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Mork decks Mindy's living room with flowers
for his marriage proposal attempt, but Mindy
thinks he is wishing her luck in her effort
to get a newscaster's position at the TV
station where she works. Mork confers with
Exidor, his far-out prophet friend, who
advises one of two approaches: Mork can
charge into her life on a white horse and
ride off with her into the sunset, or he
can try the duller way of proposing on bended
knee. While Mork is on his knee proposing
to a stunned Mindy, her father, Fred, and
grandmother, Cora, arrive and whisk her
into a family conference. The saddened Mindy
realizes she has to weigh her feelings against
what's logical. when she tells Mork that
she can't marry him he gets her to agree
to give him twenty-four hours to try to
change her mind (with his wildest last-ditch
efforts).
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Mindy stands up bravely to her father,
Frederick, who bitterly opposes having Mork
for a son-in-law, and succeeds in winning
his approval. She expects Mork to be equally
courageous in obtaining the blessing of
terrible-tempered Orson on Ork, whre marriage
has been outlawed for two million "bleams".
Mork withers into cowardice under Orson's
threat to alter his molecular structure
into a more obedient form of life if he
persists in marrying Mindy Beth McConnell.
While Mork is assuring Mindy that he has
browbeat Orson into approving matrimony,
Mork begins to turn into an English sheep
dog in their apartment. Meanwhile, at the
chapel, Mindy's grandmother, Cora, does
her best to entertain at the organ, while
the best man, Exidor, clad in a formal straitjacket,
raves on. Frederick paces, and his wife,
Cathy, the matron of honor who does not
know about Mork's Orkan origins, tries to
remain calm as guests fidget and Mork and
Mindy attempt to win Orson's approval.
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Mindy's grandmother, Cora, adds a traditional
slice of wedding cake to the luggage, and
Fred, Mindy's dad, is a nervous wreck about
his new son-in-law's driving skills when
the newlyweds board the cramped compact
egg sent from Ork in lieu of the luxury
egg ordered by Mork. After passing meteors
and even the asteroid on which Mork's graduation
party was held, the bridal couple lands
in the futuristic lobby of an Orkan hotel
filled with weird space travelers, as well
as Orkans, who have never seen an Earth
creature before. the onlookers mill around,
giggling, poking and photographing Mindy,
who is suddenly whisked off by the police.
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Mork is admitting to Exidor, his doctor,
that he has developed a craving for things
like teflon. Mork is feeling strange when
the egg emerges through his navel. Thrilled,
he takes baby pictures of the egg on a fuzzy
blanket. Them, when Mindy arrives home from
working on the famous Hammond family's TV
special starring Mork's favorites, Donna
and Mario, he hells her of the blessed event.
Mindy, however, is more interested in celebrating
the anniversary of their first month of
marriage than in discussing starting a family.
Mork misunderstands and tearfully tries
to place their "child" with the All-American
Hammond family - with disastrous results.
By the time Mork convices the stunend Mindy
that they are parents, the egg begins to
grow to giant proportions as Mr. Bickley
knocks at their door and hears loud cracking
sounds from the bedroom as the egg bursts
open and out pops their full-grown, middle-aged-looking
son.
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Mindy is dazed at the reality that she
and Mork are the parents of Mearth - half-Earthling/half-Orkan
with the body of a fifty-year-old and the
mind of an infant - and feels left out when
Mearth accepts Mork as his mommy. Mindy
frantically calls on her dad, Fred, for
advice. He doesn't believe his ears until
he arrives at the apartment and meets his
225-lb grandson. That night, the amazing
offspring begins to talk but insists on
calling Mindy "Shoe". This hurts her feelings
so much that she deliberately requests night
work at the TV station. Fred advises Mork
and Mindy, confused and apprehensive about
being a parent, needs time to be close to
Mearth. Mork makes up an excuse to leave
Mearth at the studio with Mindy. Then he
hides nervously outside the door to observe
the remarkable results.
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Mork feels like a total failure as a
parent when Mearth becomes confused because
his hero, Superman, has two jobs and Mindy
works while his dad stays home. Mindy, who
is leaving for an assignment in Aspen, tries
to reassure Mork that all kids go through
periods of hero worship. While Mindy is
away, Mearth finds Mork's spacesuit and
wants to know if Mork is secretly a superhero.
Although the parents have agreed not to
tell Mearth about Mork's alien origin until
he is younger, it strikes Mork as a perfect
job. He slips into his "crime fighter" suit
and takes Mearth to a seedy bar to look
for bad guys. When an armed one of them
terrifies Mearth, Mork goes berserk with
awesome results.
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While Cora babysits with Mearth, Mork
takes Mindy to the reunion where she dances
with handsome Steve Sanders, now Lt. Governor
of Wyoming - and still single. The next
morning Mearth looks on as his parents squabble.
After assuring Mork that the only reason
there used to be a Steve in their life was
because she hadn't met her Orkan yet, Mindy
leaves for work. Mork decides to take action
after flowers from Steve are delivered for
Mindy. He slips into a magic pair of ruby
penny loafers, clicks his heels and chants.
Presto! Jealous Mork uses outrageous Orkan
magic to travel back in time to Mindy's
senior prom, on a mission to discover whether
Mindy would have loved him instead of her
high school sweetheart. He is now another
kind of alien, a foreign exchange student
meeting Mindy for the first time at her
senior prom.
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Mearth seems inconsolable at the demise
of his pet spider until Mindy and Cora cheer
him up with little gifts - a toy plane and
a large lollipop. when Mork sees Mearth
crying because a dog has eaten his balsa
aircraft, he buys Mearth a fortune in presents
to assure his happiness. When Mindy, fearing
a spoiled child, orders that they be returned,
their unusual child decides that they don't
love him anymore. After the loot has been
returned, Mork tries to teach Mearth that
his imagination is better than any toy.
Feeling like a failure as a parent, Mork
turns to weird Exidor for advice and winds
up by investing all of his and Mindy's money
in Exidor's new boutique.
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Mindy brings unhappy Mearth home from
a sledding outing and informs Mork that
other kids were not allowed to toboggan
with their son because their parents thought
he was an adult. Mork and Mindy realize
they must tell Mearth that he is half alien.
Even though Mork assures his son that eventually
he will look like Earth children because
he is aging backward and getting smaller,
Mearth wants to go to Ork and runs away.
After Mindy's father sees Mearth taken away
by a group of black-robed Utopian cultists,
Mindy remembers that Utopians have a lodge
in the mountains. She and Mork charge to
the rescue.
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Mearth is eager to go to school, and
Mindy believes in providing him with a good
education, but Mork is inexplicably against
it. Mindy finds out why when Mearth's Orkan
godfather, Orson, communicates with her
while Mork is asleep to learn why Mork has
never returned the school application he
sent. When Mork wakes up, he reveals that
he feels Mearth won't need him anymore once
schooling begins. They get the application
off and Mearth, in school uniform, is beamed
to Ork to start school one day a month,
Earth time, as a commuter, Mearth returns
in tears because he dislikes his teacher,
Miss Geezba, whom Mork hated as a student,
and resents students who call him "Earth
Head". Unfortunately for Mork, Miss Geezba
remembers all about him when he and Mindy
take Mearth back to Ork prep.
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Mork and Mindy agree that if Mearth shapes
up and keeps his room clean, he may have
friends sleep over, never realizing that
it will be his voluptuous classmate, Zelka,
from Ork. No sooner has suddenly angelic
Mearth surprise giving them breakfast in
bed, than playmates Ovits and Zelka beam
in from Ork for a wild afternoon of play.
After Ovits leaves, Mork is trying to assure
Mindy that Mearth and Zelka, playing in
the attic, are innocent toddlers. Then Mearth
comes downstairs to ask for a stethoscope
for upstairs games. Determined to keep an
eye on the two kids every minute, Mork and
Mindy pitch a tent in the living room beside
a campfire and the four have a pajama party.
They are interrupted by Mr. Bickley, their
neighbor, who arrives with a fire extinguisher
and decides to join what he thinks is a
swinging adult party.
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When Mearth goes off fishing with his
Grandpa, Fred, Mork misses him so much that
Mindy must remind him that they now have
time to get acquainted following Mearth's
birth. Mork tries to dazzle her with a Moroccan
feast - complete with a belly dancer - that
ends in disarray. After a disastrous evening
with Fatima, the dancer, and burned shish
kebab, Mork and Mindy seem to have nothing
to say to each other. Mork is downcast until
an exterminatoradvises going back to the
roots. And Mork leaps at the chance to plan
another romantic surprise.
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Mearth is overjoyed when his Grandfather
Fred sets up Mindy's old electric train
layout for him. Mindy arrives home from
work upset because Daniel Pierson, 23, the
new general manager at the TV station, has
suddenly replaced Sternhagen, who hired
her. Things worsen for Mindy the next day
when Mork arrives at KTNS-TV and stages
an embarrassing scene in an attempt to save
her job after Pierson has fired cameraman
Jake Loomis and threatens other changes.
He also announces a mandatory session for
that night at which he will meet employees'
families. Just as Mork and Mindy are leaving
for Pierson's get-together, Mork tries to
fix the transformer on Mearth's electric
train. Sparks erupt, their bodies are electrified
and their minds temporarily switched. Mindy,
already worried about losing her job at
the television station, forsees disaster
after Mork and Mearth accidentally transfer
minds, forcing her to take Mearth in Mork's
body to meet the new boss.
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Mindy, wearing of having to do all the
driving errands after work, attempts to
give Mork a driving lesson in their Jeep,
but he and Mearth wear out her patience
with their fun and games. She then presses
for driving school. Mork's hip friend, Todd
Norman Taylor, shows up as the instructor,
and unnerves his pupil with talk about traffic
accidents. It causes Mork to have a nightmare.
Later at the Department of Motor Vehicles,
Mork comes unglued when he meets examiner
S. Devlin, a dead ringer for the satanic
figure in his dream. Terror-stricken Mork
believes the examiner assigned to give him
the driving test is an incarnation of the
devil, and careens along the test course
in a spectacular tilted wheelie, with Mindy
and Mearth in the car.
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While Mork and Mindy are in a men's clothing
store where son Mearth is being fitted for
his first suit, Orson angrily "fits" Mork
with a memory-robbing silver helmet that
makes him forget everything on Earth, including
his family, because Mork has neglected his
job of reporting back to his planet because
of family responsibilities. Mearth presents
him with a This Was Your Life scrapbook,
but he does not know anyone. The situation
appears to be hopeless until weird Exidor
arrives and is recognized by Mork. Then
Exidor decides to hypnotize him.
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Shortly after Mork and Mearth are accidentally
cross-beamed home from Ork with someone
else's champagne, William Shatner, in metallic
bathrobe and en route to the jacuzzi, is
also beamed to Earth with Mearth's packages.
He lingers along enough to collect his champagne
and complain about the beaming problems
before he is returned to Ork. Then Mork
sets to work on the computer that is to
be Mearth's school science project, replacing
the diorama that Mindy has been making.
When Mindy arrives home from work, she is
startled to have the computer greet her
by name and offer a martini. It explains
that it is a Modular Integrated Laser Transformer
(M.I.L.T.). As Mork and Mindy are preparing
to leave for a television awards banquet,
Milt announces it has expanded, and criticizes
Mindy's makeup. Then it decides that they
can't leave the apartment. They realize
that Milt is so sophisticated and tyrannical
that it has decided to hold its creators,
Mindy and Mearth as hostages.
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Both Mearth and Mork fall asleep while
Mindy is recalling her favorite fairy tales
and childhood fantasies of spinning straw
into gold and living in a castle. Next thing
Mindy knows - unless she's dreaming - is
that Mork and Mearth have made three tons
of gold. It turns out that the Orkan has
learned how to make the precious metal from
polyester, buys Mindy a 60-room mansion
where she can stable her new horse and hires
tennis star Tracy Austin as son Mearth's
tennis coach. Mork presents her with jewels,
the white horse of her fantasy, golden clothing
and the mansion staffed with servants headed
by Quentin, and including a jester and a
very tall librarian, Miss Beasley. Mindy
has had it with high living when she finds
Mearth playing a game of human checkers
with Quentin. Mearth is unhappy because
he never sees his father any more. But Fred,
who has received a gift Rolls from Mork,
won't let Mindy say a word against him.
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When Mindy insists on standing on the
First Amendment and refuses to reveal her
news source in a bribery trial, she winds
up languishing in a cell with Mrs. Bailey,
who strangled her husband because his snoring
disturbed her. Mork shows up with a copy
of Soul on Ice and a harmonica and assures
Mrs. Bailey that the now terrified Mindy
is a snorer. Later, Mindy's father, Fred,
shares bad news with Mork and Mearth - the
judge has denied Mindy's petition for release
and she could remain locked up indefinitely.
When all of Mork's efforts fail to free
Mindy, he takes drastic measures. Mork resorts
to devious Orkan tricks to free Mindy while
son Mearth anxiously awaits his mommy's
return.
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Mork is overjoyed that he and Mindy can
finally let it all hang out when he meets
Kalnik - an alien from Neptune who apparently
is also married to an Earthling - and the
four seem to in common. Things begin to
go awry after Kalnik and Tracy Andrews return
with Mork and Mindy to their apartment from
a restaurant. Mindy overhears Kalnik refer
to Mearth as an untalented mutant and angrily
kicks them out. She's unaware that evil
Kalnik plans to force Mork to reveal his
planet's ultimate goals on Earth, and that
Tracy is not for real.
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On the run from evil Neptunian Kalnik,
Mork, Mindy and Mearth are targets in a
highway shootout and, caught by their enemy
while hiding at an Arizona fat farm, decide
that their only chance of living is to go
public about Mork's real roots. While the
family tries to blend in with porky patrons
at the farm until Mindy's father, Fred,
arrives with emergency funds, Mearth is
pursued by an amorous widow who doesn't
know he's really a tiny tot in a man's body.
There's rejoicing when Fred arrives until
he whips off his Fred mask to reveal he
is Kalnik.
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After
Kalnik has bombed their apartment, leaving them on the run, Mork and
Mindy decide that their only chance to escape him is to go public
about Mork's origins. They and son Mearth are interviewed by a television
personality named Tom. Afterward, there's a mob scene at their hotel
and Mork escapes to the demolished apartment where Mindy finds him.
So does Kalnik. In desperation, Mork clicks the heels of his magic
shoes to escape with Mindy to Rome, but the shoes have been damaged
and Mork and Mindy wind up with prehistoric tribesmen in an Okus cave.
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Mork bucks hard for a promotion from
leader Orson on planet Ork, and unintentionally
comes up with a wild new report on how to
stay happily married on Earth. It all starts
when Mork decides that the magic ingredients
of a successful marriage are the right blend
of honesty, respect, romance and compatibility.
He buys Mindy a perfectly atrocious mini-outfit
with wildly matching shoes, and when he
sees her reaction to it, he begins to feel
that he would prefer for her to lie and
say she loves it. As for respect, while
at the apartment with Mindy, Mork and Mearth
descend from the attic dressed as huge budding
Orkan plants to celebrate their planet's
Sacred Foliage Festival. Mindy not only
balks at going out to dinner with them dressed
that way, but also laughs outright. Mork
is upset that she is ridiculing his religion
in front of her family. Orson doesn't buy
it when Mork, in tux and apron, depicts
romance in a passionate dance with Mindy
as pots boil over in the kitchen. Mork's
last chance backfires when he tries to sell
his report on the basis of his and Mindy's
perfect compatibility.
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GENERAL
INFORMATION
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directed
by
bob
claver
(70-73,79-90)
frank
buxton
(74-77)
done barnhart
(78)
robin
williams
(91)
written by
brian levant (70)*
ed scharlach (70)*
alan eisenstock (71,90)*
larry mintz (71,90)*
dale mcraven (72,75)*
bruce johnson (72,75)*
richard rosenstock (73,77)*
roby reicher (73,77)*
wendy kout (74,78,85,86)*
george zateslo (74,
78,85,86)*
deborah raznick (76,
84)*
john b. collins (76,
84)*
cindy
begel (79,80,83,88)*
lesa
kite (79,80,83,88)*
wini
hervey (81,91)
bob perlow (82)*
gene braunstein (82)*
richard
gurman (89)
*When
the episode number has this
color, it means the
writing was done by 2 writers.
1st episode air date
october
08, 1981
last episode air date
may 27,
1982
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
CAST
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robin williams
- mork
pam dawber - mindy mcconnell
conrad janis - fred mcconnell
gina hecht - jeannie davinci
jay thomas - remo davinci
ralph james - orson
jeffrey jacquet - eugene
tom poston - mr. bickley |
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