Mork & Mindy
Season 3
22 listed hours · 1978–1982 · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 3 of Mork & Mindy (1978–1982) on ABC as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 4) — 22 listed hours, 1980-11-13–1981-05-14 from “Putting the Ork Back in Mork - Part 1” (S03E01) to “Reflections and Regrets” (S03E22). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E01 Putting the Ork Back in Mork - Part 1
Putting the Ork Back in Mork is the mid-run course correction, named in the title. The series admitting it drifted; the Orkan brief restated after gimmicks tried to bottle the voltage.
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S03E01 Putting the Ork Back in Mork - Part 1
Mindy becomes so alarmed when Mork starts behaving like a boring Earthling that she suggests he finds a new place to live.
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S03E02 Putting the Ork Back in Mork - Part 2
An Orkan elder arrives and attempts to make Mork revert to his Orkan ways.
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S03E03 Mork in Never Never Land
Mork discovers that his pen-pal is living at an insane asylum, and believes that he is Peter Pan.
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S03E04 Dueling Skates
To save the daycare center where he works from becoming a parking lot, Mork challenges a champion skater to a Rocky Mountain race.
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S03E05 Mork the Prankster
After Mindy introduces Mork to the concept of practical jokes, he puts her jeep in their second-floor apartment. Meanwhile, Mindy discovers Glenda Faye is feeling lonely and unhappy.
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S03E06 Mork, the Monkey's Uncle
Mork takes a chimp from the zoo after the chimp's mother goes missing. Meanwhile, Mindy decides to bleach her hair.
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S03E07 Gunfight at the Mork-Kay Corral
A boy at Mork's day-care center becomes obsessed with Billy the Kid.
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S03E08 Mork's New Look
Mork goes to see a plastic surgeon.
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S03E09 Alas, Poor Mork, We Knew Him Well
Mork becomes so paranoid about natural disasters that he locks himself inside a glass bubble.
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S03E10 Mork and the Bum Rap
Mork becomes a bum in order to help Mindy open a children's hospital.
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S03E11 Mindy Gets Her Job
Mindy gets a job at a local news station.
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S03E12 Twelve Angry Appliances
Mork gets revenge when a disrespectful repairman refuses to fix Mindy's stereo.
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S03E13 There's a New Mork in Town
An Orkan comes down to Earth in order to challenge Mork.
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S03E14 Mork Meets Robin Williams
Mindy has failed getting access to comedian/actor Robin Williams for an interview and while he's in town Mork gets hounded by a crowd of Robin's fans and can't understand why.
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S03E15 Mindy, Mindy, Mindy
Mork attempts at creating clones of Mindy when she goes out of town.
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S03E16 Mork, the Swinging Single
Mork becomes a swinger after Mindy suggests he see other single women.
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S03E17 Mork and Mindy Meet Rick and Ruby
Mindy leads a picket line on Remo's restaurant after he fires an unsuccessful singing duo.
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S03E18 Mork and the Family Reunion
Fred's estranged brother comes into town for a family reunion, but what happens when Mindy eats an Orkan dessert the night of the reunion?
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S03E19 Old Muggable Mork
When Mindy's grandmother comes to visit, she is mugged, so Mork disguises himself as an old lady to catch the muggers.
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S03E20 I Heard It Through the Morkvine
Mork goes on television and gives some tasty but hurtful rumors about his friends.
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S03E21 Mindy and Mork
Mork's attempts at housework turn the apartment into a disaster area.
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S03E22 Reflections and Regrets
At his 50th birthday party, everyone tries to cheer up Bickley with revelations of their own regrets.
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