"Mork & Mindy Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 14, 1978 to May 27, 1982. A spin-off after a highly successful episode of ""Happy Days"", it starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate, and later his wife and the mother of his child. The character of Mork was played by a then-unknown Robin Williams, who impressed producer Garry Marshall with his quirky comedic ability as soon as they"
"was rejected by Chris Columbus due to the ""British-only edict"". Won: Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born in Chicago, Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, and is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame playing the alien Mork in the sitcom ""Mork & Mindy"", Williams established a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisation skills and the wide variety of memorable character voices he created. Williams has"
"impressed Marshall with his quirky sense of humor at the audition by sitting on his head when told to take a seat, Williams was quickly cast for the part. For the cast's part, they were astounded on set at Williams effortlessly improvising the whole Mork persona on the spot and thus creating a highly amusing character that transcended the ill-considered script. So encouraged in the face of such talent, the cast and crew invited everyone around the studio to see Williams perform with the typical description of him being ""He's a genius!"" This soon included the series' writers who came"
"of ""The Richard Pryor Show"" on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry Marshall as the alien Mork in a 1978 episode of the TV series ""Happy Days"", ""My Favorite Orkan"". Sought after as a last minute cast replacement for a departing actor, Williams impressed the producer with his quirky sense of humor when he sat on his head when asked to take a seat for the audition. As Mork, Williams improvised much of his dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice. The cast and crew, as well as TV network executives were deeply impressed at his performance."
"Robin Williams Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Born in Chicago, Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, and is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame playing the alien Mork in the sitcom ""Mork & Mindy"", Williams established a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisation skills and the wide variety of memorable character voices he created. Williams has been called the funniest person of all time. After his first"
"met. Marshall was looking for an actor for an episode of ""Happy Days"". When Williams was asked to take a seat at the audition, Williams immediately sat on his head on the chair and Marshall cast him on the spot, and later wryly commented that Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role. Mork appears in the ""Happy Days"" season five episode ""My Favorite Orkan"", which first aired in February 1978 and is a take on the 1960s sitcom ""My Favorite Martian"". The show wanted to feature a spaceman in order to capitalize on the popularity of the"
"a teenaged Mork is sent to Earth from planet Ork to observe the lives of human teenagers and enroll in a local school. As on the original show, Mindy McConnell and her father Fred (voiced by Conrad Janis) are the only Earthlings who know that he is an alien and he sends telepathic reports of his experiences to Orkan ruler Orson (voiced by an uncredited Ralph James). Unlike the original show, Mork is accompanied by his Orkan pet, a pink, six-legged, dog-like creature named Doing (voiced by Frank Welker) which is pronounced as ""Doyng"". Other characters in the show included"
"uncle and Fred's brother). It had been previously explained that Orkans aged ""backwards"", thus explaining Mearth's appearance and that of his teacher, Miss Geezba (portrayed by then-11-year-old actress Louanne Sirota). After four seasons and 95 episodes, ""Mork & Mindy"" was canceled in the summer of 1982. The show ended at 60th place at season's end. Actor-director Jerry Paris was inspired to create the character of Mork after directing an unusual and memorable episode of ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" titled ""It May Look Like a Walnut"", in which Van Dyke's Rob Petrie has a dream wherein he believes the Earth"
"one episode) was supposed to be the character who became Chachi. Season five also saw the introduction of more outlandish and bizarre plots including Fonzie making a bet with the Devil, and the appearance of Mork (Robin Williams), an alien who wanted to take Richie back to his homeworld. Although when first aired this ended with it all simply being a dream Richie was having, this episode was retconned in subsequent airings by way of additional footage to have actually taken place, with Mork having wiped everyone's memory except Richie's and then deciding to time travel to the present day"
"Adrian Shergold (three), and Danny Boyle (two). ""Morse"" remains popular and is frequently repeated on the principal and subsidiary ITV channels (ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4) in the UK as well as on television channels in other European countries and in Australia. Main characters: Other recurring characters: Main production credits: Morse was played by John Thaw, and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Lewis, by Kevin Whately. The character of Lewis was transformed from the elderly Welshman and ex-boxer of the novels to a much younger Geordie police sergeant with a family, as a foil to Morse's cynical streak. Morse's first name, Endeavour,"
"Monk (TV series) Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the title character, Adrian Monk. It originally ran from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a police procedural series, but also exhibits comic and dramatic tones in its exploration of the main characters' personal lives. The series was produced by Mandeville Films and Touchstone Television in association with Universal Television. The series debuted on July 12, 2002, on USA Network. It continued for eight seasons, with the final season concluding on December 4, 2009. The series held the record"
"(Pam Dawber) attend one of Ellsworth's trainings at the suggestion of their friend Susan (Morgan Fairchild), where they endure Ellsworth's authoritarian brand of group therapy. Mork points out hypocrisy in Ellsworth's teachings, and exposes him as a fraud. The episode has been called a parody of the Erhard Seminars Training or ""est"" course. The episode received mostly positive reviews, and was highlighted as one of the season's best episodes, along with ""Mork's First Christmas"" and ""Mork's Mixed Emotions"". David Letterman's performance as ""Ellsworth"" also received good reviews. At the beginning of the episode, Mork, Mindy and Bickley (Tom Poston) are"
"this discovery to Morse. In February 2015, Marvel announced that the eleventh episode of the season would be titled ""Aftershocks"", to be written by executive producers Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon, with Billy Gierhart directing. The episode was originally titled ""Epidemic"". In February 2015, Marvel revealed that main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Nick Blood would star as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Skye, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Lance Hunter, respectively, while Adrianne Palicki, previously a recurring guest star in the role of Bobbi Morse, was promoted to a series regular"
"but he ""had to throw it back, though. Too small."" Fonzie and Laverne of ""Laverne & Shirley"" appeared in the first episode of the show. In this segment, Mork relays to Mindy his trip to 1950s Milwaukee where Fonzie sets Mork up on a date with Laverne. Mork returned to ""Happy Days"" in the episode ""Mork Returns"" in which Mork tells Richie that he enjoys coming to the 1950s because life is simpler and more ""humdrum"" than in the 1970s. Fonzie sees Mork and immediately tries to run away, but Mork freezes him and makes him stay. He eventually lets"
"has gone to the movies. Someone knocks on the door: a visitor dressed in red, with a triangle on his shirt and wearing a helmet. The visitor speaks very strangely and Richie thinks it is Ralph pulling a prank; instead, the visitor reveals himself as ""Mork"", an alien from the planet Ork. Richie, ever the reporter, decides to interview Mork. When asked why he is visiting Earth, Mork tells him that he is trying to collect a ""specimen"". Richie asks him if he is going to take the President or maybe baseball star Hank Aaron; Mork says no, telling Richie"
"despite her having relatively little acting experience and not having auditioned for the part, as one of the two title characters of the ABC sitcom ""Mork & Mindy,"" which ran from 1978 to 1982. She portrayed Mindy McConnell, the comedic foil and eventual love interest for the extraterrestrial Mork from the planet Ork, played by a then-unknown Robin Williams. The show was extremely popular in its debut season, when it averaged at number three in the Nielsen ratings for the year. The only major difficulty for her on set was that she often found it impossible to maintain the proper"
"of the Ellsworth training, and criticism of Ellsworth, citing Ellsworth's character traits of: ""tyranny, selfishness, open greed, and flaunting of the accoutrements of his vulgar money-making."" TV Guide's 2005 book ""TV Guide: The Ultimate Resource to Television Programs on DVD"" highlighted ""Mork Goes Erk"" as one of three ""Classic Episodes"" of the first season, including ""Mork's First Christmas"", and ""Mork's Mixed Emotions"". Matthew Tobey of ""Allmovie"" wrote that the episode was most notable because of David Letterman's appearance before he became more well known. Donald Liebenson of ""Amazon.com"" also cited David Letterman's performance as: ""an abusive EST-like guru"" as one"
"Rob Morrow Robert Alan ""Rob"" Morrow (born September 21, 1962) is an American actor and director. He is known for his portrayal of Dr. Joel Fleischman on ""Northern Exposure"", a role that garnered him three Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, and later for his role as FBI agent Don Eppes on ""Numb3rs"". Morrow was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Diane Francis (née Markowitz), a dental hygienist, and Murray Morrow, an industrial lighting manufacturer. His family is Jewish. His parents divorced when he was nine years old. He attended"
"and Cora work at Fred's music store, where Cora gives violin lessons to Eugene (Jeffrey Jacquet), a 10-year-old boy who becomes Mork's friend. Also seen occasionally are Mindy's snooty old high school friend Susan (Morgan Fairchild) and the possibly insane Exidor (Robert Donner). Storylines usually center on Mork's attempts to understand human behavior and American culture as Mindy helps him to adjust to life on Earth. It usually ends up frustrating Mindy, as Mork can only do things according to Orkan customs. For example, lying to someone or not informing them it will rain is considered a practical joke (called"
"that Ork would have to trade the entire planet for someone so famous. Instead, Mork claims he needs someone average and ""humdrum"": Richie himself. At first, Richie demurs, but when Mork tells him that he will bring him back in an ""instant"", Richie agrees to go. He heads upstairs to pack and tells Mork to make himself comfortable; the spaceman does, watching ""The Andy Griffith Show"" on the family TV set. (""I like that boy Opie,"" Mork remarks, ""but why does Earth boy have Martian name?"" Opie was played by a young Ron Howard, who played Richie on ""Happy Days"".)"
"the final episode of the first series of the Inspector Morse TV series, guest starring Angela Morant as Ruth, John Normington as Lionel and Maurice O'Connell as Harry. It closely follows the plot of the book but has events occur over a few days rather than several months. Since the series placed the story after ""The Dead of Jericho"", where Bell was promoted to superintendent, the character only appears briefly as Morse's superior rather than Morse taking over the case from him, with Morse instead involved from the start. Lionel's surname was changed to Pawlen and his brother became Simon."
"1980s (as opposed to the ""Happy Days"" setting of Milwaukee in the late-1950s). Mork explains to Richie that he is from the ""future"": the 1970s. Mork arrives on Earth in an egg-shaped spacecraft. He has been assigned to observe human behavior by Orson, his mostly unseen and long-suffering superior (voiced by Ralph James). Orson has sent Mork to get him off Ork, where humor is not permitted. Attempting to fit in, Mork dresses in an Earth suit, but wears it backward. Landing in Boulder, Colorado, he encounters 21-year-old Mindy (Pam Dawber), who is upset after an argument with her boyfriend,"
"Mork's appearance proved so popular with viewers that it led to the spin-off television sitcom ""Mork & Mindy"", which co-starred Pam Dawber, and ran from 1978 to 1982; the show was written to accommodate his extreme improvisations in dialog and behavior. Although he portrayed the same character as in ""Happy Days"", the series was set in the present in Boulder, Colorado, instead of the late 1950s in Milwaukee. ""Mork & Mindy"" at its peak had a weekly audience of 60 million and was credited with turning Williams into a ""superstar."" According to critic James Poniewozik, the series was especially popular"
"& Mindy's child, Mearth. Due to the different Orkan physiology, Mork laid an egg, which grew and hatched into the much older Winters. It had been previously explained that Orkans aged ""backwards,"" thus explaining Mearth's appearance and that of his teacher, Miss Geezba (portrayed by then-11-year-old actress Louanne Sirota). Mork's infant son Mearth in ""Mork & Mindy"" was created in hopes of improving ratings and as an attempt to capitalize on Williams's comedic talents. Winters had previously guest-starred in Season 3, Episode 18, as Dave McConnell, Mindy's uncle. However, after multiple scheduling and cast changes, ""Mork & Mindy""'s fourth season"
"Tamara Feldman, John Furey, Deborah Geffner, Greg Grunberg, Dan Hedaya, Brad Hunt, Jamie Kaler, Brian Kerwin, Jennifer Lawrence, James Logan, Chi McBride, Brian McNamara, Jacob Miller, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sandra Nelson, Lawrence O'Donnell, Jim Piddock, Andy Richter, Bryce Robinson, Kiernan Shipka, Peter James Smith, Cynthia Stevenson, Heather Tom, Stanley Tucci (in an Emmy award-winning performance), Reginald VelJohnson, Steven Weber, Frederick Weller, Peter Weller, Chris Williams, Danny Woodburn, and Odette Yustman. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Monk (season 5) The fifth season of ""Monk"" originally aired in the United States on USA Network from July 7, 2006, to March 2, 2007. It consisted of 16"
"David Morse (actor) David Bowditch Morse (born October 11, 1953) is an American actor, singer, director and writer. He first came to national attention as Dr. Jack ""Boomer"" Morrison in the medical drama series ""St. Elsewhere"" (1982–88). He continued his film career with roles in ""The Negotiator"", ""Contact"", ""The Green Mile"", ""Dancer in the Dark"", ""Disturbia"", ""The Long Kiss Goodnight"", ""The Rock"" and ""12 Monkeys"". In 2006, Morse had a recurring role as Detective Michael Tritter on the medical drama series ""House"", for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. He portrayed George Washington in the 2008 HBO miniseries ""John"
"Mark Allen Shepherd Mark Allen Shepherd (born January 7, 1961) is an actor, best known for his role as Morn on """". He also appeared as Morn (uncredited) in one episode each of """" and """". Shepherd received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. After graduation, he moved to Southern California and studied at the California Institute of the Arts, focusing on music, film, theater, performance, and interdisciplinary arts. Shepherd is an artist and has created numerous abstract impressionist paintings, mixing media types into photomosaics. Twenty-three of his works have been used"
"Morton, Scott Colomby as Barbara's boyfriend Cliff Randall, and John Hillerman and Charles Siebert as Ann's bosses, Mr. Connors and Mr. Davenport, respectively. Dick O'Neill and Nedra Volz made three appearances together as Orville and Emily, residents of the retirement home where the main characters put on a semiregular variety show. Joseph Campanella also made several appearances as Ann's ex-husband and the girls' father, Ed Cooper. Michael Lembeck joined the series as Julie's husband, Max, in the fifth season, but he was written out as a consequence of Phillips' firing (but later returned in season seven along with Philips). A"
"to attempt to capitalize on Williams' comedic talents. The season ended at number 49 in the ratings. Despite the show's steady decline, ABC agreed to a fourth season of ""Mork & Mindy"", but executives wanted changes. The show began to include special guest stars this year. In the fourth season, Mork and Mindy were married. Jonathan Winters, one of Williams' idols, was brought in as their child, Mearth. Because of the different Orkan physiology, Mork laid an egg, which grew and hatched into the much older Winters. Winters had previously appeared in a season 3 episode as Dave McConnell (Mindy's"
"of the more memorable parts of the Season One DVD boxed set, but thought that the highlight of the season was the episode ""Mork's Mixed Emotions."" The ""Dallas Morning News"" also praised Letterman's performance as a ""shady motivational speaker,"" commenting that the episode was a way for Letterman to hone his ""smarminess"" before his later work on ""Late Show with David Letterman"". Jonathan Boudreaux of ""tvdvdreviews.com"" described Letterman as ""a flakey EST-like guru,"" and called the episode itself ""disjointed."" Mork Goes Erk ""Mork Goes Erk"" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of ""Mork & Mindy"". The episode first"
"bet to see if a certain joke worked or not. If Jimmy won, Jay would walk down the stage, and pay Jimmy. If Jay won, Jimmy would come to the stage and pay off the bet. All this was done while the camera was running."" In 1979, Brogan moved to Los Angeles to star in the sitcom ""Out of the Blue"" on ABC as Random the Angel. ABC aired 9 episodes, including the premiere episode which co-starred Robin Williams as Mork from ""Mork and Mindy"". Brogan also appeared in an episode of ""Happy Days"" entitled ""Chachi Sells his Soul"" as"
"Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. Morey Amsterdam Moritz ""Morey"" Amsterdam (December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was an American television actor and comedian. He was known for the role of Buddy Sorrell on CBS's ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"" from 1961 to 1966. Amsterdam was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of the three sons of Max and Jennie (Finder) Amsterdam, Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary. He began working in vaudeville in 1922 as the straight man for his older brother's jokes. He was a cellist, a skill he used throughout his career. By 1924, he was"
"that suddenly really starts to rupture the membrane between you and what you’re fighting against."" In October 2014, Marvel revealed that main cast members Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Nick Blood would star as Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Grant Ward, Skye, Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Lance Hunter, respectively. It was also revealed that the guest cast for the episode would include B.J. Britt as Antoine Triplett, Adrianne Palicki as Bobbi Morse, Henry Simmons as Alphonso ""Mack"" MacKenzie, Imelda Corcoran as Dr. Goodman, Simon Kassianides as Sunil Bakshi, Joel Gretsch as"