After making the report, he would twist his ears and say 'Nanoo, Nanoo' which is Orkan for 'Goodbye'.ġ6. In the final season, Mork married Mindy, they honeymooned on Ork, got pregnant, and MORK gave birth to a perfectly healthy elderly man! Yes, on Ork the Males have the offspring and the 'babies' are born old and age backwards to babyhood! Johnathon Winters played the role of a 225 pound baby to perfection!Īt the end of each Mork and Mindy episode, Ork would have to file a report with the Orkan leader named Orson. the very characters that audiences had just become accustomed to! Anyway, when ratings took a nose dive, they decided to change everything back for the third season. They also 'got rid of' the entire supporting cast.

you won't find many top-rated shows on Sundays, especially comedies. In the second season, network executives decided that even though Mork and Mindy was a big hit, everything needed to be changed! They actually decided to do more serious and meaningful stories when the audience was simply loving Robin Williams silly slapstick humor! They also moved the show from Thursday to Sunday evenings. During the series it's revealed that Ork and Heaven are near each other! 'Out of the Blue' only lasted four months. Mork visits his old friend 'Random' (An Angel). Mork and Mindy both appeared on the pilot episode of another Happy Days spin-off called 'Out of the Blue'. Also, Mork and Mindy was the second spin-off of 'Happy Days'. He had previously been on ' Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'. The series was so popular that Robin Williams had his own series starting the very next season! By the way, his appearance on 'Happy Days' was only his 2nd TV appearance. In episode #110 titled 'My Favorite Orkan', Mork was sent to Earth to kidnap Ritchie Cunningham and take him back to Ork. Mork and Mindy was a ' spin-off' of the 1974 series, ' Happy Days'. They sit on their heads, wear their shirts with buttons in the back, etc. You see, Orkans do many things the opposite of Earhlings. Mindy tries to keep the fact that her roommate is an alien a secret, but her Dad is not too happy about his little girl living with a guy, so Mindy has to explain! Everyone else thinks that Mork is just some guy who's one step away from a mental institution. He meets Mindy McConnell and she lets him stay in her attic. Mork from Planet Ork is sent to Earth in his eggshell spacecraft to observe our culture and study our emotions since Orkans don't have any. Mork and Mindy was a 30 minute comedy series on ABC.

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