogue about Mork’s gullibility after he hears the story of Chicken Little. At first Mork takes her advice to literally and slams the door in Girl Scout’s (Dana Hill) face, then he lets her take advantage of him, and later he gives away his coat to a hobo. At the record store, Police Officer Boyd (Ed Bernard) arrests an escaped convict named Dittman (Beans Morocco aka Dan Barrows) and handcuffs him in the record store, leaving to pursue Dittman’s partner. Mork takes pity on him and lets him go when Dittman tells him he needs to see his sick mother. Mork is arrested for obstructing justice and sent to jail, where he encounters Exidor who tries to convert him to the religion of football and worshiping O.J. Simpson. Mindy and her father come to visit, stressing Mork’s trusting nature… but then Dittman returns to turn himself in – because he promised to. Mindy speculates that humans have become too cynical, and Mork reports back to Orson about football and human’s distrust of each other. Patrick Crenshaw plays an old man in the record store. 7/23/15
• 010. A Mommy for Morky – 11/16/1978
  • An ex-beau of Mindy’s named Dan Phillips (Barry Van Dyke) resurfaces and tries to convince Mindy to marry her and have a family. Mork meanwhile meets Mindy’s pregnant friend Sally (Susan Lawrence) and begins to lament never having a mother. As Mindy tries to make her decision about the marriage and having kids, Mork decides to help her by using his Orkan Age Machine to revert himself to having a three-year old mentality. While Mindy entertains Dan, Mork is upstairs behaving his new age. Mindy and Dan ultimately leave and Mindy denies his proposal, mostly because he was so focused on having multiple children that he never talked about his actual relationship with Mindy. Mork reports back to Orson the importance of motherhood. 7/25/15
• 011. Mork’s Greatest Hit – 11/23/1978
  • A bully named George (Brion James) makes advances toward Mindy at the eatery, and she is disappointed when Mork doesn’t stand up for her. She teaches Mork about the need to fight, and her father shows him how to box, but it is all for naught since Orkans do not believe in violence. George seeks a fight with Mork, who has no choice but to wear disguises and hide. When Mindy accuses him of being scared, Mork finds a way to humiliate George without fighting. When George throws a punch at him, Mork slows down time and evades it, while heaping indignities on him by covering him with food. Eventually George gives up and apologizes to Mindy. Kit McDonough is Marcia. Tom Kindle is Rick. 10/20/15
• 012. Old Fears – 11/30/1978
  • Cora feels blue after the death of an elderly friend, and Mork becomes fascinated with learning why humans don’t take better care of the elderly. Realizing that Cora is lonely, Mork ages himself using an Orkan device and poses as Bill C. Hohner and goes on several dates with Cora. When Mork reveals himself to Mindy and her father, Mindy becomes angry at Mork, not wanting Cora to fall too deeply for him and then get hurt. Mork realizes he must break it off and seeks advice from Eugene, who uses the song 50 Ways to Leave Your Love as the breakup template. As Mork clumsily attempts to break it off, Cora admits that she realized that he was Mork early on. She is curious how he can look so old without makeup, and Mork confesses to her that he is actually an alien. 10/22/15
• 013. Mork’s First Christmas – 12/14/1978
  • Mork is puzzled by Christmas traditions, and when Mindy tells him about its meaning, Mork takes the cue and invites Susan Taylor to spend Christmas with them, much to Mindy’s chagrin. Eugene further tells Mork about the tradition of gift-giving, which leads to Mork making most of his gifts out of such materials as carpet scraps, chewing gum, and dead flies. The only gift he can afford to buy is for Susan, which is a lone saucer – because Mindy says she would want something shallow. Susan ends up getting a better offer and leaving, making fun of Mork’s gifts in the process. Mork overhears Mindy and her father and grandmother discussing whether to tell Mork the truth about his strange gifts. Feeling bad, they tell him how it is the thought that counts… and he realizes he can give them great gifts by giving them thoughts in their heads of happy times in their lives. David Ketchum is a store salesman. Ysabel MacCloskey is a woman customer. 12/26/15
• 014. Mork and the Immigrant – 1/11/1979
  • Mork learns the concept of democracy and voting when he questions who put a policeman in power who gave Mindy a ticket. Later Mork runs into a Russian student immigrant named Sergei (Tim Thomerson), who is also searching for ‘democracy’. Mork invites Sergei to live with them so that the three of them can have a democracy, much to Mindy’s chagrin. Sergei also mentions that he needs to register with the Department of Immigration – just like all ‘aliens’. Mork misunderstands and thinks that he needs to register, and we he can’t produce any documentation, the clerk (Ned Wertimer) nearly has him detained until Mindy lets Mork talk about his home planet, leading the clerk to believe Mork is merely crazy. Sergei ends up finding an apartment of his own, and Mork reports back to Orson about his view of democracy. 12/26/15
• 015. Mork the Tolerant – 1/18/1979
  • Mork shows how to be tolerant first by pacifying a difficult customer named Jack (Ed Greenberg), and then by visiting their new downstairs neighbor Franklin Delano Bickley (Tom Poston), a greeting card writer who keeps pounding on his ceiling, which is Mindy’s floor. Although he is grumpy and condescending, he is invited by Mork to have dinner at Mindy’s place. Mindy is irritated by Mork inviting him, and insists that Mork cook the food himself. Mork serves still-frozen food, finally irritating Bickley enough to leave, but not before having a few Scotches and confessing that he is very lonely and gets irritated when he hears Mork and Mindy upstairs having a good time. Mindy ends up feeling sorry for him and brings him a cake. Bickley maintains his grumpiness and until Mork shows up with a puppy. Bickley is touched and names the dog Bicky. Mork reports to Orson but end up talking about how skiing is the quickest way to get into the hospital. 2/28/16
• 016. Young Love – 1/25/1979
  • Shortly after arriving home from Mork’s first wedding, Eugene shows up at their house having ran away from home because he thinks his mother is mean to him. His mother eventually finds him at Mindy’s house and he returns home. Later Eugene meets a girl named Holly (Tammy Lauren), who is getting piano lessons from Cora. Eugene and Holly hit it off because they have so much in common, including feeling persecuted by their parents. Eugene deduces they could run away if they got married, and Mork, who deduces that he is legally able to perform weddings since he is a ‘ship’s captain’, agrees to perform the ceremony. Mork marries Eugene and Holly in a ceremony in his attic. When Mindy finds out what Mork did, she tells more that he was wrong to marry underage kids, and that mothers are there to guide their children to do the right thing. In fact, left unsupervised Eugene and Holly have overeaten candy to celebrate the marriage and head home with stomachaches. Mork presents a report to Orson on mothers. 2/28/16
• 017. Skyflakes Keep Falling on My Head – 2/1/1979
  • Mindy is incredibly busy with doing her college homework that she doesn’t have time to comfort Mork when he becomes terrified by watching a Vincent Price movie. The next day Mork runs into Exidor at the music store, where Exidor is trying to get music lessons in order to become a rock star, and eventually Emperor of the Earth. Exidor offers his cabin for Mork to take Mindy so that she can get away to relax after her term ends. Unfortunately, the cabin is a three-mile hike from the road, up a cliff, in the freezing weather. By the time they arrive, Mindy has sprained her ankle and they have lost their luggage. The cabin literally falls apart when the front wall collapses, and the bunk beds fall apart as well. They try to survive by spending the night in front of a fire they built on the kitchen table, but when it goes out, they think they are not going to survive and confess how much they mean to each other. Exidor ends up showing up in his car and rescues them. Mork gives Orson his report on anomalies in the English language. 5/24/16
• 018. Mork Goes ERK – 2/8/1979
  • Mork tries to cheer up Mindy in advance by bringing home a chimpanzee named O’Keefe, knowing that he is being relocated to another part of the universe. Mindy becomes very depressed at this notion, especially after Mork tells her that Orson gave him the choice to stay if he wanted. Mork believes that the longer he stays the more it will hurt Mindy when he has to leave. Mindy’s friend Susan suggests that they, along with Mr. Bickley who feels he has lost his greeting card writing talent, attend a meeting of ERK – Ellsworth Revitalization Konditioning – hosted by the shifty Ellsworth (David Letterman). They go along, but Bickley leaves when Ellsworth says that no drinking is allowed. Mindy ends up confronting him after he merely tells everyone to sit down and shut up. Mork also confronts him and give a rousing speech about how to get in touch with your own feelings. Half the class leaves, followed by Ellsworth, whose Rolls Royce is stolen outside. As Mork prepares to leave, he is confronted by Mindy who believes that Mork has in fact developed feelings and is afraid that he will get too attached to her. Mork agrees, and after getting a kiss from Mindy, decides that he likes feelings and agrees to stay. Mork reports to Orson about feelings, and how many presidents don’t have them. 5/25/16
• 019. Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – 2/15/1979
  • When Mork meets Mindy’s friend Sally’s new baby, he expresses how much he would like to have one of his own. He is overheard by a shady man Sleazy (William Porter) in the music store, who follows Mork home and offers to sell him a baby from a set of parents who didn’t want it. Mork asks Mindy if he can have $10,000 for it, but follows directions from the man and doesn’t tell him what for. Meanwhile an FBI agent (Don Galloway) tells Mindy that they’ve been following Sleazy and that he actually is a kidnapper who sells babies. They give her the money to give to Mork, with the promise that Mork will not be in any trouble, but cannot know what is happening. When Sleazy meets Mork at the bus station to make the exchange, Sleazy is arrested by FBI agents, but Mork leaves with the baby before they can stop him. Mork takes the baby home and begins to parent him, but the FBI agent comes and take it away. Mork learns that the parents really do want the baby so he is okay with giving him back. Mork discusses fatherhood with Orson. 8/25/16
• 020. Mork’s Mixed Emotions – 2/22/1979
  • Mindy is planning on celebrating her birthday with Mork, but Mork is very disturbed by having a dream the night before about getting jealous over losing Mindy. In order to not be controlled by his emotions, Mork purposely closes them off, and becomes robot-like. This really upsets Mindy, who starts to flirt with and kiss Mork, which lets all of the emotions that the locked up run wild. He runs the gamut between expressing lust, anger, fear, disgust, excitement, whimsy, and the occasional outburst of love. Although Mork advises against it, he goes to a fancy dinner with Mindy for her birthday where his anger comes out at the rude maitre d’ (George Pentecost), followed by being over-dramatic until he gets the seat they want and gets the French waiter (Peter Elbling) to go to 7-11 to get the dressing Mindy wants. He ends up stealing lobster from other customers. Mindy helps him get his emotions under control by speaking to each one individually, and Mork settles on all emotions caring for Mindy very much. Mork talks to Orson about the fact that he broke Orkan law, although Mork has no regrets. Orson decides to not to report Mork, implying that he possible felt some emotion as well. Bill Kirchenbauer is the customer with the bad toupee. 8/26/16
• 021. Mork’s Night Out – 3/8/1979
  • Mindy heads out with her father and grandmother Durango to lend a hand to Mindy’s alcoholic Uncle Jack. Mork stays home alone and immediately becomes bored. After trying to make friends with a truck driver who throws a rock through both his and Mr. Bickley’s window, the two bond and Mork talks him into going out for a night on the town. They meet a nice mother and daughter named Lisa (Ruta Lee) and Penny (Robin Eisenman), who say they are creeped out by another man in the bar. They all end up gong back to Mr. Bickley’s house where they end up pulling guns and robbing him. Mr. Bickley is more upset about losing the prospect of a date than getting robbed. He and Mork agree to go out again the next weekend though. Mork talks to Orson about trust and how supposed ‘friends’ could rob you. Linda Ewen is the waitress. 11/12/16
• 022. In Mork We Trust – 3/15/1979
  • Mindy has a party at her house, but when the Tangle game gets too loud, Mr. Bickley raids the party and forces everyone to leave. Mindy is furious, and also puzzled when her necklace disappears. Mork calls and accuses all of her friends of stealing it, but after Mr. Bickley visits, they realize that their dinner ribs and Mork’s aging machine have disappeared, indicating that it’s Bickley who must be the culprit. When Bickley begins fiddling with the machine thinking that it is a calculator causing Mork to vacillate between ages, Mork and Mindy decide to break into his house to retrieve it. Bickley catches them in the act and they soon realize that had stolen simply because he wasn’t invited to the party. This was merely a way to get their company, so he pulls out the snacks. They remind him that it was Mork who bought him his puppy Bicky. When they all get sentimental, Bickley saves face by throwing them out, but Mork steals a transistor radio so he’ll have reason to visit. Mork reports to Orson about loneliness. David Wall is Julius. Sandie Newton is Jennifer. Bob Arbogast is the policeman. 11/13/16
• 023. Mork Runs Down – 4/12/1979
  • Mork gets a rare call from Orson, who advises him that it is his birthday, which in Orkan terms means that Mork will suffer from some strange reactions including speeding up, slowing down, and acting more bizarre than normal. Orson gives him an egg-shaped ‘Gleek’ which will help neutralize the behaviors. With Mork losing his job at a pet store, he hopes to be hired at a nutrition store by Mindy’s friend Joyce, now known as Rainbow (Susan Elliot). With Mindy having unknowingly put Mork’s Gleek in with the eggs, Mork runs down at the record store in front of Mindy and her father. Mindy finds a note strapped to Mork’s ankle indicating if he doesn’t get the Gleek he could die, and calls pediatrician Benton Phillips (Henry Polic II), who dismisses the situation when they are forced to tell him that Mork is an alien. Mork comes to and heads to Ranibow’s shop, only to disrupt the business and scare off a customer (Michael Danahy). Mork returns home and so distraught that he has to mime what a Gleek looks like. Mindy finds it in with the eggs, and after some trial and error, Mork is able to repair himself. Mork reports to Orson that even though he is getting older, he wants to retain some of his childlike qualities. 2/19/17
• 024. It’s a Wonderful Mork – 5/3/1979
  • Fred has a new girlfriend named Margaret (Linda Henning) that he’s crazy about, and as she is the editor of Rocky Mountain Illustrated, she is in a position to offer Mindy a great job writing for her. They have her over for dinner, but Mork, despite being warned, ends up offending her by telling her a few things that Fred and Mindy have said about her, and she ends up storming out. Mindy is so angry that she tells Mork that he’s ruined her and Fred’s lives. Mork immediately calls Orson and asks if he can come home since he is hurting the people he cares about. Orson is against the idea and submits Mork to the Plasmic Essence Reversifier which allows Mork to see the paths his friends’ lives would have taken if he never came into their lives. Mork is able to witness unseen Mindy’s life married to a man named Cliff (Sam Freed) who has gambling debts, can’t hold a job, and is forcing Mindy to work two jobs. Fred is a carefree bachelor who has run out of money, Clara is living with Mindy, and record store is now a bar. When Mork sees how miserable everyone is, he decides to stay, and upon his return Mindy immediately apologizes for snapping at him. Mork reports back to Orson and thanks him for allowing him to see how he’s made people happy. 2/19/17
• 025. Mork’s Best Friend – 5/10/1979
  • Mork brings home a new pet, a female caterpillar named Bob. Mindy thinks it’s strange but allows him to keep her. Mork shows Bob off to Exidor and Mr. Bickley, but Exidor is more interested in preaching about reincarnation, and Bickley thinks the idea is stupid. Mork builds Bob her own home, but one day finds that she is dead. Mindy tries to express sympathy, and Exidor attempts to act as the ‘spirit migration engineer’ which will see Bob into the next life… as a cow in India. Mork and Mindy visit a funeral home but Herman (George Pentecost) the mortician can’t convince Mork to bury her. Mork decides to host his own funeral with Mindy and Bickley, both of whom humor him and speak about Bob. As Mork is getting ready to dispose of Bob, he opens his matchbox and finds that he has actually transformed into a butterfly. Mork sets him free and then reports back to Orson about the human tradition of funerals. 6/16/17

SEASON 2

• 026 & 027. Mork in Wonderland – 9/16/1979
  • As Mindy prepares to visit her father and grandmother in Utah, where they have moved after he father got a job conducting a symphony orchestra, Mork tries to do his part to conserve energy by putting out traffic lights in the rain. Consequently, Mork develops a bad cold, and when he takes a sinus pill, he begins shrinking since Orkans are all membrane. Soon Mork is wearing children’s clothes, and the only doctor Mork will see is Exidor, who simply tires to assuage Mork’s self-esteem. Mork then shrinks to the size of a Ken doll, so Mindy builds him his own living area with doll furniture. Neither Mork nor Mindy have any idea how to stop the process, so Mork turns to Orsen, who suggests ingesting something that can make earthlings grow. Mork decides on Brewer’s Yeast but has to find a way to make his way across the ‘giant’ apartment to get to it. Mr. Bickley stops by to borrow a book, and his dog Bickey chases him into a mouse hole, where Mork is confronted by a mouse. Mindy comes home and is able to crush some of the yeast for him to take, but before he can, Mork shrinks to atomic level and is transported to a parallel planet known as Mirth, where he is confronted by a trio of zany revolutionaries named Jerry Looney (Jeremy Vernon), Danny St. Tommy (Johnny Haymer), and Bob Faith (Ronny Schell), who accuse Mork of being a spy. They tie him up and transport him to The Sillies Guerilla Camp. Mork meets the leader Mandy (Pam Dawber) who explains they are in a revolution against the tyrannical King Exidon (Richard Donner) of the Glum Party who forbids humor. Mandy enlists Mork to get a job in Xidon’s castle as a spy. He is hired as a ‘court serious’ by the King’s advisor Marvin the Evil (Tom Poston). Mork is able to determine that Exidon creating a fake energy crisis to make the people glum and is able to obtain the written proof of the covert plan. Exidon is on to them and takes Mandy as prisoner. Mork gathers up the comedians and they take a hot air balloon to the castle as the revolutionaries make their way past the guards. The people turn on Exidor so their war is successful, but Mandy is killed by a strange explosion. In Mork’s grief, he returns to normal size and home, where Mindy tearfully greets him with open arms. Mork attempts to explain to Orson how he felt when Mandy died. NOTE: This is a one-hour episode. 6/16/17
• 028. Stark Raving Mork – 9/23/1979
  • After reading about the divorce rate, Mork expresses his concern that he and Mindy will break up, but she promises they’ll keep their relationship fresh. Later Mork meets Mr. Bickley at The New York Deli, run by brother and sister Remo (Jay Thomas) and Jean DaVinci (Gina Hecht), and Mork witness the siblings having a big fight, then when Remo accidentally cuts himself on a cheese grater, they put aside the argument and Jean is suddenly nice again. Mork asks them about their fighting, and Remo tells him about making up. When Mork gets home he criticizes Mindy’s cooking and delivers a barrage of insults. Mindy is devastated and angry. Mork returns to the deli to get clarification on what happened, and Remo tells him to apologize, and Jean explains to Mindy that Mork wasn’t even angry. Mr. Bickley tries to dissuade Mork from apologizing, so Mork feigns amnesia, but Mindy tells him that she doesn’t believe his stories, but if he simply apologizes, they can kiss and make up. Mork reports the events back to Orson. Michael W. Schartz is the deli customer. 2/2/18
• 029. Mork’s Baby Blues – 9/30/1979
  • When Mork is passing Monopoly money around the deli, a down-on-her-luck actress named Kathy Cumberland (Dinah Manoff) gets the impression that Mork is rich and invites him back to her apartment and attempts to get him to spend the night with her. Mork does stay over but sleeps on the couch. Two weeks later Kathy pays Mork a visit and asks if she and Mork can get married because she is pregnant. Mork offers her money, and she agrees to accept $5000 or else she will slap him with a paternity suit. Remo and Jean advise Mork that marrying Kathy is the right thing to do. Kathy however merely wants the money, but Mork hires the Reverend Aaron Abbott (Carl Gottlieb) to come to her apartment to officiate the wedding. Kathy tries to dissuade him, and Mindy and Mr. Bickley show up to try as well, but Mork is adamant. Kathy keeps lowering the payoff amount but Mork still won’t budge. She is finally forced to admit that she isn’t even pregnant, and Mr. Bickley hauls her off to the police. Mork reports to Orson how things aren’t always what they appear to be. 2/2/18
• 030. Dr. Morkenstein – 10/7/1979
  • Mork has taken on a night job as a security guard at a science exhibit. While there he has programmed Chuck the Robot (Robby the Robot, voiced by Roddy McDowall) to communicate and play games with him. Soon Chuck begins to feel emotions like jealously and missing Mork when he is gone. Chuck also realizes that his circuits are going bad and he will soon be decommissioned by his creators. Chuck, desiring the opportunity to live, follows Mork home. Although Mindy is frightened of him, particularly when his circuits start to malfunction and he ceasing making sense, she allows him to stay. Meanwhile the New York Deli is floundering and after their Acapulco night failed, Mork brings Chuck to entertain the customers. It ends badly though when Chuck insults a fat woman (Lu Leonard) and gives a little girl (Elizabeth Hoy) the wrong answer to a math problem, causing the customers to turn on him and chase him out of the deli. Mork and Mindy return him to the exhibit, where Mindy convinces Mork it would be most humane to shut him down… but Chuck would rather experience his last moments as a human would. When he finally shuts down, Mork is left in tears. Mork reports the reasons that creating a new life ultimately made him sad. Gregory Itzin and Ken Magee are deli customers. 10/10/18
• 031. Mork vs. Mindy – 10/14/1979
  • Mork gets fired from his job at the novelty store, and with Mindy getting low on music students, they realize they are running out of money. Meanwhile Mindy’s cousin Nelson Flavor (Jim Staahl) stops by to get some perspectives from Mindy, as he is entering politics and running for City Council with aspirations to become the next Walter Mondale. Mindy ends up going to work for him, leaving Mork depressed that he is jobless. Nelson visits Mork and offers him an Executive Assistant job, since there is more work than Mindy can handle, which he gleefully accepts. When Mindy finds out that Mork is getting paid more and has more important responsibilities, she accuses Nelson of being chauvinistic. Furthermore Nelson realizes he can’t afford to pay two assistants, and says he wants to observe both of them working to decide which one he will keep. As Mork and Mindy compete, Mindy starts to get irritated that Mork seems to be one step ahead. When they bungle dealing with a dog prosthetic shop owner (Jerrold Ziman), Nelson says he’ll make a decision about who gets to keep the job. Mork and Mindy discuss the competition between them, and decide that if Nelson can’t keep both of them, they’ll quit. When Nelson comes over to give them his decision, Mindy gives them their ultimatum. He gladly accepts their resignation as he has already hired an attractive blonde named Suzy (Anna Upstrom). Mork reports to Orson about human competition, and how he and Mindy both won by sticking together. Jeff Harlan is the customer who Remo tries to teach stickball to. 10/12/18
• 032. Mork Gets Mindy-itis – 10/21/1979
  • Mindy plans to host a reception for Nelson to meet some local business leaders to help him with his City Council bid. Meanwhile Mork begins sneezing in Orkan style – which sound like laughing – because he is allergic to something in the apartment. When Nelson stops over, he gets insulted and storms out because he thinks Mork is laughing at him. Mork realizes that the closer he gets to Mindy, the more he ‘sneezes’. Mork heads to the Deli where he tells his woes to Jean, and he runs into Exidor, who invites Mork to come visit him at his new apartment, and then storms out of the deli because they don’t serve wildebeests or cricket lips. When using a gas mask at home doesn’t work, Mork heads out to move in with Exidor at the Boulder Arms Apartments, where he finds Exidor entertaining an imaginary girlfriend named Gretchen and her twin sister Lola. Exidor recommends injecting some of Mindy’s hair into his arm, so he does that the next day, just as the guests are arriving for the party. Mork partially turns into a Mindy as a result, circling the room and either insulting or flirting with the guests, until he drives them all out. The next morning the Mindy injection wears off, and Mindy deduces that Mork wasn’t allergic to her, but was having a reaction from feeling too close to her. She helps alleviate the reactions by hugging him tightly. Mork reports to Orson about his learnings about politics his allergy to closeness, for which he has now overcome. Bill Morey is Mr. Prendergast. Lloyd Kino is Mr. Wang. 10/12/18
• 033. A Morkville Horror – 10/28/1979
  • On behalf of her father who is touring with the orchestra, Mindy is reluctantly getting ready to sell the house she grew up in and Mr. Bickley is an interested buyer. However Mork comes home from working to clean up the house terrified, claiming he saw ghosts there. Mindy thinks he has imagined it and takes him back the next day, only to hear a voice telling them to get out of there. It turns out to be Exidor who is vacationing in the closet. This seems to be a logical explanation for what Mork saw… until it starts all over again with coldness, slamming doors, and chaos, frightening both Mork and Mindy this time. Jean does some research and finds out that the house was built by sisters Lucinda and Dierdre Lafollette, who were nearly separated by a man who wound up dead by poison. They return to the house to look at it with Mr. Bickley, and after he frightens them, the ghost return and he flees, leaving Mork and Mindy locked inside. Mork becomes possessed by both sisters, but they eventually leave to follow Exidor. Then Mork becomes possessed by the gentle spirit of Mindy’s mother, who tells her that it is okay to let things go because the memories will live on. This gives Mindy the closure she needs to go through with selling the house. Mork reports the events back to Orson, speaking them in prose. 7/11/19
• 034. Mork’s Health Hints – 11/4/1979
  • Mindy is getting ready to get her tonsils removed, and Mork is panicking and spraying everything down for germs and even cuts his hair to eliminate more germs. Remo and Jean tell them both some tales about botched surgeries that make them both nervous. Mork is checked into her room, and Mork visits and meets the sole nurse (Shirley Jo Finney) and a little girls named Susie (Michelle Downey) who is getting a swallowed bubble pipe removed, but assures Mork that things will be fine. Mindy goes out for bloodwork, but doesn’t return. When Mork returns to the room he finds a different nurse (Barbara Cason) and two different children patients, Pattie (Kim Fields) and an Asian girl who is occupying Mindy’s bed. Mork goes to see the hospital administrator Mr. Burnett (Vernon Weddle), but he is no help. Mork then poses as a doctor and locates Mindy in a room with a brain surgery patient named Virginia (Anita Dangler). Mindy has been mistaken for someone with the name Mavis McDonald who should be getting brain surgery. Mindy has been given medication and is delirious and can do nothing but giggle. Mork is not able to convince Dr. Rowan (Wayne Morton) and the nurse that there has been a mistake, and in trying to escape, Mork and Mindy find themselves on the window ledge. Mr. Burnett finds them and tells the doctor that Mindy had been confused with another patient, just before Mindy nearly jumps off the ledge. Mork and Mindy later dine with Remo and Jean, who surmises that it always help to keep your eyes open and ask questions when in the hospital. Mork reports back to an ailing Orson, and explains hospitals on earth, and how doctors are only human and prone to mistakes. 7/30/19
• 035. Dial ‘N’ for Nelson – 11/11/1979
  • Nelson has been getting threatening phone calls advising him to drop out of the City Council race. He takes refuge at Mindy’s house, but soon the female caller has tracked him down there and begins threatening all three of them. It gets even more serious when the caller throws a stink bomb through Mindy’s window. Nelson deduces that it might be because he has announced that he plans to rid Boulder of pornography and strip clubs. It turns out there is only one strip club in town, and it is called The Bare Facts. Mork and Mindy visit it disguised as a stripper and fast talking agent, suspecting that one of the stripper’s is placing the calls. When none of the strippers sound like the caller, and the auditioner Ron (Dick Yarmy) is a man, they hope to see the owner and find out if it is a woman. Ron tells them that only the winner will see the owner, so they stay through the dance of Cherry Balloons (Franceen Cornfield) and Madge (Timothy Blake), before they call Mindy to get on stage. She is extremely shy and awkward, so Mork shows her how to do it. Eventually the owner (Roger Simpson-Harris) comes out, but he is a black male. However his voice (David Wall) is high pitched like a woman. They call the police and have the owner arrested. Mork reports back to Orson and shows off his strip tease, and talks about intimidation. John Miranda is the cop. 3/6/20
• 036 & 037. Mork vs. the Necrotons – 11/18/1979
  • During a campaign luncheon for Nelson, Mork is summoned by Orson to receive some distressing news: the Orkans’ sworn enemy the Necrotons have landed on Earth and are seeking to extract information from Mork to determine whether they should destroy Earth. According to Orson, the Necrotons could be disguised as anything, but can only survive the Earth’s atmosphere for 24 hours. Mork plans to go into hiding, but the Nectroton leader Captain Nirvana (Raquel Welch) and her minions Kama (Debra Jo Fondren) and Sutra (Vicki Frederick) quickly find him at Mindy’s house, kidnap him, and imprison Mindy in an invisible forcefield. Mindy is able to escape and pleads with Nelson to help her, but he doesn’t believe her story about the Necrotons. With plans to extract Mork’s brain if he doesn’t talk, they take him back to their spaceship, where Mork begins to give them useless information about Earth, then escapes by playing Simon Says. Kama and Sutra then return to Mindy’s house to kidnap here, with the intention to capture Mork when he attemps a rescue. Mindy is imprisoned in a giant birdcage, and Mork does in fact return, with a plan to stall the Necrotons by challenging Nirvana to a Battle of the Rose, which is nothing more than a dancing contest. When the 24-hour mark is hit and Nirvana doesn’t disintegrate, she tells Mork that 24 Necroton hours are like 300 Earth years. Mork is taken away to have his brain extracted, but is saved at the last minute by Nirvana, who now claims to have feelings for Mork, and wants to take him home to be her pet. When Kama and Sutra find out that Nirvana is willing to falsify her reports to make her wish come true, they attempt to kill her, but Mindy distracts them and gains control of the ray gun. Mork returns the gun to Nirvana and calls her a friend, so she allows them to leave unharmed, but feels sad to have lost her first friends. Mork reports to Orson the value of friendship and how it can stop hate. 3/7/2020
• 038. Hold That Mork – 11/25/1979
  • Mork is depressed because he has been fired from the pet store, where he let the pets mingle… including the monkeys and fish. He takes his woes to the New York Delicatessen, where he meets members of the Denver Broncos Pony Express Cheerleaders (themselves, including Linda Ebert, Lynda Hatfield, Jody Jones, Darcy Kleman, Karla Pasta, and Kim Smith). After Mork shows them some of his physical humor, they suggest that he try out as the first male cheerleader. Two of them, Kathy (Melanie Vincz) and Ann (Lorrie Mahaffey) come over to the house to help he get prepared for his tryout. However when he goes to audition for the lady in charge Pam Stockhaus (Linda Henning) refuses to let him even try out. Nelson decides to make the sexual discrimination part of his City Council campaign platform. Ultimately it is not Nelson’s threats that changer her mind, but Mindy and the other cheerleaders convince her to let him try out. She is impressed and gives him the job, but warns him that they are unable add facilities so he will need to share with the cheerleaders.  On the day of his first Broncos game, newsman Stu Scully (James Staley) interviews Pam in the locker room and he introduces Mork to the world, as do the football announcers in the booth. Mork takes the field with other cheerleaders, even dressed in the same outfit, but when he sees the size of the crowd, he quickly exits the field. He admits to Mindy that he got stage fright, but is nonetheless glad that he got the chance to try. He reports back to Orson the absurdity of separating men’s and women’s jobs. Joyce Mandel is failed cheerleader applicant Peggy Black. 6/18/20
• 039. The Exidor Affair – 12/2/1979
  • Exidor drops by Mindy’s place to invite her and Mork to dinner to meet the girl he plans to marry. Mindy is resistent because she assumes the bride will be ‘invisible’, but gives in… and also agrees to host the dinner when Exidor finds himself. While she is resentful, Mork encourages her to try and be nice to his friend because he gets so little pleasure. Exidor shows up alone, and Mindy pretends that she can see the fiancee. Exidor then reveals that there’s no one there, and then a real woman named Ambrosia Malspar (Georgia Engel) does in fact show up. Ambrosia explains that she met Exidor when she, as a meter maid, accidentally chalked his booth. Mindy is surprised that Ambrosia seems so normal, but soon Exidor starts to see someone named and invisible ‘someone’ named Peppy. Ambrosia gets angry and storms out, because she is tired of Peppy always tagging along with them. That night Exidor shows up at their house again, telling them he is going to go vacation in Atlantis since Ambrosia has left him. Mork offers to let him say there until things look better, but when he starts driving Mindy crazy, she goes to see Ambrosia. She tells Mindy that Peppy is the problem in their relationship, and that even though she can’t see Peppy, she believes he is there since Exidor has never lied to her. She also tells Mindy that she is old-fashioned and thinks Exidor should offer to marry her, but she won’t agree to get married since Exidor has never professed his love. Mork tells Exidor that he needs to tell Ambrosia that he loves her and wants to marry her. Exidor admits he has a hang-up about saying “I Love You” because no one ever said to him in the orphanage. Mindy brings Ambrosia over but Exidor can’t tell her what he wants to. Mork suggests they play Charades, and after he indicates his eye, she guess what he’s going to say… and agrees to marry him. Exidor tells Pappy that he wants to be alone with Ambrosia, and then he is able to say the words “I love you and will you marry me?”  Mork reports back to Orson about Exidor’s marriage. 10/1/20
• 040. The Mork Syndrome – 12/9/1979
  • As Mindy is preparing a Chinese dinner for Jean and Remo, Mork comes home with travel brochures with the fever to see the world. Mindy reminds Mork that he doesn’t have much money and suggests that there are way to travel without spending too much. Remo tells Mork that he got to see a lot of places by joining the Air Force. Mork goes in to see Lieutenant Chambers (David Haskell) in the Air Force public relations office. Chambers tells him he will need to go downtown to see the Air Force recruiter. Before he leaves, he dresses up in Chambers’ uniform. He meets Airmen Endo (Ty Henderson) and McFarland (Alan McRae), and then meets Captain Chapman (Robert Hogan), who takes Mork and men to the site of a nuclear accident. When he comes home and tells Mindy what happened, she gets concerned about nuclear radiation and wants to report it to make everyone aware the danger. Mindy decides to report the accident to the newspaper, so she takes a tape recorder and the two head off to the site of the dump with Mindy disguised in a mustache as an airman named Howard. The relieve Endo and McFarland of duty, and when Chapman comes in, Mindy starts to ask questions about the radioactive waste being stored. He says they won’t know if the material is dangerous until 1996, and then feeds them confidential information about the spill. Mindy gets the scoop into the newspaper by submitting it as an anonymous tip, leading to the government changing to safer storage. Jean and Remo can’t understand why the whistleblower didn’t take credit for the article, but Mindy tells them that the person responsible might have been more interested in keeping the public safe. Mork reports back to Orson about how there is some information that is better exposed then kept in the dark. 10/1/20
• 041. Exidor’s Wedding – 12/16/1979
  • As Exidor plans his wedding to Ambrosia in Mork’s attic, which he thinks is a lake, Mork goes out and finds Exidor’s long-lost mother Princess Lusitania (Anita Dangler), who lost track of Exidor 35 years earlier and has been living among an Indian tribe since. Although she can barely remember his name, she demands that Exidor postpone his wedding so that she can be his mother for a while. When Exidor refuses, she attaches herself to a chain in Mindy’s living room. Mork holds Exidor’s bachelor party with Remo and Nelson in attendance, but it gets too weird for them when Exidor screens a blank film instead of a stag film, and the girl ‘Lucy’ who is chained in the other room turns out not to be a stripper, but rather Lusitania. When Exidor still won’t call off the wedding, Lusitania puts herself into a trance that she vows not to come out of unless he cancels the wedding. On the day of the wedding, Nelson officiates, but Exidor has to halt it when he hears his mother downstairs. Ambrosia naturally demands to know where she stands. Mork goes to talk to Lusitania and tries to convince her that she is lucky that she will not only have her son back but will gain a daughter as well. She still thinks she has lost the battle, so she decides to leave. Exidor’s priority remains getting married rather than chasing her down. As the service continues, Lusitania comes upstairs and tells everyone that Mork’s speech go to her, and she asks Ambrosia’s forgiveness. The wedding continues and Exidor and Ambrosia are married. Mork reports back to Orson and explains human marriage and its emotional investment. 1/19/21
• 042. A Mommy for Mindy – 1/3/1980
  • Mindy gets word that her father and Grandma are coming for a visit, and she’s excited to see them after an eight-month absence. However, it turns out that her grandmother is visiting Mindy’s uncle in Boston, but he brings along a girl named Cathy (Shelley Fabares) to whom he has just gotten married. They are on their way to the honeymoon in Acapulco and he wanted Mindy to meet her new stepmother. Mork is ecstatic to have a mother, but Mindy seems rather put off, yet is polite to them both. That night she dreams of herself as a little girl (Missy Francis) being told by her father that her mother’s illness has caused the angels to take her to heaven. Mindy wakes up crying for her mother. Mindy doesn’t quite understand her feelings, but she gets an opportunity to talk to her mother at their old house, where Fred is considering moving back to. She feels better when he assures her that he hasn’t forgotten anything about her mother and still thinks of her always. Mindy becomes more accepting, but snaps at Cathy when she sits in her mother’s old chair. Mindy leaves, with Mork right behind her to talk her through her feelings. Mork deduces that maybe Mindy is afraid to lose another mother figure in her life. Fred and Cathy stop by to say they are heading out early, and Mindy is apologetic to Cathy for how she behaved, telling them that she hopes they come back soon and hopes they do move into the old house so they can be a family again. Mork reports back to Orson how difficult it is for humans to lose their loved ones. 1/19/21
• 043. The Night They Raided Mind-ski’s – 1/10/1980
  • Mork has been campaigning for Nelson’s bid for City Council, so Nelson sends him to speak at an organized group meeting for the Committee to Clean Up Boulder. Unbeknownst to him, the group is called Pure Power, and they are a group of white supremacists whose goal to eject minorities from the area. Mork doesn’t understand what they stand for, and thinks they are great people. He invites them over to the house to meet Nelson, and three of their heads Jim Blake (Ed Peck), Helen Anderson (Nancy Steen), and Tom Kindle (Lloyd Prescott) show up. It isn’t long before Mindy figures out their game, and she quickly throws them out, telling them that she and Nelson are both part-Polish. When Mork chastises her and tells them that they are his friends, she suggests that he join them as well. Later Mork shows up at the deli telling Polish jokes and making fun of other minority groups. Mindy explains to him the damages that this does, and reminds him of World War 2 Nazi Germany, and Mork finally understands. When they get home, they find Mindy’s apartment vandalized and a dummy of her hanging in effigy. Mork is angry and decides to take revenge on the Pure Power group by using his powers to destroy their headquarters. Mindy comes to stop him and reminds him not to answer violence with more violence, and that ultimately love is the answer. When the group returns and catches them at their place, they form a violet mob… which Mork finally is able to stop by turning each and every member into either a minority, or someone with a an actual colored face, which won’t wear off until they understand bigotry. Mork calls on Orson and tells him about how he has learned that slurs are harmful, and hate is a real problem on earth. 5/14/21
• 044. Mork Learns to See – 1/17/1980
  • Mork is feeling homesick and down in the dumps lately, in contrast to Mr. Bickley who seems in a nicer mood than he’s ever been. Mork and Mindy soon find out why when he asks them to come down and meet his visiting son. When they arrive, they find that Bickley is gone, and learn that his son Tom (Tom Sullivan) is blind. Tom works as a lounge singer, and has a great outlook on life, finding humor is his handicap and always having a positive attitude. However it is clear that his feelings have been hurt by his father, whom he hasn’t actually had a visit with in twelve years. Mork and Mindy go to see him perform at his show, but his father doesn’t show up. Once Mork sees how Tom maintains a positive attitude, he requests to spend the afternoon with him in order to see how to enjoy life in the midst of adversity. They have a great day together, and Mork comes home refreshed. However Tom finally lets out how upset he is by being brushed off by his father. The next time they see Bickley, who has claimed to be called out of town but was really staying at a nearby motel, they read him the riot act about his treatment of Tom. Bickley admits that he just doesn’t know how to act around Tom, but finally agrees to go to his final performance in town, on the condition that neither one of them tell Tom that he’s there. After the show, Tom chats with Mork and Mindy about the good times he had with his father, and Bickley can hardly hold back his tears. Tom then sings a song called Beauty Is in the Eyes of the Beholder, causing his father to cry. Tom then admits that he knew his father was there the whole time, thanks to the cologne that he wore. They two finally embrace. Mork calls Orson to tell him about how he learned to see with his eyes closed, and also how some create their own handicaps by giving up on themselves. Terry McGovern is the club owner. 5/14/21
• 045. Mork’s Vacation – 1/24/1980
  • Mork is feeling burnt-out and has been discussing his vacation with Orson. Mindy admits that the last time that he and Mindy went on vacation to a Dude Ranch in New Mexico, it was disastrous. Mork was sore and sunburnt from riding horses, and activities director Ricky Day (Jack Dodson) gives them the run-down of boring activities, so they decide to go home. This time Mork decides to go to the planets Merrar and Heh-Heh-Heh, but only in mind and spirit; he will be leaving his body behind and one of Merrar’s inhabitants will use his body while he gone. Mork’s body immediately goes limp before he can tell Mindy any details. That  night, Mindy wakes up to the sound of cats, but it turns out to be an alien cat living in Mork’s body, exhibiting the behaviors of a cat who can only meow. After Mindy leaves for work, Remo stops by and tells Mork that Remo and Jean are bringing their mother Rosa (Blanche Bronte) over for dinner. As soon as he leaves, the Mork-cat jumps out the window. Mindy panics when she comes home and finds him gone, but soon the neighbor boy Scott (Scott Marshall) and two other boys (James Jarnigan, Jim Gatherum) return him after a poodle chased him up a tree. Just then the cat leaves, and is replaced with the guy from Heh-Heh-Heh, a constant flirt who can’t keep his hands off Mindy. He leaves the apartment and then returns with flashy clothes and two beautiful, fast women (Angela Aames, Lisa Katz). The DaVincis have arrived by then, and Rosa is aghast, so Mindy asks them to come back the next night. Mork takes them up to his room, and soon the women come down, saying what a dud the guy in the white suit was. Mindy goes upstairs and finds Mork in a catatonic state. Soon Mork returns to his body, but admits to Mindy that he would have had a much better time in New Mexico, because the vacation should be spent with someone you care about. Mork reports his vacation update to Orson, and says next time he wants to take Mindy, and also thinks vacation should be year round as you should always be focusing on how to enjoy life. 9/9/21
• 046. Jeanie Loves Mork – 1/31/1980
  • Mindy takes over the Miss Lonelyhearts column in the Boulder Journal newspaper while the normal writer is on vacation. Mork helps her answer the letters, but one of the first one they come across has been sent in my Jeanie, who describes how lonely she has felt since moving to Boulder from New York. Sure enough, Jeanie has been moping around the deli and losing focus with the customers, including one woman (Beverly Dixon) who get annoyed with her. While she is closing up the deli that night, Mork comes to see her to keep her company, and then offers to walk her home. The two have a nice time together, and the next day, based on the advice Mindy gave her to look around and see if there is someone she knows who she might reveal her feelings to, Jeanie comes to see Mork, thanks him for the walk, and lay a big kiss on him after confirming that he and Mindy are only friends. Mork and Jeanie begins spending a lot of time together, and Mindy receives a thank you note from Jeanie indicating that her advice had worked. When Mindy comes home and finds Mork and Jeanie together, she realizes what they’ve all done. After Jeanie confesses her feeling for Mork to Mindy, Mindy then confesses that she is Miss Lonelyhearts and that Mork was only trying to help. Jeanie is embarrassed and bids a hasty retreat. Mork and Mindy both apologize, and then head over to their apartment and apologize again. Jeanie is still embarrassed, but finally tells them that she loves them both, and that Mork brought her out of her shell and revealed the real Jeanie, who now realizes she is fun and that she loves herself again. Mork reports to Orson the events of the week, and people court each other, but it takes a lot for them to come out of their shells. 9/9/21 
• 047. Little Orphan Morkie – 2/7/1980
  • Mork returns home from shopping with his new friend, a kid in the building named Jud (Noah Hathaway). Mork reads through his mail and finds out he’s wanted again by the Department of Immigration and Naturalization, which says more information is needed from him before he can be declared a citizen. Mork goes down to the Federal Building dressed as Uncle Sam, and espousing every patriotic stereotype possible, to Judge Baker (Charles Lane). Still, Baker cannot grant him citizenship without a birth certificate and passport but gives him five days to gather them. Mork and Mindy go home and discuss their possibilities which include moving to another country, going on the lam, or getting married. Mindy is willing to get married, but Mork doesn’t think it is appropriate for her to give up finding a husband just to help a friend. Jud stops by and gives him another idea, telling him that foreign children are often adopted and are given citizenship. Mindy offers to adopt Mork, but he thinks it wouldn’t be right to have two mothers. They also try to get Mr. Bickley to adopt him, but he completely misses the point and think that Mork and Mindy are going to adopt a baby. Finally they find the most willing candidate, Exidor, but fear the courts will find him too insane to adopt. They all meet at the adoption agency and present their case to Miss Kalinowski (Priscilla Morrill) who will have the final decision. Although it is a struggle to keep Exidor from not looking too strange, he gives a touching speech about never being too old to be loved. Miss Kalinowski falls for it and grants the adoption. When More and Mindy return home, they discuss how close they came to marriage, and speculate on how their lives would be if they did in fact get married. Mork reports his week of near expulsion from America, and the joys of adoption to Orson. 3/8/22
• 048. Looney Tunes and Morkie Melodies – 2/14/1980
  • As Mork is showing off a giant ball of tinfoil that he brought home from the day care center where he is acting as a group leader, Nelson stops by to practice a campaign speech that he has written. His competitors recently had a 12-man debate on TV and he was excluded, so he demanded equal air time and they gave him a 7am time slot. Since his primary audience will be children, Mork tells him that he will ask the kids at the day care center what they would like to to see from him on TV. They tell Mork the type of entrainment they’d like to see, and he brings the information back to Nelson, who doesn’t think he’s qualified to do any of the entertainment. Mork and Mindy agree to help him with the show, and Mork arranges to have the day care kids be the audience. Mork acts as host for th eshow Good Morning Kids, channeling both Mr. Rogers and Ed Sullivan. Mork does a puppet show with a weasel, Mindy sings I Don’t Want to Grow Up with the audience kids, Mork and Jean do a ballet dressed as frogs, Remo does a comical presentation promoting Nelson and the New York Deli, Mork and Mr. Bickley do a skit with Mork playing a little boy with a crush on a girl, and Mork performs a blues song called The Shazbot Blues with a backing band. Nelson then comes out dressed as a chicken and begins his dry, boring speech, but then says he’s had so much fun, he doesn’t want to ruin the morning with a speech, garnering cheers from the crowd of kids. Mork reports to Orson how he and his friends exercised teamwork in getting the show done, and how kids, although growing, still make valuable contributions. Peggy Pope is the teacher Mrs. Thompson. Jeff Cotler and Pamela Sye are the kids Jeff and Pamela. The other children are Grant Johnson, Cheryl McRaven, Hudson Poston, Jason Poston, Anthony Storm, Casey Storm, Amy Tenowich, and Linda Tenowich. 3/9/22
• 049. Clerical Error – 2/28/1980
  • Mork has been shopping for job but can’t seem to find one that will have him. His latest failure is taking care of children, where they rip his clothes and suspenders and cover him in paint. Meanwhile, Remo is getting ready to hold a wedding reception at the New York Delicatessen and is preparing the cake. Father Denny (Garry Goodrow) stops by to check out the place and meets Mork, who finds out he can help people so asks him to help him get a job. Denny asks Remo to hire Mork to help out with the wedding, so Mork assists Jean in getting the place ready. He also witnesses the bride (Wendy Cutler) show up telling Father Denny that she has cold feet. Mork is so impressed with how he helps her, that he tells Mindy he too wants to become a priest. Mindy doesn’t think it is a good idea, but Mork goes down to St. Peter’s to see him and put in an application. He is dressed in a black cassock, so some of the folks there think he is a priest and ask him for help. He gives a young man (Brad Savage) some questionable advice about writing on the bathroom walls and drives another woman (Mary Betten) out of the church. Then a man (Paul Willson) come in asking for last rites because he wants to commit suicide. The only thing Mork knows to do is to give him some ideas on how to kill himself. When he later tells this to Mindy, she takes Mork to the church to talk to Father Denny and see what they should do. Father Denny scolds Mork and tells him to remove the cassock before he does any more damage. While Mork is changing in the confessional, the suicidal man returns looking for Mork because he wants to thank him for saving his life. He found what Mork said to be so silly, that he realized how silly it would be for him to commit the act. Father Denny tells Mork how everything worked out, but tells him never to do it again, and that it takes years of study to become a priest. Mork later confesses to Mindy that he has no interest any longer in becoming a priest, and that he’s now looking to become a nun. He talks to Orson about religion and God, and how there are some believers and some non-believers. 7/11/22
• 050. Invasion of the Mork Snatchers – 3/20/1980
  • Mindy sends Mork out for a carton of milk and he comes back with seven cartons of milk and an additional five bags of groceries. Mindy deduces that Mork has been swayed by seeing too many advertisements, so she takes away his magazines and the TV. When Remo stops by for dinner, Mork starts talking in slogans. He also starts to have convulsions and shivers from not being able to watch TV, and it isn’t until he gets it turned on that he can relax. Late that night, he goes down to see Mr. Bickley and ask him if he can watch TV with him. Bickley is watching Invasion of the Body Grabbers, and Mork stays late to watch TV and flip through the commercials. He returns after 1:30am and falls asleep in front of the TV. He dreams of Mr. Bickley beckoning him to come into the TV where he is surrounded by folks trying to sell him things: a woman Mrs. L.W. (Samantha Harper) trying to sell Sparkle Dish dishwashing detergent, a man (Terrence E. McNally) who wants to talk about irregularity, a woman (Sheryl Bolt) who buys Princess Gooballs for her son (Gavin Muir). Remo is also there trying to sell Wonder Wipes so Mork can clean the Gooballs from his hands. Another woman (Alice Borden) sells new Wax N Slide. Finally he runs into Mindy, who has split ends… but warns him to run because he is in danger. Mork gets scared when everyone starts chanting to ‘buy a lot, spend a lot’, and he and Mindy try to escape as they should ‘non-believer!’ at them. Mork wakes up on the couch, but quickly finds that everyone has followed him into the apartment and that he is in another dream and they are still trying to sell him things. Mr. Bickley and Remo try to convince him to join them again, but this time he is on to them. Mindy then comes out of the bedroom and tries to seduce him into joining them into buying products. He finally succumbs and becomes a mindless walking advertisement. As products fall from the ceiling and bury him, he wakes up and tells Mindy about his dream. Mindy tries to tell him to just use his own judgement when shopping, and to ask himself if he really needs what people are selling him. They try the experience with a bag of potato chips, and Mork is able to admit he doesn’t need them… even if he has already bought a closet full of them. Mork calls Orson and talks about advertisement, and how a person needs how to just turn off things they don’t want to watch. And with the flick of a TV switch, Mork disappears, and the screen goes black. 7/13/22
•  051. The Way Mork Were – 5/1/1980
  • As Mork is working on making a dinner for Mindy out of his chemicals, Mindy’s father stops by the apartment to chat with Mork. He is curious how their relationship is going despite the fact that they are so different from each other. Via flashback, Mork recalls the time that he and Mindy tries to spend time in Exidor’s cabin (Skyflakes Keep Falling on My Head), and the time that Mork took Mr. Bickley’s advice and began hurling insults at Mindy (Stark Raving Mork). When Mindy gets home, she joins in the conversation, and they learn that Fred is having second thoughts about his marriage to Cathy. Some of the things she is doing is getting on his nerves. Mindy brings up the time that all of Mork’s emotions start to come out of him one at a time (Mork’s Mixed Emotions). When he talks about how he doesn’t get along with Cathy’s friends, Mindy mentions her troubles with Exidor. Mork flashes back to the time that he first met Exidor (Mork Runs Away). Mindy asks her father to imagine life without Cathy, which gets her thinking about the time that she though that she and Mork were going to die at the hands of the Necrotons  (Mork vs. the Necrotons). Fred starts to feel better, and almost feels like apologizing to Cathy for his thoughts on splitting with her. He decides to return home to her and begins their happy life together that hopefully contains as many memories as Mork and Mindy have had… without the Necrotons. Mork visits with Orson and tells him how he helped talk a loved one through some issues. Orson is curious if all humans burden other with their problems, and Mork explains how humans like to help each other. 11/6/22

SEASON 3

• 052 & 053. Putting the Ork Back in Mork – 11/13/1980
  • Fred returns from a two-month orchestra stint in Baltimore and catches up with Mindy, who tells him that she is worried about the change in Mork. He has become more and more Earthling and now is going by the name Morrie and working at a day-care center. He is so normal acting now that Fred completely approves of the change, while Mindy laments the loss of the fun-loving Mork of the past. In fact, she has trouble sleeping and gets up in the middle of the night to think back to all of the fun times they had when he was his curious, fun-loving self. She tells Mork that he may need to move out in order to find himself again. Mork tries to think of a way around this, so he invites Mindy to hold his nose and put her finger in his ear and to enter into his head and visit with Orson with him. Orson tells him that he is suffering from “observer syndrome” and unless he can become a regular Orkan again, he will be returned to Ork, stripped, painted purple, and ostracized to roam the streets of Ork. His only option is to receive a visit from one of the Orkan elders. As the elder makes his way toward Earth, Mork asks the kids in his day care class, Julia (Julia Hendler), Jonathan (Jonathan Ian), Elliot (Elliot Jaffe), Stephanie (Stephanie Kayano) and Lola (Amy Tenowich), what he used to be like. Since they didn’t know him before, they suggest he visit old friends and ask them. He stops by DaVinci’s, the new restaurant being ran by Remo and Jean and they tell him how he was fun, unpredictable, and goofy. Nelson also shows up at DaVinci’s to meet up with his new friend, a widow named Glenda Faye Comstock (Crissy Wilzak) whose husband Randolph recently passed away, and with whom they support each other in a support group. She is trying to get over the loss of her husband, and Nelson is trying to feel good about himself again after the loss of his election. Mork tries to become wild and goofy again, but it doesn’t come across as natural. The elder (Vidal Peterson), who resembles a child although he is 86 Earth years old since again works in reverse on Ork, and whose names sounds like a razzberry, shows up and runs an Ork-o-meter test indicating that Mork is only 17% Orkan. He must return to being a 100% Orkan or he will be ostracized. The elder begins his training by having Mork hit his head into the wall until he says “Shazzbot” when he feels pain. More eggs begin arriving from Ork with materials to re-design the attic into an Orkan space. He also takes possession of his furry pet Bebo. During his training, when Mindy gets fried by an Orkan chair, Mork rushes to comfort her, indicating to the elder that Mork cares more about her than his training. The elder freezes Mindy and tells Mork that he is going to have to take him back to Ork. Mork pleads his case and shows how Mindy is a different type of creatures with a wide range of emotions and affections. The elder says that despite the strain it will put on his aging body, he is willing to try a procedure to pull the Earth spirits from Mork’s body with the Ritual of the Sacred Eggs… making the elder an Eggsorcist. The elder and Mindy perform the ritual with a ceremonial egg, and as the Earth spirits are removed from his body, Mork goes through a tirade of pulp culture voices and references. However, the elder test him again with his Ork-o-meter and finds that Mork is now 93% Orkan. The elder is ready to take Mork back to Ork to be ostracized, but then collapses from the strain of the procedure. Mork and Mindy help him to recover by giving him juice, and when he awakens, he doesn’t understand why Mindy helped him when he was about to take Mork away. He determines that perhaps if Mork was completely Orkan, he would not be an effective observer, so he allows Mork to stay. When the elder leaves, he employs an Earthling ritual by giving them both hugs. Mork visits with Orson to chat about what had just happened and he thanks Orson for his help in restoring the Ork in him. NOTE: This is a one-hour episode that aired in two parts in syndication. 11/6/22
• 054. Mork in Never-Never Land – 11/20/1980
  • Mindy turns down an invitation to go for a run or a donut with Glenda Faye because she is anxiously waiting to find out if she was awarded a scholarship to Colorado University. Meanwhile, Mork makes plans to go visit with his pen pal Peter Panofsky (David Spielberg), who is confined to the Happy Valley mental hospital. Peter keeps up a positive attitude at all times and tries to make a difference in the lives of his fellow patients, particularly one of the grumpiest residents, Sid (Dick Yarmy). When Mork arrives, they are thrilled to see each other. Peter confesses to Mork that he is actually the real Peter Pan who has never really grown up. Mork is elated, and he shares his secret about being an Orkan. He wants to take Peter home with him and introduce him to Mindy, hoping that he might be able to cheer her up since she has been depressed about not hearing back about her scholarship. When they go to leave, they are reminded by Nurse Tula (Virginia Capers) that Peter is not allowed to leave the facility. Mork goes home and finds that Mindy is still depressed, and he asks her about why anyone would be locked up. She tells him that this is reserved mostly for prisoners and if someone hasn’t done anything wrong, they shouldn’t be locked up. Mork takes this as his cue to return to Happy Valley and uses his powers to disintegrate the bars in the window that were keeping them in. Mork brings him home and introduces him to Mindy. She is taken aback when she finds out that he is a patient at the asylum. Peter tries to convince her that she should try and be happy and appreciate what she has rather than lamenting what she doesn’t. He shows her how to ‘crow’ like a bird, but she is embarrassed to do it. While they are talking, Mindy gets the call and finds out that she did not receive the scholarship. However, when she finally builds up the courage to crow, she actually feels better. Nurse Tula shows up with an orderly to escort Peter back to Happy Valley. He threatens to ‘fly’ out the window, but when the Nurse tells him how much Sid misses him, he decides to go back voluntarily so he can help his fellow patients. After he leaves, Peter flies up to the second story window to say goodbye. Neither Mindy nor Mork know whether it was Mork assisting him in his flying, but decide they’d rather not know. Mork speaks to Orson and does the Funky Orkan dance to show his inner child. He tries to get Orson to crow, but he flatly refuses. However, Mork catches Olson trying it out after he thinks Mork is gone. 4/6/23
• 055. Dueling Skates – 11/27/1980
  • Mork’s boss Mrs. Fowler (Priscilla Morrill) at the Pine Tree Day Care Center announces the owner of the building Carl Simpson (Bill Morey), who also owns the roller disco across the street, plans to tear down the day care center and build a parking lot for the roller rink. Mork and Mindy plead with Mr. Simpson not to do this for the kids’ sake, but he says that he has turned management of the property over to his son Carroll “Wheels” Simpson (Reid Smith). Mork and Mindy go to see Wheels and his assistant Bozz (Tom Kindle), but they rudely shrug them off and tell them they don’t care about the kids. Wheels says that Mork would have a better chance of beating him on skates than convincing him not to tear down the day care center. Although Mork can barely stand, he challenges Wheels to a race through the Rockies, starting at Eagle’s Peak and ending at the mall in Boulder, a total of ten miles. In order to save face, Wheels accepts the challenge. Mork gets to work training for the event, which nearly destroys him. Mindy’s father tries to give him moral support, while Glenda Faye takes the brunt of Mork bumping into her. On the day of the race, Mr. Bickley and Fred host the event. Wheels proves to be a cheat starting at the start line when he takes off before the signal. He then sets obstacles for Mork and pushes him off a cliff. Mork is reluctant to cheat, but Mindy convinces him to uses his ‘time warp’ method. Mork skates down the hillside in the grass to catch up, but he is knocked over by Wheels as they both near the finish line. Mork is inspired by one of his young fans, and he zooms up behind Wheels and goes under his legs and crosses the finish line first. Mork gets cocky about his skating abilities but then nearly falls off the stage. He reports back to Orson about the skating race he won. 4/6/23
• 056. Mork the Prankster – 12/4/1980
  • Mork has Jean and Glenda Faye over for a visit, and Glenda Faye enlists Mindy to help decorate her new apartment. She also shows them a practical joke of a spring snake jumping out of her purse. Mindy borrows the snake and while Mork is cooking Mindy breakfast while doing his Julia Child impersonation, Mindy springs the gag on him. Mork doesn’t really get the humor, but he wants to try a practical joke on Mindy, so he brings some of his kid friends Billy (Corey Feldman), Stephanie, and Lola to give him ideas. When Mindy gets home, he leads her to the closet in which he has placed a skeleton. Then he sends her to refrigerator, which he has rigged to sound a bell alarm, giving her clues about the joke along the way. Mindy tries to explain to Mork that jokes work better when there is an element of surprise.  Mork then tries a gag on Mr. Bickley and Fred by springing dozens of snakes on them from out of the table chest in the living room. They find it funny, and Mr. Bickley tells Mork how he once disassembled a car and reassembled it in his professor’s living room, which made him a legend in college. The next morning Mork wakes up Mindy early in the morning and she is surprised to find her Jeep in the living room. She is annoyed by this, but it soon turns to horror and anger when the Jeep falls through the floor and nearly hits Mr. Bickley in his apartment below. Mork is so upset that she leaves and heads to Glenda Faye’s new apartment. While she is there, they are visited by two of the wild and crazy and extremely annoying neighbors Todd Norman “TNT” Taylor (Bill Kirchenbauer) and Derrick (William Bumiller). After Mindy rushes them out, Glenda Faye confesses that she is depressed over the loss of her husband and moved into the singles apartment so she could just have fun and forget everything. She suggests that the hole in her floor won’t compare with the hole in her life without Mork and encourages her to go back to him. Mindy returns to her place and finds that Mork is working on deciphering all of his faults. The two make up, and express their affection for each other with a kiss, which sends Mork’s leg rising… and lifting the jeep. Mork reports to Orson about practical jokes, and how the most important thing is that you have a friend to tell the joke to. 8/17/23
• 057. Mork, the Monkey’s Uncle – 12/11/1980
  • While Mork is off visiting the Denver Zoo, Glenda Faye tries to talk Mindy into bleaching her hair blonde for her interview as the Channel 19 anchorperson. Wen Mork returns, he freaks out when he sees Mindy’s wig and shoves it in the refrigerator. Mork tells Mindy about all of the animals he saw, and about how he made a friend with the chimpanzee Doc. Later Mork goes out and returns with Doc and his suitcase. It turns out that Doc’s mother was kidnapped and Mork is worried that they are going to come after him next. He sends Doc to sleep in Mindy’s bed. Mind returns from buying the hair dye and finds Doc in her bed. Mindy freaks out that Mork has stolen another monkey, although she admires his caring and concern for him. Mindy dyes her hair and sleeps on the couch, but Mork wakes hier up in the middle of the night when Doc wants some warm milk. Mindy also checks her hair and finds out that it is green instead of blonde. She has a meltdown and says that ever since the dumb monkey got there, everything is going wrong. Doc hears her and sneaks out of the house with his suitcase. As Mork heads out to go find him, Exidor shows up at the door with Doc, thinking that he had robbed Mork and Mindy’s house. Mork sends Exidor to go to the zoo and see if he can find out anything about Doc’s mother. While he is gone, Mork and Doc play poker, and Fred brings over some of Mindy’s old toys for him. Exidor returns and tells Mork that he found out that Doc’s mother is in the zoo hospital. Mork and Exidor take Doc there to see his mother, and Mork explains to Doc that she is very sick and that she might go to animal heaven. The veterinarian (Joe Howard) then comes in and recognizes Doc and tells him and Mork that his mother has had a baby and that Doc now has a baby brother. To celebrate, Mork hands out bananas to all of the other animals in the hospital. Mindy decides to just wear her own hair the next time she goes on a job interview. Mork promises never to take another monkey from a zoo… but another orangutan shows up at their door, having answered Mork’s ad in the paper. Mork talks to Orson about animals and how some live in homes and some live in zoos, and yet others live as game. Orson has trouble understanding that as animals have high status on Ork, while Earth is not there yet even though some people really love and understand them. 8/17/23
• 058. Gunfight at the Mor-Kay Corral – 12/18/1980
  • After Mork admits to Mindy that the battery in her Jeep is dead since he left the lights on for a homeless man, Mork scrambles around to find a costume to wear at the day care center since he has recommended that all of the kids come to school that day dressed as their favorite hero. Mindy’s father talks about how his heroes were the great western movie stars, topped by the Lone Ranger. Mork says his hero on Ork was a chicken who went by Squelman the Yellow and would always hide when there was trouble nearby. Mork shows dressed as Squelman, wearing yellow feathers with a big S on his chest. Jonathan comes dressed as Sugar Ray Leonard, Stephanie comes as Sara Lee, Lola is dressed like Truman Capote, and Billy comes as his father, who is a doctor and wants Billy to be too. Billy says he’s rather come as the western cowboy Billy the Kid. Mork tells Billy that it’s okay with him if he comes as Billy the Kid the next day. That night at home, Mork tells Mindy about Billy, but she tells him that he shouldn’t emulate Billy the Kid because he was a bad man. Billy comes over that evening and asks Mork to go visit the ghost town Windy the Gulch and have a pretend shootout. Mork tries to persuade Billy to give up Billy the Kid because he just learned that the Kid did a lot of bad things. Mork offers to play hide and go seek with him, and when they do, Billy sneaks away to the ghost town. Mork follows him to try to bring him home, but Billy attacks Mork with water balloons. Mindy shows up as well and tries to take Billy home by force. Mork wants to show Billy that violence doesn’t work, so when Billy declares that if he hits Mork with the water balloon then Billy is Best, Mork throws down the balloon and says Squelman doesn’t use weapons. When Mindy steps in front of Mork, she winds up getting hit by Billy’s balloon, and Billy runs out of the saloon. When he returns, he hits Mork with the balloon, but it is actually a fake dummy he hits before running out again. Billy returns and he and Mork comes in dressed like Clint Eastwood. Mork does some Orkan magic like sliding a glass down the bar without touching it and making the player piano play. He then goes through a typical western scene, doing impressions of many cowboys and stereotypes, then shoots bullets with his fingers. Although Billy admits it that the violence is scary, he still hits Mork with a water balloon. Mork goes through a slow-motion death, and it concerns Billy and Mindy. Mork is only faking but pretends that Billy restores him by putting a wet cloth on his head like he’s seen his father do. Once Mork ‘revivies’, Billy declares that he now has a new hero… Mork. Billy asks Mindy to take him home, but also reports that Mork has left the Jeep lights on again… and lost the keys. That night, Mork reports to Orson all about heroes. He laments that only the ones with pizzazz get the hype, but how real heroes who save people deserve a spotlight of their own. 8/18/23
• 059. Mork’s New Look – 1/1/1981
  • Mork and Mindy meet up with Fred and Cathy at DaVinci’s before they head to the movies to see 10. Several folks make jokes about how good-looking Cathy is to be married to an old guy like Fred. They even run into one of Fred’s old friends Bob Turnbow (Angus Duncan), who not only pokes fun at Fred for his attractive wife but tells Fred how he has been getting plastic surgery treatments. Fred later comes over to talk to Mindy, but when Mork’s feelings are hurt because he won’t share with him, Fred confesses that he is considering plastic surgery as well in order to keep Cathy interested in him as he gets older. Mork then starts considering improving his look and asks Mindy whom she considers to be a 10. The names a couple of movie stars, plus her father. Mork then heads off to see Dr. C.J. Dubin. Mork tells a guy and a lady (Sandy Sprung) that he is going to shoot the works. Back at home, two of Mork’s pre-school students, Stephanie and Lola, stop by to see the results of what Mork did. When Mindy inquires what they are talking about, they tell her that Mork said he was getting plastic surgery. Mindy and Cathy rush to the doctor’s office, but the receptionist (Ilene Graff) won’t reveal what Mork had done due to patient confidentiality. They also run into Fred, who is there to have some plastic surgery on his own, much to their surprise. When he learns of the emergency in finding Mork, he decides to postpone the surgery, and he goes with them back to Mindy’s house. There Mork is hiding in the armoire and when he emerges, he is wearing a nylon bald cap to resemble Fred. Since both Mindy and Cathy had told him that they considered Fred to be a 10, he figured that he was the one to emulate. Cathy assures Fred that he doesn’t need any surgery and that his beauty comes from inside him as well. Mork tells Mindy that they talked him out of getting any surgery as Dubin’s office, and he decides to just sit at home and watch Brady Bunch reruns. Mork reports to Orson how some people change their own appearance, mostly for themselves, but he has learned that it is not important how one looks on the outside, but more about the beauty they have on the inside. 12/15/23
• 060. Alas, Poor Mork, We Knew Him Well – 1/8/1981
  • While Mork is at home pretending that he is hosting an underwater exploration show ala Jacques Cousteau, he gets a visit from an insurance man named ‘Honest’ Ernest Travers (Will Porter). He tries to get Mork to sign up for an expensive insurance company by telling him how many horrible things could happen to him, and how he won’t be protected without the Pikes Peak Calamity and Auto insurance. He is ready to sign up for everything when Mindy comes home and puts a stop to it by telling Travers that Mork has no money. Mork is petrified of all of the dangers that could be awaiting him, and he has huge trepidation about going on a trip with Mindy, Nelson, and Glenda to Yellowstone. Things are made even worse for Mork when he visits DaVinci’s and runs into Mr. Bickley, who agrees about the dangers out there, and even adds that food contains things that aren’t safe, and even the plate could be coated with toxic paint. When Mork throws the plate into the other room, Exidor catches it and then proceeds to tell Mork in his usual doom-and-gloom fashion that the world is ending. Mork tells Mindy that he wants to stay home instead of going on the trip, even when she reminds him that most accidents take place in the home. While she goes out shopping for hiking boots, Mork buys and assembles a hermetically sealed, germ-free, antiseptic indoor survival condo in the living room. Mindy gets frustrated when she can’t get him to come out, telling him that he has become overly paranoid. She tells Nelson and Glenda that she doesn’t think she will be able to get him to change his mind. When they suggest that Mindy is paying too much attention to Mork, she decides to turn the tables on him. She brings everyone to the house, and they host a party for the ‘departed’ Mork, pretending that he isn’t even there. They toast him for how full of life he once was and won’t respond to him telling them that he is there. He pleads that he is alive, and finally Mindy tells him that a living person wouldn’t seal himself away from all of his friends. Mork then breaks out a panel of the condo and crawls out and says he wants to be alive again. After he learns his lesson and agrees to go on the trip, he is still nervous about kissing Mindy and passing Mono back and forth, but he eventually throws caution to the wind. He reports to Orson about how some folks blow the dangers of life out of proportion, but he’s learned that life is a gift meant to be lived. 12/15/23
• 061. Mork and the Bum Rap – 1/15/1981
  • Fred visits following a benefit concert for the Boulder Children’s Hospital, during which his orchestra raised $30,000. Mindy has pledged to raise $1000 for the cause as well but doesn’t have any great ideas on how to go about it. When Mork catches wind of this, he does his own act at DaVinci’s in which he pretends to be hosting a telethon for the customers. He only succeeds in running most of them out before Remo asks him to stop. However, there is one customer named Godrey (Ross Martin) who has been entertained by Mork and tells him that he can help him raise money using his talents. Mork jumps at the chance, but it turns out that his entire plan is for Mork to panhandle at the bus station and then give Godfrey a percentage of the profits. Back home, Mindy has employed Gina and Glenda to help send out mail requests for donations when Mork comes home and gives her the money that he made. When he tells her how he got it, she is mortified and embarrassed that he has resorted to begging. Mork not only promises to stop doing it, but he returns to the bus station and attempts to return the money to strangers. Godfrey is dumbfounded by this and tells Mork that money is the only important thing in the world. When he gets home, Mindy is again stupefied that Mork gave the money back, causing Mork to be thoroughly confused. Godfrey stops by the house to tell Mork that after he left, he changes his perspective a little bit. When Godfrey encountered a lost little girl at the station, he gave her money to call her mother, which actually made him feel good. In light of this, Godfrey makes a donation to the Children’s Hospital. When Mindy says she’s reached her donation goal minus forty dollars, Godfrey reaches into his sock and gives her the rest of the money. Mindy suggests that Godfrey might be ready to live a normal life with a wife and children, but Godfrey tells her that he has already done all that… and that his how he became a bum. Mork reports to Orson about charity and deduces that it is better to give than to receive. John Miranda is the luggage man in the station. Ed Greenberg is the man who receives money from Mork. Raymond Fitzpatrick is the ticket agent. 4/18/24
• 062. Mindy Gets Her Job – 1/22/1981
  • While Mindy is lamenting to her father that she still hasn’t found a new job, Mork comes home after taking some of the kids to see Popeye at the movies. Lola tells Mindy that her uncle works at KTNS-31 and that there is a job opening there. Mindy thinks it is a long shot but decides to go for an interview, where she meets a room full of fellow journalism majors, including a woman named Mandy McDonald (Jessica Hoyt), who looks almost exactly like her. Mindy then meets the station manager, Miles Sternhagen (Foster Brooks), who quickly dismisses her when he finds out that she has no experience. Mindy refuses to leave quietly and tells him that it is hard to get any experience when no one will give people without experience a chance but tells him that she would do a good job for the station. He likes her spunk and gives her a job doing trivial odds and ends, and now and then filling in on the air when needed. She is told to report back to the station that night, but she has a hard time getting there due to the snowy weather. In fact, the weatherman for that evening, Dewey Fishbeck, hasn’t made it in, and the only ones there are the cameraman Jake Loomis (Patrick Cranshaw) and the engineer. Since no one is there to do the news, Mr. Sternhagen phones Mindy and tells her to give the weather report… and then fill the remaining thirty minutes that they have left on the air. Mork shows up to offer her moral support, and as she starts to go live, Mork tosses her the pages with the news on it and they fly everywhere, only allowing her to read tiny snippets of each news story. Mork then climbs under the desk and comes up to read the news in the vein of Walter Kronkite, telling everyone his name is Walter Morkite. After going through a litany of one-liners, he wraps up the broadcast by doing an impression of a televangelist. Finally, Mindy delivers the weather, stretching it for the last minutes until they are off the air. Mr. Sternhagen shows up completely drunk and thanks Mindy for pulling them through the difficult time and allowing her to keep her job. Mork reports to Orson about Mindy’s job and how she rose to the occasion. He has learned that no matter how high the mountain or tall the task, it is always important to take that first step. 4/18/24
• 063. Twelve Angry Appliances – 2/5/1981
  • Mork introduces Record Hour at the day care center and attempts to play The War of the Worlds for the kids. Unfortunately, the record player that Mork borrowed from Mindy malfunctions before it even gets started. When Mindy comes to get Mork and finds out about the record player, she is annoyed because she took it to the Strauss Repair Shop to be fixed, and it is broken again already. Later, Glenda and Nelson stop by her place to invite her to go for a ride, and she tells them about her record player woes. Nelson advises that suing the shop would take way too long, and Glenda simply thinks it is time to trash it and buy a new one. Mindy, however, doesn’t see it that way, so she and Mork go to the shop to seek restitution from the owner Mr. Strand (Richard Libertini). Not only does Strand refuse to fix it, but he throws them out of his shop as rudely as he can. When Mindy’s father later stops by, he offers to try and fix it, and then after seeing how complicated the owner’s manual is, simply offers to pay to have it repaired again. Once again, Mindy would rather see justice, so Mork takes it upon himself to she gets it. He visits Mr. Strand at closing time, and appears before his very eyes in disguise, claiming to be Tommy Kilowatt, the ghost of appliances past. He says that his appliances want to hold trial against him, and then proceeds to enchant the appliances to come alive. The TV plays the ‘judge’, who is also Mork, and the bailiff is a vacuum cleaner. Kilowatt acts as the prosecutor and defender both. The blender claims that it has visited the repair shop four times, while the stereo testifies about Strand’s dishonesty. The reel-to-reel tape recorder has a recording of Strand giving the same phony line that he had earlier given Mindy. The other appliances act as jury, and the juke box claims it has been there forty years waiting to be fixed, and then it starts smoking. The appliances all cry out, indicating a guilty verdict, and Strand promises that he will change. After Mork disappears, Strand assumes he has been dreaming, but one of the sandwich presses assures him that he hasn’t. When Mork gets home, he suggests that Mindy should attempt to take the record player back to Strand, even though she’s ready to give up and buy a new one. Before she can do anything, Strand shows up at the house, makes an apology for making her a dissatisfied customer, and promiese to make things right. He says that he had a nightmare that has given him pride in his work, as well as a newfound respect for the appliances themselves. When Mindy asks Mork if he had paid Strand a visit, he admits and says it was his second good deed of the week. Apparently, in order to help Mindy become more famous, he has written her phone number in phone booths all over town. Mork later calls Orson, showing up with his head detached from his body. He goes on to explain about shoddy workmanship and how some people only do their job for money without any sense of pride in their work, which can be caused by apathy, a lack of pride, and greed. However, he has found that there is nothing better than a job well done. 9/9/24
• 064. There’s a New Mork in Town – 2/12/1981
  • Mr. Bickley stops by to borrow a Perry Como record for his date with a friend visiting from Phoenix named Lorraine Sue Ruttenburg. During his visit, Mork suddenly freezes while shaking his hand. Mork stays frozen after he leaves, leaving Mindy puzzled and worried. Mark comes back around and says he was just on a call with Orson, who told him that his Orkan idol Xerko (Lyle Waggoner) is coming to visit with him. Mork is both nervous and excited because he sees Xerko as the greatest Orkan who ever lived. Xerko shows up in Mork’s room via beam that night and tells him that he has come because he wants Mork’s help to help guide the Earth into the future. He says Mork is a key person for his success, and Mindy will be involved as well, so he wants to wait until he can tell them how when they are together. Mork wakes Mindy up, and she is thrilled to meet him, but is quickly taken aback when he begins flirting with her. Xerko then tells them that he wants to take Mork’s place as Earth’s observer, as Mork has become too popular with his reports from Earth. Mork immediately feels defeated, as he thinks he stands no chance in fighting off Xerko. Mindy’s father comes over and agrees to talk to Xerko to tell him that he can’t simply take Mork’s place. However, when he finds out about Xerko’s interest in music and the symphony, the two bond very quickly, although he still halfheartedly tries to tell Xerko that he can’t take Mork’s place. Xerko tries to kiss Mindy and tells her that when he defeats Mork in the Holitacker duel, he will present her with Mork’s ear, which she learns can be unscrewed. He also explains that the Holitacker is a contest by which Orkans may challenge each other for their jobs. When Mindy finds Mork packing, she tells him not be a quitter, and then relates a story about she had some stiff competition in school from one girl who would beat her in everything, including the thing she was best at, the Spelling Bee. However, she says, that one time the girl missed a word which allowed Mindy to win. Although the girl eventually became a Nobel Prize winner, she never forgot that victory. Mork rallies his courage and decides to fight to keep his job. When the duel begins, Xerko presents Mork with his invisible Sword of Kletus, which they will use as weapons to try and force their opponent through two large cone goals. They both fight valliantly, and agree to a momentary truce when Mr. Bickley comes up and says that the noise is interrupting his date with Lorraine. Once they resume the fight, Mork gets his sword stuck in the wall, and Mork has to fight empty-handed. Eventually, Mindy gets it unstuck and gets it back to Mork, but after further fighting, Xerko is able to knock it away from Mork once again. As Xerko is going in for the final defeat, Mork literally pulls the rug out from under him, and causes Xerko to tumble through the goals. Xerko admits that he had never lost anything before, and thanks them for teaching him humility. Now that he has that, he believes he has everything and agrees to go to another planet to observe… and beams out. Mork later calls Orson and brags about his brave defeat of Xerko, but Bebo makes it known that Mork was scared to death. It turns out that Orison had bet that Mork wouldn’t show up. Mork delivers a fat joke to Orson in response, and says that it felt good to win, but it felt even better to know that he had even tried. 9/9/24

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