"all sitting around feeling depressed. Mindy has just learned that Mork's supervisor Orson has arranged for Mork to be transferred to another planet, and Bickley is suffering from writer's block. Their friend Susan comes by to visit, and suggests that they all go and attend a seminar on Ellsworth's Revitalization Konditioning. As the guests arrive at the seminar, Ellsworth nervously asks Susan if all of the attendees' checks are in order. He then lays out the rules for the duration of the training, which includes no leaving and no consumption of alcohol. When Bickley hears this, he promptly gets up"
"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"
"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"
"and is then sent back to Earth as Steve's guardian angel. Marty's guide is a large disembodied head named Rod (Ron Glass), who identifies as God's cousin (a running gag throughout the series is that Rod is mistaken for God himself). Maureen McCormick, who played Steve's mother, Judy, left the series halfway through its run. Marty, as a supernatural being, would frequently break the fourth wall; for instance, prior to the opening credits of the episode ""Grumpy Young Men"", Marty explained the absence of Steve's mother and the return of his father to the viewers. The series was created and"
"& 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"
"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"
"seem like the entire event was a dream. He recounts the events to his superior Orson, who assigns him to modern-day 1978, leading up to the events of ""Mork and Mindy"".) Producer Garry Marshall created the episode after his son asked him for a ""Happy Days"" episode with an alien in it. Unfortunately, the regular cast considered the original script unreadable and production proved so difficult that the intended actor for the alien, John Byner, abruptly quit the production. Marshall asked the cast if they could suggest an appropriate replacement actor, and Robin Williams' name quickly came up. After Williams"
"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"
"This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker, Skips, but to the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and High Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head), serve as rivals to Mordecai and Rigby. In Season 4, Thomas was introduced and Mordecai & Rigby usually help for adaptation. The show usually revolves around Mordecai and Rigby's attempts to avoid work and enjoy themselves. However, they often, at times, have to pay for their irresponsible actions, as they always get into more trouble"
"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"".)"
"Morty Smith Morty Smith is one of the title characters from the Adult Swim animated television series ""Rick and Morty"". Created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon, Morty is an anxious teen based on Marty McFly from ""Back to the Future"". Known for his awkward, anxious, second-guessing, and doubtful personality, the character has been well-received. He is a young, good-natured, and impressionable boy who can be somewhat easily manipulated. He is formally referred to as Morty Smith C-137 by the Trans-Dimensional Council of Ricks, in reference to his original universe, ""C-137"". Both Morty and Rick are voiced by Roiland. Volume"
"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"
"by remote-control (""Breakaway"" and ""The Last Sunset"" among many others). Morrow had served on Moonbase Alpha for several years prior to the Moon's departure from Earth orbit and was thus familiar with John Koenig when he assumed command of Alpha in September 1999. It can be assumed he was present on Alpha in some capacity during the Ultra Probe incident of 1996–1997. Morrow is, as a rule, a by-the-book man; this unwavering devotion to duty can make him unpopular with other Alpha staff members (see """", ""The Testament of Arkadia"" among others). He can sometimes seem a bit standoffish, but"
"there to react to Rick’s deranged schemes."" The character is transformed by the truths he discovers during his interdimensional adventures with his grandfather. However, instead of sinking into depression, Morty accepts these truths that empower him to value his own life. The 11-episode first season was released on DVD (2-disc set) and Blu-ray (single BD-50 disc) on October 7, 2014. Special features include commentary and animatics for every episode, deleted scenes, behind the scenes featurette and commentaries by special guests Matt Groening, Robert Kirkman, Pendleton Ward, Al Jean and others. The 10-episode second season was released on DVD (2-disc set)"
"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"
"balding, bespectacled scientist Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale are children of United States Airforce personal. Flash's parents were American astronauts who were in space during Ming the Merciless initial assault on Earth and barely escaped his dimensional worm hole and ""space torpedos"" used by Mings forces. The trans-dimensional portal was placed there by Ming the Merciless, despot emperor of the planet Mongo, who hoped to provide open access for his invading armies. In this series, Ming had reptilian characteristics, and seemed to have a wife who was long dead (it was implied in some episodes that she had gone"
"of a car, and start the engine. I can't do it. I've ""tried!"" I think the silliest request I ever got was when somebody asked me to quiet the animals in a zoo."" According to Winkler, ""The Fonz was everybody I wasn't. He was everybody I wanted to be."" On ""Happy Days"", Fonzie met Mork, an alien. Played by Robin Williams, Mork proved so popular that he received his spin-off series, ""Mork & Mindy"". Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and Ralph Malph starred in a Saturday morning cartoon spin-off, ""The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang"", where the characters, with a female"
"plight. As the base commander, Koenig often found himself confronted by baffling and frightening situations which no human had ever faced, and the strain took its toll. During the first season Koenig was often depicted as somewhat short-tempered, irritable and prone to outbursts at even those closest to him, such as Victor Bergman and Helena Russell. One of the running jokes among many ""Space: 1999"" fans is that Main Mission Controller Paul Morrow, Koenig's second-in-command, was often his ""whipping boy"" in the first season: Koenig is seen to yell at him or simply assault him in a number of episodes"
"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"
"Mickey Malph, played first by Alan Oppenheimer and then subsequently and more famously by Jack Dodson. Additionally, in the same first-season episode, Ralph's mother was named Hazel and was played by Gracia Lee; from the third season onward, however, she was referred to as Minnie Malph, and her character was never shown on camera again. Some of Donny Most's other work has had hidden tribute to Ralph Malph. In an episode of ""Dungeons & Dragons"", Most's character of Eric the Cavalier is telling jokes in a town square which are either ignored or subject to angry responses. Ralph Malph Ralph"
"then recently released Star Wars film. Williams' character, Mork, attempts to take Richie Cunningham back to his planet of Ork as a human specimen, but his plan is foiled by Fonzie. In the initial broadcast of this episode, it all turned out to be a dream that Richie had, but when Mork proved so popular, the ending in the syndicated version was re-edited to show Mork erasing the experience from everyone's minds, thus meaning the event had actually happened and was not a dream. ""Mork & Mindy"" is set in Boulder, Colorado, in the then present-day late 1970s and early"
"Hartnell is still credited on-screen). The story focuses on Space Security Agent Marc Cory (Edward de Souza) and his attempts to warn Earth of the Daleks' latest plan. Although audio recordings of the episode exist, no footage is known to have survived. On the planet Kembel, Marc Cory and Gordon Lowery are trying to repair their spaceship, while another crewmember, Jeff Garvey, is lying on the ground, out of their sight. He awakes, in pain and in a violent state of mind. He keeps behind the ship to make sure that neither of the men sees him. He raises his"
"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"
"Mork Goes Erk ""Mork Goes Erk"" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of ""Mork & Mindy"". The episode first premiered on ABC on February 8, 1979. ""Mork Goes Erk"" was later released on VHS on January 1, 1998 as part of a two-episode special which also included ""Mork's First Christmas,"" and on DVD on September 7, 2004 as part of the ""Mork & Mindy - The Complete First Season"" DVD boxed set. In the episode, David Letterman portrayed a self-help group leader by the name of ""Ellsworth"" offering ERK or Ellsworth Revitalization Konditioning. Mork (Robin Williams) and Mindy"
"10pm) killed it,"" says executive producer Andrew Schneider. ""This piddling out is sad."" Rob Morrow (Joel Fleischman) and his representatives spent much of Seasons 4 and 5 lobbying for an improved contract, and intermittently threatened to leave the show. The producers responded by reducing Fleischman's role in the storylines, and introducing characters such as Mike Monroe (season 4) and Dr. Phil Capra (season 6) to partially compensate for the absence of Morrow. New York City native Joel Fleischman is a fish out of water adjusting to Alaska. A recently graduated physician, Fleischman is set to practice in Anchorage for several"
"often referred to as 'Nick' by the other magazine executives; Rose Marie plays Doris' friend Myrna Gibbons, a fellow secretary at the magazine; Paul Smith portrays Ron Harvey, the magazine's assistant-editor and Myrna's boss. Pyle, Brown, and Starke remain regular cast members, while Hampton appears in only one episode, his character now married and owning a gas station in Mill Valley. Lord Nelson still appears uncredited as the family sheepdog in most episodes this season. There is no longer any housekeeper at the ranch, and no ranch hand was hired to replace Leroy. Doris tires of the commute between her"
"a general. Before the start of the series, he caught a pair of Croutonian sisters, the Patoolas, on which the government experimented. This is presumably how he knew about Crouton physiology and abilities. Abe and Bo knew about the capture of the sisters and it was one of the reasons Abe did not want to come to the United States. Lt. Pat ""Monkey"" Wilson (Christopher Carroll) was the other Air Force officer hunting aliens on the team. Wilson most likely was demoted from a higher rank down to lieutenant, when he was put into the unit. He got the nickname"
"all cast members with the exception of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain (later reinstating Zienia Merton, Nick Tate and Anton Phillips) as he did not care for the Year One format characters and felt that they had garnered no fan loyalty. Paul Morrow Paul Morrow is a fictional character who first appeared in """", the premiere episode of the science fiction television show """", and was portrayed by Prentis Hancock. He is a British national who appears to be in his early thirties. Paul Morrow held the position of Main Mission Controller and was John Koenig's second-in-command. His pre-"""" responsibilities"
"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"
"goes to great lengths to make sure he is not sacked. He has a wife called Jessica, who appears to be forgetful. He alludes to her in almost every episode, but she only appears briefly in an uncredited role in Episode 13. The actress was also Ivor Roberts' real life wife. Ralph (Perry Benson) Fireman and Trainee Driver – works with Arnold – the two often engage in comic banter. Ralph can be as daft as Wilfred, and is slow at learning to drive – but he drives the train perfectly in the final episode. One episode centres around him"
"and misfits (the Secretary of War (William Woodson) notes ""Why, the Army sent them out there hoping they'd all desert""). Indeed, of the three commanding officers at Fort Courage before Captain Parmenter, two ""did"" desert the army, while the third suffered a nervous breakdown. Much of the humor of the series derives from the scheming of Captain Parmenter's somewhat crooked but amiable non-commissioned officers, Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) and Corporal Randolph Agarn (Larry Storch). They, in league with the local (fictitious) American Indian tribe, the Hekawis—led by Chief Wild Eagle (Frank de Kova), are forever seeking to expand and"
"the moon!""—to which she usually replies, ""Ahhh, shaddap!"" Alice studied to be a secretary before her marriage and works briefly in that capacity when Ralph is laid off. Wilma Flintstone is based on Alice Kramden. Another foil for Ralph is Alice's mother, who is even sharper-tongued than her daughter. She despises Ralph as a bad provider. Alice's father is occasionally mentioned but never seen. Alice's sister, Agnes, appeared in one episode (Ralph jeopardizes his newlywed sister-in-law's marriage after giving some bad advice to the groom, but it all works out in the end). Ralph and Alice lived with her mother"
"as a replacement for George Layton's Des and as dim as Des was sharp); and wide boy Justin James (Mark Farmer) (series 5-7), who idolised Arthur and aspired to be like him, seeing him as a kind of godfather. Royce Mills also starred as Arthur's financial advisor, Andrew, whose character appeared in a number of episodes across several series. ""Minder"" was devised by writer Leon Griffiths as a vehicle for Dennis Waterman after his success in ""The Sweeney"". George Cole's wheeler-dealer character is almost secondary, with Arthur assigning Terry a new ""minding"" job in each episode. A number of early"