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Agree with most people that the first season was the best. The networks don't know the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." They messed up this one like they messed up Happy Days.

As for Robin William's talent, before he became a media whore and destroyed his career with crap movies like RV, he did a movie called Moscow on the Hudson. This performance shows what he could have been if he had more integrity.

Mork and Mindy was a funny show until they brought in Jonathan Winters as their son Mearth. It was the sign that the writers ran out of ideas. I believe Jonathan Winters did it because he like Robin Williams and considered him as successor since they had the same style of comedy.

I loved "Mork and Mindy" in the first three seasons. Yes, it was formulaic. Yes, it was cornball at times. But you have to remember there was really a time when the whole world wasn't completely desensitized and jaded, when a little goofy moral at the end of a show didn't immediately invite scorn and derision. I think that Williams' irreverence and pop culture references, coupled with the nice chemistry between he and Dawber, made this rise above the standard sitcom fare.

It did jump in the fourth year, though. It wasn't only Mearth's appearance, it was the general "over looniness" of the whole cast. With Mearth, Exidor, Georgia Engel (whom I believe was Exidor's wife) and her insane mother, Mork was beginning to seem "normal" by comparison. A situation like this could only be drawn out so long. It's just too bad the series couldn't have been given a proper ending, with Mork and Mindy either moving to Ork or Mork becoming a permanent citizen of Earth.

Either way the show provided some good positive laughs for three years.

I agree with everyone who said it JTS when Jonathan Winters joined the cast, but he was one of Robin Williams' idols so maybe that's why he was on the show but that story line was horrible.

i was really little when this show was on the air but i thought it would be funny to get it and see if i would still be the little girl who said na noo na noo all the time. i love it more now then i did as a kid. esp, the first season with all the physical comedy and the play on words. but i do agree that the second and third season were diff then the first like adding a moral to end of every show and touching on politics, and race. those things are good to have in a show but not a mork and mindy type of comedy, it just didn't work. i do think the romance was plausible because mork had come to have feelings for mindy, and always said he missed her. i think the show could've recovered in the fourth sea, if they didn't do the grown baby thing. anyway, i wish they had a show like this on now, a show that is funny, weird, and just makes you laugh. my fav episodes are mork in love, morks vacation and mindy, mindy and mindy. oh and pam was so hilariously in the one where she eats an orcan treat and turns in an orcan herself. i give m and m three stars for the first three seasons.

I have not seen this show since it ran on ABC back in the early 80s. I have to agree with most of the people here. That style of comedy gets old very fast. I think the only reason it lasted for a few seasons is that it was fresh and no one had seen it yet. A few years is a good run for something like that. The fourth season seems like they wanted to try and save it or re-fuel it with new characters. That usually does not work.

As to Robin Williams...This guy is really good in dramatic stories. I am surprised he does not just stick to that. The only comedy he did that I really liked was the Bird Cage. But there he was more of a straight man to Nathan Lane's comic character.

He also did Popeye. Anyone remember that flop and flops?

Whatever happened to Pam Dawber? She was a lovely lady. Sort of like Baily on WKRP in Cinci. I take Baily over Loni any day.

Sorry, got off topic there. This is Mork and Mindy afterall.

I have always been a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He was a comic genius and a master of expression. One of my favorite TV performers of all time, along with Ernie Kovacs and a select few others.

So, what possessed him to take on this part? Was he pressed for money? Desperate to work? Repaying a favor? There had to be some overwhelming reason for him to feel the need to embarrass himself in this way.

As much as I love JW, this was his worst moment. It was sad to see him do this.

Once season two started and we had Mork as a cheerleader, and the episode with Racquel Welch, it was over. Not to mention the pizza shop owners, that wuss "Nelson" (who I guess was Mindy's cousin??) and (get ready to play "Taps") Johnathan Winters. I guess Winters was Robin Williams' idol, and they thought it would be a great idea to get him on the show to play a 260 pound baby. Whatever. And I wish Williams had stuck to his dramatic movie roles. Watching him, well into his fifties, acting like such a coked-up loser (his Inside the Actors Studio appearance was the most annoying thing I've ever witnessed) is pathetic. Small consolation...Pam Dawber was a cutie, and ya know what? She still is!

Anyone knows when the fourth season of Mork & Mindy coming out on DVD?

Season 1 thru 4 was great, you guys just don't have a sense of humor

I have the first 3 seasons on dvd and I like them. I think by the beginning of the 4th season, it was toast. Introducing Jonathan Winters as their baby, while funny, just seemed desperate.

Milioni.

Sorry this is off topic. But, could some kind sould out there, please say a prayer for me and my family? My parents fight all the time now, and me and Mearth are constantly in the middle.

Thanks!

Mork's Daughter

I think it JTS when Mearth was born. I wasn't so fond of a middle aged man trying to portray a child. I understand that in Mork's world that's what happens, aliens age backwards, but hello, Mindy supposidly helped create Mearth too. So half and half right? Why couldn't Mearth be a little kid or w/e but have orkan traits as well? Jonathan Winters was SO not the right person to play Mearth either. Even though some might say otherwise, I would have liked to see more romantic interaction with Mork and Mindy. Yes, I agree with many that Robin Williams can be annoying as well. Pam on the other hand....veeeery nice;0)

I suprised that everyone forgot Mork's pet "Naugachomp" (season 2 or 3). What it was, was an rc car w/ carpeting and mop fringes glued on.And it would charge the feet of the cast (I think just to wake them up). That was really stu-pid! I mean John Dysktra did the FX and Garry Marshall was THE TV mogul at that time ya think they can come up w/ something better that a direct descendent of the roomba!?!