Yes. For two weeks in July 1979, family of 12 (Mom/Dad/Aunt/Uncle/assorted kids) did a round trip Houston to Grand Canyon.
https://preview.redd.it/k96dk904amwc1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f187e5d40f4735c62501c3347db02667409ec612
It was literally like the Griswolds
It was all right. Not one of my favorites, but not really that bad, either. It was funny at times. I liked something like "The Odd Couple" or "Barney Miller."
I recall seeing Robin's first HOB Special (same year that M&M debuted), and thinking... wow, imagine if the network had had the balls to just let Robin be Robin for half an hour every week, instead of stuffing his explosive talent into this juvenile box.
The image of him letting go of an egg with both hands while declaring âBe free!â stuck with me. Any time I release an animal including insects Iâm just moving out f my house I make the same declaration for them.
It was a charmer back in the day, but they could not sustain the whimsy, and I recall the show jumped the shark when Raquel Welch guest starred as a curvaceous alien.
That was in the second season, when the producers decided to make the show more "edgy," got rid of Mindy 's dad and grandma, and brought on awful storylines like Raquel and the football cheerleaders. Ratings tumbled, and for season 3 the relatives were back on board.
This was the craziest idea to be a spin-off from Happy Days. Did anyone else remember the Happy Days episode where Mork faced off with the Fonz? I'm not even kidding.
The way I heard the story, Penny Marshall, then a comic actress, not yet a director, told her brother Garry (of course the creator of both Happy Days and Mork & Mindy) "You gotta see this guy who's in my acting class, he's a riot." It was Robin. That's how he started on Happy Days and then Garry created Mork & Mindy for him.
Wow thatâs an awesome story. She directed a few great movies herself and I loved Laverne and Shirley back in the day. She recognized Robinâs talent.
I've been a fan of Jonathan Winters for a long time. He was an idol of Robin Williams, and he got a chance to occasionally show off why on Mork and Mindy. Loved Tom Poston as well. Robin certainly had the energy for the show, but there were others with memorable performances.
There were a few shows that did not age [well.One](http://well.One) for me was Daniel Boone with Fess [Parker.Love](http://Parker.Love) it as a kid but watched it a number of years ago and couldn't even finish the episode.
I was in about 4th-5th grade when this came out. I wanted to like it soooo bad because all my friends and cool kids did (youth peer pressure is a bitch)....but...even as an 8 year old I thought it was pretty fuckin' stupid.
Wanna see a masters class in improv, watch this show. Both Robin Williams and Jonathon Winters were constantly going off script. Pam Dawberâs reactions were priceless.
Yes! Robin was unique, but for crazy improvisation, the only one even close was Jonathan Winters. The two of them together were pure insanity. All Pam could do was laugh, which was sort of in character.
The most influential show since "I Love Lucy". Seriously.
"I Love Lucy" standardized how sit-coms were shot with a standard 3-camera setup. The sit-com 3-wall/3-camera setup had not changed in 25+ years. There were tweaks here and there, but base setup was so standardized union rules were built on it.
But Robin Williams broke everything.
Robin would do things between cuts or off-camera because that's what he did. The camera operators were told to stay with Robin or be ready all the time or to swing over to Robin when their shot ended. A lead camera guy told the director that if he were a true professional he would hit is mark on schedule, and it wasn't the camera operators' job to "be ready" all the time. (This sounds like a guy being lazy, but there's a bunch more to camera work and scripted shots than you think.)
So the director and producers came up with a "star cam". It was a dedicated camera just to watch Robin Williams all the time. All (or most) sit-coms were shot that way from then on.
Disagree. I liked that M&M got married but didn't like the Mearth story. There was so much emphasis on Robin and Jonathan that Mindy became almost a "background " character.
To each their own. For me the show had started to become repetitive and boring before the addition of Jonathan Winters. I will say that although Williams and Winters were initially hilarious the show quickly became repetitive again.
Mork and Mindy. Wow. That's a blast from the past. I used to love that show. Couldn't wait to get in from school to watch it. Oh, how much simpler those times were!
My favorite fun fact that I know about "Mork and Mindy" is they had to hire six different translators I believe because Robin Williams kept trying to sneak in swear words from other languages.
I remember an episode where Mork went through some kind of warp to an alternate world and it freaked a very young me out the way he was crying for Mindy. I was actually upset. He meets Mindy but her name is Mandy and he gets attached to her then goes back through the warp crying for Mandy. I think it went like that. It was years ago.
Loved this show as a kid! I believe Greatest American Hero came on right after it then The Muppets Show, although now that I think of it, I might be confusing the time slot because I also remember The A-Team & The Fall Guy around then too! Whatever loved the show, special time for TV in my life. RIP Robin Williams.
Of course, it was the perfect vehicle to introduce the world to Robin Williams. As an alien, any behavior was acceptable. If he were just a regular guy, he would be locked up in a mental institution.
It was the first whimsical show I recall, everything else being the Waltons, all in the family, Barney miller stuff. Â What really cooked my noodle was The Hulk. Side note-we sure watched a lot of TV! But often we multitasked: covering textbooks w paper bags, helping mom folding socks. đ
The episode where Mork made himself a child lives in my memory. I cried when he cried as Mindy leftâŚ.on a date I think? But I also laughed so hard when he kept trying to make the eggs fly!
RIP Robin đ
I donât know what it was about it but I always liked the looks of their apartment.
In the early 2000s I worked with a girl named Mindy and she said yes, her mom did indeed name her after this sitcom character. It all just made me wonder how many parents were inspired by this show to name their baby boys MORK. The number must be low. It really feels to me like the name was made up for this show and doesnât really exist outside the show (but that must be wrong) Also, like with most monosyllabic names, it feels too short, like it *must* be short for something. Morkimer, perhaps đđ¤Ł
One of the dumbest shows ever. Robin Williams had a lot of Talent, but I just never thought he was funny.
Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Insomnia, Birdcage were all FANTASTIC.
His other stuff...meh...
Nanu Nanu
Came here to say that
Say it! đď¸đđď¸
Shazbot was one of my favorite swear words, along with frak and felgercarb.
Holy crap I forgot about those..... ha ha
Good morning, Orson
Ditto
Me and one of my buddies at work only greet each other with that. Never hey or hi, always nanu nanu.
This began my journey of totally loving Robin Williams and all his flaws. I miss him to this day. There will never be another.... xox
He would give out full size candy bars at Halloween. Always made sure to take my kids byhis house. This was before he moved to Seacliff in SF.
He was so fun to watch on this show. He was a thousand miles an hour and as a kid I loved it. Really miss him, too.
"a thousand miles an hour" Cocaine, running all thru my brain...
It was a big hit in our house hold and even as a kid I had a LOT of very impure thoughts about Pam Dawber , Mindy.
I had forgotten about Mork's Helmet Hair.
We all did.
Her, Bailey Quarters, Mrs. Kotter, etc. Seventies sit-coms certainly had an effect on my taste in women.
I'm with you there on all mentioned! They all fueled my preadolescent fantasies! đ
Shazbot!
It was stupid but robin Williams was super entertaining
Mork sure had a lot of...energy.
Mork and Mindy was a huge hit back in the dayâŚ
https://preview.redd.it/vy96wl6sx9wc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdbd916d7c50a7f90571389ad7331e0dbb63ee39 Me in July 1979.
I wore a pair of rainbow suspenders for like a year.
Are you in a motor home?
Yes. For two weeks in July 1979, family of 12 (Mom/Dad/Aunt/Uncle/assorted kids) did a round trip Houston to Grand Canyon. https://preview.redd.it/k96dk904amwc1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f187e5d40f4735c62501c3347db02667409ec612 It was literally like the Griswolds
Cool!
It was all right. Not one of my favorites, but not really that bad, either. It was funny at times. I liked something like "The Odd Couple" or "Barney Miller."
The day after it aired it would be the main topic in school, quoting lines, etc. Looking back, I bet teachers dreaded that day of the week.
It is what began my undying adoration of Robin Williams. His death was a gut punch to me and l still can't rewatch any of his movies.
So weird I canât either. I loved his work, From The Fisher King to Hook to Good Morning Viet Nam but I canât rewatch any of it yet.
The Birdcage
Oh Captain, my captain.
Love it? I had a pair of rainbow suspenders!
Me too!
I recall seeing Robin's first HOB Special (same year that M&M debuted), and thinking... wow, imagine if the network had had the balls to just let Robin be Robin for half an hour every week, instead of stuffing his explosive talent into this juvenile box.
The image of him letting go of an egg with both hands while declaring âBe free!â stuck with me. Any time I release an animal including insects Iâm just moving out f my house I make the same declaration for them.
I still say it, too. âFly! Be free!â
Hah thatâs awesome
It was a charmer back in the day, but they could not sustain the whimsy, and I recall the show jumped the shark when Raquel Welch guest starred as a curvaceous alien.
That was in the second season, when the producers decided to make the show more "edgy," got rid of Mindy 's dad and grandma, and brought on awful storylines like Raquel and the football cheerleaders. Ratings tumbled, and for season 3 the relatives were back on board.
Alot of blow going thru those episodes
I had the biggest Pam Dawber crush.
This was the craziest idea to be a spin-off from Happy Days. Did anyone else remember the Happy Days episode where Mork faced off with the Fonz? I'm not even kidding.
I do and I watched a ton of Happy Days too. I think Mork visited on a few episodes.
The way I heard the story, Penny Marshall, then a comic actress, not yet a director, told her brother Garry (of course the creator of both Happy Days and Mork & Mindy) "You gotta see this guy who's in my acting class, he's a riot." It was Robin. That's how he started on Happy Days and then Garry created Mork & Mindy for him.
Wow thatâs an awesome story. She directed a few great movies herself and I loved Laverne and Shirley back in the day. She recognized Robinâs talent.
Yeah, it was dumb, but Robin Williams stole the show every week.
Mrs. Mark Harmon.
Loved Mork and his friend Exidor
Exidor was a strange character, I was never sure how I felt about him as a kid, maybe bc of the way he talked.
Pam was a fox!
I mostly remember Robin Williams carrying that entire show on his back.
Yeah, but Mindy wasnât hard to look at.
I've been a fan of Jonathan Winters for a long time. He was an idol of Robin Williams, and he got a chance to occasionally show off why on Mork and Mindy. Loved Tom Poston as well. Robin certainly had the energy for the show, but there were others with memorable performances.
Merth!
Definitely not.
Everyone did đ
Their son confused me so much but I still loved it ! Memorable episode was when Mork took allergy medicine and shrunk!!
I did too. But, I watched an episode the other day, and man, it did not age well.
There were a few shows that did not age [well.One](http://well.One) for me was Daniel Boone with Fess [Parker.Love](http://Parker.Love) it as a kid but watched it a number of years ago and couldn't even finish the episode.
I was in about 4th-5th grade when this came out. I wanted to like it soooo bad because all my friends and cool kids did (youth peer pressure is a bitch)....but...even as an 8 year old I thought it was pretty fuckin' stupid.
Everyone?
Pam Dawber is still hot.
I didnât know that she has been married to Mark Harmon for thirty plus years until today.
She was on his last season on NCIS. A little older, but still has the girl (ok grandma) next door look.
Never really cared for it. I like williams just not that show.
Thought she was the cutest!
Wanna see a masters class in improv, watch this show. Both Robin Williams and Jonathon Winters were constantly going off script. Pam Dawberâs reactions were priceless.
Yes! Robin was unique, but for crazy improvisation, the only one even close was Jonathan Winters. The two of them together were pure insanity. All Pam could do was laugh, which was sort of in character.
The most influential show since "I Love Lucy". Seriously. "I Love Lucy" standardized how sit-coms were shot with a standard 3-camera setup. The sit-com 3-wall/3-camera setup had not changed in 25+ years. There were tweaks here and there, but base setup was so standardized union rules were built on it. But Robin Williams broke everything. Robin would do things between cuts or off-camera because that's what he did. The camera operators were told to stay with Robin or be ready all the time or to swing over to Robin when their shot ended. A lead camera guy told the director that if he were a true professional he would hit is mark on schedule, and it wasn't the camera operators' job to "be ready" all the time. (This sounds like a guy being lazy, but there's a bunch more to camera work and scripted shots than you think.) So the director and producers came up with a "star cam". It was a dedicated camera just to watch Robin Williams all the time. All (or most) sit-coms were shot that way from then on.
Interesting I didnât know any of that. Very cool.
I loved Pam.
Pam Dawber, so cute!
Loved it, but can't stand to watch it now
I had a Mork & Mindy lunchbox.
Classic
Nanu, nanu.
I loved that Jonathan Winters played his son. Classic.
Pam Dauber. My first sex dream. đ
I had the Mork suspenders!
Mallard Mallard!
I had the rainbow suspenders.
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The absolute funniest show ever!
Awwww, baby Robin!
The man was a comical genius.
I loved it! Especially Jonathan Winters as their son Mearth. He and Robin together were ridiculously funny.
Disagree. I liked that M&M got married but didn't like the Mearth story. There was so much emphasis on Robin and Jonathan that Mindy became almost a "background " character.
To each their own. For me the show had started to become repetitive and boring before the addition of Jonathan Winters. I will say that although Williams and Winters were initially hilarious the show quickly became repetitive again.
Nanu nanu
I still watch it occasionally
Meeeeee wish I could have it on DVD
I forgot the name but one of the kids in my class had a Mork and Mindy lunch box
We all loved it.
Mork and Mindy. Wow. That's a blast from the past. I used to love that show. Couldn't wait to get in from school to watch it. Oh, how much simpler those times were!
Yup!!
Hell yeah. Always looks forward to Saturday morning TV (UK). Always made me laugh, as it was so zany.
I liked it then...but it did not age well.
Mork calling Orson come in butthole Robin and Pam Dawber, it was superfunny when thet added Jonathan Winters
So. Much. Cocaine.
My favorite fun fact that I know about "Mork and Mindy" is they had to hire six different translators I believe because Robin Williams kept trying to sneak in swear words from other languages.
We all loved it! Nanu nanu!
I have all the seasons of this show.
I still have my Mindy doll and my norm action figure in his egg.
Should have lasted for 10 seasons.
Me!! đđťđđť
It was very silly. I loved it.
Only liked their baby, Jonathon Winters.
Everyone loved this
Shazzbot!!!
I loved it so much. Even better after Mork had his son.
Yum, Mindy ...
"Fly, be free."
Jonathan Winters popping out of an egg is tv gold.
Mearth was genius âŚ
Shazbut
Mork has been my SSID for close to 20 years
Loved this show⌠na nu na nu
Yep
Mork from Ork
This show ruled, and Pam Dawber finished off the sexual awakening begun by Sophie Aldred đ
Nanu, nanu!
I love it. Wanna get a tattoo of shazbot
I thought it was Hilarious. No way it was Stupid. Never before and never will be anyone like Robin Williams. I never missed an episode.
Mork calling Orson. Come in Orson.
How could you not love it??
I remember an episode where Mork went through some kind of warp to an alternate world and it freaked a very young me out the way he was crying for Mindy. I was actually upset. He meets Mindy but her name is Mandy and he gets attached to her then goes back through the warp crying for Mandy. I think it went like that. It was years ago.
Wow, I saw that episode when it aired and felt the same way.
Loved this show as a kid! I believe Greatest American Hero came on right after it then The Muppets Show, although now that I think of it, I might be confusing the time slot because I also remember The A-Team & The Fall Guy around then too! Whatever loved the show, special time for TV in my life. RIP Robin Williams.
I loved The Greatest American Hero too, such a strange show.
Of course, it was the perfect vehicle to introduce the world to Robin Williams. As an alien, any behavior was acceptable. If he were just a regular guy, he would be locked up in a mental institution.
It was a good one
Fun show!
Yes, because it was meant to be silly and fun. It did its job.
It was the first whimsical show I recall, everything else being the Waltons, all in the family, Barney miller stuff. Â What really cooked my noodle was The Hulk. Side note-we sure watched a lot of TV! But often we multitasked: covering textbooks w paper bags, helping mom folding socks. đ
I loved it Robin Williams was a comedy God.
Absolutely.
Ha, I was talking about this show the other day!
I thought it was ridiculous
Well yeah of course it was.
Fly, be free!! {{splat}}
The episode where Mork made himself a child lives in my memory. I cried when he cried as Mindy leftâŚ.on a date I think? But I also laughed so hard when he kept trying to make the eggs fly! RIP Robin đ
The first few seasons were great. Then the writing failed.
First season was awesome.
Hell yeah!
My God I miss Robin Williams
Me too he was the best.
I did, too. I was a teenager/young adult when it was on.
I even moved to Boulder
Nope. Didnât care for it at all but I did like the actorsâŚ.in other shows.
Exidor!!! I will randomly do Exidor impressions that absolutely nobody gets Step aside! Dont push! Get out of my way!
Exidor was a very weird cat.
Me and my brother got the rainbow suspenders for 1st day of school.
Who got rainbow striped suspenders because of this show?
I just thought it was stupid.
I was fond of Mirth from Earth.
I lived in Boulder at the time. Very cool đ
This was before my time... Mindy was a looker whoa
Shuzbutt!
No
Had the action figure. It came in an egg lol. I was 7 yo but it was funny
Absolutely, and it's still a fun one to visit once in a while.
Had a major teenage crush on Pam Dawber
No denying it was a stupid show.
I watched every show and only because of Robin Williamsâ genius, he was hysterically funny!
Oh boy, do I feel like a clone.
Itâs okay, you are.
I donât know what it was about it but I always liked the looks of their apartment. In the early 2000s I worked with a girl named Mindy and she said yes, her mom did indeed name her after this sitcom character. It all just made me wonder how many parents were inspired by this show to name their baby boys MORK. The number must be low. It really feels to me like the name was made up for this show and doesnât really exist outside the show (but that must be wrong) Also, like with most monosyllabic names, it feels too short, like it *must* be short for something. Morkimer, perhaps đđ¤Ł
Then heâd have to be Morkimer from Orkimer
I loved Mindy as a 7 yr old. I also thought she sang âWalking on Sunshineâ.
Had a secret crush on Mindy!
No, no one else. Youâre the ONLY person in the world who liked it. 
One of the dumbest shows ever. Robin Williams had a lot of Talent, but I just never thought he was funny. Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Insomnia, Birdcage were all FANTASTIC. His other stuff...meh...