Mork & Mindy
It's a Wonderful Mork
TV Flash files “It's a Wonderful Mork” as a desk essential hour — Mork & Mindy (1978–1982) on ABC, season 1, episode 24, aired 1979-05-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E24: listed hour 24 of 95 in the Mork & Mindy guide, hour 24 of 25 in season 1. It aired 1979-05-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Mork Runs Down” (S01E23). Next is “Mork's Best Friend” (S01E25).
Essential hour: “It's a Wonderful Mork”. It's a Wonderful Mork is the first-season holiday parody. Capra title on an alien sitcom: Williams still bending form, the network already chasing lightning with gimmick weather.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Mork inadvertently costs Mindy a potential job, he decides to return to Ork. Orson then shows him what would have happened to Mindy over the last year had Mork not been there.
Viewer FAQ
Where does It's a Wonderful Mork sit in the Mork & Mindy guide?
S01E24 is listed hour 24 of 95 — hour 24 of 25 in season 1, season 1 episode 24.
When did Mork & Mindy S01E24 air?
It's a Wonderful Mork aired 1979-05-03 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Do I need the Happy Days cameo first?
Optional fun. Mork debuted there, then the ABC spin-off is the main event. Williams versus Dawber is the series, not the parent-show novelty.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Robin Williams lands an Orkan in Boulder and bends sitcom form through improvisational voltage, with Pam Dawber as the human stabilizer. Happy Days cameo turned ABC star vehicle: nanu nanu, rainbow suspenders, network gimmicks chasing lightning. Comic electricity before the Oscar reels.
The first image is rainbow: suspenders as industrial complex, an Orkan named Mork landing in Boulder, and Robin Williams's improvisational supernova bending the frame while Pam Dawber's Mindy holds Earth in place. ABC's Mork & Mindy (1978–1982) spun the character from a Happy Days cameo into four seasons, 95 episodes, opposite Dawber's grounded stabilizer. Garry Marshall, Dale McRaven, and Joe Glauberg built the Paramount/Happy Days-universe vehicle. Conrad Janis and Elizabeth Kerr filled the household; Jonathan…
Filed against
- Robin Williams as Mork
Robin Williams landed Mork & Mindy as an Orkan in Boulder — improvisational voltage bending sitcom form, Pam Dawber as the human stabilizer, a Happy Days cameo turned ABC star vehicle. Nanu nanu, rainbow suspenders, network gimmicks…
- Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell
Pam Dawber played Mindy McConnell as the human stabilizer on Mork & Mindy — Robin Williams landing an Orkan in Boulder and bending 1970s sitcom form through improvisational voltage. A Happy Days cameo turned ABC star vehicle: nanu nanu,…
- Conrad Janis as Fred McConnell
Conrad Janis plays Fred McConnell on Mork & Mindy — Mindy’s Boulder dad trying to keep an Orkan from detonating the living room while Robin Williams bent sitcom form through improvisational voltage. ABC star vehicle from a Happy Days…
- Elizabeth Kerr as Cora Hudson
Elizabeth Kerr grounded Boulder as Cora Hudson on Mork & Mindy — Robin Williams's Orkan lightning, Pam Dawber as stabilizer, and a Happy Days cameo that became an ABC star vehicle. Nanu nanu needed a landlady with a pulse. TV Flash files…
- Jonathan Winters as Mearth
Jonathan Winters’s Mearth crashed Mork & Mindy as improvisational weather — Robin Williams’s Orkan in Boulder, Pam Dawber as the human stabilizer, a Happy Days cameo turned ABC star vehicle. Nanu nanu, rainbow suspenders, network gimmicks…