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Irresistibly funny Mork from Planet Ork
lands on Earth where he is befriended by
lovely Mindy and gets lessons in love from
"the Fonz" who gets him a date
with Laverne. Mork, a misfit on his own
planet because of his sense of humor, has
been sent on a mission to observe Earth's
more primitive society and report back telepathically
to his leader, Orson. He arrives in Boulder,
Colorado, and meets Mindy McConnell, who
has just been stranded by a boyfriend. They
walk to Mindy's apartment where Mork soon
convinces her that he is an alien from outer
space. He's also so disarmingly innocent
that Mindy feels protective and lets him
spend the night. Frederick jumps to the
wrong conclusion when Mork announces that
he is staying with Mindy and asks a cop
friend to get rid of him. Meanwhile, Mork
decides he needs advice in the art of dating
and goes to confer with "The Fonz",
the greatest expert in the universe on the
dating ritual peculiar to humans. In a flashback
sequence, Mork arrives at Richie Cunningham's
home where Fonzie is house-sitting. "The
Fonz" arranges a blind date for Mork
and Laverne with hilarious results. Meanwhile,
in Boulder, Frederick's friend, Officer
Tilwick, has taken steps that eventually
lead to a sanity hearing for Mork.
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Mork, too unfamiliar with Earthling ways
to go out on his own, moves into the attic
of Mindy's apartment over the outraged opposition
of her old-fashioned father. Mindy determines
to keep secret the fact that Mork is from
another planet while she teaches him to
act human and helps him find a job. Then
Frederick, Mindy's conservative father,
demands to know what is going on between
Mork and his daughter. Mindy is forced to
share the secret that Mork is from the Planet
Ork. After Mindy has bowed to Frederick's
orders that she get rid of Mork, she begins
to realize that she doesn't want him to
leave.
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Mindy is hurt when her date Brad misconstrues
Mork's living in her apartment and walks
out - like her other boyfriends. Later she
finds a farewell note from Mork who believes
his presence is making Mindy unhappy. Meanwhile,
Mork follows young Eugene's advice to find
a flop-house because of his meager funds.
By mistake he wanders into the Friends of
Venus headquarters.
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In his confusion over the meaning of
love, because emotions have been done away
with on Ork, Mork turns to Mindy for counsel.
She advises that if he wants to be like
an Earth person he will have to experience
the emotion himself. Mork gathers more information
on the subject from Mindy's grandmother,
Cora Hudson, and from his main munchkin
pal Eugene. Thus educated, Mork falls madly
in love with a shapely blonde, to Mindy's
dismay.
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Curvaceous Susan Taylor, Mindy's love
rival from high school days, meets Mork
at the music store and disdainfully brushes
him off until she learns that he lives with
Mindy. She does an abrupt turnabout and
arranges to pick him up for a date that
night. Mindy, green-eyed with jealously,
goes too. Susan then invites Mork to dine
at her place - by candlelight - unaware
that Mork lives in terror of a sacred flame
that heralds the arrival of Volgar the Enforcer
on planet Ork.
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Newspaper reporter Clint Mullet believes
Mindy is his ticket to fame because he thinks
she can supply him with proof that aliens
exist on Earth. Clint sneaks into Mindy's
room searching for clues, runs into Mork
and reveals the publication's offer of $25,000
for proof that aliens walk the Earth. After
hearing Mindy and her dad discussing how
they could use the money for college and
to repair the plumbing, Mork decides to
sacrifice his identity to repay Mindy.
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Mork believes that humans are honest
because Mindy lectured him on "splinking",
his Orkan word for lying. Then Arnold Wanker,
who is trying to oust Mindy's family from
the music store property, dies while he
is in a rage at the store. His widow, Annie,
and everyone else - including Mindy - begin
to chorus what a wonderful man Wanker was.
Unfamiliar with Earthlings' little white
lies, Mork, hearing the loving tributes
being paid to the deceased landlord, who
was the meanest man in town, decides to
jump-start him back to life. Out of compassion
for his grieving friends, Mork employs his
Orkan power to revive the deceased.
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Mindy tries to convince Mork that people
are taking advantage of him because he believes
anything he hears. While Mork is alone at
the music store, Officer Boyd pursues Dittman,
an escaped car thief, into the store and
handcuffs him to a rail while he chases
an accomplice. Dittman convinces Mork that
he only wanted to see his sick mother for
the last time, and promises to return the
next day. Mork zaps off his handcuffs and
has to face the music when Boyd returns.
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Mork learns the human facts of life when
he meets Mindy's friend Sally, who is expecting
her baby soon. Mork, reared by an iron-clawed
computer, envies the unborn child and decides
that mothers have the most important job
on Earth. Meanwhile, Mindy's former fiance,
Dan, has reentered her life, pressing for
marriage and babies. Mindy is tempted to
accept, but doesn't know what it would be
like to have a child. She finds out when
Mork, troubled by the fact that he never
had a real mom, uses his Orkan age machine
to revert to a three-year-old and takes
Mindy as his newly adopted mother. Suddenly
Mindy has a noisy child in the attic while
Dan is present.
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The naive Orkan makes pugnacious George
the laughingstock at a local cafe in a confrontation
over Mindy, whom George has forced to dance
with him. George threatens to get even and
sets out to find Mork. Meanwhile, Frederick
wants Mork to be able to protect his daughter
when they're together, and tries to give
him boxing lessons. He gives up when Mork
reveals that Orkans defend themselves in
the most dangerous situations by dishing
out compliments. Then George phones that
he is on his way over. With the enraged
town bully hot on his heels, Mork remains
resolutely non-violent in keeping with his
Orkan ways, and is baffled by the efforts
of Mindy and Frederick to give him a quick
education in Earthling self-defense.
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Mindy's grandmother, Cora Hudson, has
the blues, which have been caused by the
death of one of her few remaining friends.
Mork is eager to help Cora regain her zest
for living but Mindy explains that Cora
needs someone her own age, never dreaming
that he will use his Orkan age machine to
fill the bill. Aged, except for the twinkle
in his eye, Mork shows up at the music store
to buy a harmonica and begins flirting outrageously
with Cora. Although dating "Bill Hohner"
makes Cora happy again, she does detect
something familiar about him. Meanwhile,
Mork reveals to Mindy and Frederick that
he is the old man, and they accuse him of
perpetrating a cruel hoax because Cora will
suffer after the necessary breakup of the
romance.
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Mork is frightened and overwhelmed by
the mad rush of his first Christmas until
Mindy explains the Earth observance and
its meaning. Mindy reluctantly relents when
Mork, who learned that the season is a time
of caring and sharing, wants to invite pretentious
Susan Taylor to join them and Mindy's family
for the holiday. Mork asks his young friend
Eugene to accompany him to a discount store
to buy presents, but is informed by the
clerk that he doesn't have enough money.
Mork is excited by Eugene's suggestion that
he can make gifts, and does so. Later, when
he overhears the reactions to his strange
labors of love, Mork is hurt. Then with
childlike innocence and joy, he finds a
way to give the best gifts of all to Mindy's
family and her "fair-weather friend",
Susan.
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Mork is intrigued by the voting procedure
in a democracy. After learning from Mindy
that at least three voters are needed to
prevent ties, Mork meets Sergei, a young
student cellist recently immigrate from
Russia who is looking for a place to stay,
and moves him into Mindy's apartment to
resolve their domestic voting problem. Amazed
to learn that he and Sergei are among thousands
of aliens in this country, Mork joins his
new friend for the annual registration throwing
the immigration bureau into total confusion.
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Bickley, a commercial artist who lives
in the apartment below, has been making
life intolerable for Mindy by pounding on
his ceiling constantly in complaint over
the least noise. Mork visits Bickley and
manages to misinterpret every nasty threat
the artist expresses. When Mork informs
Mindy that he has invited Bickley to dinner,
she informs Mork, who has never cooked before,
that he can prepare the meal, then sits
back to enjoy watching the guest steam in
disbelief as Mork goes all out to be kind
to the impossibly grouchy neighbor, and
Mork's version of a home-cooked dinner turns
out to be comically disastrous.
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After one unsuccessful attempt to run
away from home, young Eugene meets Holly
Tyler, who's not only cute, but shares
his dislikes for things like liver, milk,
and baths. Eugene confides to Mork that
all his problems would be over if he could
run away with Holly. but this time he
wants to do it right and get married by
a ship's captain like he saw in a movie.
Then his parents couldn't bring him back.
Mork, realizing that he is captain of
a ship - a spaceship, to be accurate -
volunteers to marry the small couple in
a secret ceremony in his attic.
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Mork meets Exidor at the music store
where Exidor is taking music lessons from
Cora to prepare to rule the world as its
leading rock star. When Mork tells him that
Mindy is exhausted from meeting college
requirements and he's looking for a place
to take her to relax, Exidor grandly offers
his summer home. The weekend vacation begins
with a three-mile hike up a cliff and only
worsens when they reach the freezing retreat,
a roofless, burned-out ruin, just as a blizzard
arrives.
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Mindy realizes that Mork has been acting
even stranger than usual, especially when
he brings home a chimpanzee that escaped
from the zoo. He admits that it has all
been to bolster Mindy's spirits in preparation
for the bad news that he is leaving. Mindy
goes into a deep depression when Mork drops
the bombshell that he has been ordered to
leave Earth. With Mork unhappy and their
neighbor, Bickley, suffering a writer's
block, friend Susan talks them into attending
an Ellsworth Revitalization Konditioning
(ERK) Seminar. But the intimidating Ellsworth
is unprepared for Mork and his concepts.
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Mindy's friend Sally brings her infant
to the music store. She is followed by a
disreputable character who steals and sells
babies. After watching Mork's loving handling
of the baby, the criminal follows him home.
Mork, yearning for a baby of his own, innocently
arranges to buy one from the shifty character
and tries to borrow the $10,000 from Mindy
for what he terms a surprise purchase. The
thief insists that the transaction be kept
secret. Meanwhile, an F.B.I. agent appeals
to Mindy to help them nail the crook, who
followed a strange man with suspenders to
her apartment.
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A dream leads Mork to fear his emotions
are taking over his subconscious because
Orkans haven't dreamed since emotions were
banished on their planet. Despite Mindy's
protestations, Mork determines to lock them
up in his head and throw away the key. Mork's
lack of feelings is ruining Mindy's birthday,
so she deliberately kisses him, unleashing
Mork's wild, long-suppressed emotions and
the innocent Orkan begins to experience
for the first time, feelings of love and
anger, joy and envy, hope and gratitude,
and jealously and lust. After calming down,
Mork is afraid it could happen again if
he takes Mindy out for a birthday dinner.
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When Mindy leaves town with her folks
for a weekend visit to an ailing relative,
Mork tries valiantly to entertain himself.
He becomes so desperate for a "conversation
fix" that he visits crotchety Bickley
and talks him into going out to Mother Bell's,
a bar he finds listed in the newspaper.
Then they are approached by Lisa and Penny,
who suggest they all adjourn to Bickley's
apartment. What the two men don't know is
that the women work with a male accomplice.
Mork and neighbor Bickley find more excitement
than they bargained for from the two stunning
girls who give them the surprise of their
lives.
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Mork is at the mercy of Mindy's nasty
neighbor. After Bickley appears during a
party at Mindy's apartment to complain about
the noise, she discovers that her necklace
is missing. Playing detective, Mork contacts
all her friends, including those whose "mug
shots" appear in her year book, and
accuses each of the theft. After a second
visit from Bickley, other items, including
the age machine, are missing, and Mork and
Mindy realize he is the culprit. While they
are wondering why their neighbor has turned
to stealing, Bickley starts playing with
all the machine's little buttons. Bickley,
thinking it's a calculator, unknowingly
causes Mork to go through several age changes,
including Mork as a baby, a teenager and
a middle-aged American.
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Birthdays on the planet Ork are traumatic
events which tend to be fatal without the
strange power boosts from the gleek. Mork's
hours are numbered unless he can get a power
recharge from his egg-shaped "gleek"
before his fast-approaching birthday arrives
- but Mindy has unwittingly stored away
the gleek with its look-alikes in an egg
carton. Mork begins to speed up and slow
down alternately as his memory fails. After
Mork collapses at the McConnell music store,
Frederick summons a doctor who happens to
be a pediatrician. Dr. Phillips is so astounded
by Mork's symptoms that Mindy's family is
forced to reveal that the patient is from
another planet.
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Mindy, a journalism student, is thrilled
when during a dinner at her apartment, her
father's date, Margaret, the editor of a
publication, offers her a job. Then Mork
naively repeats bragging phrases Frederick
has used to describe Margaret, and she angrily
leaves after rescinding the job offer. Accused
by Mindy of fouling up both her life and
her father's, Mork is determined to leave
for Ork. Orson suggests that he submit to
the Plasmic Essence Reversifier and observe,
unseen and unheard, what would have happened
to his Earth friend during the past year
had he not been present. Mork finds Mindy
married to Cliff.
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Mork is overjoyed with his new pet -
a tiny, furry caterpillar he names Bob who
"followed" him home. Mindy is
lukewarm to Mork's new pet, and Exidor,
a self-styled authority on reincarnation,
is so convinced that Bob was Abraham Lincoln
in another life that Mork builds a log cabin
for his pampered pet, a creature that can
do more tricks than neighbor Bickley's dog.
When Bob appears to be dead, Mork takes
him to Mr. Herman's funeral home, and is
so offended by what he learns that he takes
Bob home to keep in his room forever. Mork
is in the doldrums until Mother Nature springs
a happy surprise.
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GENERAL
INFORMATION
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directed
by
howard
storm
(1,2,3,8-11,13-17,20-24)
harvey
medinsky (4,5)
joel
zwick (6,7)
jeff
chambers (12,18,19)
written by
dale mcraven
(1,12,16,20)*
llyod turner
& gordon mitchell (2,4,14,17)*
joel
zwick (3)*
neil
lebowitz 5,8)
april
kelly (3,6,7,11,13,18)*
tom
tenowich (9,15,19)*
david
misch (6,10)*
dave
o'malley (13)*
bruce
johnson (12,16,20)*
michael
endler (21)
ben
starr (22)
ed
scharlach (19,23)*
simon
muntner (24)
*When
the episode number has this
color, it means the
writing was done by 2 writers.
1st episode air date
september
14, 1978
last episode air date
may 10,
1979
DVD release date
september 07, 2004
runtime
635 min
filming location
la,
ca (paramount
studios)
boulder,
co
production companies
henderson
production company
miller-milkis productions
paramount television
distribution by
abc
(television)
paramount
home video (dvd) |
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MAIN
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robin williams
- mork
pam dawber - mindy mcconnell
elizabeth kerr - cora hudson
conrad janis - fred mcconnell
ralph james - orson
jeffrey jacquet - eugene |
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